A Literature Study into Hyperparameter Systematization for Deep Learning-based Side-Channel Analysis

With the recent increase in computational power, deep learning is being applied in many different fields. Deep learning has produced promising results in the field of side-channel analysis. However, the algorithms used to construct deep neural networks remain black boxes, which makes it hard to fully employ the capabilities of attacks performed...

Black Magic in Deep Learning: Understanding the role of humans in hyperparameter optimization

Deep learning is proving to be a useful tool in solving problems from various domains. Despite a rich research activity leading to numerous interesting deep learning models, recent large scale studies have shown that with hyperparameter optimization it is hard to distinguish these models based on their final performance. Hyperparameter...