Simon Dieck

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2as first author
3since 2021 · last 2025
0000-0003-0047-0670ORCID · corroborated

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Theory of computation · 2 · 2 first-author · 2 since 2021Security and privacy · 1 · 1 since 2021
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 An Active Learning Algorithm for Bidirectional Deterministic Finite Automata
Simon Dieck, Sicco Verwer
CIAA1
2024 On Bidirectional Deterministic Finite Automata
Simon Dieck, Sicco Verwer
CIAA1
2023 SoK: Explainable Machine Learning for Computer Security Applications
abstract
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) aims to improve the transparency of machine learning (ML) pipelines. We systematize the increasingly growing (but fragmented) microcosm of studies that develop and utilize XAI methods for defensive and offensive cybersecurity tasks. We identify 3 cybersecurity stakeholders, i.e., model users, designers, and adversaries, who utilize XAI for 4 distinct objectives within an ML pipeline, namely 1) XAI-enabled user assistance, 2) XAI-enabled model verification, 3) explanation verification & robustness, and 4) offensive use of explanations. Our analysis of the literature indicates that many of the XAI applications are designed with little understanding of how they might be integrated into analyst workflows – user studies for explanation evaluation are conducted in only 14% of the cases. The security literature sometimes also fails to disentangle the role of the various stakeholders, e.g., by providing explanations to model users and designers while also exposing them to adversaries. Additionally, the role of model designers is particularly minimized in the security literature. To this end, we present an illustrative tutorial for model designers, demonstrating how XAI can help with model verification. We also discuss scenarios where interpretability by design may be a better alternative. The systematization and the tutorial enable us to challenge several assumptions, and present open problems that can help shape the future of XAI research within cybersecurity.
Azqa Nadeem, Daniël Vos, Clinton Cao, Luca Pajola, Simon Dieck, Robert Baumgartner, Sicco Verwer
EuroS&P5