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In multiple domains such as malware detection, automated driving systems, or fraud detection, classification algorithms are susceptible to being attacked by malicious agents willing to perturb the value of instance covariates to pursue…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-10 Victor Gallego , Roi Naveiro , Alberto Redondo , David Rios Insua , Fabrizio Ruggeri

In this work we consider a communication problem in which a sender, Alice, wishes to communicate with a receiver, Bob, over a channel controlled by an adversarial jammer, James, who is {\em myopic}. Roughly speaking, for blocklength $n$,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-06 Bikash Kumar Dey , Sidharth Jaggi , Michael Langberg

Deep neural network-based image compression has been extensively studied. However, the model robustness which is crucial to practical application is largely overlooked. We propose to examine the robustness of prevailing learned image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Tong Chen , Zhan Ma

Deep learning models, while achieving state-of-the-art performance on many tasks, are susceptible to adversarial attacks that exploit inherent vulnerabilities in their architectures. Adversarial attacks manipulate the input data with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Shreyasi Mandal

Despite the recent advances in a wide spectrum of applications, machine learning models, especially deep neural networks, have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Attackers add carefully-crafted perturbations to input, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Ninghao Liu , Mengnan Du , Ruocheng Guo , Huan Liu , Xia Hu

We propose a test-time defense mechanism against adversarial attacks: imperceptible image perturbations that significantly alter the predictions of a model. Unlike existing methods that rely on feature filtering or smoothing, which can lead…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Dong Lao , Yuxiang Zhang , Haniyeh Ehsani Oskouie , Yangchao Wu , Alex Wong , Stefano Soatto

Adversarial attacks on machine learning algorithms have been a key deterrent to the adoption of AI in many real-world use cases. They significantly undermine the ability of high-performance neural networks by forcing misclassifications.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Nandish Chattopadhyay , Atreya Goswami , Anupam Chattopadhyay

In the field of interactive coding, two or more parties wish to carry out a distributed computation over a communication network that may be noisy. The ultimate goal is to develop efficient coding schemes that can tolerate a high level of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Ran Gelles , Yael T. Kalai , Govind Ramnarayan

We generalize the problem of controlling the interference created to an external observer while communicating over a discrete memoryless channel (DMC) which was studied in \cite{serrano:2014}. In particular, we consider the scenario where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Michail Mylonakis , Photios A. Stavrou , Mikael Skoglund

Network covert channels are hidden communication channels in computer networks. They influence several factors of the cybersecurity economy. For instance, by improving the stealthiness of botnet communications, they aid and preserve the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Wojciech Mazurczyk , Steffen Wendzel , Mehdi Chourib , Jörg Keller

In communication systems, there are many tasks, like modulation recognition, which rely on Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) models. However, these models have been shown to be susceptible to adversarial perturbations, namely imperceptible…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-31 Javier Maroto , Gérôme Bovet , Pascal Frossard

Despite the considerable success enjoyed by machine learning techniques in practice, numerous studies demonstrated that many approaches are vulnerable to attacks. An important class of such attacks involves adversaries changing features at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Liang Tong , Sixie Yu , Scott Alfeld , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

Machine learning and deep learning in particular has advanced tremendously on perceptual tasks in recent years. However, it remains vulnerable against adversarial perturbations of the input that have been crafted specifically to fool the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-22 Jan Hendrik Metzen , Tim Genewein , Volker Fischer , Bastian Bischoff

The superiority of deep learning performance is threatened by safety issues for itself. Recent findings have shown that deep learning systems are very weak to adversarial examples, an attack form that was altered by the attacker's intent to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Dang Duy Thang , Toshihiro Matsui

Adversarial examples, characterized by imperceptible perturbations, pose significant threats to deep neural networks by misleading their predictions. A critical aspect of these examples is their transferability, allowing them to deceive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Yi Yu , Song Xia , Xun Lin , Chenqi Kong , Wenhan Yang , Shijian Lu , Yap-Peng Tan , Alex C. Kot

It has been suggested that adversarial examples cause deep learning models to make incorrect predictions with high confidence. In this work, we take the opposite stance: an overly confident model is more likely to be vulnerable to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Angus Galloway , Graham W. Taylor , Medhat Moussa

Adversarial machine learning is a fast growing research area, which considers the scenarios when machine learning systems may face potential adversarial attackers, who intentionally synthesize input data to make a well-trained model to make…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Guofu Li , Pengjia Zhu , Jin Li , Zhemin Yang , Ning Cao , Zhiyi Chen

We consider the problem of tracking an adversarial state sequence in a linear dynamical system subject to adversarial disturbances and loss functions, generalizing earlier settings in the literature. To this end, we develop three…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Zhiyu Zhang , Ashok Cutkosky , Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis

We investigate the vulnerability of computer-vision-based signal classifiers to adversarial perturbations of their inputs, where the signals and perturbations are subject to physical constraints. We consider a scenario in which a source and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Robert L. Bassett , Austin Van Dellen , Anthony P. Austin

Over the last few years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have proved to reach super-human performance in visual recognition tasks. However, CNNs can easily be fooled by adversarial examples, i.e., maliciously-crafted images that force…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Federico Nesti , Alessandro Biondi , Giorgio Buttazzo