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Knowledge distillation is effective for producing small, high-performance neural networks for classification, but these small networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. This paper studies how adversarial robustness transfers from…

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Federated Learning is vulnerable to adversarial manipulation, where malicious clients can inject poisoned updates to influence the global model's behavior. While existing defense mechanisms have made notable progress, they fail to protect…

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Deep learning methods have shown state of the art performance in a range of tasks from computer vision to natural language processing. However, it is well known that such systems are vulnerable to attackers who craft inputs in order to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Giulio Zizzo , Chris Hankin , Sergio Maffeis , Kevin Jones

The vulnerability of artificial neural networks to adversarial perturbations in the black-box setting is widely studied in the literature. The majority of attack methods to construct these perturbations suffer from an impractically large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Kirill Lukyanov , Andrew Perminov , Denis Turdakov , Mikhail Pautov

A recent paper suggests that Deep Neural Networks can be protected from gradient-based adversarial perturbations by driving the network activations into a highly saturated regime. Here we analyse such saturated networks and show that the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-06 Wieland Brendel , Matthias Bethge

The safety and robustness of learning-based decision-making systems are under threats from adversarial examples, as imperceptible perturbations can mislead neural networks to completely different outputs. In this paper, we present an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Chao Tang , Yifei Fan , Anthony Yezzi

Large Language Models (LLMs) represent substantial intellectual and economic investments, yet their effectiveness can inadvertently facilitate model imitation via knowledge distillation (KD). In practical scenarios, competitors can distill…

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In clinics, doctors rely on electrocardiograms (ECGs) to assess severe cardiac disorders. Owing to the development of technology and the increase in health awareness, ECG signals are currently obtained by using medical and commercial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-18 Jiahao Shao , Shijia Geng , Zhaoji Fu , Weilun Xu , Tong Liu , Shenda Hong

In the past few years, it has become increasingly evident that deep neural networks are not resilient enough to withstand adversarial perturbations in input data, leaving them vulnerable to attack. Various authors have proposed strong…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Shreya Goyal , Sumanth Doddapaneni , Mitesh M. Khapra , Balaraman Ravindran

This technical report delves into an in-depth exploration of adversarial attacks specifically targeted at Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) utilized for image classification. The study also investigates defense mechanisms aimed at bolstering the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Trilokesh Ranjan Sarkar , Nilanjan Das , Pralay Sankar Maitra , Bijoy Some , Ritwik Saha , Orijita Adhikary , Bishal Bose , Jaydip Sen

Defenses against security threats have been an interest of recent studies. Recent works have shown that it is not difficult to attack a natural language processing (NLP) model while defending against them is still a cat-mouse game. Backdoor…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Sangeet Sagar , Abhinav Bhatt , Abhijith Srinivas Bidaralli

MagNet and "Efficient Defenses..." were recently proposed as a defense to adversarial examples. We find that we can construct adversarial examples that defeat these defenses with only a slight increase in distortion.

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Nicholas Carlini , David Wagner

Wide adoption of artificial neural networks in various domains has led to an increasing interest in defending adversarial attacks against them. Preprocessing defense methods such as pixel discretization are particularly attractive in…

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Recent studies have shown that deep neural networks (DNN) are vulnerable to adversarial samples: maliciously-perturbed samples crafted to yield incorrect model outputs. Such attacks can severely undermine DNN systems, particularly in…

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Deep neural networks have proven to be quite effective in a wide variety of machine learning tasks, ranging from improved speech recognition systems to advancing the development of autonomous vehicles. However, despite their superior…

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Future wireless networks (5G and beyond) are the vision of forthcoming cellular systems, connecting billions of devices and people together. In the last decades, cellular networks have been dramatically growth with advanced…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Ferhat Ozgur Catak , Murat Kuzlu , Evren Catak , Umit Cali , Ozgur Guler

Model distillation has become essential for creating smaller, deployable language models that retain larger system capabilities. However, widespread deployment raises concerns about resilience to adversarial manipulation. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Harsh Chaudhari , Jamie Hayes , Matthew Jagielski , Ilia Shumailov , Milad Nasr , Alina Oprea

The rise of machine learning as a service and model sharing platforms has raised the need of traitor-tracing the models and proof of authorship. Watermarking technique is the main component of existing methods for protecting copyright of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Ziqi Yang , Hung Dang , Ee-Chien Chang

Recent breakthroughs in the field of deep learning have led to advancements in a broad spectrum of tasks in computer vision, audio processing, natural language processing and other areas. In most instances where these tasks are deployed in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Daanish Ali Khan , Linhong Li , Ninghao Sha , Zhuoran Liu , Abelino Jimenez , Bhiksha Raj , Rita Singh

Empirical defenses for machine learning privacy forgo the provable guarantees of differential privacy in the hope of achieving higher utility while resisting realistic adversaries. We identify severe pitfalls in existing empirical privacy…

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