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On-device Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have recently gained more attention due to the increasing computing power of the mobile devices and the number of applications in Computer Vision (CV), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Internet of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Yao Qiang , Supriya Tumkur Suresh Kumar , Marco Brocanelli , Dongxiao Zhu

In this work, we investigate the phenomenon that robust image classifiers have human-recognizable features -- often referred to as interpretability -- as revealed through the input gradients of their score functions and their subsequent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Jonathan Helland , Nathan VanHoudnos

Despite substantial advances in network architecture performance, the susceptibility of adversarial attacks makes deep learning challenging to implement in safety-critical applications. This paper proposes a data-centric approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Sandhya Aneja , Nagender Aneja , Pg Emeroylariffion Abas , Abdul Ghani Naim

The last few years have seen a staggering number of empirical studies of the robustness of neural networks in a model of adversarial perturbations of their inputs. Most rely on an adversary which carries out local modifications within…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Zac Cranko , Aditya Krishna Menon , Richard Nock , Cheng Soon Ong , Zhan Shi , Christian Walder

Neuromorphic neural network processors, in the form of compute-in-memory crossbar arrays of memristors, or in the form of subthreshold analog and mixed-signal ASICs, promise enormous advantages in compute density and energy efficiency for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Julian Büchel , Fynn Faber , Dylan R. Muir

Why are classifiers in high dimension vulnerable to "adversarial" perturbations? We show that it is likely not due to information theoretic limitations, but rather it could be due to computational constraints. First we prove that, for a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-28 Sébastien Bubeck , Eric Price , Ilya Razenshteyn

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) define the state-of-the-art solution on many perceptual tasks. However, current CNN approaches largely remain vulnerable against adversarial perturbations of the input that have been crafted specifically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Peter Lorenz , Margret Keuper , Janis Keuper

Given the widespread use of deep learning models in safety-critical applications, ensuring that the decisions of such models are robust against adversarial exploitation is of fundamental importance. In this thesis, we discuss recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Alexander Robey

The high susceptibility of deep learning algorithms against structured and unstructured perturbations has motivated the development of efficient adversarial defense algorithms. However, the lack of generalizability of existing defense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Saheb Chhabra , Akshay Agarwal , Richa Singh , Mayank Vatsa

It is by now well-known that small adversarial perturbations can induce classification errors in deep neural networks. In this paper, we take a bottom-up signal processing perspective to this problem and show that a systematic exploitation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-26 Soorya Gopalakrishnan , Zhinus Marzi , Metehan Cekic , Upamanyu Madhow , Ramtin Pedarsani

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are computationally/memory-intensive and vulnerable to adversarial attacks, making them prohibitive in some real-world applications. By converting dense models into sparse ones, pruning appears to be a promising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Yiwen Guo , Chao Zhang , Changshui Zhang , Yurong Chen

We propose a novel data-dependent structured gradient regularizer to increase the robustness of neural networks vis-a-vis adversarial perturbations. Our regularizer can be derived as a controlled approximation from first principles,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-23 Kevin Roth , Aurelien Lucchi , Sebastian Nowozin , Thomas Hofmann

The fragility of deep neural networks to adversarially-chosen inputs has motivated the need to revisit deep learning algorithms. Including adversarial examples during training is a popular defense mechanism against adversarial attacks. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Jacob H. Seidman , Mahyar Fazlyab , Victor M. Preciado , George J. Pappas

Despite their tremendous success in modelling high-dimensional data manifolds, deep neural networks suffer from the threat of adversarial attacks - Existence of perceptually valid input-like samples obtained through careful perturbation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Vinay Kyatham , Mayank Mishra , Tarun Kumar Yadav , Deepak Mishra , Prathosh AP

Despite extraordinary progress, current machine learning systems have been shown to be brittle against adversarial examples: seemingly innocuous but carefully crafted perturbations of test examples that cause machine learning predictors to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Omar Montasser

In this paper, we uniquely study the adversarial robustness of deep neural networks (NN) for classification tasks against that of optimal classifiers. We look at the smallest magnitude of possible additive perturbations that can change a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Jingchao Gao , Ziqing Lu , Raghu Mudumbai , Xiaodong Wu , Jirong Yi , Myung Cho , Catherine Xu , Hui Xie , Weiyu Xu

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

Deep Neural Network (DDN) has achieved notable success in various tasks, including many security concerning scenarios. However, a considerable amount of work has proved its vulnerability to adversaries. We unravel the properties that can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Mingxuan Li , Jingyuan Wang , Yufan Wu

Short answer: Yes, Long answer: No! Indeed, research on adversarial robustness has led to invaluable insights helping us understand and explore different aspects of the problem. Many attacks and defenses have been proposed over the last…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Ali Borji

Deep neural networks have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial examples: very small perturbations of the input having a dramatic impact on the predictions. A wealth of adversarial attacks and distance metrics to quantify the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Beranger Dumont , Simona Maggio , Pablo Montalvo