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We propose to execute deep neural networks (DNNs) with dynamic and sparse graph (DSG) structure for compressive memory and accelerative execution during both training and inference. The great success of DNNs motivates the pursuing of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Liu Liu , Lei Deng , Xing Hu , Maohua Zhu , Guoqi Li , Yufei Ding , Yuan Xie

Neural networks have been proven to be vulnerable to a variety of adversarial attacks. From a safety perspective, highly sparse adversarial attacks are particularly dangerous. On the other hand the pixelwise perturbations of sparse attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Francesco Croce , Matthias Hein

Explainability is a key component in many applications involving deep neural networks (DNNs). However, current explanation methods for DNNs commonly leave it to the human observer to distinguish relevant explanations from spurious noise.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Paulo Yanez Sarmiento , Simon Witzke , Nadja Klein , Bernhard Y. Renard

The success of DNN pruning has led to the development of energy-efficient inference accelerators that support pruned models with sparse weight and activation tensors. Because the memory layouts and dataflows in these architectures are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Dingqing Yang , Amin Ghasemazar , Xiaowei Ren , Maximilian Golub , Guy Lemieux , Mieszko Lis

Although deep learning has shown great success in recent years, researchers have discovered a critical flaw where small, imperceptible changes in the input to the system can drastically change the output classification. These attacks are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Jacob M. Springer , Charles S. Strauss , Austin M. Thresher , Edward Kim , Garrett T. Kenyon

Fully-connected layers in deep neural networks (DNN) are often the throughput and power bottleneck during training. This is due to their large size and low data reuse. Pruning dense layers can significantly reduce the size of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Mihailo Isakov , Michel A. Kinsy

Deep Neural Network (DNN) models have vulnerabilities related to security concerns, with attackers usually employing complex hacking techniques to expose their structures. Data poisoning-enabled perturbation attacks are complex adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Mohammed Hassanin , Ibrahim Radwan , Nour Moustafa , Murat Tahtali , Neeraj Kumar

Representational sparsity is known to affect robustness to input perturbations in deep neural networks (DNNs), but less is known about how the semantic content of representations affects robustness. Class selectivity-the variability of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Matthew L. Leavitt , Ari Morcos

The sizes of deep neural networks (DNNs) are rapidly outgrowing the capacity of hardware to store and train them. Research over the past few decades has explored the prospect of sparsifying DNNs before, during, and after training by pruning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Ryan A. Robinett , Jeremy Kepner

The prominent success of neural networks, mainly in computer vision tasks, is increasingly shadowed by their sensitivity to small, barely perceivable adversarial perturbations in image input. In this work, we aim at explaining this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Dana Weitzner , Raja Giryes

Deep neural networks have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial examples---maliciously crafted examples that can trigger the target model to misbehave by adding imperceptible perturbations. Existing attack methods for k-nearest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Xiaodan Li , Yuefeng Chen , Yuan He , Hui Xue

Obtaining versions of deep neural networks that are both highly-accurate and highly-sparse is one of the main challenges in the area of model compression, and several high-performance pruning techniques have been investigated by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Denis Kuznedelev , Eldar Kurtic , Eugenia Iofinova , Elias Frantar , Alexandra Peste , Dan Alistarh

With the great capabilities of deep classifiers for radar data processing come the risks of learning dataset-specific features that do not generalize well. In this work, the robustness of two deep convolutional architectures, trained and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Mikolaj Czerkawski , Carmine Clemente , Craig Michie , Christos Tachtatzis

Recent work has demonstrated that deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples---inputs that are almost indistinguishable from natural data and yet classified incorrectly by the network. In fact, some of the latest findings…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-06 Aleksander Madry , Aleksandar Makelov , Ludwig Schmidt , Dimitris Tsipras , Adrian Vladu

Recent research showed that deep neural networks are highly sensitive to so-called adversarial perturbations, which are tiny perturbations of the input data purposely designed to fool a machine learning classifier. Most classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-15 Akram Erraqabi , Aristide Baratin , Yoshua Bengio , Simon Lacoste-Julien

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) are widely used to solve a variety of problems and as the quantity of data and the amount of available compute have increased, so have model sizes. The number of parameters in recent state-of-the-art networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Sharan Narang , Erich Elsen , Gregory Diamos , Shubho Sengupta

Adversarial attacks pose significant challenges to Machine Learning (ML) systems and especially Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) by subtly manipulating inputs to induce incorrect predictions. This paper investigates whether increasing the layer…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Mohamed ElShehaby , Ashraf Matrawy

As deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly deployed in sensitive applications, ensuring their security and robustness has become critical. A major threat to DNNs arises from adversarial attacks, where small input perturbations can lead…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Erh-Chung Chen , Pin-Yu Chen , I-Hsin Chung , Che-Rung Lee

Deep neural networks (DNNs) may outperform human brains in complex tasks, but the lack of transparency in their decision-making processes makes us question whether we could fully trust DNNs with high stakes problems. As DNNs' operations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Jung Hoon Lee

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved state of the art results and even outperformed human accuracy in many challenging tasks, leading to DNNs adoption in a variety of fields including natural language processing, pattern recognition,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Mabel Ogonna , Abigail Adeniran , Adewale Adeyemo
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