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Although the recent progress is substantial, deep learning methods can be vulnerable to the maliciously generated adversarial examples. In this paper, we present a novel training procedure and a thresholding test strategy, towards robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Tianyu Pang , Chao Du , Yinpeng Dong , Jun Zhu

Improving the robustness of deep neural networks (DNNs) to adversarial examples is an important yet challenging problem for secure deep learning. Across existing defense techniques, adversarial training with Projected Gradient Decent (PGD)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Yisen Wang , Xingjun Ma , James Bailey , Jinfeng Yi , Bowen Zhou , Quanquan Gu

Deep neural networks have exhibited impressive performance in image classification tasks but remain vulnerable to adversarial examples. Standard adversarial training enhances robustness but typically fails to explicitly address inter-class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Himanshu Singh , A. V. Subramanyam , Shivank Rajput , Mohan Kankanhalli

Adversarial attacks and defenses are currently active areas of research for the deep learning community. A recent review paper divided the defense approaches into three categories; gradient masking, robust optimization, and adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Leslie N. Smith

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Qinglong Wang , Wenbo Guo , Alexander G. Ororbia , Xinyu Xing , Lin Lin , C. Lee Giles , Xue Liu , Peng Liu , Gang Xiong

Neural networks are known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks -- slight but carefully constructed perturbations of the inputs which can drastically impair the network's performance. Many defense methods have been proposed for improving…

The increasing use of deep neural networks (DNNs) has motivated a parallel endeavor: the design of adversaries that profit from successful misclassifications. However, not all adversarial examples are crafted for malicious purposes. For…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Pk Douglas , Farzad Vasheghani Farahani

Despite the remarkable progress of deep neural networks (DNNs) in various visual tasks, their vulnerability to adversarial examples raises significant security concerns. Recent adversarial training methods leverage inverse adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Kejia Zhang , Juanjuan Weng , Shaozi Li , Zhiming Luo

Despite their impressive performance, deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been shown to be sensitive to small adversarial perturbations. These nuisances, which one can barely notice, are powerful enough to fool sophisticated and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-08-07 Yaniv Romano , Aviad Aberdam , Jeremias Sulam , Michael Elad

Network security applications, including intrusion detection systems of deep neural networks, are increasing rapidly to make detection task of anomaly activities more accurate and robust. With the rapid increase of using DNN and the volume…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Rana Abou Khamis , Ashraf Matrawy

Neural networks have changed the way machines interpret the world. At their core, they learn by following gradients, adjusting their parameters step by step until they identify the most discriminant patterns in the data. This process gives…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Samarup Bhattacharya , Anubhab Bhattacharya , Abir Chakraborty

Deep neural network architectures are considered to be robust to random perturbations. Nevertheless, it was shown that they could be severely vulnerable to slight but carefully crafted perturbations of the input, termed as adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Omer Faruk Tuna , Ferhat Ozgur Catak , M. Taner Eskil

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

Recent work has put forth the hypothesis that adversarial vulnerabilities in neural networks are due to them overusing "non-robust features" inherent in the training data. We show empirically that for PGD-attacks, there is a training stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Zuowen Wang , Leo Horne

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks -- subtle, perceptually indistinguishable perturbations of inputs that change the response of the model. In the context of vision, we hypothesize that an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Muhammad A. Shah , Bhiksha Raj

While existing work in robust deep learning has focused on small pixel-level norm-based perturbations, this may not account for perturbations encountered in several real-world settings. In many such cases although test data might not be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Tejas Gokhale , Rushil Anirudh , Bhavya Kailkhura , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , Chitta Baral , Yezhou Yang

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been shown to be prone to adversarial attacks. Memristive crossbars, being able to perform Matrix-Vector-Multiplications (MVMs) efficiently, are used to realize DNNs on hardware. However, crossbar…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Abhiroop Bhattacharjee , Priyadarshini Panda

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance on various tasks in computer vision. However, recent studies demonstrate that these models are vulnerable to carefully crafted adversarial samples and suffer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Xin Li , Xiangrui Li , Deng Pan , Dongxiao Zhu

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are known to be vulnerable to the maliciously generated adversarial examples. To detect these adversarial examples, previous methods use artificially designed metrics to characterize the properties of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Xiaofeng Mao , Yuefeng Chen , Yuhong Li , Yuan He , Hui Xue

In this paper, we aim to understand and explain the decisions of deep neural networks by studying the behavior of predicted attributes when adversarial examples are introduced. We study the changes in attributes for clean as well as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Sadaf Gulshad , Zeynep Akata , Jan Hendrik Metzen , Arnold Smeulders