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State-of-the-art deep neural networks have been shown to be extremely powerful in a variety of perceptual tasks like semantic segmentation. However, these networks are vulnerable to adversarial perturbations of the input which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Kira Maag , Asja Fischer

It is widely believed that the success of deep networks lies in their ability to learn a meaningful representation of the features of the data. Yet, understanding when and how this feature learning improves performance remains a challenge:…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-13 Leonardo Petrini , Francesco Cagnetta , Eric Vanden-Eijnden , Matthieu Wyart

Constructing adversarial perturbations for deep neural networks is an important direction of research. Crafting image-dependent adversarial perturbations using white-box feedback has hitherto been the norm for such adversarial attacks.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Arka Ghosh , Sankha Subhra Mullick , Shounak Datta , Swagatam Das , Rammohan Mallipeddi , Asit Kr. Das

Deep neural networks have been shown to exhibit an intriguing vulnerability to adversarial input images corrupted with imperceptible perturbations. However, the majority of adversarial attacks assume global, fine-grained control over the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Ameya Joshi , Amitangshu Mukherjee , Soumik Sarkar , Chinmay Hegde

Human visual recognition is a sparse process, where only a few salient visual cues are attended to rather than traversing every detail uniformly. However, most current vision networks follow a dense paradigm, processing every single visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Ziteng Gao , Zhan Tong , Limin Wang , Mike Zheng Shou

Dropout is commonly used to help reduce overfitting in deep neural networks. Sparsity is a potentially important property of neural networks, but is not explicitly controlled by Dropout-based regularization. In this work, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Najeeb Khan , Ian Stavness

Deep neural networks are powerful and popular learning models that achieve state-of-the-art pattern recognition performance on many computer vision, speech, and language processing tasks. However, these networks have also been shown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Nina Narodytska , Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been proven to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. A special branch of adversarial examples, namely sparse adversarial examples, can fool the target DNNs by perturbing only a few pixels. However, many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Jinqiao Li , Xiaotao Liu , Jian Zhao , Furao Shen

Deep neural networks have made remarkable progresses on various computer vision tasks. Recent works have shown that depth, width and shortcut connections of networks are all vital to their performances. In this paper, we introduce a method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Wenqi Liu , Kun Zeng

Sparse regression on a library of candidate features has developed as the prime method to discover the partial differential equation underlying a spatio-temporal data-set. These features consist of higher order derivatives, limiting model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Gert-Jan Both , Gijs Vermarien , Remy Kusters

The research in the field of adversarial attacks and models' vulnerability is one of the fundamental directions in modern machine learning. Recent studies reveal the vulnerability phenomenon, and understanding the mechanisms behind this is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Kseniia Kuvshinova , Olga Tsymboi , Ivan Oseledets

To accelerate deep CNN models, this paper proposes a novel spatially adaptive framework that can dynamically generate pixel-wise sparsity according to the input image. The sparse scheme is pixel-wise refined, regional adaptive under a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Chen Tang , Wenyu Sun , Zhuqing Yuan , Yongpan Liu

Sparse adversarial attacks fool deep neural networks (DNNs) through minimal pixel perturbations, often regularized by the $\ell_0$ norm. Recent efforts have replaced this norm with a structural sparsity regularizer, such as the nuclear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Shpresim Sadiku , Moritz Wagner , Sebastian Pokutta

Deep neural networks have achieved impressive results in many image classification tasks. However, since their performance is usually measured in controlled settings, it is important to ensure that their decisions remain correct when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Apostolos Modas

Despite impressive performance, deep neural networks require significant memory and computation costs, prohibiting their application in resource-constrained scenarios. Sparse training is one of the most common techniques to reduce these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Bowen Lei , Dongkuan Xu , Ruqi Zhang , Shuren He , Bani K. Mallick

Machine learning methods in general and Deep Neural Networks in particular have shown to be vulnerable to adversarial perturbations. So far this phenomenon has mainly been studied in the context of whole-image classification. In this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-06 Volker Fischer , Mummadi Chaithanya Kumar , Jan Hendrik Metzen , Thomas Brox

In this paper, we propose novel generative models for creating adversarial examples, slightly perturbed images resembling natural images but maliciously crafted to fool pre-trained models. We present trainable deep neural networks for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Omid Poursaeed , Isay Katsman , Bicheng Gao , Serge Belongie

We study the problem of reconstructing an image from information stored at contour locations. We show that high-quality reconstructions with high fidelity to the source image can be obtained from sparse input, e.g., comprising less than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Tali Dekel , Chuang Gan , Dilip Krishnan , Ce Liu , William T. Freeman

Deep neural networks have achieved human-level accuracy on almost all perceptual benchmarks. It is interesting that these advances were made using two ideas that are decades old: (a) an artificial neuron based on a linear summator and (b)…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Sergey Bochkanov

A key recent advance in face recognition models a test face image as a sparse linear combination of a set of training face images. The resulting sparse representations have been shown to possess robustness against a variety of distortions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Yi Chen , Umamahesh Srinivas , Thong T. Do , Vishal Monga , Trac D. Tran