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Edge classification, a crucial task for graph applications, remains relatively under-explored compared to link prediction. Current methods often overlook the potential causal influences of node features on edge features, leading to a loss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Duanyu Feng , Li Ding , Hongru Liang , Wenqiang Lei

Deep graph learning has advanced Alzheimer's (AD) disease classification from MRI, but most models remain correlational, confounding demographic and genetic factors with disease specific features. We present Causal-GCN, an interventional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Pranay Kumar Peddi , Dhrubajyoti Ghosh

Causal Neural Network models have shown high levels of robustness to adversarial attacks as well as an increased capacity for generalisation tasks such as few-shot learning and rare-context classification compared to traditional Neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Preben M. Ness , Dusica Marijan , Sunanda Bose

Deep Q Networks (DQN) have shown remarkable success in various reinforcement learning tasks. However, their reliance on associative learning often leads to the acquisition of spurious correlations, hindering their problem-solving…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Elouanes Khelifi , Amir Saki , Usef Faghihi

A fundamental challenge in the empirical sciences involves uncovering causal structure through observation and experimentation. Causal discovery entails linking the conditional independence (CI) invariances in observational data to their…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-04 Zihan Zhou , Muhammad Qasim Elahi , Murat Kocaoglu

Over the last few years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have proved to reach super-human performance in visual recognition tasks. However, CNNs can easily be fooled by adversarial examples, i.e., maliciously-crafted images that force…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Federico Nesti , Alessandro Biondi , Giorgio Buttazzo

This study explores the impact of adversarial perturbations on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) with the aim of enhancing the understanding of their underlying mechanisms. Despite numerous defense methods proposed in the literature,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Davide Coppola , Hwee Kuan Lee

Deep neural networks excel at comprehending complex visual signals, delivering on par or even superior performance to that of human experts. However, ad-hoc visual explanations of model decisions often reveal an alarming level of reliance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Dong Wang , Yuewei Yang , Chenyang Tao , Zhe Gan , Liqun Chen , Fanjie Kong , Ricardo Henao , Lawrence Carin

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly being applied in malware detection and their robustness has been widely debated. Traditionally an adversarial example generation scheme relies on either detailed model information (gradient-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Sun RuiJin , Guo ShiZe , Guo JinHong , Xing ChangYou , Yang LuMing , Guo Xi , Pan ZhiSong

Machine learning models, especially deep neural networks (DNNs), have been shown to be vulnerable against adversarial examples which are carefully crafted samples with a small magnitude of the perturbation. Such adversarial perturbations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Anand Bhattad , Min Jin Chong , Kaizhao Liang , Bo Li , D. A. Forsyth

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

Robustness audits of deep neural networks (DNN) provide a means to uncover model sensitivities to the challenging real-world imaging conditions that significantly degrade DNN performance in-the-wild. Such conditions are often the result of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Nathan Drenkow , William Paul , Chris Ribaudo , Mathias Unberath

Causal opacity denotes the difficulty in understanding the "hidden" causal structure underlying the decisions of deep neural network (DNN) models. This leads to the inability to rely on and verify state-of-the-art DNN-based systems,…

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to maliciously generated adversarial examples. These examples are intentionally designed by making imperceptible perturbations and often mislead a DNN into making an incorrect prediction. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Mengchen Liu , Shixia Liu , Hang Su , Kelei Cao , Jun Zhu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved great success in various applications due to their strong expressive power. However, recent studies have shown that DNNs are vulnerable to adversarial examples which are manipulated instances…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Haonan Qiu , Chaowei Xiao , Lei Yang , Xinchen Yan , Honglak Lee , Bo Li

This review systematizes the emerging literature for causal inference using deep neural networks under the potential outcomes framework. It provides an intuitive introduction on how deep learning can be used to estimate/predict…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Bernard Koch , Tim Sainburg , Pablo Geraldo , Song Jiang , Yizhou Sun , Jacob Gates Foster

Deep learning is found to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. However, its adversarial susceptibility in image caption generation is under-explored. We study adversarial examples for vision and language models, which typically adopt an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Nayyer Aafaq , Naveed Akhtar , Wei Liu , Mubarak Shah , Ajmal Mian

It is widely known that convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial examples: images with imperceptible perturbations crafted to fool classifiers. However, interpretability of these perturbations is less explored in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Kaidi Xu , Sijia Liu , Gaoyuan Zhang , Mengshu Sun , Pu Zhao , Quanfu Fan , Chuang Gan , Xue Lin

Interpreting the inner function of neural networks is crucial for the trustworthy development and deployment of these black-box models. Prior interpretability methods focus on correlation-based measures to attribute model decisions to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Ola Ahmad , Nicolas Bereux , Loïc Baret , Vahid Hashemi , Freddy Lecue

Adversarial examples raise questions about whether neural network models are sensitive to the same visual features as humans. In this paper, we first detect adversarial examples or otherwise corrupted images based on a class-conditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Yao Qin , Nicholas Frosst , Sara Sabour , Colin Raffel , Garrison Cottrell , Geoffrey Hinton