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Knowledge distillation has been widely used to produce portable and efficient neural networks which can be well applied on edge devices for computer vision tasks. However, almost all top-performing knowledge distillation methods need to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Haoran Zhao , Xin Sun , Junyu Dong , Hui Yu , Huiyu Zhou

Wide adoption of artificial neural networks in various domains has led to an increasing interest in defending adversarial attacks against them. Preprocessing defense methods such as pixel discretization are particularly attractive in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Jiefeng Chen , Xi Wu , Vaibhav Rastogi , Yingyu Liang , Somesh Jha

Detecting unauthorized knowledge distillation from a deployed LLM API is hard because the defender controls neither the attacker's training pipeline nor the next-token logits. Existing defenses operate on the teacher's output tokens --…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Guang Yang , Amir Ghasemian , Fengchen Liu , Zhong Wang , Ninareh Mehrabi , Homa Hosseinmardi

This study investigates behavior-targeted attacks on reinforcement learning and their countermeasures. Behavior-targeted attacks aim to manipulate the victim's behavior as desired by the adversary through adversarial interventions in state…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Shojiro Yamabe , Kazuto Fukuchi , Jun Sakuma

The design of a security scheme for beamforming prediction is critical for next-generation wireless networks (5G, 6G, and beyond). However, there is no consensus about protecting the beamforming prediction using deep learning algorithms in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Murat Kuzlu , Ferhat Ozgur Catak , Umit Cali , Evren Catak , Ozgur Guler

We present a novel adversarial penalized self-knowledge distillation method, named adversarial learning and implicit regularization for self-knowledge distillation (AI-KD), which regularizes the training procedure by adversarial learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Hyungmin Kim , Sungho Suh , Sunghyun Baek , Daehwan Kim , Daun Jeong , Hansang Cho , Junmo Kim

Neural approaches to ranking based on pre-trained language models are highly effective in ad-hoc search. However, the computational expense of these models can limit their application. As such, a process known as knowledge distillation is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Vishakha Suresh Kalal , Andrew Parry , Sean MacAvaney

Adversarial perturbations can be added to images to protect their content from unwanted inferences. These perturbations may, however, be ineffective against classifiers that were not {seen} during the generation of the perturbation, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Ricardo Sanchez-Matilla , Chau Yi Li , Ali Shahin Shamsabadi , Riccardo Mazzon , Andrea Cavallaro

Adversarial training is a widely adopted strategy to bolster the robustness of neural network models against adversarial attacks. This paper revisits the fundamental assumptions underlying image classification and suggests that representing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Erh-Chung Chen , Che-Rung Lee

While deep models have proved successful in learning rich knowledge from massive well-annotated data, they may pose a privacy leakage risk in practical deployment. It is necessary to find an effective trade-off between high utility and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Shiming Ge , Bochao Liu , Pengju Wang , Yong Li , Dan Zeng

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which can mislead classifiers by adding imperceptible perturbations. An intriguing property of adversarial examples is their good transferability, making black-box attacks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Yinpeng Dong , Tianyu Pang , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Motivated by the superior performance of deep learning in many applications including computer vision and natural language processing, several recent studies have focused on applying deep neural network for devising future generations of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Lu Zhang , Sangarapillai Lambotharan , Gan Zheng , Guisheng Liao , Ambra Demontis , Fabio Roli

The vulnerability of machine learning systems to adversarial attacks questions their usage in many applications. In this paper, we propose a randomized diversification as a defense strategy. We introduce a multi-channel architecture in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Olga Taran , Shideh Rezaeifar , Taras Holotyak , Slava Voloshynovskiy

The ability to learn from incrementally arriving data is essential for any life-long learning system. However, standard deep neural networks forget the knowledge about the old tasks, a phenomenon called catastrophic forgetting, when trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Haseeb Shah , Khurram Javed , Faisal Shafait

In this paper, we present an effective method to craft text adversarial samples, revealing one important yet underestimated fact that DNN-based text classifiers are also prone to adversarial sample attack. Specifically, confronted with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Bin Liang , Hongcheng Li , Miaoqiang Su , Pan Bian , Xirong Li , Wenchang Shi

Deep neural network-based image compression (NIC) has achieved excellent performance, but NIC method models have been shown to be susceptible to backdoor attacks. Adversarial training has been validated in image compression models as a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Zhi Cao , Youneng Bao , Fanyang Meng , Chao Li , Wen Tan , Genhong Wang , Yongsheng Liang

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are highly sensitive to imperceptible malicious perturbations, known as adversarial attacks. Following the discovery of this vulnerability in real-world imaging and vision applications, the associated safety…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Tsachi Blau , Roy Ganz , Bahjat Kawar , Alex Bronstein , Michael Elad

Achieving resiliency against adversarial attacks is necessary prior to deploying neural network classifiers in domains where misclassification incurs substantial costs, e.g., self-driving cars or medical imaging. Recent work has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Jieren Deng , Aaron Palmer , Rigel Mahmood , Ethan Rathbun , Jinbo Bi , Kaleel Mahmood , Derek Aguiar

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is essential for compressing large models, yet relying on pre-trained "teacher" models downloaded from third-party repositories introduces serious security risks--most notably backdoor attacks. Existing KD…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Shanmin Wang , Dongdong Zhao

Robustness of huge Transformer-based models for natural language processing is an important issue due to their capabilities and wide adoption. One way to understand and improve robustness of these models is an exploration of an adversarial…