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Language models (LMs) are indispensable tools for natural language processing tasks, but their vulnerability to adversarial attacks remains a concern. While current research has explored adversarial training techniques, their improvements…

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We propose a new defense mechanism against adversarial attacks inspired by an optical co-processor, providing robustness without compromising natural accuracy in both white-box and black-box settings. This hardware co-processor performs a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Alessandro Cappelli , Ruben Ohana , Julien Launay , Laurent Meunier , Iacopo Poli , Florent Krzakala

In this paper we propose a new family of algorithms, ATENT, for training adversarially robust deep neural networks. We formulate a new loss function that is equipped with an additional entropic regularization. Our loss function considers…

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The growing use of large pre-trained models in edge computing has made model inference on mobile clients both feasible and popular. Yet these devices remain vulnerable to adversarial attacks, threatening model robustness and security.…

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Adversarial examples are perturbed inputs that are designed (from a deep learning network's (DLN) parameter gradients) to mislead the DLN during test time. Intuitively, constraining the dimensionality of inputs or parameters of a network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Priyadarshini Panda , Indranil Chakraborty , Kaushik Roy

Deep neural networks are successfully used in various applications, but show their vulnerability to adversarial examples. With the development of adversarial patches, the feasibility of attacks in physical scenes increases, and the defenses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Junwen Chen , Xingxing Wei

Robustness against adversarial attack in neural networks is an important research topic in the machine learning community. We observe one major source of vulnerability of neural nets is from overparameterized fully-connected layers. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Bingyuan Liu , Christopher Malon , Lingzhou Xue , Erik Kruus

Currently, reinforcement learning (RL), especially deep RL, has received more and more attention in the research area. However, the security of RL has been an obvious problem due to the attack manners becoming mature. In order to defend…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Jiarui Yao , Simon Shaolei Du

The growing reliance on deep learning models in safety-critical domains such as healthcare and autonomous navigation underscores the need for defenses that are both robust to adversarial perturbations and transparent in their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Longwei Wang , Mohammad Navid Nayyem , Abdullah Al Rakin , KC Santosh , Chaowei Zhang , Yang Zhou

User based collaborative filtering (CF) relies on a user and user similarity graph, making it vulnerable to profile injection (shilling) attacks that manipulate neighborhood relations to promote (push) or demote (nuke) target items. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Yongyu Wang

Adversarial robustness is essential for security and reliability of machine learning systems. However, adversarial robustness enhanced by defense algorithms is easily erased as the neural network's weights update to learn new tasks. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Xiaolei Ru , Xiaowei Cao , Zijia Liu , Jack Murdoch Moore , Xin-Ya Zhang , Xia Zhu , Wenjia Wei , Gang Yan

We propose a scheme for defending against adversarial attacks by suppressing the largest eigenvalue of the Fisher information matrix (FIM). Our starting point is one explanation on the rationale of adversarial examples. Based on the idea of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Chaomin Shen , Yaxin Peng , Guixu Zhang , Jinsong Fan

The study on improving the robustness of deep neural networks against adversarial examples grows rapidly in recent years. Among them, adversarial training is the most promising one, which flattens the input loss landscape (loss change with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Dongxian Wu , Shu-tao Xia , Yisen Wang

Implicit Neural Representations have gained prominence as a powerful framework for capturing complex data modalities, encompassing a wide range from 3D shapes to images and audio. Within the realm of 3D shape representation, Neural Signed…

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The surge of state-of-the-art Transformer-based models has undoubtedly pushed the limits of NLP model performance, excelling in a variety of tasks. We cast the spotlight on the underexplored task of Natural Language Inference (NLI), since…

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Adversarial examples can cause catastrophic mistakes in Deep Neural Network (DNNs) based vision systems e.g., for classification, segmentation and object detection. The vulnerability of DNNs against such attacks can prove a major roadblock…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Muzammal Naseer , Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Fatih Porikli

We present a model for layered security with applications to the protection of sites such as stadiums or large gathering places. We formulate the problem as one of maximizing the capture of illegal contraband. The objective function is…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Tsvetan Asamov , Emre Yamangil , Endre Boros , Paul Kantor , Fred Roberts

Model-based reinforcement learning has attracted much attention due to its high sample efficiency and is expected to be applied to real-world robotic applications. In the real world, as unobservable disturbances can lead to unexpected…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Taisuke Kobayashi

Sharpness-aware minimization (SAM) is an effective method for improving the generalization of federated learning (FL) by steering local training toward flat minima. Under data heterogeneity, however, device-side SAM searches for locally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Bingnan Xiao , Yuan Gao , Bingcong Li , Wei Ni , Xin Wang , Tony Q. S. Quek

Adversarial phenomenon has been widely observed in machine learning (ML) systems, especially in those using deep neural networks, describing that ML systems may produce inconsistent and incomprehensible predictions with humans at some…

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