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In this paper, we propose a new approach called MemLoss to improve the adversarial training of machine learning models. MemLoss leverages previously generated adversarial examples, referred to as 'Memory Adversarial Examples,' to enhance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Soroush Mahdi , Maryam Amirmazlaghani , Saeed Saravani , Zahra Dehghanian

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are highly susceptible to adversarial examples--subtle perturbations applied to inputs that are often imperceptible to humans yet lead to incorrect model predictions. In black-box scenarios, however, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Qing Wan , Shilong Deng , Xun Wang

Knowledge Distillation is an effective method of transferring knowledge from a large model to a smaller model. Distillation can be viewed as a type of model compression, and has played an important role for on-device ASR applications. In…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-13 Sankaran Panchapagesan , Daniel S. Park , Chung-Cheng Chiu , Yuan Shangguan , Qiao Liang , Alexander Gruenstein

Deep neural networks are widely known to be susceptible to adversarial examples, which can cause incorrect predictions through subtle input modifications. These adversarial examples tend to be transferable between models, but targeted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Junyoung Byun , Myung-Joon Kwon , Seungju Cho , Yoonji Kim , Changick Kim

It has been demonstrated that deep neural networks are prone to noisy examples particular adversarial samples during inference process. The gap between robust deep learning systems in real world applications and vulnerable neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Xinhan Di , Pengqian Yu , Meng Tian

Federated learning (FL) has gained significant attention for enabling decentralized training on edge networks without exposing raw data. However, FL models remain susceptible to adversarial attacks and performance degradation in non-IID…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Yu Qiao , Apurba Adhikary , Huy Q. Le , Eui-Nam Huh , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

Pre-training is crucial for learning deep neural networks. Most of existing pre-training methods train simple models (e.g., restricted Boltzmann machines) and then stack them layer by layer to form the deep structure. This layer-wise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-09 Zhiyuan Tang , Dong Wang , Yiqiao Pan , Zhiyong Zhang

Randomized smoothing is a well-established method for achieving certified robustness against l2-adversarial perturbations. By incorporating a denoiser before the base classifier, pretrained classifiers can be seamlessly integrated into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Ali Hedayatnia , Mostafa Tavassolipour , Babak Nadjar Araabi , Abdol-Hossein Vahabie

Neural Networks are infamously sensitive to small perturbations in their inputs, making them vulnerable to adversarial attacks. This project evaluates the performance of Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM) as a purification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Lars Lien Ankile , Anna Midgley , Sebastian Weisshaar

Dataset distillation methods have achieved remarkable success in distilling a large dataset into a small set of representative samples. However, they are not designed to produce a distilled dataset that can be effectively used for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Dong Bok Lee , Seanie Lee , Joonho Ko , Kenji Kawaguchi , Juho Lee , Sung Ju Hwang

It is crucial to distinguish mislabeled samples for dealing with noisy labels. Previous methods such as Coteaching and JoCoR introduce two different networks to select clean samples out of the noisy ones and only use these clean ones to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Rumeng Yi , Yaping Huang

Knowledge distillation has been proven to be effective in model acceleration and compression. It allows a small network to learn to generalize in the same way as a large network. Recent successes in pre-training suggest the effectiveness of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Ye Lin , Yanyang Li , Ziyang Wang , Bei Li , Quan Du , Tong Xiao , Jingbo Zhu

Adversarial attacks can mislead neural network classifiers. The defense against adversarial attacks is important for AI safety. Adversarial purification is a family of approaches that defend adversarial attacks with suitable pre-processing.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Boya Zhang , Weijian Luo , Zhihua Zhang

Few-shot learning is the process of learning novel classes using only a few examples and it remains a challenging task in machine learning. Many sophisticated few-shot learning algorithms have been proposed based on the notion that networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Akihiro Nakamura , Tatsuya Harada

Adversarial examples, or nearly indistinguishable inputs created by an attacker, significantly reduce machine learning accuracy. Theoretical evidence has shown that the high intrinsic dimensionality of datasets facilitates an adversary's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Sheila Alemany , Niki Pissinou

A common approach to transfer learning under distribution shift is to fine-tune the last few layers of a pre-trained model, preserving learned features while also adapting to the new task. This paper shows that in such settings, selectively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Yoonho Lee , Annie S. Chen , Fahim Tajwar , Ananya Kumar , Huaxiu Yao , Percy Liang , Chelsea Finn

Model distillation has become essential for creating smaller, deployable language models that retain larger system capabilities. However, widespread deployment raises concerns about resilience to adversarial manipulation. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Harsh Chaudhari , Jamie Hayes , Matthew Jagielski , Ilia Shumailov , Milad Nasr , Alina Oprea

Traditional defenses against Deep Leakage (DL) attacks in Federated Learning (FL) primarily focus on obfuscation, introducing noise, transformations or encryption to degrade an attacker's ability to reconstruct private data. While effective…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Isaac Baglin , Xiatian Zhu , Simon Hadfield

We propose self-diffusion, a novel framework for solving inverse problems without relying on pretrained generative models. Traditional diffusion-based approaches require training a model on a clean dataset to learn to reverse the forward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Guanxiong Luo , Shoujin Huang , Yanlong Yang

We present GIFT: a {G}radient-aware {I}mmunization technique to defend diffusion models against malicious {F}ine-{T}uning while preserving their ability to generate safe content. Existing safety mechanisms like safety checkers are easily…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Amro Abdalla , Ismail Shaheen , Dan DeGenaro , Rupayan Mallick , Bogdan Raita , Sarah Adel Bargal