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Artificial neural networks have been successfully used for many different classification tasks including malware detection and distinguishing between malicious and non-malicious programs. Although artificial neural networks perform very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Robert Podschwadt , Hassan Takabi

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, where a small perturbation to an input alters the model prediction. In many cases, malicious inputs intentionally crafted for one model can fool another model. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Liping Yuan , Xiaoqing Zheng , Yi Zhou , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Kai-wei Chang

Deep reinforcement learning has shown promising results in learning control policies for complex sequential decision-making tasks. However, these neural network-based policies are known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-04 Yen-Chen Lin , Ming-Yu Liu , Min Sun , Jia-Bin Huang

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are notoriously vulnerable to adversarial input designs with limited noise budgets. While numerous successful attacks with subtle modifications to original input have been proposed, defense techniques against…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Furkan Mumcu , Yasin Yilmaz

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial examples where inputs with imperceptible perturbations mislead DNNs to incorrect results. Despite the potential risk they bring, adversarial examples are also valuable for providing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Chongzhi Zhang , Aishan Liu , Xianglong Liu , Yitao Xu , Hang Yu , Yuqing Ma , Tianlin Li

Counterfactual explanations offer an intuitive way to interpret graph neural networks (GNNs) by identifying minimal changes that alter a model's prediction, thereby answering "what must differ for a different outcome?". In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Yu Zhang , Sean Bin Yang , Arijit Khan , Cuneyt Gurcan Akcora

We introduce an adversarial sample detection algorithm based on image residuals, specifically designed to guard against patch-based attacks. The image residual is obtained as the difference between an input image and a denoised version of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Marius Arvinte , Ahmed Tewfik , Sriram Vishwanath

Adversarial examples have been shown to cause neural networks to fail on a wide range of vision and language tasks, but recent work has claimed that Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) are inherently robust to adversarial perturbations. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Yunzhen Feng , Tim G. J. Rudner , Nikolaos Tsilivis , Julia Kempe

Neural networks are known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks -- slight but carefully constructed perturbations of the inputs which can drastically impair the network's performance. Many defense methods have been proposed for improving…

In this paper, we investigate the use of pretraining with adversarial networks, with the objective of discovering the relationship between network depth and robustness. For this purpose, we selectively retrain different portions of VGG and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui , Thomas Breuel

Adversarial examples are a major problem for machine learning models, leading to a continuous search for effective defenses. One promising direction is to leverage model explanations to better understand and defend against these attacks. We…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Qian Ma , Ziping Ye

Recent studies on the adversarial vulnerability of neural networks have shown that models trained to be more robust to adversarial attacks exhibit more interpretable saliency maps than their non-robust counterparts. We aim to quantify this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-13 Christian Etmann , Sebastian Lunz , Peter Maass , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Target detection systems identify targets by localizing their coordinates on the input image of interest. This is ideally achieved by labeling each pixel in an image as a background or a potential target pixel. Deep Convolutional Neural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Uche M. Osahor , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

Deep neural networks are known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples, i.e., images that are maliciously perturbed to fool the model. Generating adversarial examples has been mostly limited to finding small perturbations that maximize the…

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The intriguing phenomenon of adversarial examples has attracted significant attention in machine learning and what might be more surprising to the community is the existence of universal adversarial perturbations (UAPs), i.e. a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Chaoning Zhang , Philipp Benz , Chenguo Lin , Adil Karjauv , Jing Wu , In So Kweon

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success in various tasks (e.g., image classification, speech recognition, and natural language processing (NLP)). However, researchers have demonstrated that DNN-based models are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Wenqi Wang , Run Wang , Lina Wang , Zhibo Wang , Aoshuang Ye

The great success of convolutional neural networks has caused a massive spread of the use of such models in a large variety of Computer Vision applications. However, these models are vulnerable to certain inputs, the adversarial examples,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Stefanos Pertigkiozoglou , Petros Maragos

We show new connections between adversarial learning and explainability for deep neural networks (DNNs). One form of explanation of the output of a neural network model in terms of its input features, is a vector of feature-attributions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Prasad Chalasani , Jiefeng Chen , Amrita Roy Chowdhury , Somesh Jha , Xi Wu

Due to their massive success in various domains, deep learning techniques are increasingly used to design network intrusion detection solutions that detect and mitigate unknown and known attacks with high accuracy detection rates and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Huda Ali Alatwi , Charles Morisset

Though deep neural network has hit a huge success in recent studies and applica- tions, it still remains vulnerable to adversarial perturbations which are imperceptible to humans. To address this problem, we propose a novel network called…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Jiefeng Chen , Zihang Meng , Changtian Sun , Wei Tang , Yinglun Zhu