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Deep neural networks achieve remarkable performance in multiple fields. However, after proper training they suffer from an inherent vulnerability against adversarial examples (AEs). In this work we shed light on inner representations of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Štefan Pócoš , Iveta Bečková , Igor Farkaš

We combine conditional variational autoencoders (VAE) with adversarial censoring in order to learn invariant representations that are disentangled from nuisance/sensitive variations. In this method, an adversarial network attempts to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Ye Wang , Toshiaki Koike-Akino , Deniz Erdogmus

Gradient-based adversarial attacks on deep neural networks pose a serious threat, since they can be deployed by adding imperceptible perturbations to the test data of any network, and the risk they introduce cannot be assessed through the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Rehana Mahfuz , Rajeev Sahay , Aly El Gamal

Applying generative adversarial networks (GANs) to text-related tasks is challenging due to the discrete nature of language. One line of research resolves this issue by employing reinforcement learning (RL) and optimizing the next-word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Yanghoon Kim , Seungpil Won , Seunghyun Yoon , Kyomin Jung

Adversarial attacks in 3D environments have emerged as a critical threat to the reliability of visual perception systems, particularly in safety-sensitive applications such as identity verification and autonomous driving. These attacks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Xiao Yang , Lingxuan Wu , Lizhong Wang , Chengyang Ying , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Variational Autoencoder (VAE), a simple and effective deep generative model, has led to a number of impressive empirical successes and spawned many advanced variants and theoretical investigations. However, recent studies demonstrate that,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Xuezhe Ma , Chunting Zhou , Eduard Hovy

Deep learning based visual sensing has achieved attractive accuracy but is shown vulnerable to adversarial example attacks. Specifically, once the attackers obtain the deep model, they can construct adversarial examples to mislead the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Qun Song , Zhenyu Yan , Rui Tan

In this paper, we propose the "adversarial autoencoder" (AAE), which is a probabilistic autoencoder that uses the recently proposed generative adversarial networks (GAN) to perform variational inference by matching the aggregated posterior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-26 Alireza Makhzani , Jonathon Shlens , Navdeep Jaitly , Ian Goodfellow , Brendan Frey

With the proliferation of Artificial Intelligence, there has been a massive increase in the amount of data required to be accumulated and disseminated digitally. As the data are available online in digital landscapes with complex and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Md Mashrur Arifin , Md Shoaib Ahmed , Tanmai Kumar Ghosh , Ikteder Akhand Udoy , Jun Zhuang , Jyh-haw Yeh

Over the years, most research towards defenses against adversarial attacks on machine learning models has been in the image recognition domain. The ML-based malware detection domain has received less attention despite its importance.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Aqib Rashid , Jose Such

In this paper we propose a novel defense approach against end-to-end adversarial attacks developed to fool advanced speech-to-text systems such as DeepSpeech and Lingvo. Unlike conventional defense approaches, the proposed approach does not…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Mohammad Esmaeilpour , Patrick Cardinal , Alessandro Lameiras Koerich

Recent work has shown deep neural networks (DNNs) to be highly susceptible to well-designed, small perturbations at the input layer, or so-called adversarial examples. Taking images as an example, such distortions are often imperceptible,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-04-13 Shixiang Gu , Luca Rigazio

Image classification is a common step in image recognition for machine learning in overhead applications. When applying popular model architectures like MobileNetV2, known vulnerabilities expose the model to counter-attacks, either…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Josh Kalin , David Noever , Matthew Ciolino , Dominick Hambrick , Gerry Dozier

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to deliberately crafted adversarial examples. In the past few years, many efforts have been spent on exploring query-optimisation attacks to find adversarial examples of either black-box or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Derui , Wang , Chaoran Li , Sheng Wen , Surya Nepal , Yang Xiang

This study developed a generative adversarial network (GAN)-based defense method for traffic sign classification in an autonomous vehicle (AV), referred to as the attack-resilient GAN (AR-GAN). The novelty of the AR-GAN lies in (i) assuming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-26 M Sabbir Salek , Abdullah Al Mamun , Mashrur Chowdhury

Gradient-based adversarial attacks on neural networks can be crafted in a variety of ways by varying either how the attack algorithm relies on the gradient, the network architecture used for crafting the attack, or both. Most recent work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Rehana Mahfuz , Rajeev Sahay , Aly El Gamal

The vulnerability of machine learning models to adversarial attacks remains a critical security challenge. Traditional defenses, such as adversarial training, typically robustify models by minimizing a worst-case loss. However, these…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-13 Pablo G. Arce , Roi Naveiro , David Ríos Insua

Adversarial example detection is known to be an effective adversarial defense method. Black-box attack, which is a more realistic threat and has led to various black-box adversarial training-based defense methods, however, does not attract…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Yifei Gao , Zhiyu Lin , Yunfan Yang , Jitao Sang

Deep learning models are widely employed in safety-critical applications yet remain susceptible to adversarial attacks -- imperceptible perturbations that can significantly degrade model performance. Conventional defense mechanisms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Eylon Mizrahi , Raz Lapid , Moshe Sipper

It is well established that neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which are almost imperceptible on human vision and can cause the deep models misbehave. Such phenomenon may lead to severely inestimable consequences in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Dengpan Ye , Chuanxi Chen , Changrui Liu , Hao Wang , Shunzhi Jiang