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Adversarial attacks are inputs that are similar to original inputs but altered on purpose. Speech-to-text neural networks that are widely used today are prone to misclassify adversarial attacks. In this study, first, we investigate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Ken Alparslan , Yigit Alparslan , Matthew Burlick

Machine learning based traffic forecasting models leverage sophisticated spatiotemporal auto-correlations to provide accurate predictions of city-wide traffic states. However, existing methods assume a reliable and unbiased forecasting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Fan Liu , Hao Liu , Wenzhao Jiang

Active learning aims to alleviate the amount of labor involved in data labeling by automating the selection of unlabeled samples via an acquisition function. For example, variational adversarial active learning (VAAL) leverages an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Zongyao Lyu , William J. Beksi

Adversarial attacks have long been developed for revealing the vulnerability of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) by adding imperceptible perturbations to the input. Most methods generate perturbations like normal noise, which is not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Zhixing Ye , Sizhe Chen , Peidong Zhang , Chengjin Sun , Xiaolin Huang

In this paper, we investigate the dynamics-aware adversarial attack problem in deep neural networks. Most existing adversarial attack algorithms are designed under a basic assumption -- the network architecture is fixed throughout the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-24 An Tao , Yueqi Duan , He Wang , Ziyi Wu , Pengliang Ji , Haowen Sun , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Adversarial examples are inputs intentionally generated for fooling a deep neural network. Recent studies have proposed unrestricted adversarial attacks that are not norm-constrained. However, the previous unrestricted attack methods still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Dongbin Na , Sangwoo Ji , Jong Kim

It is a challenging task to deploy computationally and memory intensive State-of-the-art deep neural networks (DNNs) on embedded systems with limited hardware resources and power budgets. Recently developed techniques like Deep Compression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Yuechao Gao , Nianhong Liu , Sheng Zhang

Despite the efficacy of network sparsity in alleviating the deployment strain of Large Language Models (LLMs), it endures significant performance degradation. Applying Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) to fine-tune the sparse LLMs offers an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Weizhong Huang , Yuxin Zhang , Xiawu Zheng , Yang Liu , Jing Lin , Yiwu Yao , Rongrong Ji

Sparse Group LASSO (SGL) is a regularized model for high-dimensional linear regression problems with grouped covariates. SGL applies $l_1$ and $l_2$ penalties on the individual predictors and group predictors, respectively, to guarantee…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-23 Kan Chen , Zhiqi Bu , Shiyun Xu

Transferable adversarial attacks on point clouds remain challenging, as existing methods often rely on model-specific gradients or heuristics that limit generalization to unseen architectures. In this paper, we rethink adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Keke Tang , Xianheng Liu , Weilong Peng , Xiaofei Wang , Daizong Liu , Peican Zhu , Can Lu , Zhihong Tian

Studies show that Deep Neural Network (DNN)-based image classification models are vulnerable to maliciously constructed adversarial examples. However, little effort has been made to investigate how DNN-based image retrieval models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Guoping Zhao , Mingyu Zhang , Jiajun Liu , Ji-Rong Wen

This paper proposes a sparse regression method that continuously interpolates between Forward Stepwise selection (FS) and the LASSO. When tuned appropriately, our solutions are much sparser than typical LASSO fits but, unlike FS fits,…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-11-20 Ivy Zhang , Robert Tibshirani

Sparse Neural Networks (SNNs) have received voluminous attention predominantly due to growing computational and memory footprints of consistently exploding parameter count in large-scale models. Similar to their dense counterparts, recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Shiwei Liu , Tianlong Chen , Zhenyu Zhang , Xuxi Chen , Tianjin Huang , Ajay Jaiswal , Zhangyang Wang

Neural networks are now actively being used for computer vision tasks in security critical areas such as robotics, face recognition, autonomous vehicles yet their safety is under question after the discovery of adversarial attacks. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Kostiantyn Khabarlak , Larysa Koriashkina

Current adversarial attacks for evaluating the robustness of vision-language pre-trained (VLP) models in multi-modal tasks suffer from limited transferability, where attacks crafted for a specific model often struggle to generalize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Peng-Fei Zhang , Guangdong Bai , Zi Huang

Most adversarial attacks on point clouds perturb a large number of points, causing widespread geometric changes and limiting applicability in real-world scenarios. While recent works explore sparse attacks by modifying only a few points,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Keke Tang , Tianyu Hao , Xiaofei Wang , Weilong Peng , Denghui Zhang , Peican Zhu , Zhihong Tian

In this paper we study stochastic quasi-Newton methods for nonconvex stochastic optimization, where we assume that noisy information about the gradients of the objective function is available via a stochastic first-order oracle (SFO). We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-23 Xiao Wang , Shiqian Ma , Donald Goldfarb , Wei Liu

Improving speech system performance in noisy environments remains a challenging task, and speech enhancement (SE) is one of the effective techniques to solve the problem. Motivated by the promising results of generative adversarial networks…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-05 Daniel Michelsanti , Zheng-Hua Tan

Deep neural networks are known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Current methods of defense from such attacks are based on either implicit or explicit regularization, e.g., adversarial training. Randomized smoothing, the averaging of…

In this paper, we introduce a general extension of linear sparse component analysis (SCA) approaches to postnonlinear (PNL) mixtures. In particular, and contrary to the state-of-art methods, our approaches use a weak sparsity source…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Matthieu Puigt , Anthony Griffin , Athanasios Mouchtaris