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Neural networks are vulnerable to backdoor poisoning attacks, where the attackers maliciously poison the training set and insert triggers into the test input to change the prediction of the victim model. Existing defenses for backdoor…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Yuhao Zhang , Aws Albarghouthi , Loris D'Antoni

We investigate certified robustness for GNNs under graph injection attacks. Existing research only provides sample-wise certificates by verifying each node independently, leading to very limited certifying performance. In this paper, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Yuni Lai , Bailin Pan , Kaihuang Chen , Yancheng Yuan , Kai Zhou

Deep Neural Network-based systems are now the state-of-the-art in many robotics tasks, but their application in safety-critical domains remains dangerous without formal guarantees on network robustness. Small perturbations to sensor inputs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Björn Lütjens , Michael Everett , Jonathan P. How

In guaranteeing the absence of adversarial examples in an instance's neighbourhood, certification mechanisms play an important role in demonstrating neural net robustness. In this paper, we ask if these certifications can compromise the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Andrew C. Cullen , Shijie Liu , Paul Montague , Sarah M. Erfani , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein

While certified robustness is widely promoted as a solution to adversarial examples in Artificial Intelligence systems, significant challenges remain before these techniques can be meaningfully deployed in real-world applications. We…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Andrew C. Cullen , Paul Montague , Sarah M. Erfani , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein

State-of-the-art object detectors are vulnerable to localized patch hiding attacks, where an adversary introduces a small adversarial patch to make detectors miss the detection of salient objects. The patch attacker can carry out a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Chong Xiang , Prateek Mittal

Adversarial patch attacks pose a severe threat to deep neural networks, yet most existing approaches rely on unrealistic white-box assumptions, untargeted objectives, or produce visually conspicuous patches that limit real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Roie Kazoom , Alon Goldberg , Hodaya Cohen , Ofer Hadar

Adversarial patch attacks pose a practical threat to deep learning models by forcing targeted misclassifications through localized perturbations, often realized in the physical world. Existing defenses typically assume prior knowledge of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Ayushi Mehrotra , Derek Peng , Dipkamal Bhusal , Nidhi Rastogi

Recently, self-supervised learning (SSL) was shown to be vulnerable to patch-based data poisoning backdoor attacks. It was shown that an adversary can poison a small part of the unlabeled data so that when a victim trains an SSL model on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Ajinkya Tejankar , Maziar Sanjabi , Qifan Wang , Sinong Wang , Hamed Firooz , Hamed Pirsiavash , Liang Tan

Certified robustness circumvents the fragility of defences against adversarial attacks, by endowing model predictions with guarantees of class invariance for attacks up to a calculated size. While there is value in these certifications, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Andrew C. Cullen , Paul Montague , Shijie Liu , Sarah M. Erfani , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein

Deep neural networks have been shown to be susceptible to adversarial examples -- small, imperceptible changes constructed to cause mis-classification in otherwise highly accurate image classifiers. As a practical alternative, recent work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Sukrut Rao , David Stutz , Bernt Schiele

In this paper, we propose a new key-based defense focusing on both efficiency and robustness. Although the previous key-based defense seems effective in defending against adversarial examples, carefully designed adaptive attacks can bypass…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 AprilPyone MaungMaung , Isao Echizen , Hitoshi Kiya

Autonomous vehicles increasingly utilize the vision-based perception module to acquire information about driving environments and detect obstacles. Correct detection and classification are important to ensure safe driving decisions.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Wenjun Zhu , Xiaoyu Ji , Yushi Cheng , Shibo Zhang , Wenyuan Xu

Machine learning models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. One approach to addressing this vulnerability is certification, which focuses on models that are guaranteed to be robust for a given perturbation size. A drawback of recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Ryan Campbell , Chris Finlay , Adam M Oberman

Few-shot classification with foundation models (e.g., CLIP, DINOv2, PaLM-2) enables users to build an accurate classifier with a few labeled training samples (called support samples) for a classification task. However, an attacker could…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Yanting Wang , Wei Zou , Jinyuan Jia

The widespread adoption of computer vision systems has underscored their susceptibility to adversarial attacks, particularly adversarial patch attacks on object detectors. This study evaluates defense mechanisms for the YOLOv5 model against…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Roie Kazoom , Raz Birman , Ofer Hadar

Deep learning models are vulnerable to adversarial perturbations, raising important concerns for safety-critical deployment. Empirical defenses can achieve strong robustness in practice, but lack formal guarantees, motivating the need for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Konstantinos Emmanouilidis , Tianjiao Ding , Nghia Nguyen , Nicolas Loizou , René Vidal

Autonomous systems increasingly rely on machine learning techniques to transform high-dimensional raw inputs into predictions that are then used for decision-making and control. However, it is often easy to maliciously manipulate such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Jinghan Yang , Hunmin Kim , Wenbin Wan , Naira Hovakimyan , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

Adversarial examples that fool machine learning models, particularly deep neural networks, have been a topic of intense research interest, with attacks and defenses being developed in a tight back-and-forth. Most past defenses are best…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-30 Mathias Lecuyer , Vaggelis Atlidakis , Roxana Geambasu , Daniel Hsu , Suman Jana

The classification of road signs by autonomous systems, especially those reliant on visual inputs, is highly susceptible to adversarial attacks. Traditional approaches to mitigating such vulnerabilities have focused on enhancing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Jinghan Yang