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Poisoning attacks can disproportionately influence model behaviour by making small changes to the training corpus. While defences against specific poisoning attacks do exist, they in general do not provide any guarantees, leaving them…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Shijie Liu , Andrew C. Cullen , Paul Montague , Sarah M. Erfani , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein

Adversarial attacks pose a significant challenge to the reliable deployment of machine learning models in EdgeAI applications, such as autonomous driving and surveillance, which rely on resource-constrained devices for real-time inference.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Nandish Chattopadhyay , Abdul Basit , Amira Guesmi , Muhammad Abdullah Hanif , Bassem Ouni , Muhammad Shafique

Despite the exploding interest in graph neural networks there has been little effort to verify and improve their robustness. This is even more alarming given recent findings showing that they are extremely vulnerable to adversarial attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Aleksandar Bojchevski , Stephan Günnemann

Recently demonstrated physical-world adversarial attacks have exposed vulnerabilities in perception systems that pose severe risks for safety-critical applications such as autonomous driving. These attacks place adversarial artifacts in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Jan Hendrik Metzen , Nicole Finnie , Robin Hutmacher

Backdoor attacks are an insidious security threat against machine learning models. Adversaries can manipulate the predictions of compromised models by inserting triggers into the training phase. Various backdoor attacks have been devised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Xuanli He , Jun Wang , Benjamin Rubinstein , Trevor Cohn

Recently, techniques have been developed to provably guarantee the robustness of a classifier to adversarial perturbations of bounded L_1 and L_2 magnitudes by using randomized smoothing: the robust classification is a consensus of base…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Alexander Levine , Soheil Feizi

Language-empowered foundation models (LeFMs), such as CLIP and GraphCLIP, have transformed multimodal learning by aligning visual (or graph) features with textual representations, enabling powerful downstream capabilities like few-shot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Yuni Lai , Xiaoyu Xue , Linghui Shen , Yulun Wu , Gaolei Li , Song Guo , Kai Zhou , Bin Xiao

Backdoor attacks (BA) are an emerging threat to deep neural network classifiers. A classifier being attacked will predict to the attacker's target class when a test sample from a source class is embedded with the backdoor pattern (BP).…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Zhen Xiang , David J. Miller , Siheng Chen , Xi Li , George Kesidis

Recent works showed the vulnerability of image classifiers to adversarial attacks in the digital domain. However, the majority of attacks involve adding small perturbation to an image to fool the classifier. Unfortunately, such procedures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Mikhail Pautov , Grigorii Melnikov , Edgar Kaziakhmedov , Klim Kireev , Aleksandr Petiushko

Adversarial attack is aimed at fooling the target classifier with imperceptible perturbation. Adversarial examples, which are carefully crafted with a malicious purpose, can lead to erroneous predictions, resulting in catastrophic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Mingu Kang , Trung Quang Tran , Seungju Cho , Daeyoung Kim

Developing reliable defenses against patch attacks on object detectors has attracted increasing interest. However, we identify that existing defense evaluations lack a unified and comprehensive framework, resulting in inconsistent and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Junhao Zheng , Jiahao Sun , Chenhao Lin , Zhengyu Zhao , Chen Ma , Chong Zhang , Cong Wang , Qian Wang , Chao Shen

The rise of foundation models fine-tuned on human feedback from potentially untrusted users has increased the risk of adversarial data poisoning, necessitating the study of robustness of learning algorithms against such attacks. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Avinandan Bose , Laurent Lessard , Maryam Fazel , Krishnamurthy Dj Dvijotham

Label-flipping attacks, which corrupt training labels to induce misclassifications at inference, remain a major threat to supervised learning models. This drives the need for robustness certificates that provide formal guarantees about a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ajinkya Mohgaonkar , Lukas Gosch , Mahalakshmi Sabanayagam , Debarghya Ghoshdastidar , Stephan Günnemann

The advent of adversarial patches poses a significant challenge to the robustness of AI models, particularly in the domain of computer vision tasks such as object detection. In contradistinction to traditional adversarial examples, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Wonho Lee , Hyunsik Na , Jisu Lee , Daeseon Choi

Patch-based adversarial attacks introduce a perceptible but localized change to the input that induces misclassification. While progress has been made in defending against imperceptible attacks, it remains unclear how patch-based attacks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Christian Cosgrove , Adam Kortylewski , Chenglin Yang , Alan Yuille

Machine-learning architectures, such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks: inputs crafted carefully to force the system output to a wrong label. Since machine-learning is being deployed in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Amira Guesmi , Ihsen Alouani , Khaled N. Khasawneh , Mouna Baklouti , Tarek Frikha , Mohamed Abid , Nael Abu-Ghazaleh

Adversarial patches, often used to provide physical stealth protection for critical assets and assess perception algorithm robustness, usually neglect the need for visual harmony with the background environment, making them easily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Chaoqun Li , Zhuodong Liu , Huanqian Yan , Hang Su

Physical adversarial attacks threaten to fool object detection systems, but reproducible research on the real-world effectiveness of physical patches and how to defend against them requires a publicly available benchmark dataset. We present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Anneliese Braunegg , Amartya Chakraborty , Michael Krumdick , Nicole Lape , Sara Leary , Keith Manville , Elizabeth Merkhofer , Laura Strickhart , Matthew Walmer

Adversarial examples pose a security risk as they can alter decisions of a machine learning classifier through slight input perturbations. Certified robustness has been proposed as a mitigation where given an input $\mathbf{x}$, a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Jiankai Jin , Olga Ohrimenko , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein

Deep Neural Networks are vulnerable to small perturbations that can drastically alter their predictions for perceptually unchanged inputs. The literature on adversarially robust Deep Learning attempts to either enhance the robustness of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Thomas Massena , Corentin Friedrich , Franck Mamalet , Mathieu Serrurier