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Deep learning models are vulnerable to adversarial examples, and adversarial attacks used to generate such examples have attracted considerable research interest. Although existing methods based on the steepest descent have achieved high…

Deep learning models are susceptible to {\em backdoor attacks} involving malicious attackers perturbing a small subset of training data with a {\em trigger} to causes misclassifications. Various triggers have been used, including semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Venkat Adithya Amula , Sunayana Samavedam , Saurabh Saini , Avani Gupta , Narayanan P J

We present BadGD, a unified theoretical framework that exposes the vulnerabilities of gradient descent algorithms through strategic backdoor attacks. Backdoor attacks involve embedding malicious triggers into a training dataset to disrupt…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Chi-Hua Wang , Guang Cheng

Deep learning models have achieved state-of-the-art performances in various domains, while they are vulnerable to the inputs with well-crafted but small perturbations, which are named after adversarial examples (AEs). Among many strategies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Huihui Gong

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

Owing to the susceptibility of deep learning systems to adversarial attacks, there has been a great deal of work in developing (both empirically and certifiably) robust classifiers. While most work has defended against a single type of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Pratyush Maini , Eric Wong , J. Zico Kolter

Adversarial attacks persist as a major challenge in deep learning. While training- and test-time defenses are well-studied, they often reduce clean accuracy, incur high cost, or fail under adaptive threats. In contrast, preemptive defenses,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Hanrui Wang , Ching-Chun Chang , Chun-Shien Lu , Ching-Chia Kao , Shuo Wang , Isao Echizen

Generating motions for robots interacting with objects of various shapes is a complex challenge, further complicated by the robot geometry and multiple desired behaviors. While current robot programming tools (such as inverse kinematics,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Xuemin Chi , Hakan Girgin , Tobias Löw , Yangyang Xie , Teng Xue , Jihao Huang , Cheng Hu , Zhitao Liu , Sylvain Calinon

Embedding parameterized optimization problems as layers into machine learning architectures serves as a powerful inductive bias. Training such architectures with stochastic gradient descent requires care, as degenerate derivatives of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Anselm Paulus , Georg Martius , Vít Musil

The $L_1$-regularized models are widely used for sparse regression or classification tasks. In this paper, we propose the orthant-wise passive descent algorithm (OPDA) for optimizing $L_1$-regularized models, as an improved substitute of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-23 Jianqiao Wangni

Vision-language pre-training (VLP) models have shown vulnerability to adversarial examples in multimodal tasks. Furthermore, malicious adversaries can be deliberately transferred to attack other black-box models. However, existing work has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Dong Lu , Zhiqiang Wang , Teng Wang , Weili Guan , Hongchang Gao , Feng Zheng

Minute pixel changes in an image drastically change the prediction that the deep learning model makes. One of the most significant problems that could arise due to this, for instance, is autonomous driving. Many methods have been proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Shreyank N Gowda , Chun Yuan

In recent years, Deep Learning(DL) techniques have been extensively deployed for computer vision tasks, particularly visual classification problems, where new algorithms reported to achieve or even surpass the human performance. While many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Dou Goodman

Recently, Kannan et al. [2018] proposed several logit regularization methods to improve the adversarial robustness of classifiers. We show that the computationally fast methods they propose - Clean Logit Pairing (CLP) and Logit Squeezing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Marius Mosbach , Maksym Andriushchenko , Thomas Trost , Matthias Hein , Dietrich Klakow

Learning-based autonomous driving systems remain critically vulnerable to adversarial patches, posing serious safety and security risks in their real-world deployment. Black-box attacks, notable for their high attack success rate without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Yuxin Cao , Yedi Zhang , Wentao He , Yifan Liao , Yan Xiao , Chang Li , Zhiyong Huang , Jin Song Dong

We experimented with front-end enhanced neural models where a differentiable and fully convolutional model with a skip connection is added before a frozen backbone classifier. By training such composite models using a small learning rate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Leonid Boytsov , Ameya Joshi , Filipe Condessa

In this study, we delve into the robustness of neural network-based LiDAR point cloud tracking models under adversarial attacks, a critical aspect often overlooked in favor of performance enhancement. These models, despite incorporating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Shengjing Tian , Xiantong Zhao , Yuhao Bian , Yinan Han , Bin Liu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown vulnerability to adversarial attacks, i.e., carefully perturbed inputs designed to mislead the network at inference time. Recently introduced localized attacks, Localized and Visible Adversarial Noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Muzammal Naseer , Salman H. Khan , Fatih Porikli

We propose to minimize a generic differentiable objective with $L_1$ constraint using a simple reparametrization and straightforward stochastic gradient descent. Our proposal is the direct generalization of previous ideas that the $L_1$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Liu Ziyin , Zihao Wang

The l1-ball is a nicely structured feasible set that is widely used in many fields (e.g., machine learning, statistics and signal analysis) to enforce some sparsity in the model solutions. In this paper, we devise an active-set strategy for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-08 Andrea Cristofari , Marianna De Santis , Stefano Lucidi , Francesco Rinaldi