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Adversarial patches are optimized contiguous pixel blocks in an input image that cause a machine-learning model to misclassify it. However, their optimization is computationally demanding, and requires careful hyperparameter tuning,…

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Recent advances in attention-based networks have shown that Vision Transformers can achieve state-of-the-art or near state-of-the-art results on many image classification tasks. This puts transformers in the unique position of being a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Kaleel Mahmood , Rigel Mahmood , Marten van Dijk

Deep neural networks for medical image classification often fail to generalize consistently in clinical practice due to violations of the i.i.d. assumption and opaque decision-making. This paper examines interpretability in deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Mohammad Hossein Najafi , Mohammad Morsali , Mohammadreza Pashanejad , Saman Soleimani Roudi , Mohammad Norouzi , Saeed Bagheri Shouraki

Traffic classification (TC) plays a critical role in cybersecurity, particularly in IoT and embedded contexts, where inspection must often occur locally under tight hardware constraints. We use hardware-aware neural architecture search…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Adel Chehade , Edoardo Ragusa , Paolo Gastaldo , Rodolfo Zunino

Motivated by reliability of networks in critical infrastructures, we consider optimal robustness of a class of flow networks against a \textit{targeted} attack, namely max-load targeted attack, that triggers cascading failures due to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-03-28 Omur Ozel , Bruno Sinopoli , Osman Yagan

As humans, we inherently perceive images based on their predominant features, and ignore noise embedded within lower bit planes. On the contrary, Deep Neural Networks are known to confidently misclassify images corrupted with meticulously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Sravanti Addepalli , Vivek B. S. , Arya Baburaj , Gaurang Sriramanan , R. Venkatesh Babu

Machine learning has seen tremendous advances in the past few years, which has lead to deep learning models being deployed in varied applications of day-to-day life. Attacks on such models using perturbations, particularly in real-life…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Siddhant Bhambri , Sumanyu Muku , Avinash Tulasi , Arun Balaji Buduru

Progress in making neural networks more robust against adversarial attacks is mostly marginal, despite the great efforts of the research community. Moreover, the robustness evaluation is often imprecise, making it difficult to identify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Leo Schwinn , René Raab , An Nguyen , Dario Zanca , Bjoern Eskofier

Adversarial training has been demonstrated to be one of the most effective remedies for defending adversarial examples, yet it often suffers from the huge robustness generalization gap on unseen testing adversaries, deemed as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Aishan Liu , Shiyu Tang , Siyuan Liang , Ruihao Gong , Boxi Wu , Xianglong Liu , Dacheng Tao

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

Despite considerable efforts on making them robust, real-world AI-based systems remain vulnerable to decision based attacks, as definitive proofs of their operational robustness have so far proven intractable. Canonical robustness…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Ilias Tsingenopoulos , Vera Rimmer , Davy Preuveneers , Fabio Pierazzi , Lorenzo Cavallaro , Wouter Joosen

Recent breakthroughs in the field of deep learning have led to advancements in a broad spectrum of tasks in computer vision, audio processing, natural language processing and other areas. In most instances where these tasks are deployed in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Daanish Ali Khan , Linhong Li , Ninghao Sha , Zhuoran Liu , Abelino Jimenez , Bhiksha Raj , Rita Singh

Adversarial robustness corresponds to the susceptibility of deep neural networks to imperceptible perturbations made at test time. In the context of image tasks, many algorithms have been proposed to make neural networks robust to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Pranjal Awasthi , George Yu , Chun-Sung Ferng , Andrew Tomkins , Da-Cheng Juan

This research provides a comprehensive overview of adversarial attacks on AI and ML models, exploring various attack types, techniques, and their potential harms. We also delve into the business implications, mitigation strategies, and…

Recent work have demonstrated that robustness (to "corruption") can be at odds with generalization. Adversarial training, for instance, aims to reduce the problematic susceptibility of modern neural networks to small data perturbations.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-19 Amine Bennouna , Ryan Lucas , Bart Van Parys

Flatness of the loss surface not only correlates positively with generalization, but is also related to adversarial robustness since perturbations of inputs relate non-linearly to perturbations of weights. In this paper, we empirically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Nils Philipp Walter , Linara Adilova , Jilles Vreeken , Michael Kamp

We develop efficient algorithms for a fundamental network design problem arising in potential-based flow models, which are central to many energy transport networks (e.g., hydrogen and electricity). In contrast to classical network flow…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Max Klimm , Marc E. Pfetsch , Martin Skutella , Lea Strubberg

The implicit bias of gradient-based training algorithms has been considered mostly beneficial as it leads to trained networks that often generalize well. However, Frei et al. (2023) show that such implicit bias can harm adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Hancheng Min , René Vidal

Though Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have surpassed human-level performance on tasks such as object classification and face verification, they can easily be fooled by adversarial attacks. These attacks add a small perturbation to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Rajeev Ranjan , Swami Sankaranarayanan , Carlos D. Castillo , Rama Chellappa

As hyperbolic deep learning grows in popularity, so does the need for adversarial robustness in the context of such a non-Euclidean geometry. To this end, this paper proposes hyperbolic alternatives to the commonly used FGM and PGD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Max van Spengler , Jan Zahálka , Pascal Mettes