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Adversarial Training (AT) is a key defense against Machine Learning evasion attacks, but its effectiveness for real-world malware detection remains poorly understood. This uncertainty stems from a critical disconnect in prior research:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Hamid Bostani , Jacopo Cortellazzi , Daniel Arp , Fabio Pierazzi , Veelasha Moonsamy , Lorenzo Cavallaro

Machine learning based data-driven technologies have shown impressive performances in a variety of application domains. Most enterprises use data from multiple sources to provide quality applications. The reliability of the external data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Rosni K Vasu , Sanjay Seetharaman , Shubham Malaviya , Manish Shukla , Sachin Lodha

Object detection models are critical components of automated systems, such as autonomous vehicles and perception-based robots, but their sensitivity to adversarial attacks poses a serious security risk. Progress in defending these models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Alexis Winter , Jean-Vincent Martini , Romaric Audigier , Angelique Loesch , Bertrand Luvison

Robustness to malicious attacks is crucial for practical decentralized signal processing and machine learning systems. A typical example of such attacks is label poisoning, meaning that some agents possess corrupted local labels and share…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Jie Peng , Weiyu Li , Stefan Vlaski , Qing Ling

Multi-class text classification is one of the key problems in machine learning and natural language processing. Emerging neural networks deal with the problem using a multi-output softmax layer and achieve substantial progress, but they do…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Haiyang Xu , Junwen Chen , Kun Han , Xiangang Li

Adversarial Training (AT) has been found to substantially improve the robustness of deep learning classifiers against adversarial attacks. AT involves obtaining robustness by including adversarial examples in training a classifier. Most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Olukorede Fakorede , Ashutosh Kumar Nirala , Modeste Atsague , Jin Tian

Deep neural networks (DNNs) can be easily fooled by adding human imperceptible perturbations to the images. These perturbed images are known as `adversarial examples' and pose a serious threat to security and safety critical systems. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Muzammal Naseer , Salman H. Khan , Shafin Rahman , Fatih Porikli

Recently, the evolution of deep learning has promoted the application of machine learning (ML) to various systems. However, there are ML systems, such as autonomous vehicles, that cause critical damage when they misclassify. Conversely,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Yuki Yamaguchi , Toshiaki Aoki

As the internet continues to be populated with new devices and emerging technologies, the attack surface grows exponentially. Technology is shifting towards a profit-driven Internet of Things market where security is an afterthought.…

In this paper, we explore transferability in learning between different attack classes in a network intrusion detection setup. We evaluate transferability of attack classes by training a deep learning model with a specific attack class and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Shreya Ghosh , Abu Shafin Mohammad Mahdee Jameel , Aly El Gamal

While being very successful in solving many downstream tasks, the application of deep neural networks is limited in real-life scenarios because of their susceptibility to domain shifts such as common corruptions, and adversarial attacks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Tejaswini Medi , Julia Grabinski , Margret Keuper

We consider the hard label based black box adversarial attack setting which solely observes predicted classes from the target model. Most of the attack methods in this setting suffer from impractical number of queries required to achieve a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Jeonghwan Park , Paul Miller , Niall McLaughlin

Transfer learning is prevalent as a technique to efficiently generate new models (Student models) based on the knowledge transferred from a pre-trained model (Teacher model). However, Teacher models are often publicly available for sharing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Bang Wu , Shuo Wang , Xingliang Yuan , Cong Wang , Carsten Rudolph , Xiangwen Yang

Many machine learning algorithms are vulnerable to almost imperceptible perturbations of their inputs. So far it was unclear how much risk adversarial perturbations carry for the safety of real-world machine learning applications because…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-19 Wieland Brendel , Jonas Rauber , Matthias Bethge

Machine learning based solutions have been very helpful in solving problems that deal with immense amounts of data, such as malware detection and classification. However, deep neural networks have been found to be vulnerable to adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Daniel Park , Bülent Yener

While modern day web applications aim to create impact at the civilization level, they have become vulnerable to adversarial activity, where the next cyber-attack can take any shape and can originate from anywhere. The increasing scale and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-28 Tegjyot Singh Sethi , Mehmed Kantardzic

In targeted adversarial attacks on vision models, the selection of the target label is a critical yet often overlooked determinant of attack success. This target label corresponds to the class that the attacker aims to force the model to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Katarzyna Filus , Jorge M. Cruz-Duarte

Recent continual learning approaches have primarily focused on mitigating catastrophic forgetting. Nevertheless, two critical areas have remained relatively unexplored: 1) evaluating the robustness of proposed methods and 2) ensuring the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Hikmat Khan , Pir Masoom Shah , Syed Farhan Alam Zaidi , Saif ul Islam , Qasim Zia

Due to insufficient training data and the high computational cost to train a deep neural network from scratch, transfer learning has been extensively used in many deep-neural-network-based applications. A commonly used transfer learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Shahbaz Rezaei , Xin Liu

In multi-label learning, a particular case of multi-task learning where a single data point is associated with multiple target labels, it was widely assumed in the literature that, to obtain best accuracy, the dependence among the labels…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Jesse Read