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We study deception in adversarial graph traversal, where a mobile agent seeks to reach a goal with minimum cost while an adversary alters edge costs to increase the total traversal cost. Unlike prior works that assume fixed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 Violetta Rostobaya , James Berneburg , Daigo Shishika

Cyber deception allows compensating the late response of defenders countermeasures to the ever evolving tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of attackers. This proactive defense strategy employs decoys resembling legitimate system…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Marco Zambianco , Claudio Facchinetti , Domenico Siracusa

Convolutional neural networks have been used to achieve a string of successes during recent years, but their lack of interpretability remains a serious issue. Adversarial examples are designed to deliberately fool neural networks into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Jan Philip Göpfert , André Artelt , Heiko Wersing , Barbara Hammer

It has been shown that adversaries can craft example inputs to neural networks which are similar to legitimate inputs but have been created to purposely cause the neural network to misclassify the input. These adversarial examples are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Mohammad Hashemi , Greg Cusack , Eric Keller

To learn disentangled representations of facial images, we present a Dual Encoder-Decoder based Generative Adversarial Network (DED-GAN). In the proposed method, both the generator and discriminator are designed with deep encoder-decoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Cong Hu , Zhen-Hua Feng , Xiao-Jun Wu , Josef Kittler

Deep generative models are rapidly becoming a common tool for researchers and developers. However, as exhaustively shown for the family of discriminative models, the test-time inference of deep neural networks cannot be fully controlled and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Dario Pasquini , Marco Mingione , Massimo Bernaschi

Inferring the latent variable generating a given test sample is a challenging problem in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). In this paper, we propose InvGAN - a novel framework for solving the inference problem in GANs, which involves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Wei-An Lin , Yogesh Balaji , Pouya Samangouei , Rama Chellappa

Security attacks present unique challenges to self-adaptive system design due to the adversarial nature of the environment. However, modeling the system as a single player, as done in prior works in security domain, is insufficient for the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Mingyue Zhang

Generative Adversarial Networks (Goodfellow et al., 2014), a major breakthrough in the field of generative modeling, learn a discriminator to estimate some distance between the target and the candidate distributions. This paper examines…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-27 Victor Berger , Michèle Sebag

Cyber-deception is an increasingly important defensive strategy, shaping adversarial decision making through controlled misinformation, uncertainty, and misdirection. Although game-theoretic, Bayesian, Markov decision process, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-04 B. R. Turner , O. Guidetti , N. M. Karie , R. Ryan , Y. Yan

Smart grids are vulnerable to cyber-attacks. This paper proposes a game-theoretic approach to evaluate the variations caused by an attacker on the power measurements. Adversaries can gain financial benefits through the manipulation of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Kian Hamedani , Lingjia Liu , Jithin Jagannath , Yang , Yi

Adversarial training methods typically align distributions by solving two-player games. However, in most current formulations, even if the generator aligns perfectly with data, a sub-optimal discriminator can still drive the two apart.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Shangyuan Tong , Timur Garipov , Tommi Jaakkola

This paper studies model-inversion attacks, in which the access to a model is abused to infer information about the training data. Since its first introduction, such attacks have raised serious concerns given that training data usually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Yuheng Zhang , Ruoxi Jia , Hengzhi Pei , Wenxiao Wang , Bo Li , Dawn Song

Pretrained language models have significantly advanced performance across various natural language processing tasks. However, adversarial attacks continue to pose a critical challenge to systems built using these models, as they can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Zhenhao Li , Huichi Zhou , Marek Rei , Lucia Specia

Opponent modeling methods typically involve two crucial steps: building a belief distribution over opponents' strategies, and exploiting this opponent model by playing a best response. However, existing approaches typically require…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Zun Li , Marc Lanctot , Kevin R. McKee , Luke Marris , Ian Gemp , Daniel Hennes , Paul Muller , Kate Larson , Yoram Bachrach , Michael P. Wellman

Many applications in machine learning can be framed as minimization problems and solved efficiently using gradient-based techniques. However, recent applications of generative models, particularly GANs, have triggered interest in solving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Paulina Grnarova , Yannic Kilcher , Kfir Y. Levy , Aurelien Lucchi , Thomas Hofmann

Generative adversarial networks are generative models that are capable of replicating the implicit probability distribution of the input data with high accuracy. Traditionally, GANs consist of a Generator and a Discriminator which interact…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Xin Wang

Systems operating in adversarial environments may inadvertently leak sensitive information to adversaries. To address this challenge, we revisit the linear-quadratic control framework and introduce deception to actively mislead adversaries.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Yerin Kim , Haosheng Zhou , Alexander Benvenuti , Ruimeng Hu , Matthew Hale

This paper investigates how an autonomous agent can transmit information through its motion in an adversarial setting. We consider scenarios where an agent must reach its goal while deceiving an intelligent observer about its destination.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Violetta Rostobaya , James Berneburg , Yue Guan , Michael Dorothy , Daigo Shishika

The field of textual adversarial defenses has gained considerable attention in recent years due to the increasing vulnerability of natural language processing (NLP) models to adversarial attacks, which exploit subtle perturbations in input…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Wangli Yang , Jie Yang , Yi Guo , Johan Barthelemy