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In this research, we propose a new low-precision framework, TENT, to leverage the benefits of a tapered fixed-point numerical format in TinyML models. We introduce a tapered fixed-point quantization algorithm that matches the numerical…

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The vulnerability of deep neural networks to adversarial examples has drawn tremendous attention from the community. Three approaches, optimizing standard objective functions, exploiting attention maps, and smoothing decision surfaces, are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Yi Huang , Adams Wai-Kin Kong

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are widely used today, but they are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. To develop effective methods of defense, it is important to understand the potential weak spots of DNNs. Often attacks are organized taking…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Andrei Chertkov , Ivan Oseledets

Existing gradient-based jailbreak attacks typically optimize an adversarial suffix to induce a fixed affirmative response, e.g., ``Sure, here is...''. However, this fixed target usually resides in an extremely low-density region of a…

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Gradient inversion attacks aim to reconstruct local training data from intermediate gradients exposed in the federated learning framework. Despite successful attacks, all previous methods, starting from reconstructing a single data point…

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Object recognition is a key enabler across industry and defense. As technology changes, algorithms must keep pace with new requirements and data. New modalities and higher resolution sensors should allow for increased algorithm robustness.…

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We propose the Square Attack, a score-based black-box $l_2$- and $l_\infty$-adversarial attack that does not rely on local gradient information and thus is not affected by gradient masking. Square Attack is based on a randomized search…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Maksym Andriushchenko , Francesco Croce , Nicolas Flammarion , Matthias Hein

Domain adaptation (DA) is transfer learning which aims to learn an effective predictor on target data from source data despite data distribution mismatch between source and target. We present in this paper a novel unsupervised DA method for…

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Most of the adversarial attack methods suffer from large perceptual distortions such as visible artifacts, when the attack strength is relatively high. These perceptual distortions contain a certain portion which contributes less to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Ruijie Yang , Yunhong Wang , Ruikui Wang , Yuanfang Guo

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are now the de facto choice for computer vision tasks such as image classification. However, their complexity and "black box" nature often renders the systems they're deployed in vulnerable to a range of security…

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Machine learning models are critically susceptible to evasion attacks from adversarial examples. Generally, adversarial examples, modified inputs deceptively similar to the original input, are constructed under whitebox settings by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Viet Quoc Vo , Ehsan Abbasnejad , Damith C. Ranasinghe

Table detection is the task of classifying and localizing table objects within document images. With the recent development in deep learning methods, we observe remarkable success in table detection. However, a significant amount of labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Tahira Shehzadi , Khurram Azeem Hashmi , Didier Stricker , Marcus Liwicki , Muhammad Zeshan Afzal

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in various graph structure related tasks such as node classification and graph classification. However, GNNs are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Existing works…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Jiaming Mu , Binghui Wang , Qi Li , Kun Sun , Mingwei Xu , Zhuotao Liu

We propose the first general-purpose gradient-based attack against transformer models. Instead of searching for a single adversarial example, we search for a distribution of adversarial examples parameterized by a continuous-valued matrix,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Chuan Guo , Alexandre Sablayrolles , Hervé Jégou , Douwe Kiela

Existing textual adversarial attacks usually utilize the gradient or prediction confidence to generate adversarial examples, making it hard to be deployed in real-world applications. To this end, we consider a rarely investigated but more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Zhen Yu , Xiaosen Wang , Wanxiang Che , Kun He

We consider adversarial examples for image classification in the black-box decision-based setting. Here, an attacker cannot access confidence scores, but only the final label. Most attacks for this scenario are either unreliable or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-30 Thomas Brunner , Frederik Diehl , Michael Truong Le , Alois Knoll

The vulnerability of the high-performance machine learning models implies a security risk in applications with real-world consequences. Research on adversarial attacks is beneficial in guiding the development of machine learning models on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Yiran Huang , Yexu Zhou , Michael Hefenbrock , Till Riedel , Likun Fang , Michael Beigl

Machine learning (ML), especially deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely used in various applications, including several safety-critical ones (e.g. autonomous driving). As a result, recent research about adversarial examples has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Huichen Li , Xiaojun Xu , Xiaolu Zhang , Shuang Yang , Bo Li

Deep learning (DL) techniques are highly effective for defect detection from images. Training DL classification models, however, requires vast amounts of labeled data which is often expensive to collect. In many cases, not only the…

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