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While neural networks allow highly accurate predictions in many tasks, their lack of robustness towards even slight input perturbations often hampers their deployment. Adversarial attacks such as the seminal projected gradient descent (PGD)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Shashank Agnihotri , Steffen Jung , Margret Keuper

We propose a new defense mechanism against adversarial attacks inspired by an optical co-processor, providing robustness without compromising natural accuracy in both white-box and black-box settings. This hardware co-processor performs a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Alessandro Cappelli , Ruben Ohana , Julien Launay , Laurent Meunier , Iacopo Poli , Florent Krzakala

Evaluating the robustness of a defense model is a challenging task in adversarial robustness research. Obfuscated gradients have previously been found to exist in many defense methods and cause a false signal of robustness. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Xingjun Ma , Linxi Jiang , Hanxun Huang , Zejia Weng , James Bailey , Yu-Gang Jiang

The introduction of robust optimisation has pushed the state-of-the-art in defending against adversarial attacks. Notably, the state-of-the-art projected gradient descent (PGD)-based training method has been shown to be universally and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Ezekiel Soremekun , Sakshi Udeshi , Sudipta Chattopadhyay

In this appraisal paper, we evaluate the efficacy of SHIELD, a compression-based defense framework for countering adversarial attacks on image classification models, which was published at KDD 2018. Here, we consider alternative threat…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Cory Cornelius , Nilaksh Das , Shang-Tse Chen , Li Chen , Michael E. Kounavis , Duen Horng Chau

The past decade has seen a rapid adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI), specifically the deep learning networks, in Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) ecosystem. However, it has been shown recently that the deep learning networks can be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Sunder Ali Khowaja , Ik Hyun Lee , Kapal Dev , Muhammad Aslam Jarwar , Nawab Muhammad Faseeh Qureshi

Current LLM alignment methods are readily broken through specifically crafted adversarial prompts. While crafting adversarial prompts using discrete optimization is highly effective, such attacks typically use more than 100,000 LLM calls.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Simon Geisler , Tom Wollschläger , M. H. I. Abdalla , Johannes Gasteiger , Stephan Günnemann

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial examples obtained by adding small perturbations to original examples. The added perturbations in existing attacks are mainly determined by the gradient of the loss function with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Chen Wan , Fangjun Huang

Adversarial attacks against deep learning models represent a major threat to the security and reliability of natural language processing (NLP) systems. In this paper, we propose a modification to the BERT-Attack framework, integrating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Hetvi Waghela , Jaydip Sen , Sneha Rakshit

Adversarial training is the most successful empirical method for increasing the robustness of neural networks against adversarial attacks. However, the most effective approaches, like training with Projected Gradient Descent (PGD) are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Leo Schwinn , René Raab , Björn Eskofier

Deep learning models are vulnerable to adversarial examples crafted by applying human-imperceptible perturbations on benign inputs. However, under the black-box setting, most existing adversaries often have a poor transferability to attack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Jiadong Lin , Chuanbiao Song , Kun He , Liwei Wang , John E. Hopcroft

Deep learning achieves state-of-the-art performance in many tasks but exposes to the underlying vulnerability against adversarial examples. Across existing defense techniques, adversarial training with the projected gradient decent attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Tianjin Huang , Vlado Menkovski , Yulong Pei , Mykola Pechenizkiy

With the flourishing prosperity of generative models, manipulated facial images have become increasingly accessible, raising concerns regarding privacy infringement and societal trust. In response, proactive defense strategies embed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Yue Li , Linying Xue , Dongdong Lin , Qiushi Li , Hui Tian , Hongxia Wang

Despite recent success on various tasks, deep learning techniques still perform poorly on adversarial examples with small perturbations. While optimization-based methods for adversarial attacks are well-explored in the field of computer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Lifan Yuan , Yichi Zhang , Yangyi Chen , Wei Wei

Learning adversarial examples can be formulated as an optimization problem of maximizing the loss function with some box-constraints. However, for solving this induced optimization problem, the state-of-the-art gradient-based methods such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Wei Tao , Lei Bao , Sheng Long , Gaowei Wu , Qing Tao

In this paper, we investigate the dynamics-aware adversarial attack problem of adaptive neural networks. Most existing adversarial attack algorithms are designed under a basic assumption -- the network architecture is fixed throughout the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 An Tao , Yueqi Duan , Yingqi Wang , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

An acknowledged weakness of neural networks is their vulnerability to adversarial perturbations to the inputs. To improve the robustness of these models, one of the most popular defense mechanisms is to alternatively maximize the loss over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Zhun Deng , Hangfeng He , Jiaoyang Huang , Weijie J. Su

Low-rank matrix estimation is a canonical problem that finds numerous applications in signal processing, machine learning and imaging science. A popular approach in practice is to factorize the matrix into two compact low-rank factors, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Tian Tong , Cong Ma , Yuejie Chi

Projected Gradient Descent (PGD) under the $L_\infty$ ball has become one of the defacto methods used in adversarial robustness evaluation for computer vision (CV) due to its reliability and efficacy, making a strong and easy-to-implement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Philip Doldo , Derek Everett , Amol Khanna , Andre T Nguyen , Edward Raff

Deep neural networks are known to be vulnerable to adversarial perturbations, which are small and carefully crafted inputs that lead to incorrect predictions. In this paper, we propose DeepDefense, a novel defense framework that applies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Ci Lin , Tet Yeap , Iluju Kiringa , Biwei Zhang