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Adversarial examples reveal critical vulnerabilities in deep neural networks by exploiting their sensitivity to imperceptible input perturbations. While adversarial training remains the predominant defense strategy, it often incurs…

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Adversarial examples have emerged as a significant threat to machine learning algorithms, especially to the convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In this paper, we propose two quantization-based defense mechanisms, Constant Quantization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Faiq Khalid , Hassan Ali , Hammad Tariq , Muhammad Abdullah Hanif , Semeen Rehman , Rehan Ahmed , Muhammad Shafique

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are incredibly vulnerable to crafted, imperceptible adversarial perturbations. While adversarial training (AT) has proven to be an effective defense approach, the AT mechanism for robustness improvement is not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Binxiao Huang , Rui Lin , Chaofan Tao , Ngai Wong

With the tremendous advances in the architecture and scale of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) over the past few decades, they can easily reach or even exceed the performance of humans in certain tasks. However, a recently discovered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Yanxi Li , Zhaohui Yang , Yunhe Wang , Chang Xu

Neural networks are widespread due to their powerful performance. Yet, they degrade in the presence of noisy labels at training time. Inspired by the setting of learning with expert advice, where multiplicative weights (MW) updates were…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Noga Bar , Tomer Koren , Raja Giryes

Deep neural networks are ubiquitous due to the ease of developing models and their influence on other domains. At the heart of this progress is convolutional neural networks (CNNs) that are capable of learning representations or features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Mohammed Bany Muhammad , Mohammed Yeasin

The robustness of deep neural networks is usually lacking under adversarial examples, common corruptions, and distribution shifts, which becomes an important research problem in the development of deep learning. Although new deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Chang Liu , Yinpeng Dong , Wenzhao Xiang , Xiao Yang , Hang Su , Jun Zhu , Yuefeng Chen , Yuan He , Hui Xue , Shibao Zheng

Convolutional Neural Networks have achieved impressive results in various tasks, but interpreting the internal mechanism is a challenging problem. To tackle this problem, we exploit a multi-channel attention mechanism in feature space. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Masanari Kimura , Masayuki Tanaka

Although neural networks have made remarkable advancements in various applications, they require substantial computational and memory resources. Network quantization is a powerful technique to compress neural networks, allowing for more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Dawei Yang , Ning He , Xing Hu , Zhihang Yuan , Jiangyong Yu , Chen Xu , Zhe Jiang

This work investigates a novel approach to boost adversarial robustness and generalization by incorporating structural prior into the design of deep learning models. Specifically, our study surprisingly reveals that existing dictionary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Zhichao Hou , Weizhi Gao , Hamid Krim , Xiaorui Liu

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved beyond human-level accuracy in the image classification task and are widely deployed in real-world environments. However, CNNs show vulnerability to adversarial perturbations that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Desheng Wang , Weidong Jin , Yunpu Wu , Aamir Khan

In this paper, we aim to improve the robustness of Keyword Spotting (KWS) systems in noisy environments while keeping a small memory footprint. We propose a new convolutional neural network (CNN) called FCA-Net, which combines mixer…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-30 Yuanxi Lin , Yuriy Evgenyevich Gapanyuk

Recent work has developed methods for learning deep network classifiers that are provably robust to norm-bounded adversarial perturbation; however, these methods are currently only possible for relatively small feedforward networks. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Eric Wong , Frank R. Schmidt , Jan Hendrik Metzen , J. Zico Kolter

Neural network training is computationally and memory intensive. Sparse training can reduce the burden on emerging hardware platforms designed to accelerate sparse computations, but it can affect network convergence. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Md Aamir Raihan , Tor M. Aamodt

We improve the robustness of Deep Neural Net (DNN) to adversarial attacks by using an interpolating function as the output activation. This data-dependent activation remarkably improves both the generalization and robustness of DNN. In the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Bao Wang , Alex T. Lin , Wei Zhu , Penghang Yin , Andrea L. Bertozzi , Stanley J. Osher

Variability in staining protocols, such as different slide preparation techniques, chemicals, and scanner configurations, can result in a diverse set of whole slide images (WSIs). This distribution shift can negatively impact the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-25 Kudaibergen Abutalip , Numan Saeed , Mustaqeem Khan , Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) trained on object recognition achieve high task performance but continue to exhibit vulnerability under a range of visual perturbations and out-of-domain images, when compared with biological vision.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Lucas Piper , Arlindo L. Oliveira , Tiago Marques

Recently, channel attention mechanism has demonstrated to offer great potential in improving the performance of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, most existing methods dedicate to developing more sophisticated attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Qilong Wang , Banggu Wu , Pengfei Zhu , Peihua Li , Wangmeng Zuo , Qinghua Hu

The fact that deep neural networks are susceptible to crafted perturbations severely impacts the use of deep learning in certain domains of application. Among many developed defense models against such attacks, adversarial training emerges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Anh Bui , Trung Le , He Zhao , Paul Montague , Olivier deVel , Tamas Abraham , Dinh Phung

The vulnerability to adversarial perturbations is a major flaw of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) that raises question about their reliability when in real-world scenarios. On the other hand, human perception, which DNNs are supposed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Muhammad Ahmed Shah , Bhiksha Raj