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We experimented with front-end enhanced neural models where a differentiable and fully convolutional model with a skip connection is added before a frozen backbone classifier. By training such composite models using a small learning rate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Leonid Boytsov , Ameya Joshi , Filipe Condessa

Throughout the past five years, the susceptibility of neural networks to minimal adversarial perturbations has moved from a peculiar phenomenon to a core issue in Deep Learning. Despite much attention, however, progress towards more robust…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-13 Wieland Brendel , Jonas Rauber , Matthias Kümmerer , Ivan Ustyuzhaninov , Matthias Bethge

Federated learning is a private-by-design distributed learning paradigm where clients train local models on their own data before a central server aggregates their local updates to compute a global model. Depending on the aggregation method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Jin Xu , Chi Hong , Jiyue Huang , Lydia Y. Chen , Jérémie Decouchant

We introduce Gradient Agreement Filtering (GAF) to improve on gradient averaging in distributed deep learning optimization. Traditional distributed data-parallel stochastic gradient descent involves averaging gradients of microbatches to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Francois Chaubard , Duncan Eddy , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

In the real-world setting, data often follows a long-tailed distribution, where head classes contain significantly more training samples than tail classes. Consequently, models trained on such data tend to be biased toward head classes. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Fan Zhang , Wei Qin , Weijieying Ren , Lei Wang , Zetong Chen , Richang Hong

To address the weight coupling problem, certain studies introduced few-shot Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods, which partition the supernet into multiple sub-supernets. However, these methods often suffer from computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Wenhao Song , Xuan Wu , Bo Yang , You Zhou , Yubin Xiao , Yanchun Liang , Hongwei Ge , Heow Pueh Lee , Chunguo Wu

Temporal Graph Neural Networks (TGNNs) have become indispensable for analyzing dynamic graphs in critical applications such as social networks, communication systems, and financial networks. However, the robustness of TGNNs against…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Dong Hyun Jeon , Lijing Zhu , Haifang Li , Pengze Li , Jingna Feng , Tiehang Duan , Houbing Herbert Song , Cui Tao , Shuteng Niu

Neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, malicious inputs crafted to fool trained models. Adversarial examples often exhibit black-box transfer, meaning that adversarial examples for one model can fool another model. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Qian Huang , Isay Katsman , Horace He , Zeqi Gu , Serge Belongie , Ser-Nam Lim

Adversarial examples are typically optimized with gradient-based attacks. While novel attacks are continuously proposed, each is shown to outperform its predecessors using different experimental setups, hyperparameter settings, and number…

Designing powerful adversarial attacks is of paramount importance for the evaluation of $\ell_p$-bounded adversarial defenses. Projected Gradient Descent (PGD) is one of the most effective and conceptually simple algorithms to generate such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Nikolaos Antoniou , Efthymios Georgiou , Alexandros Potamianos

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are known to be susceptible to adversarial examples, leading to significant performance degradation. In black-box attack scenarios, a considerable attack performance gap between the surrogate model and the target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Haijing Guo , Jiafeng Wang , Zhaoyu Chen , Kaixun Jiang , Lingyi Hong , Pinxue Guo , Jinglun Li , Wenqiang Zhang

Since Biggio et al. (2013) and Szegedy et al. (2013) first drew attention to adversarial examples, there has been a flood of research into defending and attacking machine learning models. However, almost all proposed attacks assume…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Jamie Hayes

State-of-the-art deep learning models for tabular data have recently achieved acceptable performance to be deployed in industrial settings. However, the robustness of these models remains scarcely explored. Contrary to computer vision,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Thibault Simonetto , Salah Ghamizi , Antoine Desjardins , Maxime Cordy , Yves Le Traon

Existing black-box attacks have demonstrated promising potential in creating adversarial examples (AE) to deceive deep learning models. Most of these attacks need to handle a vast optimization space and require a large number of queries,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Renyang Liu , Wei Zhou , Tianwei Zhang , Kangjie Chen , Jun Zhao , Kwok-Yan Lam

Research in adversarial machine learning has shown how the performance of machine learning models can be seriously compromised by injecting even a small fraction of poisoning points into the training data. While the effects on model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-29 David Solans , Battista Biggio , Carlos Castillo

Traditional decision-based black-box adversarial attacks on image classifiers aim to generate adversarial examples by slightly modifying input images while keeping the number of queries low, where each query involves sending an input to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Mahdi Salmani , Alireza Abdollahpoorrostam , Seyed-Mohsen Moosavi-Dezfooli

Transferable adversarial attacks pose significant threats to deep neural networks, particularly in black-box scenarios where internal model information is inaccessible. Studying adversarial attack methods helps advance the performance of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Zhibo Jin , Jiayu Zhang , Zhiyu Zhu , Chenyu Zhang , Jiahao Huang , Jianlong Zhou , Fang Chen

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

In this paper, we present a generic, query-efficient black-box attack against API call-based machine learning malware classifiers. We generate adversarial examples by modifying the malware's API call sequences and non-sequential features…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Ishai Rosenberg , Asaf Shabtai , Yuval Elovici , Lior Rokach

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are well-known to be vulnerable to Adversarial Examples (AEs). A large amount of efforts have been spent to launch and heat the arms race between the attackers and defenders. Recently, advanced gradient-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Han Qiu , Yi Zeng , Qinkai Zheng , Tianwei Zhang , Meikang Qiu , Gerard Memmi