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Existing deep neural networks, say for image classification, have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial images that can cause a DNN misclassification, without any perceptible change to an image. In this work, we propose shock absorbing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Kevin Eykholt , Swati Gupta , Atul Prakash , Amir Rahmati , Pratik Vaishnavi , Haizhong Zheng

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become a cornerstone in graph-based data analysis, with applications in diverse domains such as bioinformatics, social networks, and recommendation systems. However, the interplay between model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Kirill Lukyanov , Georgii Sazonov , Serafim Boyarsky , Ilya Makarov

Randomized smoothing-based certification is an effective approach for obtaining robustness certificates of deep neural networks (DNNs) against adversarial attacks. This method constructs a smoothed DNN model and certifies its robustness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Shubham Ugare , Tarun Suresh , Debangshu Banerjee , Gagandeep Singh , Sasa Misailovic

Despite the success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in many academic benchmarks for computer vision tasks, their application in the real-world is still facing fundamental challenges. One of these open problems is the inherent lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Julia Grabinski , Paul Gavrikov , Janis Keuper , Margret Keuper

The increase in network attacks has necessitated the development of robust and efficient intrusion detection systems (IDS) capable of identifying malicious activities in real-time. In the last five years, deep learning algorithms have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Richard Kimanzi , Peter Kimanga , Dedan Cherori , Patrick K. Gikunda

The robustness of deep neural networks (DNNs) against adversarial attacks has been studied extensively in hopes of both better understanding how deep learning models converge and in order to ensure the security of these models in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Jovon Craig , Josh Andle , Theodore S. Nowak , Salimeh Yasaei Sekeh

In this work, we present an analysis of a DNN-based autoencoder for speech enhancement, dereverberation and denoising. The target application is a robust speaker verification (SV) system. We start our approach by carefully designing a data…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-20 Ondrej Novotny , Oldrich Plchot , Ondrej Glembek , Jan "Honza" Cernocky , Lukas Burget

Autonomous vehicles increasingly rely on cameras to provide the input for perception and scene understanding and the ability of these models to classify their environment and objects, under adverse conditions and image noise is crucial.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Andreas Papachristodoulou , Christos Kyrkou , Theocharis Theocharides

Validation accuracy is a necessary, but not sufficient, measure of a neural network classifier's quality. High validation accuracy during development does not guarantee that a model is free of serious flaws, such as vulnerability to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-08 John S. Hyatt , Michael S. Lee

Deep neural networks (DNNs) has shown great promise in computer vision tasks. However, machine vision achieved by DNNs cannot be as robust as human perception. Adversarial attacks and data distribution shifts have been known as two major…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Xiaofeng Mao , Yuefeng Chen , Rong Zhang , Hui Xue , Zhao Li , Hang Su

In this paper, we consider the problem of formally verifying a Neural Network (NN) based autonomous landing system. In such a system, a NN controller processes images from a camera to guide the aircraft while approaching the runway. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Ulices Santa Cruz , Yasser Shoukry

Applications based on Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have grown exponentially in the past decade. To match their increasing computational needs, several Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) crossbar based accelerators have been proposed. Recently,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Chun Tao , Deboleena Roy , Indranil Chakraborty , Kaushik Roy

As deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly used in safety-critical applications, there is a growing concern for their reliability. Even highly trained, high-performant networks are not 100% accurate. However, it is very difficult to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Eduard Pinconschi , Divya Gopinath , Rui Abreu , Corina S. Pasareanu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely used in many artificial intelligence (AI) tasks. However, deploying them brings significant challenges due to the huge cost of memory, energy, and computation. To address these challenges,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Xue Geng , Zhe Wang , Chunyun Chen , Qing Xu , Kaixin Xu , Chao Jin , Manas Gupta , Xulei Yang , Zhenghua Chen , Mohamed M. Sabry Aly , Jie Lin , Min Wu , Xiaoli Li

We introduce Harmonic Robustness, a powerful and intuitive method to test the robustness of any machine-learning model either during training or in black-box real-time inference monitoring without ground-truth labels. It is based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Nicholas S. Kersting , Yi Li , Aman Mohanty , Oyindamola Obisesan , Raphael Okochu

Deep neural networks (DNN) are growing in capability and applicability. Their effectiveness has led to their use in safety critical and autonomous systems, yet there is a dearth of cost-effective methods available for reasoning about the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-22 David Shriver , Dong Xu , Sebastian Elbaum , Matthew B. Dwyer

The success of Deep Learning and its potential use in many safety-critical applications has motivated research on formal verification of Neural Network (NN) models. Despite the reputation of learned NN models to behave as black boxes and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Rudy Bunel , Ilker Turkaslan , Philip H. S. Torr , Pushmeet Kohli , M. Pawan Kumar

Neural networks (NNs) are increasingly applied in safety-critical systems such as autonomous vehicles. However, they are fragile and are often ill-behaved. Consequently, their behaviors should undergo rigorous guarantees before deployment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Zhen Liang , Dejin Ren , Bai Xue , Ji Wang , Wenjing Yang , Wanwei Liu

In the rapidly evolving landscape of communication and network security, the increasing reliance on deep neural networks (DNNs) and cloud services for data processing presents a significant vulnerability: the potential for backdoors that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Khondoker Murad Hossain , Tim Oates

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are highly susceptible to adversarial samples, raising concerns about their reliability in safety-critical tasks. Currently, methods of evaluating adversarial robustness are primarily categorized into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jialei Song , Xingquan Zuo , Feiyang Wang , Hai Huang , Tianle Zhang