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Contrastive learning (CL) has emerged as a powerful framework for learning representations of images and text in a self-supervised manner while enhancing model robustness against adversarial attacks. More recently, researchers have extended…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Filippo Guerranti , Zinuo Yi , Anna Starovoit , Rafiq Kamel , Simon Geisler , Stephan Günnemann

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as powerful tools for learning representations from structured data. Despite their growing popularity and success across various applications, GNNs encounter several challenges that limit their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yassine Abbahaddou

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

Hundreds of defenses have been proposed to make deep neural networks robust against minimal (adversarial) input perturbations. However, only a handful of these defenses held up their claims because correctly evaluating robustness is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Roland S. Zimmermann , Wieland Brendel , Florian Tramer , Nicholas Carlini

Adversarial attacks against neural networks in a regression setting are a critical yet understudied problem. In this work, we advance the state of the art by investigating adversarial attacks against regression networks and by formulating a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Andre T. Nguyen , Edward Raff

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are becoming the de facto method to learn on the graph data and have achieved the state-of-the-art on node and graph classification tasks. However, recent works show GNNs are vulnerable to training-time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Jiate Li , Meng Pang , Yun Dong , Binghui Wang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have gained popularity in numerous domains, yet they are vulnerable to backdoor attacks that can compromise their performance and ethical application. The detection of these attacks is crucial for maintaining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jane Downer , Ren Wang , Binghui Wang

Explaining Graph Neural Network (XGNN) has gained growing attention to facilitate the trust of using GNNs, which is the mainstream method to learn graph data. Despite their growing attention, Existing XGNNs focus on improving the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Jiate Li , Meng Pang , Yun Dong , Jinyuan Jia , Binghui Wang

State-of-the-art deep neural networks (DNNs) have been proved to have excellent performance on unsupervised domain adaption (UDA). However, recent work shows that DNNs perform poorly when being attacked by adversarial samples, where these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Liyuan Zhang , Yuhang Zhou , Lei Zhang

In recent years, graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown great potential in addressing various graph structure-related downstream tasks. However, recent studies have found that current GNNs are susceptible to malicious adversarial attacks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Junyuan Fang , Huimin Liu , Han Yang , Jiajing Wu , Zibin Zheng , Chi K. Tse

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to subtle adversarial perturbations applied to the input. These adversarial perturbations, though imperceptible, can easily mislead the DNN. In this work, we take a control theoretic approach to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Arash Rahnama , Andre T. Nguyen , Edward Raff

Recent studies have shown that attackers can catastrophically reduce the performance of GNNs by maliciously modifying the graph structure or node features on the graph. Adversarial training, which has been shown to be one of the most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Xiaobing Pei , Haoran Yang , Gang Shen

This paper tackles the problem of defending a neural network against adversarial attacks crafted with different norms (in particular $\ell_\infty$ and $\ell_2$ bounded adversarial examples). It has been observed that defense mechanisms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Alexandre Araujo , Laurent Meunier , Rafael Pinot , Benjamin Negrevergne

Adversarial attacks to graph analytics are gaining increased attention. To date, two lines of countermeasures have been proposed to resist various graph adversarial attacks from the perspectives of either graph per se or graph neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Xinxin Fan , Wenxiong Chen , Mengfan Li , Wenqi Wei , Ling Liu

Previous research on selective protection for neural network components typically exploits only static vulnerability differences. Although these methods improve upon classical modular redundancy, they still incur substantial overhead for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Xinghua Xue , Cheng Liu , Feng Min , Yinhe Han

While deep neural networks have achieved remarkable success in various computer vision tasks, they often fail to generalize to new domains and subtle variations of input images. Several defenses have been proposed to improve the robustness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Omid Poursaeed , Tianxing Jiang , Harry Yang , Serge Belongie , SerNam Lim

In this work, we propose the first backdoor attack to graph neural networks (GNN). Specifically, we propose a \emph{subgraph based backdoor attack} to GNN for graph classification. In our backdoor attack, a GNN classifier predicts an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Zaixi Zhang , Jinyuan Jia , Binghui Wang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Graph neural network (GNN) is a powerful tool for analyzing graph-structured data. However, their vulnerability to adversarial attacks raises serious concerns, especially when dealing with sensitive information. Local Differential Privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Matta Varun , Ajay Kumar Dhakar , Yuan Hong , Shamik Sural

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become the standard for graph representation learning but remain vulnerable to structural perturbations. We propose a novel framework that integrates persistent homology features with stability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Jelena Losic

Recent work has extensively shown that randomized perturbations of neural networks can improve robustness to adversarial attacks. The literature is, however, lacking a detailed compare-and-contrast of the latest proposals to understand what…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Adam Dziedzic , Sanjay Krishnan