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This work presents an information-theoretic examination of diffusion-based purification methods, the state-of-the-art adversarial defenses that utilize diffusion models to remove malicious perturbations in adversarial examples. By…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Geigh Zollicoffer , Minh Vu , Ben Nebgen , Juan Castorena , Boian Alexandrov , Manish Bhattarai

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have risen to prominence as key solutions in numerous AI applications for earth observation (AI4EO). However, their susceptibility to adversarial examples poses a critical challenge, compromising the reliability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Weikang Yu , Yonghao Xu , Pedram Ghamisi

Adversarial examples are some special input that can perturb the output of a deep neural network, in order to make produce intentional errors in the learning algorithms in the production environment. Most of the present methods for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Chengjun Tang , Kun Zhang , Chunfang Xing , Yong Ding , Zengmin Xu

Adversarial audio attacks can be considered as a small perturbation unperceptive to human ears that is intentionally added to the audio signal and causes a machine learning model to make mistakes. This poses a security concern about the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Mohammad Esmaeilpour , Patrick Cardinal , Alessandro Lameiras Koerich

In the past few years, it has been shown that deep learning systems are highly vulnerable under attacks with adversarial examples. Neural-network-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are no exception. Targeted and untargeted…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-07 Matías Pizarro , Dorothea Kolossa , Asja Fischer

With the widespread application of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, their vulnerability to adversarial attacks has been extensively studied. However, most existing adversarial examples are generated on specific individual models,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Weifei Jin , Junjie Su , Hejia Wang , Yulin Ye , Jie Hao

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable success in tasks such as image captioning, visual question answering, and cross-modal reasoning by integrating visual and textual modalities. However, their multimodal nature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Fengling Zhu , Boshi Liu , Jingyu Hua , Sheng Zhong

Deep learning based image classification models are shown vulnerable to adversarial attacks by injecting deliberately crafted noises to clean images. To defend against adversarial attacks in a training-free and attack-agnostic manner, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Li Ding , Yongwei Wang , Xin Ding , Kaiwen Yuan , Ping Wang , Hua Huang , Z. Jane Wang

Diffusion-based purification defenses leverage diffusion models to remove crafted perturbations of adversarial examples and achieve state-of-the-art robustness. Recent studies show that even advanced attacks cannot break such defenses…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Mintong Kang , Dawn Song , Bo Li

Audio DeepFakes (DF) are artificially generated utterances created using deep learning, with the primary aim of fooling the listeners in a highly convincing manner. Their quality is sufficient to pose a severe threat in terms of security…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Piotr Kawa , Marcin Plata , Piotr Syga

In realistic environments, speech is usually interfered by various noise and reverberation, which dramatically degrades the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. To alleviate this issue, the commonest way is to use a…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Bin Liu , Shuai Nie , Yaping Zhang , Dengfeng Ke , Shan Liang , Wenju Liu1

Recently, studies show that deep learning-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are vulnerable to adversarial examples (AEs), which add a small amount of noise to the original audio examples. These AE attacks pose new challenges…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-21 Feng Guo , Zheng Sun , Yuxuan Chen , Lei Ju

Adversarial examples seem to be inevitable. These specifically crafted inputs allow attackers to arbitrarily manipulate machine learning systems. Even worse, they often seem harmless to human observers. In our digital society, this poses a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Thorsten Eisenhofer , Lea Schönherr , Joel Frank , Lars Speckemeier , Dorothea Kolossa , Thorsten Holz

Adversarial attacks have the potential to mislead deep neural network classifiers by introducing slight perturbations. Developing algorithms that can mitigate the effects of these attacks is crucial for ensuring the safe use of artificial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Boya Zhang , Weijian Luo , Zhihua Zhang

With the development of audio playback devices and fast data transmission, the demand for high sound quality is rising for both entertainment and communications. In this quest for better sound quality, challenges emerge from distortions and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Jean-Marie Lemercier , Julius Richter , Simon Welker , Eloi Moliner , Vesa Välimäki , Timo Gerkmann

Face authentication systems have brought significant convenience and advanced developments, yet they have become unreliable due to their sensitivity to inconspicuous perturbations, such as adversarial attacks. Existing defenses often…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Hanrui Wang , Ruoxi Sun , Cunjian Chen , Minhui Xue , Lay-Ki Soon , Shuo Wang , Zhe Jin

In this paper, we propose a novel guided diffusion purification approach to provide a strong defense against adversarial attacks. Our model achieves 89.62% robust accuracy under PGD-L_inf attack (eps = 8/255) on the CIFAR-10 dataset. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Quanlin Wu , Hang Ye , Yuntian Gu

Diffusion-based purification (DBP) has become a cornerstone defense against adversarial examples (AEs), regarded as robust due to its use of diffusion models (DMs) that project AEs onto the natural data manifold. We refute this core claim,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Andre Kassis , Urs Hengartner , Yaoliang Yu

Speech is a common and effective way of communication between humans, and modern consumer devices such as smartphones and home hubs are equipped with deep learning based accurate automatic speech recognition to enable natural interaction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Moustafa Alzantot , Bharathan Balaji , Mani Srivastava

Black-box query-based attacks constitute significant threats to Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) systems since they can generate adversarial examples without accessing the target model's architecture and parameters. Traditional defense…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Ping Guo , Xiang Li , Zhiyuan Yang , Xi Lin , Qingchuan Zhao , Qingfu Zhang