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Adversarial examples have posed a severe threat to deep neural networks due to their transferable nature. Currently, various works have paid great efforts to enhance the cross-model transferability, which mostly assume the substitute model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Qilong Zhang , Xiaodan Li , Yuefeng Chen , Jingkuan Song , Lianli Gao , Yuan He , Hui Xue

This work studies black-box adversarial attacks against deep neural networks (DNNs), where the attacker can only access the query feedback returned by the attacked DNN model, while other information such as model parameters or the training…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Yan Feng , Baoyuan Wu , Yanbo Fan , Li Liu , Zhifeng Li , Shutao Xia

Recent advancements in quantum computing have led to the emergence of hybrid quantum neural networks, such as Quanvolutional Neural Networks (QuNNs), which integrate quantum and classical layers. While the susceptibility of classical neural…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 Walid El Maouaki , Alberto Marchisio , Taoufik Said , Muhammad Shafique , Mohamed Bennai

The vulnerability of deep neural networks (DNNs) to black-box adversarial attacks is one of the most heated topics in trustworthy AI. In such attacks, the attackers operate without any insider knowledge of the model, making the cross-model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Mingyuan Fan , Cen Chen , Wenmeng Zhou , Yinggui Wang

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

Neural network quantization is becoming an industry standard to efficiently deploy deep learning models on hardware platforms, such as CPU, GPU, TPU, and FPGAs. However, we observe that the conventional quantization approaches are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Ji Lin , Chuang Gan , Song Han

The robustness of deep learning models against adversarial attacks remains a pivotal concern. This study presents, for the first time, an exhaustive review of the transferability aspect of adversarial attacks. It systematically categorizes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Zhibo Jin , Jiayu Zhang , Zhiyu Zhu , Huaming Chen

One intriguing property of adversarial attacks is their "transferability" -- an adversarial example crafted with respect to one deep neural network (DNN) model is often found effective against other DNNs as well. Intensive research has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Yuhao Mao , Chong Fu , Saizhuo Wang , Shouling Ji , Xuhong Zhang , Zhenguang Liu , Jun Zhou , Alex X. Liu , Raheem Beyah , Ting Wang

Adversarial examples have revealed the vulnerability of deep learning models and raised serious concerns about information security. The transfer-based attack is a hot topic in black-box attacks that are practical to real-world scenarios…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Jian-Wei Li , Wen-Ze Shao

Quantized Neural Networks (QNNs) are increasingly deployed in edge and resource-constrained environments due to their efficiency in computation and memory usage. While shown to distort the gradient landscape and weaken conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Amira Guesmi , Bassem Ouni , Muhammad Shafique

The score-based query attacks (SQAs) pose practical threats to deep neural networks by crafting adversarial perturbations within dozens of queries, only using the model's output scores. Nonetheless, we note that if the loss trend of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Sizhe Chen , Zhehao Huang , Qinghua Tao , Yingwen Wu , Cihang Xie , Xiaolin Huang

Transferable adversarial attacks against Deep neural networks (DNNs) have received broad attention in recent years. An adversarial example can be crafted by a surrogate model and then attack the unknown target model successfully, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Yao Zhu , Yuefeng Chen , Xiaodan Li , Kejiang Chen , Yuan He , Xiang Tian , Bolun Zheng , Yaowu Chen , Qingming Huang

The transferability of adversarial examples allows for the attack on unknown deep neural networks (DNNs), posing a serious threat to many applications and attracting great attention. In this paper, we improve the transferability of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Qizhang Li , Yiwen Guo , Xiaochen Yang , Wangmeng Zuo , Hao Chen

Neural networks are getting better accuracy with higher energy and computational cost. After quantization, the cost can be greatly saved, and the quantized models are more hardware friendly with acceptable accuracy loss. On the other hand,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Chang Song , Riya Ranjan , Hai Li

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and their quantized counterparts are vulnerable to extraction attacks, posing a significant threat of IP theft. Yet, the robustness of quantized models against these attacks is little studied compared to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Kacem Khaled , Felipe Gohring de Magalhães , Gabriela Nicolescu

Face recognition is greatly improved by deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Recently, these face recognition models have been used for identity authentication in security sensitive applications. However, deep CNNs are vulnerable to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Zihao Xiao , Xianfeng Gao , Chilin Fu , Yinpeng Dong , Wei Gao , Xiaolu Zhang , Jun Zhou , Jun Zhu

Neural networks have become pervasive across various applications, including security-related products. However, their widespread adoption has heightened concerns regarding vulnerability to adversarial attacks. With emerging regulations and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Disesdi Susanna Cox , Niklas Bunzel

While deep neural networks have excellent results in many fields, they are susceptible to interference from attacking samples resulting in erroneous judgments. Feature-level attacks are one of the effective attack types, which targets the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Zhibo Jin , Zhiyu Zhu , Xinyi Wang , Jiayu Zhang , Jun Shen , Huaming Chen

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are highly vulnerable to adversarial examples, which pose significant challenges in security-sensitive applications. Among various adversarial attack strategies, input transformation-based attacks have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Hangyu Liu , Bo Peng , Can Cui , Pengxiang Ding , Donglin Wang

Quantizing neural networks to low-bitwidth is important for model deployment on resource-limited edge hardware. Although a quantized network has a smaller model size and memory footprint, it is fragile to adversarial attacks. However, few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Chaofan Tao , Ngai Wong