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With wider application of deep neural networks (DNNs) in various algorithms and frameworks, security threats have become one of the concerns. Adversarial attacks disturb DNN-based image classifiers, in which attackers can intentionally add…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Jinyi Wang , Zhaoyang Lyu , Dahua Lin , Bo Dai , Hongfei Fu

Recent findings suggest that diffusion models significantly enhance empirical adversarial robustness. While some intuitive explanations have been proposed, the precise mechanisms underlying these improvements remain unclear. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Liu Yuezhang , Xue-Xin Wei

In recent years, deep neural network approaches have been widely adopted for machine learning tasks, including classification. However, they were shown to be vulnerable to adversarial perturbations: carefully crafted small perturbations can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Pouya Samangouei , Maya Kabkab , Rama Chellappa

Classifier guidance is intended to steer a diffusion process such that a given classifier reliably recognizes the generated data point as a certain class. However, most classifier guidance approaches are restricted to robust classifiers,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Philipp Vaeth , Dibyanshu Kumar , Benjamin Paassen , Magda Gregorová

Joint machine learning models that allow synthesizing and classifying data often offer uneven performance between those tasks or are unstable to train. In this work, we depart from a set of empirical observations that indicate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Kamil Deja , Tomasz Trzcinski , Jakub M. Tomczak

Discriminative classifiers have become a foundational tool in deep learning for medical imaging, excelling at learning separable features of complex data distributions. However, these models often need careful design, augmentation, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Gian Mario Favero , Parham Saremi , Emily Kaczmarek , Brennan Nichyporuk , Tal Arbel

Adversarial training and adversarial purification are two widely used defense strategies for enhancing model robustness against adversarial attacks. However, adversarial training requires costly retraining, while adversarial purification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Xuelong Dai , Dong Wang , Xiuzhen Cheng , Bin Xiao

Regression via classification (RvC) is a common method used for regression problems in deep learning, where the target variable belongs to a set of continuous values. By discretizing the target into a set of non-overlapping classes, it has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Axel Berg , Magnus Oskarsson , Mark O'Connor

Diffusion models are a class of flexible generative models trained with an approximation to the log-likelihood objective. However, most use cases of diffusion models are not concerned with likelihoods, but instead with downstream objectives…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Kevin Black , Michael Janner , Yilun Du , Ilya Kostrikov , Sergey Levine

Text-to-image diffusion models are a class of deep generative models that have demonstrated an impressive capacity for high-quality image generation. However, these models are susceptible to implicit biases that arise from web-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Yinan Zhang , Eric Tzeng , Yilun Du , Dmitry Kislyuk

Diffusion models have been recently employed to improve certified robustness through the process of denoising. However, the theoretical understanding of why diffusion models are able to improve the certified robustness is still lacking,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Chaowei Xiao , Zhongzhu Chen , Kun Jin , Jiongxiao Wang , Weili Nie , Mingyan Liu , Anima Anandkumar , Bo Li , Dawn Song

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) have emerged as a powerful class of deep generative models, achieving remarkable performance in image synthesis tasks. However, these models face challenges in terms of widespread adoption due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Kidist Amde Mekonnen , Nicola Dall'Asen , Paolo Rota

Image generative models, particularly diffusion-based models, have surged in popularity due to their remarkable ability to synthesize highly realistic images. However, since these models are data-driven, they inherit biases from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Lin-Chun Huang , Ching Chieh Tsao , Fang-Yi Su , Jung-Hsien Chiang

Although neural networks achieve promising performance in many tasks, they may still fail when encountering some examples and bring about risks to applications. To discover risky samples, previous literature attempts to search for patterns…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Han Yu , Hao Zou , Xingxuan Zhang , Zhengyi Wang , Yue He , Kehan Li , Peng Cui

Developing image-generative models, which are robust to outliers in the training process, has recently drawn attention from the research community. Due to the ease of integrating unbalanced optimal transport (UOT) into adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Quan Dao , Binh Ta , Tung Pham , Anh Tran

In the context of continuously rising global air traffic, efficient and safe Conflict Detection and Resolution (CD&R) is paramount for air traffic management. Although Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) offers a promising pathway for CD&R…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Tonghe Li , Jixin Liu , Weili Zeng , Hao Jiang

In this work, we conduct a comprehensive study on the robustness of domain generation algorithm (DGA) classifiers. We implement 32 white-box attacks, 19 of which are very effective and induce a false-negative rate (FNR) of $\approx$ 100\%…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Arthur Drichel , Marc Meyer , Ulrike Meyer

This study investigates the robustness of image classifiers to text-guided corruptions. We utilize diffusion models to edit images to different domains. Unlike other works that use synthetic or hand-picked data for benchmarking, we use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Mohammadreza Mofayezi , Yasamin Medghalchi

Deep Learning models are highly susceptible to adversarial manipulations that can lead to catastrophic consequences. One of the most effective methods to defend against such disturbances is adversarial training but at the cost of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Samuel Henrique Silva , Arun Das , Ian Scarff , Peyman Najafirad

Deep neural network (DNN) models are wellknown to easily misclassify prediction results by using input images with small perturbations, called adversarial examples. In this paper, we propose a novel adversarial detector, which consists of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Takayuki Osakabe , Maungmaung Aprilpyone , Sayaka Shiota , Hitoshi Kiya