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Deep learning-based image watermarking, while robust against conventional distortions, remains vulnerable to advanced adversarial and regeneration attacks. Conventional countermeasures, which jointly optimize the encoder and decoder via a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Jiahui Chen , Zehang Deng , Zeyu Zhang , Chaoyang Li , Lianchen Jia , Lifeng Sun

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have proven to be quite effective in a vast array of machine learning tasks, with recent examples in cyber security and autonomous vehicles. Despite the superior performance of DNNs in these applications, it has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Qinglong Wang , Wenbo Guo , Kaixuan Zhang , Alexander G. Ororbia , Xinyu Xing , Xue Liu , C. Lee Giles

Recent work has explored integrating autoregressive language models with energy-based models (EBMs) to enhance text generation capabilities. However, learning effective EBMs for text is challenged by the discrete nature of language. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Xuwang Yin

Deep neural networks are powerful and popular learning models that achieve state-of-the-art pattern recognition performance on many computer vision, speech, and language processing tasks. However, these networks have also been shown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Nina Narodytska , Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan

Adversarial example generation has been a hot spot in recent years because it can cause deep neural networks (DNNs) to misclassify the generated adversarial examples, which reveals the vulnerability of DNNs, motivating us to find good…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Mingjie Li , Hanzhou Wu , Xinpeng Zhang

Transformer-based pre-trained models of code (PTMC) have been widely utilized and have achieved state-of-the-art performance in many mission-critical applications. However, they can be vulnerable to adversarial attacks through identifier…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Xiaohu Du , Ming Wen , Zichao Wei , Shangwen Wang , Hai Jin

Despite the success on few-shot learning problems, most meta-learned models only focus on achieving good performance on clean examples and thus easily break down when given adversarially perturbed samples. While some recent works have shown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Minseon Kim , Hyeonjeong Ha , Dong Bok Lee , Sung Ju Hwang

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

Sequence-based deep learning models (e.g., RNNs), can detect malware by analyzing its behavioral sequences. Meanwhile, these models are susceptible to adversarial attacks. Attackers can create adversarial samples that alter the sequence…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Kai Tan , Dongyang Zhan , Lin Ye , Hongli Zhang , Binxing Fang

State-of-the-art deep neural networks are known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples, formed by applying small but malicious perturbations to the original inputs. Moreover, the perturbations can \textit{transfer across models}:…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-28 Lei Wu , Zhanxing Zhu , Cheng Tai , Weinan E

Text classifiers are vulnerable to adversarial examples -- correctly-classified examples that are deliberately transformed to be misclassified while satisfying acceptability constraints. The conventional approach to finding adversarial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Tom Roth , Inigo Jauregi Unanue , Alsharif Abuadbba , Massimo Piccardi

We propose to improve unconditional Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) by training the self-supervised learning with the adversarial process. In particular, we apply self-supervised learning via the geometric transformation on input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Ngoc-Trung Tran , Viet-Hung Tran , Ngoc-Bao Nguyen , Ngai-Man Cheung

Deep learning methods have shown state of the art performance in a range of tasks from computer vision to natural language processing. However, it is well known that such systems are vulnerable to attackers who craft inputs in order to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Giulio Zizzo , Chris Hankin , Sergio Maffeis , Kevin Jones

Vulnerability of various machine learning methods to adversarial examples has been recently explored in the literature. Power systems which use these vulnerable methods face a huge threat against adversarial examples. To this end, we first…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Jiwei Tian , Buhong Wang , Jing Li , Zhen Wang , Mete Ozay

Recently, deep generative models have become increasingly popular in unsupervised anomaly detection. However, deep generative models aim at recovering the data distribution rather than detecting anomalies. Besides, deep generative models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Xuhong Wang , Ying Du , Shijie Lin , Ping Cui , Yuntian Shen , Yupu Yang

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

Machine learning models are frequently used to solve complex security problems, as well as to make decisions in sensitive situations like guiding autonomous vehicles or predicting financial market behaviors. Previous efforts have shown that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-04-29 Nicolas Papernot , Patrick McDaniel , Ananthram Swami , Richard Harang

Deep neural networks have been demonstrated to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks: subtle perturbations can completely change the classification results. Their vulnerability has led to a surge of research in this direction. However, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Quanyu Liao , Xin Wang , Bin Kong , Siwei Lyu , Youbing Yin , Qi Song , Xi Wu

Adversarial examples are commonly viewed as a threat to ConvNets. Here we present an opposite perspective: adversarial examples can be used to improve image recognition models if harnessed in the right manner. We propose AdvProp, an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Cihang Xie , Mingxing Tan , Boqing Gong , Jiang Wang , Alan Yuille , Quoc V. Le

Although current deep learning techniques have yielded superior performance on various computer vision tasks, yet they are still vulnerable to adversarial examples. Adversarial training and its variants have been shown to be the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Junhao Dong , Seyed-Mohsen Moosavi-Dezfooli , Jianhuang Lai , Xiaohua Xie