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A rapidly growing area of work has studied the existence of adversarial examples, datapoints which have been perturbed to fool a classifier, but the vast majority of these works have focused primarily on threat models defined by $\ell_p$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Eric Wong , Frank R. Schmidt , J. Zico Kolter

Model inversion attacks (MIAs) aim to reconstruct class-representative samples from trained models. Recent generative MIAs utilize generative adversarial networks to learn image priors that guide the inversion process, yielding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Xiong Peng , Bo Han , Fengfei Yu , Tongliang Liu , Feng Liu , Mingyuan Zhou

Failure cases of black-box deep learning, e.g. adversarial examples, might have severe consequences in healthcare. Yet such failures are mostly studied in the context of real-world images with calibrated attacks. To demystify the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-14 David Kügler , Alexander Distergoft , Arjan Kuijper , Anirban Mukhopadhyay

Understanding the reasons for the success of deep neural networks trained using stochastic gradient-based methods is a key open problem for the nascent theory of deep learning. The types of data where these networks are most successful,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-04 Sebastian Goldt , Marc Mézard , Florent Krzakala , Lenka Zdeborová

Neural Image Classifiers are effective but inherently hard to interpret and susceptible to adversarial attacks. Solutions to both problems exist, among others, in the form of counterfactual examples generation to enhance explainability or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Rafael Bischof , Florian Scheidegger , Michael A. Kraus , A. Cristiano I. Malossi

Many machine learning problems involve regressing variables on a non-Euclidean manifold -- e.g. a discrete probability distribution, or the 6D pose of an object. One way to tackle these problems through gradient-based learning is to use a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Romain Brégier

We investigate recurrent neural networks with asymmetric interactions and demonstrate that the inclusion of self-couplings or sparse excitatory inter-module connections leads to the emergence of a densely connected manifold of dynamically…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-01-01 Davide Badalotti , Carlo Baldassi , Marc Mézard , Mattia Scardecchia , Riccardo Zecchina

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are shown to be susceptible to adversarial example attacks. Most existing works achieve this malicious objective by crafting subtle pixel-wise perturbations, and they are difficult to launch in the physical world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Bo Luo , Qiang Xu

Regressing rotations on SO(3) manifold using deep neural networks is an important yet unsolved problem. The gap between the Euclidean network output space and the non-Euclidean SO(3) manifold imposes a severe challenge for neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Jiayi Chen , Yingda Yin , Tolga Birdal , Baoquan Chen , Leonidas Guibas , He Wang

Deep neural network-based image classifications are vulnerable to adversarial perturbations. The image classifications can be easily fooled by adding artificial small and imperceptible perturbations to input images. As one of the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Jindong Gu , Hengshuang Zhao , Volker Tresp , Philip Torr

Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) has proven to be remarkably effective in optimizing deep neural networks that employ ever-larger numbers of parameters. Yet, improving the efficiency of large-scale optimization remains a vital and highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Frithjof Gressmann , Zach Eaton-Rosen , Carlo Luschi

Machine learning systems based on deep neural networks, being able to produce state-of-the-art results on various perception tasks, have gained mainstream adoption in many applications. However, they are shown to be vulnerable to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Bo Luo , Yannan Liu , Lingxiao Wei , Qiang Xu

Deep Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) can easily be fooled by subtle, imperceptible changes to the input images. To address this vulnerability, adversarial training creates perturbation patterns and includes them in the training set to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Muzammal Naseer , Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Fatih Porikli

The goal of this paper is to analyze the geometric properties of deep neural network classifiers in the input space. We specifically study the topology of classification regions created by deep networks, as well as their associated decision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-29 Alhussein Fawzi , Seyed-Mohsen Moosavi-Dezfooli , Pascal Frossard , Stefano Soatto

Neural network (NN) interatomic potentials provide fast prediction of potential energy surfaces, closely matching the accuracy of the electronic structure methods used to produce the training data. However, NN predictions are only reliable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Daniel Schwalbe-Koda , Aik Rui Tan , Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli

Realistic image manipulation is challenging because it requires modifying the image appearance in a user-controlled way, while preserving the realism of the result. Unless the user has considerable artistic skill, it is easy to "fall off"…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Jun-Yan Zhu , Philipp Krähenbühl , Eli Shechtman , Alexei A. Efros

Self-supervised learning of deep neural networks has become a prevalent paradigm for learning representations that transfer to a variety of downstream tasks. Similar to proposed models of the ventral stream of biological vision, it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Kion Fallah , Alec Helbling , Kyle A. Johnsen , Christopher J. Rozell

Diffusion models have gained significant attention for high-fidelity image generation. Our work investigates the potential of exploiting diffusion models for adversarial robustness in image classification and object detection. Adversarial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-05 Mika Yagoda , Shady Abu-Hussein , Raja Giryes

This paper develops expansive gradient dynamics in deep neural network-induced mapping spaces. Specifically, we generate tools and concepts for minimizing a class of energy functionals in an abstract Hilbert space setting covering a wide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-21 Wolfgang Dahmen , Wuchen Li , Yuankai Teng , Zhu Wang

Nonlinear manifold learning from unorganized data points is a very challenging unsupervised learning and data visualization problem with a great variety of applications. In this paper we present a new algorithm for manifold learning and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Zhenyue Zhang , Hongyuan Zha