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This paper proposes a novel approach to train deep neural networks by unlocking the layer-wise dependency of backpropagation training. The approach employs additional modules called local critic networks besides the main network model to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Hojung Lee , Jong-seok Lee

Despite the impressive performances reported by deep neural networks in different application domains, they remain largely vulnerable to adversarial examples, i.e., input samples that are carefully perturbed to cause misclassification at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Angelo Sotgiu , Ambra Demontis , Marco Melis , Battista Biggio , Giorgio Fumera , Xiaoyi Feng , Fabio Roli

We consider the problem of a neural network being requested to classify images (or other inputs) without making implicit use of a "protected concept", that is a concept that should not play any role in the decision of the network. Typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Sen Jia , Thomas Lansdall-Welfare , Nello Cristianini

Concept probing has recently garnered increasing interest as a way to help interpret artificial neural networks, dealing both with their typically large size and their subsymbolic nature, which ultimately renders them unfeasible for direct…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Manuel de Sousa Ribeiro , Afonso Leote , João Leite

Machine learning models have been successfully applied to a wide range of applications including computer vision, natural language processing, and speech recognition. A successful implementation of these models however, usually relies on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Arash Rahnama , Andrew Tseng

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks: carefully constructed perturbations to an image can seriously impair classification accuracy, while being imperceptible to humans. While there has been a significant amount…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Can Bakiskan , Metehan Cekic , Ahmet Dundar Sezer , Upamanyu Madhow

Amongst a variety of approaches aimed at making the learning procedure of neural networks more effective, the scientific community developed strategies to order the examples according to their estimated complexity, to distil knowledge from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Simone Marullo , Matteo Tiezzi , Marco Gori , Stefano Melacci

Object recognition from images means to automatically find object(s) of interest and to return their category and location information. Benefiting from research on deep learning, like convolutional neural networks~(CNNs) and generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Zhize Wu , Xiaofeng Wang , Tong Xu , Xuebin Yang , Le Zou , Lixiang Xu , Thomas Weise

Distributed representations provide a vector space that captures meaningful relationships between data instances. The distributed nature of these representations, however, entangles together multiple attributes or concepts of data instances…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Somnath Basu Roy Chowdhury , Nicholas Monath , Avinava Dubey , Amr Ahmed , Snigdha Chaturvedi

During the past decade, deep neural networks have led to fast-paced progress and significant achievements in computer vision problems, for both academia and industry. Yet despite their success, state-of-the-art image classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Aristotelis Ballas , Christos Diou

Deep neural networks, like many other machine learning models, have recently been shown to lack robustness against adversarially crafted inputs. These inputs are derived from regular inputs by minor yet carefully selected perturbations that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-06-17 Kathrin Grosse , Nicolas Papernot , Praveen Manoharan , Michael Backes , Patrick McDaniel

In this paper, we introduced the novel concept of advisor network to address the problem of noisy labels in image classification. Deep neural networks (DNN) are prone to performance reduction and overfitting problems on training data with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Simone Ricci , Tiberio Uricchio , Alberto Del Bimbo

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) provide an algorithmic framework for constructing generative models with several appealing properties: they do not require a likelihood function to be specified, only a generating procedure; they…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-28 Shakir Mohamed , Balaji Lakshminarayanan

AI Safety is a major concern in many deep learning applications such as autonomous driving. Given a trained deep learning model, an important natural problem is how to reliably verify the model's prediction. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Tong Che , Xiaofeng Liu , Site Li , Yubin Ge , Ruixiang Zhang , Caiming Xiong , Yoshua Bengio

Memorization in large-scale text-to-image diffusion models poses significant security and intellectual property risks, enabling adversarial attribute extraction and the unauthorized reproduction of sensitive or proprietary features. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Divya Kothandaraman , Jaclyn Pytlarz

Crafting adversarial examples has become an important technique to evaluate the robustness of deep neural networks (DNNs). However, most existing works focus on attacking the image classification problem since its input space is continuous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Minhao Cheng , Jinfeng Yi , Pin-Yu Chen , Huan Zhang , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Deep learning models are vulnerable to adversarial examples and make incomprehensible mistakes, which puts a threat on their real-world deployment. Combined with the idea of adversarial training, preprocessing-based defenses are popular and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Tao Bai , Jun Zhao , Lanqing Guo , Bihan Wen

Machine learning techniques are immensely deployed in both industry and academy. Recent studies indicate that machine learning models used for classification tasks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which limits the usage of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Yutong Gao , Yi Pan

Deep neural networks suffer from the major limitation of catastrophic forgetting old tasks when learning new ones. In this paper we focus on class incremental continual learning in semantic segmentation, where new categories are made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Umberto Michieli , Pietro Zanuttigh

Deep neural networks are powerful, yet their high complexity greatly limits their potential to be deployed on billions of resource-constrained edge devices. Pruning is a crucial network compression technique, yet most existing methods focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Qizhen Lan , Jung Im Choi , Qing Tian