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Adversarial attacks and defenses are currently active areas of research for the deep learning community. A recent review paper divided the defense approaches into three categories; gradient masking, robust optimization, and adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Leslie N. Smith

Machine-learning architectures, such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks: inputs crafted carefully to force the system output to a wrong label. Since machine-learning is being deployed in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Amira Guesmi , Ihsen Alouani , Khaled N. Khasawneh , Mouna Baklouti , Tarek Frikha , Mohamed Abid , Nael Abu-Ghazaleh

Adversarial patch attacks are an emerging security threat for real world deep learning applications. We present Demasked Smoothing, the first approach (up to our knowledge) to certify the robustness of semantic segmentation models against…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Maksym Yatsura , Kaspar Sakmann , N. Grace Hua , Matthias Hein , Jan Hendrik Metzen

This paper studies the problem of defending (1D and 2D) boundaries against a large number of continuous attacks with a heterogeneous group of defenders. The defender team has perfect information of the attack events within some time (finite…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Si Wei Feng , Jingjin Yu

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are often vulnerable to adversarial examples.Several proposed defenses deploy an ensemble of models with the hope that, although the individual models may be vulnerable, an adversary will not be able to find an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Mainuddin Ahmad Jonas , David Evans

Ensemble defenses, are widely employed in various security-related applications to enhance model performance and robustness. The widespread adoption of these techniques also raises many questions: Are general ensembles defenses guaranteed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Hangsheng Zhang , Jiqiang Liu , Jinsong Dong

The advent of deep neural networks has led to remarkable progress in 3D point cloud recognition, but they remain vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Although various defense methods have been studied, they suffer from a trade-off between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Geunyoung Jung , Soohong Kim , Inseok Kong , Jiyoung Jung

Although adversarial robustness has been extensively studied in white-box settings, recent advances in black-box attacks (including transfer- and query-based approaches) are primarily benchmarked against weak defenses, leaving a significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Mohamed Djilani , Salah Ghamizi , Maxime Cordy

Deep equilibrium models (DEQs) refrain from the traditional layer-stacking paradigm and turn to find the fixed point of a single layer. DEQs have achieved promising performance on different applications with featured memory efficiency. At…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Zonghan Yang , Tianyu Pang , Yang Liu

Patch robustness certification is an emerging kind of provable defense technique against adversarial patch attacks for deep learning systems. Certified detection ensures the detection of all patched harmful versions of certified samples,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Qilin Zhou , Zhengyuan Wei , Haipeng Wang , Zhuo Wang , W. K. Chan

Developing reliable defenses against patch attacks on object detectors has attracted increasing interest. However, we identify that existing defense evaluations lack a unified and comprehensive framework, resulting in inconsistent and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Junhao Zheng , Jiahao Sun , Chenhao Lin , Zhengyu Zhao , Chen Ma , Chong Zhang , Cong Wang , Qian Wang , Chao Shen

The recent advancement in real-world critical infrastructure networks has led to an exponential growth in the use of automated devices which in turn has created new security challenges. In this paper, we study the robust and adaptive…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Supriyo Ghosh , Patrick Jaillet

The privacy of machine learning models has become a significant concern in many emerging Machine-Learning-as-a-Service applications, where prediction services based on well-trained models are offered to users via pay-per-query. The lack of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Xun Xian , Mingyi Hong , Jie Ding

Quantization is a promising technique for reducing the bit-width of deep models to improve their runtime performance and storage efficiency, and thus becomes a fundamental step for deployment. In real-world scenarios, quantized models are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Qun Li , Yuan Meng , Chen Tang , Jiacheng Jiang , Zhi Wang

Designing effective defense against adversarial attacks is a crucial topic as deep neural networks have been proliferated rapidly in many security-critical domains such as malware detection and self-driving cars. Conventional defense…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Xiao Wang , Siyue Wang , Pin-Yu Chen , Xue Lin , Peter Chin

Adversarial training improves the robustness of neural networks against adversarial attacks, albeit at the expense of the trade-off between standard and robust generalization. To unveil the underlying factors driving this phenomenon, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Shruthi Gowda , Bahram Zonooz , Elahe Arani

Object detection has found extensive applications in various tasks, but it is also susceptible to adversarial patch attacks. The ideal defense should be effective, efficient, easy to deploy, and capable of withstanding adaptive attacks. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Jianan Feng , Jiachun Li , Changqing Miao , Jianjun Huang , Wei You , Wenchang Shi , Bin Liang

Adversarial attacks have been a looming and unaddressed threat in the industry. However, through a decade-long history of the robustness evaluation literature, we have learned that mounting a strong or optimal attack is challenging. It…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Chawin Sitawarin , Jaewon Chang , David Huang , Wesson Altoyan , David Wagner

Despite being popularly used in many applications, neural network models have been found to be vulnerable to adversarial examples, i.e., carefully crafted examples aiming to mislead machine learning models. Adversarial examples can pose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Siwakorn Srisakaokul , Yuhao Zhang , Zexuan Zhong , Wei Yang , Tao Xie , Bo Li

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which becomes one of the most important research problems in the development of deep learning. While a lot of efforts have been made in recent years, it is of great significance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Yinpeng Dong , Qi-An Fu , Xiao Yang , Tianyu Pang , Hang Su , Zihao Xiao , Jun Zhu