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Traffic state prediction is necessary for many Intelligent Transportation Systems applications. Recent developments of the topic have focused on network-wide, multi-step prediction, where state of the art performance is achieved via deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Bibek Poudel , Weizi Li

Black-box query-based attacks constitute significant threats to Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) systems since they can generate adversarial examples without accessing the target model's architecture and parameters. Traditional defense…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Ping Guo , Xiang Li , Zhiyuan Yang , Xi Lin , Qingchuan Zhao , Qingfu Zhang

Adversarial robustness poses a critical challenge in the deployment of deep learning models for real-world applications. Traditional approaches to adversarial training and supervised detection rely on prior knowledge of attack types and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Chien Cheng Chyou , Hung-Ting Su , Winston H. Hsu

Concept drift and adversarial evasion are two major challenges for deploying machine learning-based malware detectors. While both have been studied separately, their combination, the adversarial robustness of drift-adaptive detectors,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Adrian Shuai Li , Md Ajwad Akil , Elisa Bertino

Growing at a fast pace, modern autonomous systems will soon be deployed at scale, opening up the possibility for cooperative multi-agent systems. Sharing information and distributing workloads allow autonomous agents to better perform tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-13 James Tu , Tsunhsuan Wang , Jingkang Wang , Sivabalan Manivasagam , Mengye Ren , Raquel Urtasun

Adversarial robustness research primarily focuses on L_p perturbations, and most defenses are developed with identical training-time and test-time adversaries. However, in real-world applications developers are unlikely to have access to…

The transferability of adversarial examples across deep neural networks (DNNs) is the crux of many black-box attacks. Many prior efforts have been devoted to improving the transferability via increasing the diversity in inputs of some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Qizhang Li , Yiwen Guo , Wangmeng Zuo , Hao Chen

Recent increases in the computational demands of deep neural networks (DNNs) have sparked interest in efficient deep learning mechanisms, e.g., quantization or pruning. These mechanisms enable the construction of a small, efficient version…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Sanghyun Hong , Nicholas Carlini , Alexey Kurakin

Conventional adversarial defenses reduce classification accuracy whether or not a model is under attacks. Moreover, most of image processing based defenses are defeated due to the problem of obfuscated gradients. In this paper, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-19 MaungMaung AprilPyone , Hitoshi Kiya

Adversarial defense research continues to face challenges in combating against advanced adversarial attacks, yet with diffusion models increasingly favoring their defensive capabilities. Unlike most prior studies that focus on diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Yuan-Chih Chen , Chun-Shien Lu

Transfer-based attacks generate adversarial examples on the surrogate model, which can mislead other black-box models without access, making it promising to attack real-world applications. Recently, several works have been proposed to boost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Xiaosen Wang , Kangheng Tong , Kun He

Modern applications of artificial neural networks have yielded remarkable performance gains in a wide range of tasks. However, recent studies have discovered that such modelling strategy is vulnerable to Adversarial Examples, i.e. examples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-24 João Monteiro , Isabela Albuquerque , Zahid Akhtar , Tiago H. Falk

Transfer learning is an important approach that produces pre-trained teacher models which can be used to quickly build specialized student models. However, recent research on transfer learning has found that it is vulnerable to various…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Dayong Ye , Huiqiang Chen , Shuai Zhou , Tianqing Zhu , Wanlei Zhou , Shouling Ji

Evasion attacks are a threat to machine learning models, where adversaries attempt to affect classifiers by injecting malicious samples. An alarming side-effect of evasion attacks is their ability to transfer among different models: this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Marco Alecci , Mauro Conti , Francesco Marchiori , Luca Martinelli , Luca Pajola

Watermark has been widely deployed by industry to detect AI-generated images. The robustness of such watermark-based detector against evasion attacks in the white-box and black-box settings is well understood in the literature. However, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Yuepeng Hu , Zhengyuan Jiang , Moyang Guo , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

In recent years, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have had a dramatic impact on a variety of problems that were long considered very difficult, e. g., image classification and automatic language translation to name just a few. The accuracy of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Yannik Potdevin , Dirk Nowotka , Vijay Ganesh

Model Merging (MM) has emerged as a promising alternative to multi-task learning, where multiple fine-tuned models are combined, without access to tasks' training data, into a single model that maintains performance across tasks. Recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Ankit Gangwal , Aaryan Ajay Sharma

While advanced machine learning (ML) models are deployed in numerous real-world applications, previous works demonstrate these models have security and privacy vulnerabilities. Various empirical research has been done in this field.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Boyang Zhang , Zheng Li , Ziqing Yang , Xinlei He , Michael Backes , Mario Fritz , Yang Zhang

Recently, there has been a lot of progress in reducing the computation of deep models at inference time. These methods can reduce both the computational needs and power usage of deep models. Some of these approaches adaptively scale the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 KL Navaneet , Soroush Abbasi Koohpayegani , Essam Sleiman , Hamed Pirsiavash

This is Btech thesis report on detection and purification of adverserially attacked images. A deep learning model is trained on certain training examples for various tasks such as classification, regression etc. By training, weights are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Dvij Kalaria