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Autonomous mobile systems increasingly rely on deep neural networks for perception and decision-making. While effective, these systems are vulnerable to adversarial machine learning attacks where minor input perturbations can significantly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Hossein Khalili , Seongbin Park , Vincent Li , Brandan Bright , Ali Payani , Ramana Rao Kompella , Nader Sehatbakhsh

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

The improvement of language model robustness, including successful defense against adversarial attacks, remains an open problem. In computer vision settings, the stochastic noising and de-noising process provided by diffusion models has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Harrison Gietz , Jugal Kalita

3D Point cloud is becoming a critical data representation in many real-world applications like autonomous driving, robotics, and medical imaging. Although the success of deep learning further accelerates the adoption of 3D point clouds in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Jiachen Sun , Weili Nie , Zhiding Yu , Z. Morley Mao , Chaowei Xiao

Deep learning-based industrial anomaly detection models have achieved remarkably high accuracy on commonly used benchmark datasets. However, the robustness of those models may not be satisfactory due to the existence of adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Yuanpu Cao , Lu Lin , Jinghui Chen

In this paper, we propose a novel guided diffusion purification approach to provide a strong defense against adversarial attacks. Our model achieves 89.62% robust accuracy under PGD-L_inf attack (eps = 8/255) on the CIFAR-10 dataset. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Quanlin Wu , Hang Ye , Yuntian Gu

Diffusion-based purification defenses leverage diffusion models to remove crafted perturbations of adversarial examples and achieve state-of-the-art robustness. Recent studies show that even advanced attacks cannot break such defenses…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Mintong Kang , Dawn Song , Bo Li

Despite significant advances in the area, adversarial robustness remains a critical challenge in systems employing machine learning models. The removal of adversarial perturbations at inference time, known as adversarial purification, has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Elias Collaert , Abel Rodríguez , Sander Joos , Lieven Desmet , Vera Rimmer

Thanks to their remarkable denoising capabilities, diffusion models are increasingly being employed as defensive tools to reinforce the security of other models, notably in purifying adversarial examples and certifying adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Changjiang Li , Ren Pang , Bochuan Cao , Jinghui Chen , Fenglong Ma , Shouling Ji , Ting Wang

Adversarial purification is a defense mechanism for safeguarding classifiers against adversarial attacks without knowing the type of attacks or training of the classifier. These techniques characterize and eliminate adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Raha Moraffah , Shubh Khandelwal , Amrita Bhattacharjee , Huan Liu

Recent work indicates that video recognition models are vulnerable to adversarial examples, posing a serious security risk to downstream applications. However, current research has primarily focused on adversarial attacks, with limited work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Kaixun Jiang , Zhaoyu Chen , Jiyuan Fu , Lingyi Hong , Jinglun Li , Wenqiang Zhang

The diffusion-based adversarial purification methods attempt to drown adversarial perturbations into a part of isotropic noise through the forward process, and then recover the clean images through the reverse process. Due to the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Gaozheng Pei , Ke Ma , Yingfei Sun , Qianqian Xu , Qingming Huang

The rapid growth of social media has led to the widespread sharing of individual portrait images, which pose serious privacy risks due to the capabilities of automatic face recognition (AFR) systems for mass surveillance. Hence, protecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Ali Salar , Qing Liu , Yingli Tian , Guoying Zhao

Adversarial attacks have become a well-explored domain, frequently serving as evaluation baselines for model robustness. Among these, black-box attacks based on transferability have received significant attention due to their practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Chun Tong Lei , Zhongliang Guo , Hon Chung Lee , Minh Quoc Duong , Chun Pong Lau

Diffusion models like Stable Diffusion have become prominent in visual synthesis tasks due to their powerful customization capabilities, which also introduce significant security risks, including deepfakes and copyright infringement. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Wenkui Yang , Jie Cao , Junxian Duan , Ran He

Deep learning models have been widely used in commercial acoustic systems in recent years. However, adversarial audio examples can cause abnormal behaviors for those acoustic systems, while being hard for humans to perceive. Various…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Shutong Wu , Jiongxiao Wang , Wei Ping , Weili Nie , Chaowei Xiao

Pretrained language models have significantly advanced performance across various natural language processing tasks. However, adversarial attacks continue to pose a critical challenge to systems built using these models, as they can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Zhenhao Li , Huichi Zhou , Marek Rei , Lucia Specia

This work presents an information-theoretic examination of diffusion-based purification methods, the state-of-the-art adversarial defenses that utilize diffusion models to remove malicious perturbations in adversarial examples. By…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Geigh Zollicoffer , Minh Vu , Ben Nebgen , Juan Castorena , Boian Alexandrov , Manish Bhattarai

Adversarial attacks meticulously generate minuscule, imperceptible perturbations to images to deceive neural networks. Counteracting these, adversarial purification methods seek to transform adversarial input samples into clean output…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Sitong Liu , Zhichao Lian , Shuangquan Zhang , Liang Xiao

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) have gained great attention in adversarial purification. Current diffusion-based works focus on designing effective condition-guided mechanisms while ignoring a fundamental problem, i.e., the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Jiancheng Zhang , Peiran Dong , Yongyong Chen , Yin-Ping Zhao , Song Guo