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Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to small adversarial perturbations, which are tiny changes to the input data that appear insignificant but cause the model to produce drastically different outputs. Many defense methods require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Sedjro Salomon Hotegni , Sebastian Peitz

Deep neural networks (DNNs) could be deceived by generating human-imperceptible perturbations of clean samples. Therefore, enhancing the robustness of DNNs against adversarial attacks is a crucial task. In this paper, we aim to train robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Shayan Mohajer Hamidi , Linfeng Ye

Recent advancements in quantum computing have led to the emergence of hybrid quantum neural networks, such as Quanvolutional Neural Networks (QuNNs), which integrate quantum and classical layers. While the susceptibility of classical neural…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 Walid El Maouaki , Alberto Marchisio , Taoufik Said , Muhammad Shafique , Mohamed Bennai

Quantization of deep neural networks is a promising approach that reduces the inference cost, making it feasible to run deep networks on resource-restricted devices. Inspired by existing methods, we propose a new framework to learn the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Amir Ardakani , Arash Ardakani , Brett Meyer , James J. Clark , Warren J. Gross

Recent works have shown that deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples that find samples close to the original image but can make the model misclassify. Even with access only to the model's output, an attacker can employ…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Quang H. Nguyen , Yingjie Lao , Tung Pham , Kok-Seng Wong , Khoa D. Doan

Even though deep learning has shown unmatched performance on various tasks, neural networks have been shown to be vulnerable to small adversarial perturbations of the input that lead to significant performance degradation. In this work we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Evgenii Zheltonozhskii , Chaim Baskin , Yaniv Nemcovsky , Brian Chmiel , Avi Mendelson , Alex M. Bronstein

The vulnerability of deep neural networks (DNNs) to adversarial examples has attracted great attention in the machine learning community. The problem is related to non-flatness and non-smoothness of normally obtained loss landscapes.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Qizhang Li , Yiwen Guo , Wangmeng Zuo , Hao Chen

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are known to be vulnerable to various adversarial perturbations. To address the safety concerns arising from these vulnerabilities, adversarial training (AT) has emerged as one of the most effective paradigms for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Rui Wang , Zeming Wei , Xiyue Zhang , Meng Sun

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been enormously successful across a variety of prediction tasks. However, recent research shows that DNNs are particularly vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which poses a serious threat to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Xiang Li , Shihao Ji

Despite their tremendous success in modelling high-dimensional data manifolds, deep neural networks suffer from the threat of adversarial attacks - Existence of perceptually valid input-like samples obtained through careful perturbation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Vinay Kyatham , Mayank Mishra , Tarun Kumar Yadav , Deepak Mishra , Prathosh AP

Adversarial transferability enables black-box attacks on unknown victim deep neural networks (DNNs), rendering attacks viable in real-world scenarios. Current transferable attacks create adversarial perturbation over the entire image,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Shangbo Wu , Yu-an Tan , Yajie Wang , Ruinan Ma , Wencong Ma , Yuanzhang Li

The wide application of deep neural networks (DNNs) demands an increasing amount of attention to their real-world robustness, i.e., whether a DNN resists black-box adversarial attacks, among which score-based query attacks (SQAs) are most…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-25 Yingwen Wu , Sizhe Chen , Kun Fang , Xiaolin Huang

Batch normalization (BN) has been widely used in modern deep neural networks (DNNs) due to improved convergence. BN is observed to increase the model accuracy while at the cost of adversarial robustness. There is an increasing interest in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Philipp Benz , Chaoning Zhang , In So Kweon

ML is shifting from the cloud to the edge. Edge computing reduces the surface exposing private data and enables reliable throughput guarantees in real-time applications. Of the panoply of devices deployed at the edge, resource-constrained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Miguel Costa , Sandro Pinto

To accelerate and compress deep neural networks (DNNs), many network quantization algorithms have been proposed. Although the quantization strategy of any algorithm from the state-of-the-arts may outperform others in some network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Lianqiang Li , Chenqian Yan , Yefei Chen

Recent breakthroughs in the field of deep learning have led to advancements in a broad spectrum of tasks in computer vision, audio processing, natural language processing and other areas. In most instances where these tasks are deployed in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Daanish Ali Khan , Linhong Li , Ninghao Sha , Zhuoran Liu , Abelino Jimenez , Bhiksha Raj , Rita Singh

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have improved the accuracy of classification problems in lots of applications. One of the challenges in training a DNN is its need to be fed by an enriched dataset to increase its accuracy and avoid it suffering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Iman Saberi , Fathiyeh Faghih

Quantized neural networks can be viewed as a chain of noisy channels, where rounding in each layer reduces capacity as bit-width shrinks; the floating-point (FP) checkpoint sets the maximum input rate. We track capacity dynamics as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Sergey Salishev , Ian Akhremchik

The deployment of deep neural networks on resource-constrained devices relies on quantization. While static, uniform quantization applies a fixed bit-width to all inputs, it fails to adapt to their varying complexity. Dynamic,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Hazem Hesham Yousef Shalby , Fabrizio Pittorino , Francesca Palermo , Diana Trojaniello , Manuel Roveri

Recent progress in empirical and certified robustness promises to deliver reliable and deployable Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). Despite that success, most existing evaluations of DNN robustness have been done on images sampled from the same…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Kumail Alhamoud , Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud , Motasem Alfarra , Bernard Ghanem