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Class-incremental continual learning addresses catastrophic forgetting by enabling classification models to preserve knowledge of previously learned classes while acquiring new ones. However, the vulnerability of the models against…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Jungwoo Kim , Jong-Seok Lee

Recent studies have shown that Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are relatively easy to attack through the generation of so-called adversarial examples. Such vulnerability also affects CNN-based image forensic tools. Research in deep…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Mauro Barni , Kassem Kallas , Ehsan Nowroozi , Benedetta Tondi

Large-scale pre-training followed by downstream fine-tuning is an effective solution for transferring deep-learning-based models. Since finetuning all possible pre-trained models is computational costly, we aim to predict the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Zhao Wang , Aoxue Li , Zhenguo Li , Qi Dou

In practice, it is very demanding and sometimes impossible to collect datasets of tagged data large enough to successfully train a machine learning model, and one possible solution to this problem is transfer learning. This study aims to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Erik Otović , Marko Njirjak , Dario Jozinović , Goran Mauša , Alberto Michelini , Ivan Štajduhar

Recent adversarial attack developments have made reinforcement learning more vulnerable, and different approaches exist to deploy attacks against it, where the key is how to choose the right timing of the attack. Some work tries to design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Yang Li , Quan Pan , Erik Cambria

The transferability of adversarial examples allows for the attack on unknown deep neural networks (DNNs), posing a serious threat to many applications and attracting great attention. In this paper, we improve the transferability of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Qizhang Li , Yiwen Guo , Xiaochen Yang , Wangmeng Zuo , Hao Chen

Deep learning classifiers are known to be inherently vulnerable to manipulation by intentionally perturbed inputs, named adversarial examples. In this work, we establish that reinforcement learning techniques based on Deep Q-Networks (DQNs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-01-17 Vahid Behzadan , Arslan Munir

Due to insufficient training data and the high computational cost to train a deep neural network from scratch, transfer learning has been extensively used in many deep-neural-network-based applications. A commonly used transfer learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Shahbaz Rezaei , Xin Liu

With the emergence of large-scale pre-trained neural networks, methods to adapt such "foundation" models to data-limited downstream tasks have become a necessity. Fine-tuning, preference optimization, and transfer learning have all been…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-09 Javan Tahir , Surya Ganguli , Grant M. Rotskoff

Deep neural networks are normally executed in the forward direction. However, in this work, we identify a vulnerability that enables models to be trained in both directions and on different tasks. Adversaries can exploit this capability to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Guy Amit , Mosh Levy , Yisroel Mirsky

Transfer learning is prevalent as a technique to efficiently generate new models (Student models) based on the knowledge transferred from a pre-trained model (Teacher model). However, Teacher models are often publicly available for sharing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Bang Wu , Shuo Wang , Xingliang Yuan , Cong Wang , Carsten Rudolph , Xiangwen Yang

Transfer learning is a widely-used paradigm in deep learning, where models pre-trained on standard datasets can be efficiently adapted to downstream tasks. Typically, better pre-trained models yield better transfer results, suggesting that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Hadi Salman , Andrew Ilyas , Logan Engstrom , Ashish Kapoor , Aleksander Madry

Transfer learning is a popular method for tuning pretrained (upstream) models for different downstream tasks using limited data and computational resources. We study how an adversary with control over an upstream model used in transfer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Yulong Tian , Fnu Suya , Anshuman Suri , Fengyuan Xu , David Evans

Transfer learning, in which a network is trained on one task and re-purposed on another, is often used to produce neural network classifiers when data is scarce or full-scale training is too costly. When the goal is to produce a model that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Ali Shafahi , Parsa Saadatpanah , Chen Zhu , Amin Ghiasi , Christoph Studer , David Jacobs , Tom Goldstein

During an infectious disease pandemic, it is critical to share electronic medical records or models (learned from these records) across regions. Applying one region's data/model to another region often have distribution shift issues that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Ye Ye , Andrew Gu

Transferability of adversarial samples became a serious concern due to their impact on the reliability of machine learning system deployments, as they find their way into many critical applications. Knowing factors that influence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Tochukwu Idika , Ismail Akturk

Adversarial attacks against Deep Neural Networks have been widely studied. One significant feature that makes such attacks particularly powerful is transferability, where the adversarial examples generated from one model can be effective…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Renzhi Wang , Tianwei Zhang , Xiaofei Xie , Lei Ma , Cong Tian , Felix Juefei-Xu , Yang Liu

Purveyors of malicious network attacks continue to increase the complexity and the sophistication of their techniques, and their ability to evade detection continues to improve as well. Hence, intrusion detection systems must also evolve to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Ahmed Shafee , Mohamed Baza , Douglas A. Talbert , Mostafa M. Fouda , Mahmoud Nabil , Mohamed Mahmoud

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which can fool deep models by adding subtle perturbations. Although existing attacks have achieved promising results, it still leaves a long way to go for generating transferable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Yexin Duan , Junhua Zou , Xingyu Zhou , Wu Zhang , Jin Zhang , Zhisong Pan

Internet of Things (IoT) has brought along immense benefits to our daily lives encompassing a diverse range of application domains that we regularly interact with, ranging from healthcare automation to transport and smart environments.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Mengmeng Ge , Naeem Firdous Syed , Xiping Fu , Zubair Baig , Antonio Robles-Kelly