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Adversarial Examples Detection (AED) is a crucial defense technique against adversarial attacks and has drawn increasing attention from the Natural Language Processing (NLP) community. Despite the surge of new AED methods, our studies show…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Fan Yin , Yao Li , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Kai-Wei Chang

\emph{Consistent teaching} is an effective paradigm for implementing knowledge distillation (KD), where both student and teacher models receive identical inputs, and KD is treated as a function matching task (FunMatch). However, one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Zihui Wu , Haichang Gao , Bingqian Zhou , Ping Wang

Malicious users attempt to replicate commercial models functionally at low cost by training a clone model with query responses. It is challenging to timely prevent such model-stealing attacks to achieve strong protection and maintain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Jian-Ping Mei , Weibin Zhang , Jie Chen , Xuyun Zhang , Tiantian Zhu

Compressing vision-language models for on-device deployment is increasingly important in clinical settings, but knowledge distillation (KD) degrades sharply when the teacher-student capacity gap spans an order of magnitude or more. We argue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Numan Saeed , Asif Hanif , Fadillah Adamsyah Maani , Hussain Alasmawi , Mohammad Yaqub

With the growing popularity of artificial intelligence and machine learning, a wide spectrum of attacks against deep learning models have been proposed in the literature. Both the evasion attacks and the poisoning attacks attempt to utilize…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Zeyan Liu , Fengjun Li , Jingqiang Lin , Zhu Li , Bo Luo

In clinics, doctors rely on electrocardiograms (ECGs) to assess severe cardiac disorders. Owing to the development of technology and the increase in health awareness, ECG signals are currently obtained by using medical and commercial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-18 Jiahao Shao , Shijia Geng , Zhaoji Fu , Weilun Xu , Tong Liu , Shenda Hong

Ensemble Adversarial Training (EAT) attempts to enhance the robustness of models against adversarial attacks by leveraging multiple models. However, current EAT strategies tend to train the sub-models independently, ignoring the cooperative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Li Dengjin , Guo Yanming , Xie Yuxiang , Li Zheng , Chen Jiangming , Li Xiaolong , Lao Mingrui

Knowledge distillation (KD) enables a smaller "student" model to mimic a larger "teacher" model by transferring knowledge from the teacher's output or features. However, most KD methods treat all samples uniformly, overlooking the varying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Chi-Ping Su , Ching-Hsun Tseng , Bin Pu , Lei Zhao , Jiewen Yang , Zhuangzhuang Chen , Shin-Jye Lee

We propose a simple algorithm to train stochastic neural networks to draw samples from given target distributions for probabilistic inference. Our method is based on iteratively adjusting the neural network parameters so that the output…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-29 Dilin Wang , Qiang Liu

Knowledge distillation (KD) is one of the prominent techniques for model compression. In this method, the knowledge of a large network (teacher) is distilled into a model (student) with usually significantly fewer parameters. KD tries to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Aref Jafari , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Ali Ghodsi

Federated Learning is vulnerable to adversarial manipulation, where malicious clients can inject poisoned updates to influence the global model's behavior. While existing defense mechanisms have made notable progress, they fail to protect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Georgios Syros , Anshuman Suri , Farinaz Koushanfar , Cristina Nita-Rotaru , Alina Oprea

This paper presents a novel reconstruction method that leverages Diffusion Models to protect machine learning classifiers against adversarial attacks, all without requiring any modifications to the classifiers themselves. The susceptibility…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Hondamunige Prasanna Silva , Lorenzo Seidenari , Alberto Del Bimbo

Deep neural networks represent the state of the art in machine learning in a growing number of fields, including vision, speech and natural language processing. However, recent work raises important questions about the robustness of such…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-20 Zhinus Marzi , Soorya Gopalakrishnan , Upamanyu Madhow , Ramtin Pedarsani

Deep learning models are known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks by injecting sophisticated designed perturbations to input data. Training-time defenses still exhibit a significant performance gap between natural accuracy and robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Cheng-Han Yeh , Kuanchun Yu , Chun-Shien Lu

This paper proposes a novel method for depth completion, which leverages multi-view improved monitored distillation to generate more precise depth maps. Our approach builds upon the state-of-the-art ensemble distillation method, in which we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Jia-Wei Guo , Hung-Chyun Chou , Sen-Hua Zhu , Chang-Zheng Zhang , Ming Ouyang , Ning Ding

Diffusion models are the main driver of progress in image and video synthesis, but suffer from slow inference speed. Distillation methods, like the recently introduced adversarial diffusion distillation (ADD) aim to shift the model from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Axel Sauer , Frederic Boesel , Tim Dockhorn , Andreas Blattmann , Patrick Esser , Robin Rombach

It is well known that adversarial attacks can fool deep neural networks with imperceptible perturbations. Although adversarial training significantly improves model robustness, failure cases of defense still broadly exist. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Boxi Wu , Heng Pan , Li Shen , Jindong Gu , Shuai Zhao , Zhifeng Li , Deng Cai , Xiaofei He , Wei Liu

The emergence of new spoofing attacks poses an increasing challenge to audio security. Current detection methods often falter when faced with unseen spoofing attacks. Traditional strategies, such as retraining with new data, are not always…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-16 Feiyi Dong , Qingchen Tang , Yichen Bai , Zihan Wang

Knowledge Distillation-based Anomaly Detection (KDAD) methods rely on the teacher-student paradigm to detect and segment anomalous regions by contrasting the unique features extracted by both networks. However, existing KDAD methods suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Peng Xing , Hao Tang , Jinhui Tang , Zechao Li

In spite of the enormous success of neural networks, adversarial examples remain a relatively weakly understood feature of deep learning systems. There is a considerable effort in both building more powerful adversarial attacks and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Maciej Żelaszczyk , Jacek Mańdziuk