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Despite remarkable achievements in deep learning across various domains, its inherent vulnerability to adversarial examples still remains a critical concern for practical deployment. Adversarial training has emerged as one of the most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Junhao Dong , Xinghua Qu , Z. Jane Wang , Yew-Soon Ong

Image generative models, particularly diffusion-based models, have surged in popularity due to their remarkable ability to synthesize highly realistic images. However, since these models are data-driven, they inherit biases from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Lin-Chun Huang , Ching Chieh Tsao , Fang-Yi Su , Jung-Hsien Chiang

Advanced text-to-image diffusion models raise safety concerns regarding identity privacy violation, copyright infringement, and Not Safe For Work content generation. Towards this, unlearning methods have been developed to erase these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Xiaoxuan Han , Songlin Yang , Wei Wang , Yang Li , Jing Dong

Adversarial attacks, particularly patch attacks, pose significant threats to the robustness and reliability of deep learning models. Developing reliable defenses against patch attacks is crucial for real-world applications. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Caixin Kang , Yinpeng Dong , Zhengyi Wang , Shouwei Ruan , Yubo Chen , Hang Su , Xingxing Wei

Deep Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) can easily be fooled by subtle, imperceptible changes to the input images. To address this vulnerability, adversarial training creates perturbation patterns and includes them in the training set to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Muzammal Naseer , Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Fatih Porikli

Adversarial attacks on convolutional neural networks (CNN) have gained significant attention and there have been active research efforts on defense mechanisms. Stochastic input transformation methods have been proposed, where the idea is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Connie Kou , Hwee Kuan Lee , Ee-Chien Chang , Teck Khim Ng

Incorporating diffusion-generated synthetic data into adversarial training (AT) has been shown to substantially improve the training of robust image classifiers. In this work, we extend the role of diffusion models beyond merely generating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Pin-Han Huang , Shang-Tse Chen , Hsuan-Tien Lin

Adversarial patches present significant challenges to the robustness of deep learning models, making the development of effective defenses become critical for real-world applications. This paper introduces DIFFender, a novel DIFfusion-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Xingxing Wei , Caixin Kang , Yinpeng Dong , Zhengyi Wang , Shouwei Ruan , Yubo Chen , Hang Su

Adversarial attacks from generative models often produce low-quality images and require substantial computational resources. Diffusion models, though capable of high-quality generation, typically need hundreds of sampling steps for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Susim Roy , Anubhooti Jain , Mayank Vatsa , Richa Singh

Adversarial examples, or nearly indistinguishable inputs created by an attacker, significantly reduce machine learning accuracy. Theoretical evidence has shown that the high intrinsic dimensionality of datasets facilitates an adversary's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Sheila Alemany , Niki Pissinou

Counterfactual explanations and adversarial attacks have a related goal: flipping output labels with minimal perturbations regardless of their characteristics. Yet, adversarial attacks cannot be used directly in a counterfactual explanation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Guillaume Jeanneret , Loïc Simon , Frédéric Jurie

Adversarial attack methods for 3D point cloud classification reveal the vulnerabilities of point cloud recognition models. This vulnerability could lead to safety risks in critical applications that use deep learning models, such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Ruiyang Zhao , Bingbing Zhu , Chuxuan Tong , Xiaoyi Zhou , Xi Zheng

Diffusion models have demonstrated exceptional efficacy in various generative applications. While existing models focus on minimizing a weighted sum of denoising score matching losses for data distribution modeling, their training primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Ling Yang , Haotian Qian , Zhilong Zhang , Jingwei Liu , Bin Cui

Data-driven deep learning (DL) techniques developed for automatic modulation classification (AMC) of wireless signals are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. This poses a severe security threat to the DL-based wireless systems, specifically…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-25 Nayan Moni Baishya , B. R. Manoj

While state-of-the-art diffusion models (DMs) excel in image generation, concerns regarding their security persist. Earlier research highlighted DMs' vulnerability to data poisoning attacks, but these studies placed stricter requirements…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Zhuoshi Pan , Yuguang Yao , Gaowen Liu , Bingquan Shen , H. Vicky Zhao , Ramana Rao Kompella , Sijia Liu

Controllable diffusion generation often relies on various heuristics that are seemingly disconnected without a unified understanding. We bridge this gap with Diffusion Controller (DiffCon), a unified control-theoretic view that casts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Tong Yang , Moonkyung Ryu , Chih-Wei Hsu , Guy Tennenholtz , Yuejie Chi , Craig Boutilier , Bo Dai

Diffusion Models (DMs) have empowered great success in artificial-intelligence-generated content, especially in artwork creation, yet raising new concerns in intellectual properties and copyright. For example, infringers can make profits by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Chumeng Liang , Xiaoyu Wu

Diffusion Models (DMs) have emerged as powerful generative models with unprecedented image generation capability. These models are widely used for data augmentation and creative applications. However, DMs reflect the biases present in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Rishubh Parihar , Abhijnya Bhat , Abhipsa Basu , Saswat Mallick , Jogendra Nath Kundu , R. Venkatesh Babu

Deep learning model effectiveness in classification tasks is often challenged by the quality and quantity of training data whenever they are affected by strong spurious correlations between specific attributes and target labels. This…

Image classification is a well-studied task in computer vision, and yet it remains challenging under high-uncertainty conditions, such as when input images are corrupted or training data are limited. Conventional classification approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Omer Belhasin , Shelly Golan , Ran El-Yaniv , Michael Elad