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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

We propose two new techniques for training Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Our objectives are to alleviate mode collapse in GAN and improve the quality of the generated samples. First, we propose neighbor embedding, a manifold…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Ngoc-Trung Tran , Tuan-Anh Bui , Ngai-Man Cheung

This paper proposes a new loss function for adversarial training. Since adversarial training has difficulties, e.g., necessity of high model capacity, focusing on important data points by weighting cross-entropy loss has attracted much…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Sekitoshi Kanai , Shin'ya Yamaguchi , Masanori Yamada , Hiroshi Takahashi , Kentaro Ohno , Yasutoshi Ida

This paper investigates multi-scale feature approximation and transferable features for object detection from point clouds. Multi-scale features are critical for object detection from point clouds. However, multi-scale feature learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Hao Peng , Hong Sang , Yajing Ma , Ping Qiu , Chao Ji

This paper presents a novel approach to enhance communication efficiency in federated learning through clipped uniform quantization. By leveraging optimal clipping thresholds and client-specific adaptive quantization schemes, the proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Zavareh Bozorgasl , Hao Chen

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) remain vulnerable to transfer-based targeted attacks, where perturbations optimized on open-source surrogate encoders can generalize to closed-source MLLMs. A key challenge for improving adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Leitao Yuan , Qinghua Mao , Daizong Liu , Kun Wang , Wenjie Wang , Yan Teng , Jing Shao , Dongrui Liu

Distillation-based federated learning has emerged as a promising collaborative learning approach, where clients share the output logit vectors of a public dataset rather than their private model parameters. This practice reduces the risk of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Yonghao Yu , Shunan Zhu , Jinglu Hu

From the perspective of information bottleneck (IB) theory, we propose a novel framework for performing black-box transferable adversarial attacks named IBTA, which leverages advancements in invariant features. Intuitively, diminishing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Biqing Qi , Junqi Gao , Jianxing Liu , Ligang Wu , Bowen Zhou

State-of-the-art deep neural networks are known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples, formed by applying small but malicious perturbations to the original inputs. Moreover, the perturbations can \textit{transfer across models}:…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-28 Lei Wu , Zhanxing Zhu , Cheng Tai , Weinan E

Metric-based few-shot fine-grained classification has shown promise due to its simplicity and efficiency. However, existing methods often overlook task-level special cases and struggle with accurate category description and irrelevant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Ping Li , Hongbo Wang , Lei Lu

In the long-tailed recognition field, the Decoupled Training paradigm has demonstrated remarkable capabilities among various methods. This paradigm decouples the training process into separate representation learning and classifier…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Han Lu , Siyu Sun , Yichen Xie , Liqing Zhang , Xiaokang Yang , Junchi Yan

Adversarial training enhances neural network robustness but suffers from a tendency to overfit and increased generalization errors on clean data. This work introduces CLAT, an innovative approach that mitigates adversarial overfitting by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Bhavna Gopal , Huanrui Yang , Jingyang Zhang , Mark Horton , Yiran Chen

As transfer learning techniques are increasingly used to transfer knowledge from the source model to the target task, it becomes important to quantify which source models are suitable for a given target task without performing…

Parameter fine tuning is a transfer learning approach whereby learned parameters from pre-trained source network are transferred to the target network followed by fine-tuning. Prior research has shown that this approach is capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Tasfia Shermin , Shyh Wei Teng , Manzur Murshed , Guojun Lu , Ferdous Sohel , Manoranjan Paul

It is significant to evaluate the security of existing digital image tampering localization algorithms in real-world applications. In this paper, we propose an adversarial attack scheme to reveal the reliability of such tampering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Yuqi Wang , Gang Cao , Zijie Lou , Haochen Zhu

Adversarial attacks provide a good way to study the robustness of deep learning models. One category of methods in transfer-based black-box attack utilizes several image transformation operations to improve the transferability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Zheng Yuan , Jie Zhang , Shiguang Shan

Ensemble-based attacks have been proven to be effective in enhancing adversarial transferability by aggregating the outputs of models with various architectures. However, existing research primarily focuses on refining ensemble weights or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Hanwen Cao , Haobo Lu , Xiaosen Wang , Kun He

Deep neural networks have achieved unprecedented success on diverse vision tasks. However, they are vulnerable to adversarial noise that is imperceptible to humans. This phenomenon negatively affects their deployment in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Jianping Zhang , Jen-tse Huang , Wenxuan Wang , Yichen Li , Weibin Wu , Xiaosen Wang , Yuxin Su , Michael R. Lyu

Adversarial attacks, wherein slight inputs are carefully crafted to mislead intelligent models, have attracted increasing attention. However, a critical gap persists between theoretical advancements and practical application, particularly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Sabrine Ennaji , Elhadj Benkhelifa , Luigi V. Mancini

Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving distributed management framework based on collaborative model training of distributed devices in edge networks. However, recent studies have shown that FL is vulnerable to adversarial examples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Yu Qiao , Apurba Adhikary , Chaoning Zhang , Choong Seon Hong