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Deep neural networks for 3D point cloud understanding have achieved remarkable success in object classification and recognition, yet recent work shows that these models remain highly vulnerable to adversarial perturbations. Existing 3D…

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Deep learning solutions are instrumental in cybersecurity, harnessing their ability to analyze vast datasets, identify complex patterns, and detect anomalies. However, malevolent actors can exploit these capabilities to orchestrate…

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Artificial Intelligence has achieved remarkable success across diverse application domains. However, its vulnerability to adversarial attacks poses significant challenges to reliability, security, and trustworthiness. Adversarial machine…

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The robustness of deep neural networks (DNNs) against adversarial attacks has been studied extensively in hopes of both better understanding how deep learning models converge and in order to ensure the security of these models in…

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Deep neural networks have proven to be quite effective in a wide variety of machine learning tasks, ranging from improved speech recognition systems to advancing the development of autonomous vehicles. However, despite their superior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Qinglong Wang , Wenbo Guo , Alexander G. Ororbia , Xinyu Xing , Lin Lin , C. Lee Giles , Xue Liu , Peng Liu , Gang Xiong

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which can fool them by adding minuscule perturbations to the input images. The robustness of existing defenses suffers greatly under white-box attack settings, where an adversary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Aamir Mustafa , Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Roland Goecke , Jianbing Shen , Ling Shao

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Ideally, a robust model shall perform well on both the perturbed training data and the unseen perturbed test data. It is found empirically that fitting perturbed training data is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Jiancong Xiao , Yanbo Fan , Ruoyu Sun , Zhi-Quan Luo

Neural networks have been widely applied in security applications such as spam and phishing detection, intrusion prevention, and malware detection. This black-box method, however, often has uncertainty and poor explainability in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Mark Huasong Meng , Guangdong Bai , Sin Gee Teo , Zhe Hou , Yan Xiao , Yun Lin , Jin Song Dong

Despite its success in the image domain, adversarial training did not (yet) stand out as an effective defense for Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) against graph structure perturbations. In the pursuit of fixing adversarial training (1) we show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Lukas Gosch , Simon Geisler , Daniel Sturm , Bertrand Charpentier , Daniel Zügner , Stephan Günnemann

Vulnerability to adversarial attacks is one of the principal hurdles to the adoption of deep learning in safety-critical applications. Despite significant efforts, both practical and theoretical, training deep learning models robust to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Luca Bortolussi , Ginevra Carbone , Luca Laurenti , Andrea Patane , Guido Sanguinetti , Matthew Wicker

One popular hypothesis of neural network generalization is that the flat local minima of loss surface in parameter space leads to good generalization. However, we demonstrate that loss surface in parameter space has no obvious relationship…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Fuxun Yu , Chenchen Liu , Yanzhi Wang , Liang Zhao , Xiang Chen

This paper investigates the foundations of deep learning through insight of geometry, algebra and differential calculus. At is core, artificial intelligence relies on assumption that data and its intrinsic structure can be embedded into…

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Recent studies have shown that graph neural networks (GNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, posing significant challenges to their deployment in safety-critical scenarios. This vulnerability has spurred a growing focus on designing…

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Adversarial learning and the robustness of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are topics of widespread interest in the machine learning community, as documented by the number of adversarial attacks and defenses designed for these purposes. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Tran Gia Bao Ngo , Zulfikar Alom , Federico Errica , Murat Kantarcioglu , Cuneyt Gurcan Akcora

This is a master's thesis concerning the theoretical ideas of geometric deep learning. Geometric deep learning aims to provide a structured characterization of neural network architectures, specifically focused on the ideas of invariance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Gerrit Nolte

Graph neural network (GNN), as a powerful representation learning model on graph data, attracts much attention across various disciplines. However, recent studies show that GNN is vulnerable to adversarial attacks. How to make GNN more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Shen Wang , Zhengzhang Chen , Jingchao Ni , Xiao Yu , Zhichun Li , Haifeng Chen , Philip S. Yu

Recent works have shown theoretically and empirically that redundant data dimensions are a source of adversarial vulnerability. However, the inverse doesn't seem to hold in practice; employing dimension-reduction techniques doesn't exhibit…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-10 Rajdeep Haldar , Yue Xing , Qifan Song , Guang Lin

Machine learning and deep learning in particular has been recently used to successfully address many tasks in the domain of code such as finding and fixing bugs, code completion, decompilation, type inference and many others. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Pavol Bielik , Martin Vechev

Benefiting from the rapid development of deep learning, 2D and 3D computer vision applications are deployed in many safe-critical systems, such as autopilot and identity authentication. However, deep learning models are not trustworthy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Yanjie Li , Bin Xie , Songtao Guo , Yuanyuan Yang , Bin Xiao

This paper presents a mathematical framework for analyzing machine learning models through the geometry of their induced partitions. By representing partitions as Riemannian simplicial complexes, we capture not only adjacency relationships…

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