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Recent findings suggest that diffusion models significantly enhance empirical adversarial robustness. While some intuitive explanations have been proposed, the precise mechanisms underlying these improvements remain unclear. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Liu Yuezhang , Xue-Xin Wei

Adversarial attack is aimed at fooling the target classifier with imperceptible perturbation. Adversarial examples, which are carefully crafted with a malicious purpose, can lead to erroneous predictions, resulting in catastrophic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Mingu Kang , Trung Quang Tran , Seungju Cho , Daeyoung Kim

We question the current evaluation practice on diffusion-based purification methods. Diffusion-based purification methods aim to remove adversarial effects from an input data point at test time. The approach gains increasing attention as an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Minjong Lee , Dongwoo Kim

Vision Language Models (VLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in multimodal understanding, yet their susceptibility to perturbations poses a significant threat to their reliability in real-world applications. Despite often being…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Jia Fu , Yongtao Wu , Yihang Chen , Kunyu Peng , Xiao Zhang , Volkan Cevher , Sepideh Pashami , Anders Holst

The diffusion-based adversarial purification methods attempt to drown adversarial perturbations into a part of isotropic noise through the forward process, and then recover the clean images through the reverse process. Due to the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Gaozheng Pei , Ke Ma , Yingfei Sun , Qianqian Xu , Qingming Huang

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

Adversarial attacks meticulously generate minuscule, imperceptible perturbations to images to deceive neural networks. Counteracting these, adversarial purification methods seek to transform adversarial input samples into clean output…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Sitong Liu , Zhichao Lian , Shuangquan Zhang , Liang Xiao

Adversarial attacks induce misclassification by introducing subtle perturbations. Recently, diffusion models are applied to the image classifiers to improve adversarial robustness through adversarial training or by purifying adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Yujie Li , Yanbin Wang , Haitao Xu , Bin Liu , Jianguo Sun , Zhenhao Guo , Wenrui Ma

Deep neural networks are known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples, where a perturbation in the input space leads to an amplified shift in the latent network representation. In this paper, we combine canonical supervised learning with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-02 Changhao Shi , Chester Holtz , Gal Mishne

Despite significant advances in the area, adversarial robustness remains a critical challenge in systems employing machine learning models. The removal of adversarial perturbations at inference time, known as adversarial purification, has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Elias Collaert , Abel Rodríguez , Sander Joos , Lieven Desmet , Vera Rimmer

Deep learning-based industrial anomaly detection models have achieved remarkably high accuracy on commonly used benchmark datasets. However, the robustness of those models may not be satisfactory due to the existence of adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Yuanpu Cao , Lu Lin , Jinghui Chen

The improvement of language model robustness, including successful defense against adversarial attacks, remains an open problem. In computer vision settings, the stochastic noising and de-noising process provided by diffusion models has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Harrison Gietz , Jugal Kalita

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial perturbation, where an imperceptible perturbation is added to the image that can fool the DNNs. Diffusion-based adversarial purification focuses on using the diffusion model to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Kaiyu Song , Hanjiang Lai

In this paper, we propose a novel guided diffusion purification approach to provide a strong defense against adversarial attacks. Our model achieves 89.62% robust accuracy under PGD-L_inf attack (eps = 8/255) on the CIFAR-10 dataset. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Quanlin Wu , Hang Ye , Yuntian Gu

Diffusion models like Stable Diffusion have become prominent in visual synthesis tasks due to their powerful customization capabilities, which also introduce significant security risks, including deepfakes and copyright infringement. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Wenkui Yang , Jie Cao , Junxian Duan , Ran He

Adversarial purification is a defense mechanism for safeguarding classifiers against adversarial attacks without knowing the type of attacks or training of the classifier. These techniques characterize and eliminate adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Raha Moraffah , Shubh Khandelwal , Amrita Bhattacharjee , Huan Liu

Adversarial evasion attacks pose significant threats to graph learning, with lines of studies that have improved the robustness of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). However, existing works rely on priors about clean graphs or attacking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Jiayi Luo , Qingyun Sun , Haonan Yuan , Xingcheng Fu , Jianxin Li

Deep learning models have been widely used in commercial acoustic systems in recent years. However, adversarial audio examples can cause abnormal behaviors for those acoustic systems, while being hard for humans to perceive. Various…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Shutong Wu , Jiongxiao Wang , Wei Ping , Weili Nie , Chaowei Xiao

Recent work indicates that video recognition models are vulnerable to adversarial examples, posing a serious security risk to downstream applications. However, current research has primarily focused on adversarial attacks, with limited work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Kaixun Jiang , Zhaoyu Chen , Jiyuan Fu , Lingyi Hong , Jinglun Li , Wenqiang Zhang

Neural networks have achieved remarkable performance across a wide range of tasks, yet they remain susceptible to adversarial perturbations, which pose significant risks in safety-critical applications. With the rise of multimodality,…

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