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Following the recent adoption of deep neural networks (DNN) accross a wide range of applications, adversarial attacks against these models have proven to be an indisputable threat. Adversarial samples are crafted with a deliberate intention…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Valentina Zantedeschi , Maria-Irina Nicolae , Ambrish Rawat

The existence of adversarial images has seriously affected the task of image recognition and practical application of deep learning, it is also a key scientific problem that deep learning urgently needs to solve. By far the most effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Yunuo Xiong , Shujuan Liu , Hongwei Xiong

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are notoriously vulnerable to adversarial input designs with limited noise budgets. While numerous successful attacks with subtle modifications to original input have been proposed, defense techniques against…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Furkan Mumcu , Yasin Yilmaz

This work investigates a novel approach to boost adversarial robustness and generalization by incorporating structural prior into the design of deep learning models. Specifically, our study surprisingly reveals that existing dictionary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Zhichao Hou , Weizhi Gao , Hamid Krim , Xiaorui Liu

As humans, we inherently perceive images based on their predominant features, and ignore noise embedded within lower bit planes. On the contrary, Deep Neural Networks are known to confidently misclassify images corrupted with meticulously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Sravanti Addepalli , Vivek B. S. , Arya Baburaj , Gaurang Sriramanan , R. Venkatesh Babu

In this paper, we investigate the use of pretraining with adversarial networks, with the objective of discovering the relationship between network depth and robustness. For this purpose, we selectively retrain different portions of VGG and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui , Thomas Breuel

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly embedded in autonomous systems and public-facing environments, yet they remain susceptible to jailbreak vulnerabilities that may undermine their security and trustworthiness. Adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-15 David Khachaturov , Robert Mullins

We identify fragile and robust neurons of deep learning architectures using nodal dropouts of the first convolutional layer. Using an adversarial targeting algorithm, we correlate these neurons with the distribution of adversarial attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Chandresh Pravin , Ivan Martino , Giuseppe Nicosia , Varun Ojha

The incredible effectiveness of adversarial attacks on fooling deep neural networks poses a tremendous hurdle in the widespread adoption of deep learning in safety and security-critical domains. While adversarial defense mechanisms have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Hossein Aboutalebi , Mohammad Javad Shafiee Alexander Wong

Recent studies have shown that Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are vulnerable to a small perturbation of input called "adversarial examples". In this work, we propose a new feedforward CNN that improves robustness in the presence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-26 Jonghoon Jin , Aysegul Dundar , Eugenio Culurciello

The vulnerability of deep neural networks (DNNs) to adversarial attack, which is an attack that can mislead state-of-the-art classifiers into making an incorrect classification with high confidence by deliberately perturbing the original…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Lina Wang , Rui Tang , Yawei Yue , Xingshu Chen , Wei Wang , Yi Zhu , Xuemei Zeng

Recent research showed that deep neural networks are highly sensitive to so-called adversarial perturbations, which are tiny perturbations of the input data purposely designed to fool a machine learning classifier. Most classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-15 Akram Erraqabi , Aristide Baratin , Yoshua Bengio , Simon Lacoste-Julien

Deep neural networks have been successfully applied in various machine learning tasks. However, studies show that neural networks are susceptible to adversarial attacks. This exposes a potential threat to neural network-based intelligent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Haimin Zhang , Min Xu

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved beyond human-level accuracy in the image classification task and are widely deployed in real-world environments. However, CNNs show vulnerability to adversarial perturbations that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Desheng Wang , Weidong Jin , Yunpu Wu , Aamir Khan

Deep neural networks are easily fooled by small perturbations known as adversarial attacks. Adversarial Training (AT) is a technique aimed at learning features robust to such attacks and is widely regarded as a very effective defense.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Theodoros Tsiligkaridis , Jay Roberts

Despite the efficacy on a variety of computer vision tasks, deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, limiting their applications in security-critical systems. Recent works have shown the possibility of generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-21 Ziang Yan , Yiwen Guo , Changshui Zhang

Adversarial training and adversarial purification are two widely used defense strategies for enhancing model robustness against adversarial attacks. However, adversarial training requires costly retraining, while adversarial purification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Xuelong Dai , Dong Wang , Xiuzhen Cheng , Bin Xiao

Adversarial attacks exploit the vulnerabilities of convolutional neural networks by introducing imperceptible perturbations that lead to misclassifications, exposing weaknesses in feature representations and decision boundaries. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Longwei Wang , Navid Nayyem , Abdullah Rakin

Adversarial examples reveal critical vulnerabilities in deep neural networks by exploiting their sensitivity to imperceptible input perturbations. While adversarial training remains the predominant defense strategy, it often incurs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Longwei Wang , Ifrat Ikhtear Uddin , KC Santosh , Chaowei Zhang , Xiao Qin , Yang Zhou