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Machine learning systems based on deep neural networks, being able to produce state-of-the-art results on various perception tasks, have gained mainstream adoption in many applications. However, they are shown to be vulnerable to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Bo Luo , Yannan Liu , Lingxiao Wei , Qiang Xu

This paper presents a survey of methods for pruning deep neural networks. It begins by categorising over 150 studies based on the underlying approach used and then focuses on three categories: methods that use magnitude based pruning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Sunil Vadera , Salem Ameen

Recent work has demonstrated that deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples---inputs that are almost indistinguishable from natural data and yet classified incorrectly by the network. In fact, some of the latest findings…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-06 Aleksander Madry , Aleksandar Makelov , Ludwig Schmidt , Dimitris Tsipras , Adrian Vladu

Deep Learning has empowered us to train neural networks for complex data with high performance. However, with the growing research, several vulnerabilities in neural networks have been exposed. A particular branch of research, Adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Shashank Kotyan

Graph learning plays a central role in many data mining and machine learning tasks, such as manifold learning, data representation and analysis, dimensionality reduction, clustering, and visualization. In this work, we propose a highly…

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As we seek to deploy machine learning models beyond virtual and controlled domains, it is critical to analyze not only the accuracy or the fact that it works most of the time, but if such a model is truly robust and reliable. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Samuel Henrique Silva , Peyman Najafirad

It has been demonstrated that deep neural networks are prone to noisy examples particular adversarial samples during inference process. The gap between robust deep learning systems in real world applications and vulnerable neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Xinhan Di , Pengqian Yu , Meng Tian

Structured pruning is a popular method for compressing a neural network: given a large trained network, one alternates between removing channel connections and fine-tuning; reducing the overall width of the network. However, the efficacy of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-10 Elliot J. Crowley , Jack Turner , Amos Storkey , Michael O'Boyle

The state of neural network pruning has been noticed to be unclear and even confusing for a while, largely due to "a lack of standardized benchmarks and metrics" [3]. To standardize benchmarks, first, we need to answer: what kind of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Huan Wang , Can Qin , Yue Bai , Yun Fu

The escalating threat of adversarial attacks on deep learning models, particularly in security-critical fields, has underscored the need for robust deep learning systems. Conventional robustness evaluations have relied on adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Ping Guo , Cheng Gong , Xi Lin , Zhiyuan Yang , Qingfu Zhang

In this work we present a method to improve the pruning step of the current state-of-the-art methodology to compress neural networks. The novelty of the proposed pruning technique is in its differentiability, which allows pruning to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Franco Manessi , Alessandro Rozza , Simone Bianco , Paolo Napoletano , Raimondo Schettini

Artificial neural networks in general and deep learning networks in particular established themselves as popular and powerful machine learning algorithms. While the often tremendous sizes of these networks are beneficial when solving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Moritz Seiler , Heike Trautmann , Pascal Kerschke

Despite the remarkable performance of deep neural networks on various computer vision tasks, they are known to be susceptible to adversarial perturbations, which makes it challenging to deploy them in real-world safety-critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Divyam Madaan , Jinwoo Shin , Sung Ju Hwang

Despite having high accuracy, neural nets have been shown to be susceptible to adversarial examples, where a small perturbation to an input can cause it to become mislabeled. We propose metrics for measuring the robustness of a neural net…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-19 Osbert Bastani , Yani Ioannou , Leonidas Lampropoulos , Dimitrios Vytiniotis , Aditya Nori , Antonio Criminisi

Adversarial pruning methods have emerged as a powerful tool for compressing neural networks while preserving robustness against adversarial attacks. These methods typically follow a three-step pipeline: (i) pretrain a robust model, (ii)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Giorgio Piras , Qi Zhao , Fabio Brau , Maura Pintor , Christian Wressnegger , Battista Biggio

Adversarial training is a computationally expensive task and hence searching for neural network architectures with robustness as the criterion can be challenging. As a step towards practical automation, this work explores the efficacy of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Ambrish Rawat , Mathieu Sinn , Beat Buesser

There has recently been an increasing desire to evaluate neural networks locally on computationally-limited devices in order to exploit their recent effectiveness for several applications; such effectiveness has nevertheless come together…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Hossein Baktash , Emanuele Natale , Laurent Viennot

The remarkable performance of deep Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) is generally attributed to their deeper and wider architectures, which can come with significant computational costs. Pruning neural networks has thus gained interest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Yang He , Lingao Xiao

Neural network pruning techniques reduce the number of parameters without compromising predicting ability of a network. Many algorithms have been developed for pruning both over-parameterized fully-connected networks (FCNs) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Xin Qian , Diego Klabjan