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Deep neural networks have been proved that they are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which are generated by adding human-imperceptible perturbations to images. To defend these adversarial examples, various detection based methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Kejiang Chen , Yuefeng Chen , Hang Zhou , Chuan Qin , Xiaofeng Mao , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

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

Causal opacity denotes the difficulty in understanding the "hidden" causal structure underlying the decisions of deep neural network (DNN) models. This leads to the inability to rely on and verify state-of-the-art DNN-based systems,…

This review systematizes the emerging literature for causal inference using deep neural networks under the potential outcomes framework. It provides an intuitive introduction on how deep learning can be used to estimate/predict…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Bernard Koch , Tim Sainburg , Pablo Geraldo , Song Jiang , Yizhou Sun , Jacob Gates Foster

We address the problem of estimating causal effects from observational data in the presence of network confounding, a setting where both treatment assignment and observed outcomes of individuals may be influenced by their neighbors within a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Abhishek Dalvi , Neil Ashtekar , Vasant Honavar

Edge classification, a crucial task for graph applications, remains relatively under-explored compared to link prediction. Current methods often overlook the potential causal influences of node features on edge features, leading to a loss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Duanyu Feng , Li Ding , Hongru Liang , Wenqiang Lei

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are vulnerable to misclassifying images when small perturbations are present. With the increasing prevalence of CNNs in self-driving cars, it is vital to ensure these algorithms are robust to prevent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Aakash Kumar

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial noise. Their adversarial robustness can be improved by exploiting adversarial examples. However, given the continuously evolving attacks, models trained on seen types of adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Dawei Zhou , Tongliang Liu , Bo Han , Nannan Wang , Chunlei Peng , Xinbo Gao

With the growing complexity of cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructures such as water treatment networks, there is a pressing need for robust anomaly detection strategies that account for both system vulnerabilities and evolving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Arun Vignesh Malarkkan , Haoyue Bai , Dongjie Wang , Yanjie Fu

Deep learning vulnerability detection has shown promising results in recent years. However, an important challenge that still blocks it from being very useful in practice is that the model is not robust under perturbation and it cannot…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Md Mahbubur Rahman , Ira Ceka , Chengzhi Mao , Saikat Chakraborty , Baishakhi Ray , Wei Le

With the wide application of remote sensing technology in various fields, the accuracy and security requirements for remote sensing images (RSIs) recognition are also increasing. In recent years, due to the rapid development of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Li Chen , Guowei Zhu , Qi Li , Haifeng Li

Recent works have demonstrated convolutional neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, i.e., inputs to machine learning models that an attacker has intentionally designed to cause the models to make a mistake. To improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Xianxu Hou , Jingxin Liu , Bolei Xu , Xiaolong Wang , Bozhi Liu , Guoping Qiu

We propose a generative Causal Adversarial Network (CAN) for learning and sampling from conditional and interventional distributions. In contrast to the existing CausalGAN which requires the causal graph to be given, our proposed framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Raha Moraffah , Bahman Moraffah , Mansooreh Karami , Adrienne Raglin , Huan Liu

Tailoring persuasive conversations to users leads to more effective persuasion. However, existing dialogue systems often struggle to adapt to dynamically evolving user states. This paper presents a novel method that leverages causal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Donghuo Zeng , Roberto Legaspi , Yuewen Sun , Xinshuai Dong , Kazushi Ikeda , Peter Spirtes , Kun Zhang

There has been a recent surge in research on adversarial perturbations that defeat Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) in machine vision; most of these perturbation-based attacks target object classifiers. Inspired by the observation that humans…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Shasha Li , Shitong Zhu , Sudipta Paul , Amit Roy-Chowdhury , Chengyu Song , Srikanth Krishnamurthy , Ananthram Swami , Kevin S Chan

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial examples, while adversarial attack models, e.g., DeepFool, are on the rise and outrunning adversarial example detection techniques. This paper presents a new adversarial example…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Yulong Wang , Tianxiang Li , Shenghong Li , Xin Yuan , Wei Ni

Despite their impressive performance, deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been shown to be sensitive to small adversarial perturbations. These nuisances, which one can barely notice, are powerful enough to fool sophisticated and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-08-07 Yaniv Romano , Aviad Aberdam , Jeremias Sulam , Michael Elad

Black-box adversarial attacks are widely used as tools to test the robustness of deep neural networks against malicious perturbations of input data aimed at a specific change in the output of the model. Such methods, although they remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Anna Chistyakova , Mikhail Pautov

In the last a few decades, deep neural networks have achieved remarkable success in machine learning, computer vision, and pattern recognition. Recent studies however show that neural networks (both shallow and deep) may be easily fooled by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Zhuang Qian , Kaizhu Huang , Qiu-Feng Wang , Xu-Yao Zhang

Adversarial examples are maliciously modified inputs created to fool deep neural networks (DNN). The discovery of such inputs presents a major issue to the expansion of DNN-based solutions. Many researchers have already contributed to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Alessandro Cennamo , Ido Freeman , Anton Kummert