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Despite their unmatched performance, deep neural networks remain susceptible to targeted attacks by nearly imperceptible levels of adversarial noise. While the underlying cause of this sensitivity is not well understood, theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 George Cazenavette , Calvin Murdock , Simon Lucey

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attack which is maliciously implemented by adding human-imperceptible perturbation to images and thus leads to incorrect prediction. Existing studies have proposed various methods to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Chen Ma , Chenxu Zhao , Hailin Shi , Li Chen , Junhai Yong , Dan Zeng

In this paper, we explore the robustness of the Multi-Task Deep Neural Networks (MT-DNN) against non-targeted adversarial attacks across Natural Language Understanding (NLU) tasks as well as some possible ways to defend against them. Liu et…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Kashyap Coimbatore Murali

In this work we address task interference in universal networks by considering that a network is trained on multiple tasks, but performs one task at a time, an approach we refer to as "single-tasking multiple tasks". The network thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Kevis-Kokitsi Maninis , Ilija Radosavovic , Iasonas Kokkinos

With the advent of deep learning, many dense prediction tasks, i.e. tasks that produce pixel-level predictions, have seen significant performance improvements. The typical approach is to learn these tasks in isolation, that is, a separate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Simon Vandenhende , Stamatios Georgoulis , Wouter Van Gansbeke , Marc Proesmans , Dengxin Dai , Luc Van Gool

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) aims at boosting the overall performance of each individual task by leveraging useful information contained in multiple related tasks. It has shown great success in natural language processing (NLP). Currently, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Jianquan Li , Xiaokang Liu , Wenpeng Yin , Min Yang , Liqun Ma , Yaohong Jin

Multi-task reinforcement learning endeavors to accomplish a set of different tasks with a single policy. To enhance data efficiency by sharing parameters across multiple tasks, a common practice segments the network into distinct modules…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Jinmin He , Kai Li , Yifan Zang , Haobo Fu , Qiang Fu , Junliang Xing , Jian Cheng

With the rise of neural networks in various domains, multi-task learning (MTL) gained significant relevance. A key challenge in MTL is balancing individual task losses during neural network training to improve performance and efficiency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Lukas Kirchdorfer , Cathrin Elich , Simon Kutsche , Heiner Stuckenschmidt , Lukas Schott , Jan M. Köhler

Visual content understanding frequently relies on multi-task models to extract robust representations of a single visual input for multiple downstream tasks. However, in comparison to extensively studied single-task models, the adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Lijun Zhang , Xiao Liu , Kaleel Mahmood , Caiwen Ding , Hui Guan

An intriguing property of deep neural networks is their inherent vulnerability to adversarial inputs, which significantly hinders their application in security-critical domains. Most existing detection methods attempt to use carefully…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Chanh Nguyen , Georgi Georgiev , Yujie Ji , Ting Wang

Segmentation models have been found to be vulnerable to targeted and non-targeted adversarial attacks. However, the resulting segmentation outputs are often so damaged that it is easy to spot an attack. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Zhenhua Chen , Chuhua Wang , David J. Crandall

The study of security in machine learning mainly focuses on downstream task-specific attacks, where the adversarial example is obtained by optimizing a loss function specific to the downstream task. At the same time, it has become standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Brian Pulfer , Yury Belousov , Vitaliy Kinakh , Teddy Furon , Slava Voloshynovskiy

In the age of large and heterogeneous datasets, the integration of information from diverse sources is essential to improve parameter estimation. Multi-task learning offers a powerful approach by enabling simultaneous learning across…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-11 Sohom Bhattacharya , Yongzhuo Chen , Muxuan Liang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have made a revolution in numerous fields during the last decade. However, in tasks with high safety requirements, such as medical or autonomous driving applications, providing an assessment of the models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Omer Achrack , Raizy Kellerman , Ouriel Barzilay

Pre-trained Vision Transformers now serve as powerful tools for computer vision. Yet, efficiently adapting them for multiple tasks remains a challenge that arises from the need to modify the rich hidden representations encoded by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Krishna Sri Ipsit Mantri , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Bruno Ribeiro , Chaim Baskin , Moshe Eliasof

Due to their massive success in various domains, deep learning techniques are increasingly used to design network intrusion detection solutions that detect and mitigate unknown and known attacks with high accuracy detection rates and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Huda Ali Alatwi , Charles Morisset

In recent years, Multi-Task Learning (MTL) has attracted much attention due to its good performance in many applications. However, many existing MTL models cannot guarantee that their performance is no worse than their single-task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Zhixiong Yue , Feiyang Ye , Yu Zhang , Christy Liang , Ivor W. Tsang

Effective detection of energy theft can prevent revenue losses of utility companies and is also important for smart grid security. In recent years, enabled by the massive fine-grained smart meter data, deep learning (DL) approaches are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Jiangnan Li , Yingyuan Yang , Jinyuan Stella Sun

In recent years Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable results and even showed super-human capabilities in a broad range of domains. This led people to trust in DNNs' classifications and resulting actions even in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Philip Sperl , Ching-Yu Kao , Peng Chen , Konstantin Böttinger

Industrial control systems (ICS), which in many cases are components of critical national infrastructure, are increasingly being connected to other networks and the wider internet motivated by factors such as enhanced operational…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Cheng Feng , Tingting Li , Zhanxing Zhu , Deeph Chana