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Adversarial perturbations of normal images are usually imperceptible to humans, but they can seriously confuse state-of-the-art machine learning models. What makes them so special in the eyes of image classifiers? In this paper, we show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Yang Song , Taesup Kim , Sebastian Nowozin , Stefano Ermon , Nate Kushman

Diffusion Models (DMs) have empowered great success in artificial-intelligence-generated content, especially in artwork creation, yet raising new concerns in intellectual properties and copyright. For example, infringers can make profits by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Chumeng Liang , Xiaoyu Wu

The increasingly pervasive facial recognition (FR) systems raise serious concerns about personal privacy, especially for billions of users who have publicly shared their photos on social media. Several attempts have been made to protect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jiang Liu , Chun Pong Lau , Zhongliang Guo , Yuxiang Guo , Zhaoyang Wang , Rama Chellappa

While additional training data improves the robustness of deep neural networks against adversarial examples, it presents the challenge of curating a large number of specific real-world samples. We circumvent this challenge by using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Vikash Sehwag , Saeed Mahloujifar , Tinashe Handina , Sihui Dai , Chong Xiang , Mung Chiang , Prateek Mittal

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) are a recent family of generative models that achieve state-of-the-art results. In order to obtain class-conditional generation, it was suggested to guide the diffusion process by gradients…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Bahjat Kawar , Roy Ganz , Michael Elad

The global deployment of the phasor measurement units (PMUs) enables real-time monitoring of the power system, which has stimulated considerable research into machine learning-based models for event detection and classification. However,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-14 Yuanbin Cheng , Koji Yamashita , Jim Follum , Nanpeng Yu

We introduce a new attack paradigm that embeds hidden adversarial capabilities directly into diffusion models via fine-tuning, without altering their observable behavior or requiring modifications during inference. Unlike prior approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Lucas Beerens , Desmond J. Higham

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial examples with small perturbations. Adversarial defense thus has been an important means which improves the robustness of DNNs by defending against adversarial examples. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Jincheng Li , Jiezhang Cao , Yifan Zhang , Jian Chen , Mingkui Tan

Neural Networks are infamously sensitive to small perturbations in their inputs, making them vulnerable to adversarial attacks. This project evaluates the performance of Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM) as a purification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Lars Lien Ankile , Anna Midgley , Sebastian Weisshaar

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

Unrestricted adversarial attacks present a serious threat to deep learning models and adversarial defense techniques. They pose severe security problems for deep learning applications because they can effectively bypass defense mechanisms.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Xuelong Dai , Kaisheng Liang , Bin Xiao

Despite substantial advances in network architecture performance, the susceptibility of adversarial attacks makes deep learning challenging to implement in safety-critical applications. This paper proposes a data-centric approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Sandhya Aneja , Nagender Aneja , Pg Emeroylariffion Abas , Abdul Ghani Naim

Deep learning models are vulnerable to adversarial examples and make incomprehensible mistakes, which puts a threat on their real-world deployment. Combined with the idea of adversarial training, preprocessing-based defenses are popular and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Tao Bai , Jun Zhao , Lanqing Guo , Bihan Wen

Modern applications of artificial neural networks have yielded remarkable performance gains in a wide range of tasks. However, recent studies have discovered that such modelling strategy is vulnerable to Adversarial Examples, i.e. examples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-24 João Monteiro , Isabela Albuquerque , Zahid Akhtar , Tiago H. Falk

Face authentication systems have brought significant convenience and advanced developments, yet they have become unreliable due to their sensitivity to inconspicuous perturbations, such as adversarial attacks. Existing defenses often…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Hanrui Wang , Ruoxi Sun , Cunjian Chen , Minhui Xue , Lay-Ki Soon , Shuo Wang , Zhe Jin

Adversarial Imitation Learning is traditionally framed as a two-player zero-sum game between a learner and an adversarially chosen cost function, and can therefore be thought of as the sequential generalization of a Generative Adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Runzhe Wu , Yiding Chen , Gokul Swamy , Kianté Brantley , Wen Sun

Recent studies that incorporate geometric features and transformers into 3D point cloud feature learning have significantly improved the performance of 3D deep-learning models. However, their robustness against adversarial attacks has not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Xuelong Dai , Bin Xiao

Adversarial attacks have the potential to mislead deep neural network classifiers by introducing slight perturbations. Developing algorithms that can mitigate the effects of these attacks is crucial for ensuring the safe use of artificial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Boya Zhang , Weijian Luo , Zhihua Zhang

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 position paper argues that understanding generalization in diffusion models requires fundamentally new theoretical frameworks that go beyond both classical statistical learning theory and the benign overfitting paradigm developed for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Pierre Marion , Yu-Han Wu