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Physical adversarial attacks pose a significant practical threat as it deceives deep learning systems operating in the real world by producing prominent and maliciously designed physical perturbations. Emphasizing the evaluation of…

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Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are one of the most widely used generative models. GANs can learn complex multi-modal distributions, and generate real-like samples. Despite the major success of GANs in generating synthetic data, they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Sanaz Mohammadjafari , Mucahit Cevik , Ayse Basar

Inferring the latent variable generating a given test sample is a challenging problem in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). In this paper, we propose InvGAN - a novel framework for solving the inference problem in GANs, which involves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Wei-An Lin , Yogesh Balaji , Pouya Samangouei , Rama Chellappa

Infrared vision-language models (IR-VLMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for multimodal perception in low-visibility environments, yet their robustness to adversarial attacks remains largely unexplored. Existing adversarial patch…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Chengyin Hu , Yuxian Dong , Yikun Guo , Xiang Chen , Junqi Wu , Jiahuan Long , Yiwei Wei , Tingsong Jiang , Wen Yao

In this paper, we study deep generative models for effective unsupervised learning. We propose VGAN, which works by minimizing a variational lower bound of the negative log likelihood (NLL) of an energy based model (EBM), where the model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Shuangfei Zhai , Yu Cheng , Rogerio Feris , Zhongfei Zhang

Adversarial patch-based attacks have shown to be a major deterrent towards the reliable use of machine learning models. These attacks involve the strategic modification of localized patches or specific image areas to deceive trained machine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Nandish Chattopadhyay , Amira Guesmi , Muhammad Abdullah Hanif , Bassem Ouni , Muhammad Shafique

Security applications are increasingly relying on large language models (LLMs) for cyber threat detection; however, their opaque reasoning often limits trust, particularly in decisions that require domain-specific cybersecurity knowledge.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Arnabh Borah , Md Tanvirul Alam , Nidhi Rastogi

As vision-based machine learning models are increasingly integrated into autonomous and cyber-physical systems, concerns about (physical) adversarial patch attacks are growing. While state-of-the-art defenses can achieve certified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Hossein Khalili , Seongbin Park , Venkat Bollapragada , Nader Sehatbakhsh

The new wave of adversarial attacks that utilize gradient-related vulnerabilities in neural network-based classifiers makes Network Intrusion Detection Systems more open to such threats. Although state-of-the-art adversarial training…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Hira Nasir , Eiman Javed , Balawal Shabir , Zunera Jalil , Ahmad Mohsin

In recent years, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models in embodied intelligence have developed rapidly. However, existing adversarial attack methods require costly end-to-end training and often generate noticeable perturbation patches. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Naifu Zhang , Wei Tao , Xi Xiao , Qianpu Sun , Yuxin Zheng , Wentao Mo , Peiqiang Wang , Nan Zhang

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems combine vector similarity search with large language models (LLMs) to deliver accurate, context-aware responses. However, co-locating the vector retriever and the LLM on shared GPU infrastructure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Junkyum Kim , Divya Mahajan

Adversarial Malware Generation (AMG), the generation of adversarial malware variants to strengthen Deep Learning (DL)-based malware detectors has emerged as a crucial tool in the development of proactive cyberdefense. However, the majority…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Brian Etter , James Lee Hu , Mohammedreza Ebrahimi , Weifeng Li , Xin Li , Hsinchun Chen

Successful defense against dynamically evolving cyber threats requires advanced and sophisticated techniques. This research presents a novel approach to enhance real-time cybersecurity threat detection and response by integrating large…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Shuva Paul , Farhad Alemi , Richard Macwan

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) provide a way to learn deep representations without extensively annotated training data. They achieve this through deriving backpropagation signals through a competitive process involving a pair of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Antonia Creswell , Tom White , Vincent Dumoulin , Kai Arulkumaran , Biswa Sengupta , Anil A Bharath

Wind turbine blades operate in harsh environments, making timely damage detection essential for preventing failures and optimizing maintenance. Drone-based inspection and deep learning are promising, but typically depend on large, labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yang Zhang , Qianyu Zhou , Farhad Imani , Jiong Tang

Fine-tuning pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) has shown remarkable capabilities in medical image and textual depiction synergy. Nevertheless, many pre-training datasets are restricted by patient privacy concerns, potentially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Xu Han , Linghao Jin , Xuezhe Ma , Xiaofeng Liu

The robustness of recent Large Language Models (LLMs) has become increasingly crucial as their applicability expands across various domains and real-world applications. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is a promising solution for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Sukmin Cho , Soyeong Jeong , Jeongyeon Seo , Taeho Hwang , Jong C. Park

In this paper we propose an attentive recurrent generative adversarial network (ARGAN) to detect and remove shadows in an image. The generator consists of multiple progressive steps. At each step a shadow attention detector is firstly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Bin Ding , Chengjiang Long , Ling Zhang , Chunxia Xiao

Deep generative models provide powerful tools for distributions over complicated manifolds, such as those of natural images. But many of these methods, including generative adversarial networks (GANs), can be difficult to train, in part…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-08 Akash Srivastava , Lazar Valkov , Chris Russell , Michael U. Gutmann , Charles Sutton

Malware detectors based on machine learning (ML) have been shown to be susceptible to adversarial malware examples. However, current methods to generate adversarial malware examples still have their limits. They either rely on detailed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Daniel Gibert , Jordi Planes , Quan Le , Giulio Zizzo