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The structural re-parameterization (SRP) technique is a novel deep learning technique that achieves interconversion between different network architectures through equivalent parameter transformations. This technique enables the mitigation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Shanshan Zhong , Zhongzhan Huang , Wushao Wen , Jinghui Qin , Liang Lin

Transfer adversarial attack is a non-trivial black-box adversarial attack that aims to craft adversarial perturbations on the surrogate model and then apply such perturbations to the victim model. However, the transferability of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Shuman Fang , Jie Li , Xianming Lin , Rongrong Ji

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have become integral in safety-critical applications, thus raising concerns about their fault tolerance. Conventional hardware-dependent fault tolerance methods, such as Triple Modular Redundancy (TMR),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Mohammad Hasan Ahmadilivani , Seyedhamidreza Mousavi , Jaan Raik , Masoud Daneshtalab , Maksim Jenihhin

With the widespread application of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, their vulnerability to adversarial attacks has been extensively studied. However, most existing adversarial examples are generated on specific individual models,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Weifei Jin , Junjie Su , Hejia Wang , Yulin Ye , Jie Hao

LoRA-based large model parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods use low-rank de- composition to approximate updates to model parameters. However, compared to full- parameter fine-tuning, low-rank updates often lead to a performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Haojie Zhang

Transferable adversarial attacks against Deep neural networks (DNNs) have received broad attention in recent years. An adversarial example can be crafted by a surrogate model and then attack the unknown target model successfully, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Yao Zhu , Yuefeng Chen , Xiaodan Li , Kejiang Chen , Yuan He , Xiang Tian , Bolun Zheng , Yaowu Chen , Qingming Huang

Due to the gap between a substitute model and a victim model, the gradient-based noise generated from a substitute model may have low transferability for a victim model since their gradients are different. Inspired by the fact that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Boheng Zeng , LianLi Gao , QiLong Zhang , ChaoQun Li , JingKuan Song , ShuaiQi Jing

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) and its variants have shown impressive results in reducing the number of trainable parameters and memory requirements of large transformer networks while maintaining fine-tuning performance. The low-rank nature of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Paul Albert , Frederic Z. Zhang , Hemanth Saratchandran , Cristian Rodriguez-Opazo , Anton van den Hengel , Ehsan Abbasnejad

Recursive projection aggregation (RPA) decoding as introduced in [1] is a novel decoding algorithm which performs close to the maximum likelihood decoder for short-length Reed-Muller codes. Recently, an extension to RPA decoding, called…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Johannes Voigt , Holger Jäkel , Laurent Schmalen

With much longer optimization time than that of untargeted attacks notwithstanding, the transferability of targeted attacks is still far from satisfactory. Recent studies reveal that fine-tuning an existing adversarial example (AE) in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Hui Zeng , Sanshuai Cui , Biwei Chen , Anjie Peng

Despite the success of input transformation-based attacks on boosting adversarial transferability, the performance is unsatisfying due to the ignorance of the discrepancy across models. In this paper, we propose a simple but effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Donghua Wang , Wen Yao , Tingsong Jiang , Xiaohu Zheng , Junqi Wu , Xiaoqian Chen

Neural Networks can be effectively compressed through pruning, significantly reducing storage and compute demands while maintaining predictive performance. Simple yet effective methods like magnitude pruning remove less important parameters…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Max Zimmer , Megi Andoni , Christoph Spiegel , Sebastian Pokutta

The transferability of adversarial examples allows for the attack on unknown deep neural networks (DNNs), posing a serious threat to many applications and attracting great attention. In this paper, we improve the transferability of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Qizhang Li , Yiwen Guo , Xiaochen Yang , Wangmeng Zuo , Hao Chen

Transferable adversarial attacks optimize adversaries from a pretrained surrogate model and known label space to fool the unknown black-box models. Therefore, these attacks are restricted by the availability of an effective surrogate model.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Hashmat Shadab Malik , Shahina K Kunhimon , Muzammal Naseer , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Despite the strong performance of deep neural networks in modern Web and language applications, they remain vulnerable to adversarial attacks, especially transferable attacks that generate adversarial examples using surrogate models without…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Han Liu , Zhi Xu , Xiaotong Zhang , Feng Zhang , Xiaoming Xu , Wei Wang , Fenglong Ma , Hong Yu

Filter pruning of a CNN is typically achieved by applying discrete masks on the CNN's filter weights or activation maps, post-training. Here, we present a new filter-importance-scoring concept named pruning by active attention manipulation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Zahra Babaiee , Lucas Liebenwein , Ramin Hasani , Daniela Rus , Radu Grosu

Pruning is a compression method which aims to improve the efficiency of neural networks by reducing their number of parameters while maintaining a good performance, thus enhancing the performance-to-cost ratio in nontrivial ways. Of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Hugo Tessier , Ghouti Boukli Hacene , Vincent Gripon

Adversarial examples (AEs) have been extensively studied due to their potential for privacy protection and inspiring robust neural networks. Yet, making a targeted AE transferable across unknown models remains challenging. In this paper, to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Hui Zeng , Biwei Chen , Anjie Peng

In contrast to the fixed parameter analysis (FPA), in the variable parameter analysis (VPA) the value of the target problem parameter is not fixed, it rather depends on the structure of a given problem instance and tends to have a favorable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Nodari Vakhania

A prevailing belief in attack and defense community is that the higher flatness of adversarial examples enables their better cross-model transferability, leading to a growing interest in employing sharpness-aware minimization and its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Mingyuan Fan , Xiaodan Li , Cen Chen , Wenmeng Zhou , Yaliang Li