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For sensitive problems, such as medical imaging or fraud detection, Neural Network (NN) adoption has been slow due to concerns about their reliability, leading to a number of algorithms for explaining their decisions. NNs have also been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Walt Woods , Jack Chen , Christof Teuscher

Adversarial robustness is essential for security and reliability of machine learning systems. However, adversarial robustness enhanced by defense algorithms is easily erased as the neural network's weights update to learn new tasks. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Xiaolei Ru , Xiaowei Cao , Zijia Liu , Jack Murdoch Moore , Xin-Ya Zhang , Xia Zhu , Wenjia Wei , Gang Yan

Deep learning models are widely deployed in safety-critical domains, but remain vulnerable to adversarial attacks. In this paper, we study the adversarial robustness of NTK neural networks in the context of nonparametric regression. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-30 Yuxuan Hou

Adversarial robustness has been studied extensively in image classification, especially for the $\ell_\infty$-threat model, but significantly less so for related tasks such as object detection and semantic segmentation, where attacks turn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Francesco Croce , Naman D Singh , Matthias Hein

Deep image classification models trained on vast amounts of web-scraped data are susceptible to data poisoning - a mechanism for backdooring models. A small number of poisoned samples seen during training can severely undermine a model's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Nils Lukas , Florian Kerschbaum

We evaluate machine comprehension models' robustness to noise and adversarial attacks by performing novel perturbations at the character, word, and sentence level. We experiment with different amounts of perturbations to examine model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Winston Wu , Dustin Arendt , Svitlana Volkova

Robustness of neural networks has recently been highlighted by the adversarial examples, i.e., inputs added with well-designed perturbations which are imperceptible to humans but can cause the network to give incorrect outputs. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Tiange Luo , Tianle Cai , Mengxiao Zhang , Siyu Chen , Liwei Wang

The rapid advancement of deep learning has turned models into highly valuable assets due to their reliance on massive data and costly training processes. However, these models are increasingly vulnerable to leakage and theft, highlighting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Yunfei Yang , Xiaojun Chen , Zhendong Zhao , Yu Zhou , Xiaoyan Gu , Juan Cao

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to malicious inputs crafted by an adversary to produce erroneous outputs. Works on securing neural networks against adversarial examples achieve high empirical robustness on simple datasets such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Deepak Vijaykeerthy , Anshuman Suri , Sameep Mehta , Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

While standardized codecs like JPEG and HEVC-intra represent the industry standard in image compression, neural Learned Image Compression (LIC) codecs represent a promising alternative. In detail, integrating attention mechanisms from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-07 Gabriele Spadaro , Alberto Presta , Enzo Tartaglione , Jhony H. Giraldo , Marco Grangetto , Attilio Fiandrotti

As machine learning (ML) systems are being increasingly employed in the real world to handle sensitive tasks and make decisions in various fields, the security and privacy of those models have also become increasingly critical. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Marwan Omar

The robustness of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as CLIP is critical for their deployment in safety-critical applications like autonomous driving, healthcare diagnostics, and security systems, where accurate interpretation of visual and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Yuhan Liang , Yijun Li , Yumeng Niu , Qianhe Shen , Hangyu Liu

Recent advances in learning-based image compression typically come at the cost of high complexity. Designing computationally efficient architectures remains an open challenge. In this paper, we empirically investigate the impact of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-18 Yichi Zhang , Zhihao Duan , Fengqing Zhu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly used in real-world applications (e.g. facial recognition). This has resulted in concerns about the fairness of decisions made by these models. Various notions and measures of fairness have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Vedant Nanda , Samuel Dooley , Sahil Singla , Soheil Feizi , John P. Dickerson

Deep neural networks are proven to be vulnerable to fine-designed adversarial examples, and adversarial defense algorithms draw more and more attention nowadays. Pre-processing based defense is a major strategy, as well as learning robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Decheng Liu , Tao Chen , Chunlei Peng , Nannan Wang , Ruimin Hu , Xinbo Gao

In this paper, we present a novel nonlinear programming-based approach to fine-tune pre-trained neural networks to improve robustness against adversarial attacks while maintaining high accuracy on clean data. Our method introduces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Shudian Zhao , Jan Kronqvist

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are highly susceptible to adversarial samples, raising concerns about their reliability in safety-critical tasks. Currently, methods of evaluating adversarial robustness are primarily categorized into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jialei Song , Xingquan Zuo , Feiyang Wang , Hai Huang , Tianle Zhang

Neural network ensembles have been studied extensively in the context of adversarial robustness and most ensemble-based approaches remain vulnerable to adaptive attacks. In this paper, we investigate the robustness of Error-Correcting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Thomas Philippon , Christian Gagné

Over recent years, deep learning-based computer vision systems have been applied to images at an ever-increasing pace, oftentimes representing the only type of consumption for those images. Given the dramatic explosion in the number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Nam Le , Honglei Zhang , Francesco Cricri , Ramin Ghaznavi-Youvalari , Esa Rahtu

Neuroevolution automates the complex task of neural network design but often ignores the inherent adversarial fragility of evolved models which is a barrier to adoption in safety-critical scenarios. While robust training methods have…

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