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The superiority of deep learning performance is threatened by safety issues for itself. Recent findings have shown that deep learning systems are very weak to adversarial examples, an attack form that was altered by the attacker's intent to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Dang Duy Thang , Toshihiro Matsui

Machine learning and deep learning in particular has advanced tremendously on perceptual tasks in recent years. However, it remains vulnerable against adversarial perturbations of the input that have been crafted specifically to fool the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-22 Jan Hendrik Metzen , Tim Genewein , Volker Fischer , Bastian Bischoff

Exposing diverse subword segmentations to neural machine translation (NMT) models often improves the robustness of machine translation as NMT models can experience various subword candidates. However, the diversification of subword…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Jungsoo Park , Mujeen Sung , Jinhyuk Lee , Jaewoo Kang

We propose a test-time defense mechanism against adversarial attacks: imperceptible image perturbations that significantly alter the predictions of a model. Unlike existing methods that rely on feature filtering or smoothing, which can lead…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Dong Lao , Yuxiang Zhang , Haniyeh Ehsani Oskouie , Yangchao Wu , Alex Wong , Stefano Soatto

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) provides diverse audio-to-text services for humans to communicate with machines. However, recent research reveals ASR systems are vulnerable to various malicious audio attacks. In particular, by removing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Shu Wang , Kun Sun , Qi Li

Recent research showed that deep neural networks are highly sensitive to so-called adversarial perturbations, which are tiny perturbations of the input data purposely designed to fool a machine learning classifier. Most classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-15 Akram Erraqabi , Aristide Baratin , Yoshua Bengio , Simon Lacoste-Julien

Recent progress in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has been coupled with a substantial increase in the model sizes, which may now contain billions of parameters, leading to slow inferences even with adapted hardware. In this context,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-25 Hugo Malard , Salah Zaiem , Robin Algayres

Can language models transform inputs to protect text classifiers against adversarial attacks? In this work, we present ATINTER, a model that intercepts and learns to rewrite adversarial inputs to make them non-adversarial for a downstream…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Ashim Gupta , Carter Wood Blum , Temma Choji , Yingjie Fei , Shalin Shah , Alakananda Vempala , Vivek Srikumar

We show the performance of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems that use semi-supervised speech representations can be boosted by a complimentary pitch accent detection module, by introducing a joint ASR and pitch accent detection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-08 David Sasu , Natalie Schluter

Adversarial attacks have been expanded to speaker recognition (SR). However, existing attacks are often assessed using different SR models, recognition tasks and datasets, and only few adversarial defenses borrowed from computer vision are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Guangke Chen , Zhe Zhao , Fu Song , Sen Chen , Lingling Fan , Yang Liu

Adversarial attacks on deep-learning models pose a serious threat to their reliability and security. Existing defense mechanisms are narrow addressing a specific type of attack or being vulnerable to sophisticated attacks. We propose a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Mouna Rabhi , Roberto Di Pietro

Federated learning is a common method for privacy-preserving training of machine learning models. In this paper, we analyze the vulnerability of ASR models to attribute inference attacks in the federated setting. We test a non-parametric…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Hamdan Al-Ali , Ali Reza Ghavamipour , Tommaso Caselli , Fatih Turkmen , Zeerak Talat , Hanan Aldarmaki

Audio processing models based on deep neural networks are susceptible to adversarial attacks even when the adversarial audio waveform is 99.9% similar to a benign sample. Given the wide application of DNN-based audio recognition systems,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Victor Akinwande , Celia Cintas , Skyler Speakman , Srihari Sridharan

Under noisy conditions, automatic speech recognition (ASR) can greatly benefit from the addition of visual signals coming from a video of the speaker's face. However, when multiple candidate speakers are visible this traditionally requires…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-12 Otavio Braga , Olivier Siohan

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 learning models can be fooled by small $l_p$-norm adversarial perturbations and natural perturbations in terms of attributes. Although the robustness against each perturbation has been explored, it remains a challenge to address the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Dashan Gao , Yunce Zhao , Yinghua Yao , Zeqi Zhang , Bifei Mao , Xin Yao

DNN is presenting human-level performance for many complex intelligent tasks in real-world applications. However, it also introduces ever-increasing security concerns. For example, the emerging adversarial attacks indicate that even very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Qi Liu , Tao Liu , Zihao Liu , Yanzhi Wang , Yier Jin , Wujie Wen

Adversarial attacks in machine learning traditionally focus on global perturbations to input data, yet the potential of localized adversarial noise remains underexplored. This study systematically evaluates localized adversarial attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Pavan Reddy , Aditya Sanjay Gujral

Making classifiers robust to adversarial examples is hard. Thus, many defenses tackle the seemingly easier task of detecting perturbed inputs. We show a barrier towards this goal. We prove a general hardness reduction between detection and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Florian Tramèr

Speech is easily leaked imperceptibly, such as being recorded by mobile phones in different situations. Private content in speech may be maliciously extracted through speech enhancement technology. Speech enhancement technology has…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Mingyu Dong , Diqun Yan , Rangding Wang