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Although deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved success in many application fields, it is still vulnerable to imperceptible adversarial examples that can lead to misclassification of DNNs easily. To overcome this challenge, many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Yaguan Qian , Ximin Zhang , Bin Wang , Wei Li , Zhaoquan Gu , Haijiang Wang , Wassim Swaileh

Stochastic gradient descent method and its variants constitute the core optimization algorithms that achieve good convergence rates for solving machine learning problems. These rates are obtained especially when these algorithms are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-14 S. Ilker Birbil , Ozgur Martin , Gonenc Onay , Figen Oztoprak

An acknowledged weakness of neural networks is their vulnerability to adversarial perturbations to the inputs. To improve the robustness of these models, one of the most popular defense mechanisms is to alternatively maximize the loss over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Zhun Deng , Hangfeng He , Jiaoyang Huang , Weijie J. Su

Evading adversarial example detection defenses requires finding adversarial examples that must simultaneously (a) be misclassified by the model and (b) be detected as non-adversarial. We find that existing attacks that attempt to satisfy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Oliver Bryniarski , Nabeel Hingun , Pedro Pachuca , Vincent Wang , Nicholas Carlini

Adversarial examples have become one of the largest challenges that machine learning models, especially neural network classifiers, face. These adversarial examples break the assumption of attack-free scenario and fool state-of-the-art…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Guanxiong Liu , Issa Khalil , Abdallah Khreishah

The existence of real-world adversarial examples (commonly in the form of patches) poses a serious threat for the use of deep learning models in safety-critical computer vision tasks such as visual perception in autonomous driving. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Giulio Rossolini , Federico Nesti , Gianluca D'Amico , Saasha Nair , Alessandro Biondi , Giorgio Buttazzo

Deep generative models (DGMs) are effective on learning multilayered representations of complex data and performing inference of input data by exploring the generative ability. However, it is relatively insufficient to empower the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Chongxuan Li , Jun Zhu , Bo Zhang

We study the canonical statistical estimation problem of linear regression from $n$ i.i.d.~examples under $(\varepsilon,\delta)$-differential privacy when some response variables are adversarially corrupted. We propose a variant of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Xiyang Liu , Prateek Jain , Weihao Kong , Sewoong Oh , Arun Sai Suggala

Adversarial attacks present a critical challenge to deep neural networks' robustness, particularly in transfer scenarios across different model architectures. However, the transferability of adversarial attacks faces a fundamental dilemma…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Zenghao Niu , Weicheng Xie , Siyang Song , Zitong Yu , Feng Liu , Linlin Shen

Deep neural networks(DNNs) is vulnerable to be attacked by adversarial examples. Black-box attack is the most threatening attack. At present, black-box attack methods mainly adopt gradient-based iterative attack methods, which usually limit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Pengfei Xie , Linyuan Wang , Ruoxi Qin , Kai Qiao , Shuhao Shi , Guoen Hu , Bin Yan

In this paper, we study fast training of adversarially robust models. From the analyses of the state-of-the-art defense method, i.e., the multi-step adversarial training, we hypothesize that the gradient magnitude links to the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Jianyu Wang , Haichao Zhang

For the last thirty years, several Dynamic Memory Managers (DMMs) have been proposed. Such DMMs include first fit, best fit, segregated fit and buddy systems. Since the performance, memory usage and energy consumption of each DMM differs,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-16 José L. Risco-Martín , David Atienza , J. Manuel Colmenar , Oscar Garnica

We propose a new approach to solve optimal stopping problems via simulation. Working within the backward dynamic programming/Snell envelope framework, we augment the methodology of Longstaff-Schwartz that focuses on approximating the…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2015-09-04 Robert B. Gramacy , Mike Ludkovski

In this paper, we aim to develop a scalable algorithm to preserve differential privacy (DP) in adversarial learning for deep neural networks (DNNs), with certified robustness to adversarial examples. By leveraging the sequential composition…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-16 NhatHai Phan , My T. Thai , Han Hu , Ruoming Jin , Tong Sun , Dejing Dou

The progress in the last decade has enabled machine learning models to achieve impressive performance across a wide range of tasks in Computer Vision. However, a plethora of works have demonstrated the susceptibility of these models to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-06 B. S. Vivek , R. Venkatesh Babu

Deep neural networks have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial examples deliberately constructed to misclassify victim models. As most adversarial examples have restricted their perturbations to $L_{p}$-norm, existing defense methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Hanieh Naderi , Leili Goli , Shohreh Kasaei

Adversarial attacks present a significant challenge to the dependable deployment of machine learning models, with patch-based attacks being particularly potent. These attacks introduce adversarial perturbations in localized regions of an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Nandish Chattopadhyay , Amira Guesmi , Muhammad Abdullah Hanif , Bassem Ouni , Muhammad Shafique

Unsupervised representation learning, particularly sequential disentanglement, aims to separate static and dynamic factors of variation in data without relying on labels. This remains a challenging problem, as existing approaches based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Hedi Zisling , Ilan Naiman , Nimrod Berman , Supasorn Suwajanakorn , Omri Azencot

We introduce Latent Space Distribution Matching (LSDM), a novel framework for semi-supervised generative modeling of conditional distributions. LSDM operates in two stages: (i) learning a low-dimensional latent space from both paired and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-05 Kwong Yu Chong , Long Feng

Robustness of huge Transformer-based models for natural language processing is an important issue due to their capabilities and wide adoption. One way to understand and improve robustness of these models is an exploration of an adversarial…