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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated commendable performance for graph-structured data. Yet, GNNs are often vulnerable to adversarial structural attacks as embedding generation relies on graph topology. Existing efforts are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Xing Ai , Guanyu Zhu , Yulin Zhu , Yu Zheng , Gaolei Li , Jianhua Li , Kai Zhou

Neural network quantization has become increasingly popular due to efficient memory consumption and faster computation resulting from bitwise operations on the quantized networks. Even though they exhibit excellent generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Kartik Gupta , Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan

The vulnerability to adversarial perturbations is a major flaw of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) that raises question about their reliability when in real-world scenarios. On the other hand, human perception, which DNNs are supposed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Muhammad Ahmed Shah , Bhiksha Raj

Despite impressive performance, deep neural networks require significant memory and computation costs, prohibiting their application in resource-constrained scenarios. Sparse training is one of the most common techniques to reduce these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Bowen Lei , Dongkuan Xu , Ruqi Zhang , Shuren He , Bani K. Mallick

Recent work on deep neural network pruning has shown there exist sparse subnetworks that achieve equal or improved accuracy, training time, and loss using fewer network parameters when compared to their dense counterparts. Orthogonal to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Justin Cosentino , Federico Zaiter , Dan Pei , Jun Zhu

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are valued for their computational efficiency and reduced memory requirements on tasks involving long sequence lengths but require high memory-processor bandwidth to train. Checkpointing techniques can…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Wadjih Bencheikh , Jan Finkbeiner , Emre Neftci

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have had many successes, but they suffer from two major issues: (1) a vulnerability to adversarial examples and (2) a tendency to elude human interpretation. Interestingly, recent empirical and theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Adam Noack , Isaac Ahern , Dejing Dou , Boyang Li

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have attracted much attention for their high energy efficiency and recent advances in classification performance. However, unlike traditional deep learning approaches, the study of SNN robustness to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Nuo Xu , Kaleel Mahmood , Haowen Fang , Ethan Rathbun , Caiwen Ding , Wujie Wen

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) and Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are both known for their susceptibility to adversarial attacks. Therefore, researchers in the recent past have extensively studied the robustness and defense of DNNs and SNNs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Syed Tihaam Ahmad , Ayesha Siddique , Khaza Anuarul Hoque

Stochastic Neural Networks (SNNs) that inject noise into their hidden layers have recently been shown to achieve strong robustness against adversarial attacks. However, existing SNNs are usually heuristically motivated, and often rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Panagiotis Eustratiadis , Henry Gouk , Da Li , Timothy Hospedales

The phenomenon of implicit regularization has attracted interest in recent years as a fundamental aspect of the remarkable generalizing ability of neural networks. In a nutshell, it entails that gradient descent dynamics in many neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Hong T. M. Chu , Subhro Ghosh , Chi Thanh Lam , Soumendu Sundar Mukherjee

Adversarially robust models are locally smooth around each data sample so that small perturbations cannot drastically change model outputs. In modern systems, such smoothness is usually obtained via Adversarial Training, which explicitly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Adrián Rodríguez-Muñoz , Tongzhou Wang , Antonio Torralba

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are distributed trainable systems whose computing elements, or neurons, are characterized by internal analog dynamics and by digital and sparse synaptic communications. The sparsity of the synaptic spiking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Hyeryung Jang , Osvaldo Simeone , Brian Gardner , André Grüning

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) aim at providing energy-efficient learning capabilities when implemented on neuromorphic chips with event-based Dynamic Vision Sensors (DVS). This paper studies the robustness of SNNs against adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Alberto Marchisio , Giacomo Pira , Maurizio Martina , Guido Masera , Muhammad Shafique

In this work we study input gradient regularization of deep neural networks, and demonstrate that such regularization leads to generalization proofs and improved adversarial robustness. The proof of generalization does not overcome the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Chris Finlay , Jeff Calder , Bilal Abbasi , Adam Oberman

We propose Sparse Neural Network architectures that are based on random or structured bipartite graph topologies. Sparse architectures provide compression of the models learned and speed-ups of computations, they can also surpass their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Alfred Bourely , John Patrick Boueri , Krzysztof Choromonski

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer inherent advantages for low-power inference through sparse, event-driven computation. However, the theoretical energy benefits of SNNs are often decoupled from real hardware performance due to the opaque…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Ilkin Aliyev , Jesus Lopez , Tosiron Adegbija

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are increasingly important given their popularity and the diversity of applications. Yet, existing studies of their vulnerability to adversarial attacks rely on relatively small graphs. We address this gap and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Simon Geisler , Tobias Schmidt , Hakan Şirin , Daniel Zügner , Aleksandar Bojchevski , Stephan Günnemann

Adversarial training is a training scheme designed to counter adversarial attacks by augmenting the training dataset with adversarial examples. Surprisingly, several studies have observed that loss gradients from adversarially trained DNNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Beomsu Kim , Junghoon Seo , Taegyun Jeon

The surrogate gradient (SG) method has shown significant promise in enhancing the performance of deep spiking neural networks (SNNs), but it also introduces vulnerabilities to adversarial attacks. Although spike coding strategies and neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Runhao Jiang , Chengzhi Jiang , Rui Yan , Huajin Tang