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Vulnerability to adversarial attacks is one of the principal hurdles to the adoption of deep learning in safety-critical applications. Despite significant efforts, both practical and theoretical, training deep learning models robust to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Luca Bortolussi , Ginevra Carbone , Luca Laurenti , Andrea Patane , Guido Sanguinetti , Matthew Wicker

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have recently gained significant interest in on-chip learning in embedded devices and emerged as an energy-efficient alternative to conventional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). However, to extend SNNs to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Manh V. Nguyen , Liang Zhao , Bobin Deng , William Severa , Honghui Xu , Shaoen Wu

The integration of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) is gradually attracting attention due to the low power consumption and high efficiency in processing the non-Euclidean data represented by graphs. However,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Nan Yin , Mengzhu Wang , Zhenghan Chen , Giulia De Masi , Bin Gu , Huan Xiong

In the past few years, neural networks have evolved from simple Feedforward Neural Networks to more complex neural networks, such as Convolutional Neural Networks and Recurrent Neural Networks. Where CNNs are a perfect fit for tasks where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Harshil Darji

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) needs to be both efficient and robust for practical uses. Quantization and structure simplification are promising ways to adapt DNNs to mobile devices, and adversarial training is the most popular method to make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Zhijian Li , Bao Wang , Jack Xin

Feature attributions are a popular tool for explaining the behavior of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), but have recently been shown to be vulnerable to attacks that produce divergent explanations for nearby inputs. This lack of robustness is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Zifan Wang , Haofan Wang , Shakul Ramkumar , Matt Fredrikson , Piotr Mardziel , Anupam Datta

Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) demonstrates excellent performance on tasks that can be solved by trained policy. It plays a dominant role among cutting-edge machine learning approaches using multi-layer Neural networks (NNs). At the same…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Devdhar Patel , Hananel Hazan , Daniel J. Saunders , Hava Siegelmann , Robert Kozma

Spiking neural networks (SNNs), particularly the single-spike variant in which neurons spike at most once, are considerably more energy efficient than standard artificial neural networks (ANNs). However, single-spike SSNs are difficult to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Luke Taylor , Andrew King , Nicol Harper

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are emerging as a promising alternative to traditional artificial neural networks (ANNs), offering biological plausibility and energy efficiency. Despite these merits, SNNs are frequently hampered by limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Yi Xiao , Qiangqiang Yuan , Kui Jiang , Wenke Huang , Qiang Zhang , Tingting Zheng , Chia-Wen Lin , Liangpei Zhang

In this work we revisit gradient regularization for adversarial robustness with some new ingredients. First, we derive new per-image theoretical robustness bounds based on local gradient information. These bounds strongly motivate input…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-07 Chris Finlay , Adam M Oberman

Robustness against adversarial attack in neural networks is an important research topic in the machine learning community. We observe one major source of vulnerability of neural nets is from overparameterized fully-connected layers. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Bingyuan Liu , Christopher Malon , Lingzhou Xue , Erik Kruus

Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) are quickly gaining traction as a viable alternative to Deep Neural Networks (DNN). In comparison to DNNs, SNNs are more computationally powerful and provide superior energy efficiency. SNNs, while exciting at…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Karthikeyan Nagarajan , Junde Li , Sina Sayyah Ensan , Mohammad Nasim Imtiaz Khan , Sachhidh Kannan , Swaroop Ghosh

A widely believed explanation for the remarkable generalization capacities of overparameterized neural networks is that the optimization algorithms used for training induce an implicit bias towards benign solutions. To grasp this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Maria Matveev , Vit Fojtik , Hung-Hsu Chou , Gitta Kutyniok , Johannes Maly

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) represent the latest generation of neural computation, offering a brain-inspired alternative to conventional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). Unlike ANNs, which depend on continuous-valued signals, SNNs…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Sales G. Aribe

As machine learning models increasingly process sensitive data, understanding their vulnerability to privacy attacks is vital. Membership inference attacks (MIAs) exploit model responses to infer whether specific data points were used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Ayana Moshruba , Shay Snyder , Hamed Poursiami , Maryam Parsa

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have received widespread attention as an ultra-low power computing paradigm. Recent studies have shown that SNNs suffer from severe overfitting, which limits their generalization performance. In this paper, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Lin Zuo , Yongqi Ding , Wenwei Luo , Mengmeng Jing , Kunshan Yang

Neuromorphic hardware implementations of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) promise energy-efficient, low-latency AI through sparse, event-driven computation. Yet, training SNNs under fine temporal discretization remains a major challenge,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Roel Koopman , Sebastian Otte , Sander Bohté

We investigate the robustness of sparse artificial neural networks trained with adaptive topology. We focus on a simple yet effective architecture consisting of three sparse layers with 99% sparsity followed by a dense layer, applied to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Bendegúz Sulyok , Gergely Palla , Filippo Radicchi , Santo Fortunato

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer potential advantages in energy efficiency but currently trail Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) in versatility, largely due to challenges in efficient input encoding. Recent work shows that direct coding…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Ilkin Aliyev , Jesus Lopez , Tosiron Adegbija

Surrogate gradients are a standard tool for training spiking neural networks (SNNs), but conventional hard forward or surrogate backward training couples a nonsmooth forward model with a biased gradient estimator. We study sharpness aware…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Maximilian Nicholson