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Publications (7)

cs.LG2022

MORA: Improving Ensemble Robustness Evaluation with Model-Reweighing Attack

Yunrui Yu, Xitong Gao, Cheng-Zhong Xu

Adversarial attacks can deceive neural networks by adding tiny perturbations to their input data. Ensemble defenses, which are trained to minimize attack transferability among sub-…

cs.LG2026

Why the Maximum Second Derivative of Activations Matters for Adversarial Robustness

Yunrui Yu, Hang Su, Jun Zhu

This work investigates the critical role of activation function curvature -- quantified by the maximum second derivative -- in adversarial robustness. Using the Recurs…

cs.LG2025

RCR-AF: Enhancing Model Generalization via Rademacher Complexity Reduction Activation Function

Yunrui Yu, Kafeng Wang, Hang Su +1

Despite their widespread success, deep neural networks remain critically vulnerable to adversarial attacks, posing significant risks in safety-sensitive applications. This paper in…

cs.CV2021

Adversarial Attacks on ML Defense Models Competition

Yinpeng Dong, Qi-An Fu, Xiao Yang +25

Due to the vulnerability of deep neural networks (DNNs) to adversarial examples, a large number of defense techniques have been proposed to alleviate this problem in recent years.…

cs.LG2026

Dummy-Aware Weighted Attack (DAWA): Breaking the Safe Sink in Dummy Class Defenses

Yunrui Yu, Xuxiang Feng, Pengda Qin +5

Adversarial robustness evaluation faces a critical challenge as new defense paradigms emerge that can exploit limitations in existing assessment methods. This paper reveals that Du…

cs.LG2021

LAFEAT: Piercing Through Adversarial Defenses with Latent Features

Yunrui Yu, Xitong Gao, Cheng-Zhong Xu

Deep convolutional neural networks are susceptible to adversarial attacks. They can be easily deceived to give an incorrect output by adding a tiny perturbation to the input. This…