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most citedEvolving Robust Neural Architectures to Defend from Adversarial Attacks

19 citations · 36 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

cs.AI2026

Beyond Imitation: A Framework and Benchmark for LLM-Assisted Peer Review

Rachel S. Y. Teo, Yutaro Yamada, Shashank Kotyan +2

The rapid growth of scientific publishing has strained peer review, particularly in machine learning, raising concerns about declining review quality and increasing reviewer worklo…

cs.CV2026

Prior-Conditioned Gaussian Discriminants for Generalizable AI-generated Image Detection

Shashank Kotyan, Makoto Shing, Yuki Imajuku +2

Diffusion-based generators have made synthetic images ubiquitous, but detectors often fail under simultaneous shifts in generator, prompt/style, and source-domain. We study AI-gene…

cs.LG2026

Sakana Fugu Technical Report

Yujin Tang, Edoardo Cetin, Jinglue Xu +11

The capabilities of frontier Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to advance, with different providers increasingly specializing in distinct domains. This raises a natural next ob…

cs.CV2024

Linking Robustness and Generalization: A k* Distribution Analysis of Concept Clustering in Latent Space for Vision Models

Shashank Kotyan, Pin-Yu Chen, Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas

Most evaluations of vision models use indirect methods to assess latent space quality. These methods often involve adding extra layers to project the latent space into a new one. T…

cs.CV2024

Breaking Free: How to Hack Safety Guardrails in Black-Box Diffusion Models!

Shashank Kotyan, Po-Yuan Mao, Pin-Yu Chen +1

Deep neural networks can be exploited using natural adversarial samples, which do not impact human perception. Current approaches often rely on deep neural networks' white-box natu…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

k* Distribution: Evaluating the Latent Space of Deep Neural Networks using Local Neighborhood Analysis

Shashank Kotyan, Tatsuya Ueda, Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas

Most examinations of neural networks' learned latent spaces typically employ dimensionality reduction techniques such as t-SNE or UMAP. These methods distort the local neighborhood…

cs.CV2023

Synthetic Shifts to Initial Seed Vector Exposes the Brittle Nature of Latent-Based Diffusion Models

Mao Po-Yuan, Shashank Kotyan, Tham Yik Foong +1

Recent advances in Conditional Diffusion Models have led to substantial capabilities in various domains. However, understanding the impact of variations in the initial seed vector…

cs.CV2023

The Challenges of Image Generation Models in Generating Multi-Component Images

Tham Yik Foong, Shashank Kotyan, Po Yuan Mao +1

Recent advances in text-to-image generators have led to substantial capabilities in image generation. However, the complexity of prompts acts as a bottleneck in the quality of imag…

cs.LG2023

Towards Improving Robustness Against Common Corruptions using Mixture of Class Specific Experts

Shashank Kotyan, Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas

Neural networks have demonstrated significant accuracy across various domains, yet their vulnerability to subtle input alterations remains a persistent challenge. Conventional meth…

cs.CV2023

Towards Improving Robustness Against Common Corruptions in Object Detectors Using Adversarial Contrastive Learning

Shashank Kotyan, Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas

Neural networks have revolutionized various domains, exhibiting remarkable accuracy in tasks like natural language processing and computer vision. However, their vulnerability to s…

cs.CV2023

Improving Robustness for Vision Transformer with a Simple Dynamic Scanning Augmentation

Shashank Kotyan, Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas

Vision Transformer (ViT) has demonstrated promising performance in computer vision tasks, comparable to state-of-the-art neural networks. Yet, this new type of deep neural network…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

A reading survey on adversarial machine learning: Adversarial attacks and their understanding

Shashank Kotyan

Deep Learning has empowered us to train neural networks for complex data with high performance. However, with the growing research, several vulnerabilities in neural networks have…

cs.CV2021★ 1 cited

Deep neural network loses attention to adversarial images

Shashank Kotyan, Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas

Adversarial algorithms have shown to be effective against neural networks for a variety of tasks. Some adversarial algorithms perturb all the pixels in the image minimally for the…

cs.NE2019★ 19 cited

Evolving Robust Neural Architectures to Defend from Adversarial Attacks

Shashank Kotyan, Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas

Neural networks are prone to misclassify slightly modified input images. Recently, many defences have been proposed, but none have improved the robustness of neural networks consis…

cs.CV2019★ 1 cited

Representation Quality Of Neural Networks Links To Adversarial Attacks and Defences

Shashank Kotyan, Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas, Moe Matsuki

Neural networks have been shown vulnerable to a variety of adversarial algorithms. A crucial step to understanding the rationale for this lack of robustness is to assess the potent…

cs.LG2019★ 9 cited

Adversarial Robustness Assessment: Why both and Attacks Are Necessary

Shashank Kotyan, Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas

There exists a vast number of adversarial attacks and defences for machine learning algorithms of various types which makes assessing the robustness of algorithms a daunting task.…

cs.RO2019

Self Training Autonomous Driving Agent

Shashank Kotyan, Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas, Venkanna U

Intrinsically, driving is a Markov Decision Process which suits well the reinforcement learning paradigm. In this paper, we propose a novel agent which learns to drive a vehicle wi…

eess.SP2019

Analysis and Comparison of Different Fuzzy Inference Systems used in Decision Making for Secondary Users in Cognitive Radio Network

Ashish Upadhyay, Shashank Kotyan, Shrivishal Tripathi +1

Spectrum scarcity is one of the major challenges that the modern communication engineers are going through because of inefficient utilization of allocated frequency spectrum. The s…

cs.HC2019★ 1 cited

HAUAR: Home Automation Using Action Recognition

Shashank Kotyan, Nishant Kumar, Pankaj Kumar Sahu +1

Today, many of the home automation systems deployed are mostly controlled by humans. This control by humans restricts the automation of home appliances to an extent. Also, most of…

cs.HC2019

Drishtikon: An advanced navigational aid system for visually impaired people

Shashank Kotyan, Nishant Kumar, Pankaj Kumar Sahu +1

Today, many of the aid systems deployed for visually impaired people are mostly made for a single purpose. Be it navigation, object detection, or distance perceiving. Also, most of…