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most citedImageNet-Patch: A Dataset for Benchmarking Machine Learning Robustness against Adversarial Patches

47 citations · 84 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.CR2026

DroidBreaker: Practical and Functional Problem-Space Attacks on Machine-Learning Android Malware Detectors

Christian Scano, Diego Soi, Angelo Sotgiu +5

Adversarial APKs are Android applications modified in the problem space to evade machine-learning malware detectors. In this work, we first show that, despite claims, existing prob…

cs.LG2026

Label-efficient Training Updates for Malware Detection over Time

Luca Minnei, Cristian Manca, Giorgio Piras +6

Machine Learning (ML)-based detectors are becoming essential to counter the proliferation of malware. However, common ML algorithms are not designed to cope with the dynamic nature…

cs.LG2025

Evaluating Line-level Localization Ability of Learning-based Code Vulnerability Detection Models

Marco Pintore, Giorgio Piras, Angelo Sotgiu +2

To address the extremely concerning problem of software vulnerability, system security is often entrusted to Machine Learning (ML) algorithms. Despite their now established detecti…

cs.LG2025

Regression-aware Continual Learning for Android Malware Detection

Daniele Ghiani, Daniele Angioni, Giorgio Piras +6

Malware evolves rapidly, forcing machine learning-based detectors to be continuously updated. With antivirus vendors processing hundreds of thousands of new samples daily, datasets…

cs.CV2025

RAID: A Dataset for Testing the Adversarial Robustness of AI-Generated Image Detectors

Hicham Eddoubi, Jonas Ricker, Federico Cocchi +7

AI-generated images have reached a quality level at which humans are incapable of reliably distinguishing them from real images. To counteract the inherent risk of fraud and disinf…

cs.CV2024

Robust image classification with multi-modal large language models

Francesco Villani, Igor Maljkovic, Dario Lazzaro +3

Deep Neural Networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, i.e., carefully crafted input samples that can cause models to make incorrect predictions with high confidence. To miti…

cs.CR2022★ 47 cited

ImageNet-Patch: A Dataset for Benchmarking Machine Learning Robustness against Adversarial Patches

Maura Pintor, Daniele Angioni, Angelo Sotgiu +4

Adversarial patches are optimized contiguous pixel blocks in an input image that cause a machine-learning model to misclassify it. However, their optimization is computationally de…

cs.LG2021★ 5 cited

Indicators of Attack Failure: Debugging and Improving Optimization of Adversarial Examples

Maura Pintor, Luca Demetrio, Angelo Sotgiu +4

Evaluating robustness of machine-learning models to adversarial examples is a challenging problem. Many defenses have been shown to provide a false sense of robustness by causing g…

cs.LG2020

FADER: Fast Adversarial Example Rejection

Francesco Crecchi, Marco Melis, Angelo Sotgiu +2

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, i.e., carefully-crafted inputs that mislead classification at test time. Recent defenses have been shown to improve adv…

cs.LG2020★ 17 cited

Domain Knowledge Alleviates Adversarial Attacks in Multi-Label Classifiers

Stefano Melacci, Gabriele Ciravegna, Angelo Sotgiu +4

Adversarial attacks on machine learning-based classifiers, along with defense mechanisms, have been widely studied in the context of single-label classification problems. In this p…

cs.LG2019★ 10 cited

secml: A Python Library for Secure and Explainable Machine Learning

Maura Pintor, Luca Demetrio, Angelo Sotgiu +3

We present \texttt{secml}, an open-source Python library for secure and explainable machine learning. It implements the most popular attacks against machine learning, including tes…

cs.CV2019

Deep Neural Rejection against Adversarial Examples

Angelo Sotgiu, Ambra Demontis, Marco Melis +4

Despite the impressive performances reported by deep neural networks in different application domains, they remain largely vulnerable to adversarial examples, i.e., input samples t…

cs.CR2018★ 5 cited

IntelliAV: Building an Effective On-Device Android Malware Detector

Mansour Ahmadi, Angelo Sotgiu, Giorgio Giacinto

The importance of employing machine learning for malware detection has become explicit to the security community. Several anti-malware vendors have claimed and advertised the appli…