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most citedBUZz: BUffer Zones for defending adversarial examples in image classification

4 citations · 13 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

cs.CV2026

AIRRI: Towards a Human-Readable, Machine-Resistant Reading Interface

Emory Salaun, Syed Ayon, Kaleel Mahmood +1

The rapid advancement of image-to-text extraction systems and large language models (LLMs) poses new challenges for educational assessment by making assignment materials easy to tr…

cs.LG2026

Analyzing Physical Adversarial Example Threats to Machine Learning in Election Systems

Khaleque Md Aashiq Kamal, Surya Eada, Aayushi Verma +4

Developments in the machine learning voting domain have shown both promising results and risks. Trained models perform well on ballot classification tasks (> 99% accuracy) but are…

cs.CR2026

On the Evidentiary Limits of Membership Inference for Copyright Auditing

Murat Bilgehan Ertan, Emirhan Böge, Min Chen +2

As large language models (LLMs) are trained on increasingly opaque corpora, membership inference attacks (MIAs) have been proposed to audit whether copyrighted texts were used duri…

cs.CL2025

EMTSF:Extraordinary Mixture of SOTA Models for Time Series Forecasting

Musleh Alharthi, Kaleel Mahmood, Sarosh Patel +1

The immense success of the Transformer architecture in Natural Language Processing has led to its adoption in Time Se ries Forecasting (TSF), where superior performance has been sh…

cs.CR2025

Busting the Paper Ballot: Voting Meets Adversarial Machine Learning

Kaleel Mahmood, Caleb Manicke, Ethan Rathbun +5

We show the security risk associated with using machine learning classifiers in United States election tabulators. The central classification task in election tabulation is decidin…

cs.CV2025

Beyond Anonymization: Object Scrubbing for Privacy-Preserving 2D and 3D Vision Tasks

Murat Bilgehan Ertan, Ronak Sahu, Phuong Ha Nguyen +2

We introduce ROAR (Robust Object Removal and Re-annotation), a scalable framework for privacy-preserving dataset obfuscation that eliminates sensitive objects instead of modifying…

cs.CL2024

Efficient Context Propagating Perceiver Architectures for Auto-Regressive Language Modeling

Kaleel Mahmood, Shaoyi Huang

One of the key challenges in Transformer architectures is the quadratic complexity of the attention mechanism, which limits the efficient processing of long sequences. Many recent…

cs.LG2024

Theoretical Corrections and the Leveraging of Reinforcement Learning to Enhance Triangle Attack

Nicole Meng, Caleb Manicke, David Chen +4

Adversarial examples represent a serious issue for the application of machine learning models in many sensitive domains. For generating adversarial examples, decision based black-b…

cs.LG2024

Certifying Adapters: Enabling and Enhancing the Certification of Classifier Adversarial Robustness

Jieren Deng, Hanbin Hong, Aaron Palmer +5

Randomized smoothing has become a leading method for achieving certified robustness in deep classifiers against l_{p}-norm adversarial perturbations. Current approaches for achievi…

cs.CV2024

Distilling Adversarial Robustness Using Heterogeneous Teachers

Jieren Deng, Aaron Palmer, Rigel Mahmood +4

Achieving resiliency against adversarial attacks is necessary prior to deploying neural network classifiers in domains where misclassification incurs substantial costs, e.g., self-…

cs.CR2023★ 1 cited

AutoReP: Automatic ReLU Replacement for Fast Private Network Inference

Hongwu Peng, Shaoyi Huang, Tong Zhou +11

The growth of the Machine-Learning-As-A-Service (MLaaS) market has highlighted clients' data privacy and security issues. Private inference (PI) techniques using cryptographic prim…

cs.LG2023

Attacking All Tasks at Once Using Adversarial Examples in Multi-Task Learning

Lijun Zhang, Xiao Liu, Kaleel Mahmood +2

Visual content understanding frequently relies on multi-task models to extract robust representations of a single visual input for multiple downstream tasks. However, in comparison…

cs.NE2023★ 1 cited

Neurogenesis Dynamics-inspired Spiking Neural Network Training Acceleration

Shaoyi Huang, Haowen Fang, Kaleel Mahmood +7

Biologically inspired Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have attracted significant attention for their ability to provide extremely energy-efficient machine intelligence through event…

cs.LG2022

Game Theoretic Mixed Experts for Combinational Adversarial Machine Learning

Ethan Rathbun, Kaleel Mahmood, Sohaib Ahmad +2

Recent advances in adversarial machine learning have shown that defenses considered to be robust are actually susceptible to adversarial attacks which are specifically customized t…

cs.CV2022

Privacy Attacks Against Biometric Models with Fewer Samples: Incorporating the Output of Multiple Models

Sohaib Ahmad, Benjamin Fuller, Kaleel Mahmood

Authentication systems are vulnerable to model inversion attacks where an adversary is able to approximate the inverse of a target machine learning model. Biometric models are a pr…

cs.NE2022★ 2 cited

Attacking the Spike: On the Transferability and Security of Spiking Neural Networks to Adversarial Examples

Nuo Xu, Kaleel Mahmood, Haowen Fang +3

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have attracted much attention for their high energy efficiency and recent advances in classification performance. However, unlike traditional deep le…

cs.CR2021

Back in Black: A Comparative Evaluation of Recent State-Of-The-Art Black-Box Attacks

Kaleel Mahmood, Rigel Mahmood, Ethan Rathbun +1

The field of adversarial machine learning has experienced a near exponential growth in the amount of papers being produced since 2018. This massive information output has yet to be…

cs.CV2021★ 1 cited

On the Robustness of Vision Transformers to Adversarial Examples

Kaleel Mahmood, Rigel Mahmood, Marten van Dijk

Recent advances in attention-based networks have shown that Vision Transformers can achieve state-of-the-art or near state-of-the-art results on many image classification tasks. Th…

cs.LG2020★ 4 cited

Beware the Black-Box: on the Robustness of Recent Defenses to Adversarial Examples

Kaleel Mahmood, Deniz Gurevin, Marten van Dijk +1

Many defenses have recently been proposed at venues like NIPS, ICML, ICLR and CVPR. These defenses are mainly focused on mitigating white-box attacks. They do not properly examine…

cs.LG2019★ 4 cited

BUZz: BUffer Zones for defending adversarial examples in image classification

Kaleel Mahmood, Phuong Ha Nguyen, Lam M. Nguyen +2

We propose a novel defense against all existing gradient based adversarial attacks on deep neural networks for image classification problems. Our defense is based on a combination…