4 papers
Adversarial Decoys: Misdirecting Attention-Based Defenses in ViT
Giulia Marchiori Pietrosanti, Giulio Rossolini, Giorgio Buttazzo
Vision Transformers (ViTs) remain vulnerable to localized adversarial attacks, e.g., adversarial patches, while recent test-time defenses mitigate them by suppressing image tokens…
Edge-Only Universal Adversarial Attacks in Distributed Learning
Giulio Rossolini, Tommaso Baldi, Alessandro Biondi +1
Distributed learning frameworks, which partition neural network models across multiple computing nodes, enhance efficiency in collaborative edge-cloud systems, but may also introdu…
Benchmarking the Spatial Robustness of DNNs via Natural and Adversarial Localized Corruptions
Giulia Marchiori Pietrosanti, Giulio Rossolini, Alessandro Biondi +1
The robustness of deep neural networks is a crucial factor in safety-critical applications, particularly in complex and dynamic environments (e.g., medical or driving scenarios) wh…
Concise Thoughts: Impact of Output Length on LLM Reasoning and Cost
Sania Nayab, Giulio Rossolini, Marco Simoni +4
Today's large language models (LLMs) can solve challenging question-answering tasks, and prompt engineering techniques, such as chain-of-thought (CoT), have gained attention for en…