13 papers
Distilling Vision-Language Models for Robust Traffic Sign Perception in Autonomous Vehicles
Pedram MohajerAnsari, Amir Salarpour, Mert D. Pesé
Traffic sign recognition (TSR) models based on deep neural networks achieve strong clean-data performance but remain vulnerable to physically realizable adversarial attacks, includ…
Adversarial Prompts for Acceptance Collapse in Speculative Decoding
Run Wang, Chaoyi Zhou, Xi Liu +7
Lossless acceleration schemes, such as speculative decoding, promise significant inference speedups by relying on dynamic token-level alignment between a draft and a target model.…
Budget-Aware Adaptive Adversarial Patches for Black-Box Object Detection
Pedram MohajerAnsari, Amir Salarpour, David Fernandez +1
Adversarial patches pose a practical threat to modern object detectors. Prior work shows vulnerability, but three gaps limit actionable insight: (i) few \emph{score-based black-box…
Understanding Adversarial Transferability in Vision-Language Models for Autonomous Driving: A Cross-Architecture Analysis
David Fernandez, Pedram MohajerAnsari, Amir Salarpour +1
Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly used in autonomous driving because they combine visual perception with language-based reasoning, supporting more interpretable decisi…
Comparative Analysis of Patch Attack on VLM-Based Autonomous Driving Architectures
David Fernandez, Pedram MohajerAnsari, Amir Salarpour +3
Vision-language models are emerging for autonomous driving, yet their robustness to physical adversarial attacks remains unexplored. This paper presents a systematic framework for…
SLNet: A Super-Lightweight Geometry-Adaptive Network for 3D Point Cloud Recognition
Mohammad Saeid, Amir Salarpour, Pedram MohajerAnsari +1
We present SLNet, a lightweight backbone for 3D point cloud recognition designed to achieve strong performance without the computational cost of many recent attention, graph, and d…