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most citedWild Patterns: Ten Years After the Rise of Adversarial Machine Learning

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cs.LG2025

A Neural Rejection System Against Universal Adversarial Perturbations in Radio Signal Classification

Lu Zhang, Sangarapillai Lambotharan, Gan Zheng +1

Advantages of deep learning over traditional methods have been demonstrated for radio signal classification in the recent years. However, various researchers have discovered that e…

cs.LG2025

Attention-based Adversarial Robust Distillation in Radio Signal Classifications for Low-Power IoT Devices

Lu Zhang, Sangarapillai Lambotharan, Gan Zheng +3

Due to great success of transformers in many applications such as natural language processing and computer vision, transformers have been successfully applied in automatic modulati…

cs.AI2024

A Hybrid Training-time and Run-time Defense Against Adversarial Attacks in Modulation Classification

Lu Zhang, Sangarapillai Lambotharan, Gan Zheng +3

Motivated by the superior performance of deep learning in many applications including computer vision and natural language processing, several recent studies have focused on applyi…

cs.AI2024

Countermeasures Against Adversarial Examples in Radio Signal Classification

Lu Zhang, Sangarapillai Lambotharan, Gan Zheng +2

Deep learning algorithms have been shown to be powerful in many communication network design problems, including that in automatic modulation classification. However, they are vuln…

cs.CV2024★ 22 cited

Serial fusion of multi-modal biometric systems

Gian Luca Marcialis, Paolo Mastinu, Fabio Roli

Serial, or sequential, fusion of multiple biometric matchers has been not thoroughly investigated so far. However, this approach exhibits some advantages with respect to the widely…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

3D Face Reconstruction: the Road to Forensics

Simone Maurizio La Cava, Giulia Orrù, Martin Drahansky +2

3D face reconstruction algorithms from images and videos are applied to many fields, from plastic surgery to the entertainment sector, thanks to their advantageous features. Howeve…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Adversarial Attacks Against Uncertainty Quantification

Emanuele Ledda, Daniele Angioni, Giorgio Piras +3

Machine-learning models can be fooled by adversarial examples, i.e., carefully-crafted input perturbations that force models to output wrong predictions. While uncertainty quantifi…

cs.CV2023

Hardening RGB-D Object Recognition Systems against Adversarial Patch Attacks

Yang Zheng, Luca Demetrio, Antonio Emanuele Cinà +6

RGB-D object recognition systems improve their predictive performances by fusing color and depth information, outperforming neural network architectures that rely solely on colors.…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Minimizing Energy Consumption of Deep Learning Models by Energy-Aware Training

Dario Lazzaro, Antonio Emanuele Cinà, Maura Pintor +4

Deep learning models undergo a significant increase in the number of parameters they possess, leading to the execution of a larger number of operations during inference. This expan…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Dropout Injection at Test Time for Post Hoc Uncertainty Quantification in Neural Networks

Emanuele Ledda, Giorgio Fumera, Fabio Roli

Among Bayesian methods, Monte-Carlo dropout provides principled tools for evaluating the epistemic uncertainty of neural networks. Its popularity recently led to seminal works that…

cs.LG2022★ 3 cited

Security of Deep Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Driving: A Survey

Ambra Demontis, Srishti Gupta, Maura Pintor +6

Reinforcement learning (RL) enables agents to learn optimal behaviors through interaction with their environment and has been increasingly deployed in safety-critical applications,…

cs.GT2022

Stateful Detection of Adversarial Reprogramming

Yang Zheng, Xiaoyi Feng, Zhaoqiang Xia +5

Adversarial reprogramming allows stealing computational resources by repurposing machine learning models to perform a different task chosen by the attacker. For example, a model tr…

cs.CR2022★ 12 cited

Practical Attacks on Machine Learning: A Case Study on Adversarial Windows Malware

Luca Demetrio, Battista Biggio, Fabio Roli

While machine learning is vulnerable to adversarial examples, it still lacks systematic procedures and tools for evaluating its security in different application contexts. In this…

cs.LG2022★ 227 cited

Support Vector Machines under Adversarial Label Contamination

Huang Xiao, Battista Biggio, Blaine Nelson +3

Machine learning algorithms are increasingly being applied in security-related tasks such as spam and malware detection, although their security properties against deliberate attac…

cs.LG2022★ 148 cited

Wild Patterns Reloaded: A Survey of Machine Learning Security against Training Data Poisoning

Antonio Emanuele Cinà, Kathrin Grosse, Ambra Demontis +7

The success of machine learning is fueled by the increasing availability of computing power and large training datasets. The training data is used to learn new models or update exi…

cs.CR2022★ 34 cited

Machine Learning Security against Data Poisoning: Are We There Yet?

Antonio Emanuele Cinà, Kathrin Grosse, Ambra Demontis +3

The recent success of machine learning (ML) has been fueled by the increasing availability of computing power and large amounts of data in many different applications. However, the…

cs.CR2022

Energy-Latency Attacks via Sponge Poisoning

Antonio Emanuele Cinà, Ambra Demontis, Battista Biggio +2

Sponge examples are test-time inputs optimized to increase energy consumption and prediction latency of deep networks deployed on hardware accelerators. By increasing the fraction…

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.CV2021

Can machines learn to see without visual databases?

Alessandro Betti, Marco Gori, Stefano Melacci +2

This paper sustains the position that the time has come for thinking of learning machines that conquer visual skills in a truly human-like context, where a few human-like object su…

cs.CR2021★ 10 cited

Fingerprint recognition with embedded presentation attacks detection: are we ready?

Marco Micheletto, Gian Luca Marcialis, Giulia Orrù +1

The diffusion of fingerprint verification systems for security applications makes it urgent to investigate the embedding of software-based presentation attack detection algorithms…

cs.LG2021★ 6 cited

Why Adversarial Reprogramming Works, When It Fails, and How to Tell the Difference

Yang Zheng, Xiaoyi Feng, Zhaoqiang Xia +5

Adversarial reprogramming allows repurposing a machine-learning model to perform a different task. For example, a model trained to recognize animals can be reprogrammed to recogniz…

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.LG2021★ 3 cited

Backdoor Learning Curves: Explaining Backdoor Poisoning Beyond Influence Functions

Antonio Emanuele Cinà, Kathrin Grosse, Sebastiano Vascon +4

Backdoor attacks inject poisoning samples during training, with the goal of forcing a machine learning model to output an attacker-chosen class when presented a specific trigger at…

cs.LG2021

BAARD: Blocking Adversarial Examples by Testing for Applicability, Reliability and Decidability

Xinglong Chang, Katharina Dost, Kaiqi Zhao +4

Adversarial defenses protect machine learning models from adversarial attacks, but are often tailored to one type of model or attack. The lack of information on unknown potential a…