arXiv:2610.27533v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Machine learning benchmarks act as guideposts for model development and spur the creation of training datasets intended to improve benchmark scores....
By Yixin Wu, Rachel Hong, Jamie Morgenstern, Tadayoshi Kohno
arXiv:2510. 09288v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The vulnerability of machine learning models to adversarial attacks remains a critical societal security challenge.
By Pablo G. Arce, Roi Naveiro, David R\'ios Insua
The paper introduces a new class of adversarial attacks that eliminate the need for a backward pass by predicting input gradients from forward-pass hidden states using lightweight linear regression. The authors theoretically derive exact affine conditional gradient means, proving optimality in the idealized NTK regime, and empirically demonstrate that their methods recover most of FGSM’s performance while achieving a 532% increase in throughput on practical finite-width models. This approach offers a simple and general way to generate adversarial examples much faster under realistic wall‑clock constraints.
By Kamil Ciosek, Aleksandr V. Petrov, Nicol\`o Felicioni, Konstantina Palla
arXiv:2607. 17105v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: It is crucial to safeguard computer networks from evolving network security threats and unknown cyberattacks.
By Khushnaseeb Roshan
arXiv:2506.12454v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: What fundamentally distinguishes an adversarial attack from a misclassification due to limited model expressivity or finite data? In this wor...
By Matteo Vilucchio, Lenka Zdeborov\'a, Bruno Loureiro
arXiv:2509. 23689v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Model Merging (MM) has proven to be an effective alternative to multi-task learning, where several fine-tuned models are merged, without access to the tasks' training data, into one model that retains performance across different tasks.
By Mauro Conti, Ankit Gangwal, Aaryan Ajay Sharma
arXiv:2606. 12075v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) heavily utlize Machine Learning (ML) but ML models can be manipulated via adversarial attacks.
By Mayank Raj, Nathaniel D. Bastian, Lance Fiondella, Gokhan Kul
arXiv:2503. 01734v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Attacks on machine learning models have been extensively studied through stateless optimization.
By Kyle Domico, Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand, Ryan Sheatsley, Eric Pauley, Josiah Hanna, Patrick McDaniel
We’ve developed a method to assess whether a neural network classifier can reliably defend against adversarial attacks not seen during training. Our method yields a new metric, UAR (Unforeseen Attack Robustness), which evaluates the robustness of a single model against an unanticipated attack, and highlights the need to measure performance across a more diverse range of unforeseen attacks.
The paper introduces a GAN‑based framework for detecting DDoS attacks that are designed to evade traditional security systems. It combines Random Forests, Deep Neural Ensembles, and Transformer models trained on the CICDDoS2019 dataset with synthetic adversarial traffic generated by a WGAN‑GP. Experiments show that this hybrid training significantly improves detection accuracy and resilience against unseen adversarial traffic, and real‑world tests confirm its practical effectiveness.
By Makram Chehayeb, Walid Fahs, Amina Rizk, Rida Khatoun, Omran Berjawi
arXiv:2607. 04145v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adversarial attacks guide and provide additional training and test data for both adversarial training and adversarial robustness validation, and expose the 'piecewise linearity' of deep learning based models.
By Naman Goyal, Milan Chaudhari
The paper investigates how adversarial examples transfer between client models in federated learning and explores the relationship between these examples and client data distributions. It proposes a defense strategy based on adversarial training that leverages the transferability of model robustness. Experiments on real-life datasets demonstrate that the new attack and defense methods outperform existing state‑of‑the‑art approaches.
By Zuobin Xiong, Deval Mukherjee, Homook Cho, Wei Li