arXiv Machine Learning

End-to-End Hard-Label Cryptanalytic Model Extraction Using Efficient Sign Recovery

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 11

Distilling Vision-Language Models for Robust Traffic Sign Perception in Autonomous Vehicles

arXiv:2608. 08815v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traffic sign recognition (TSR) models based on deep neural networks achieve strong clean-data performance but remain vulnerable to physically realizable adversarial attacks, including shadow perturbations, natural-light interference, and printed patches.

By Pedram MohajerAnsari, Amir Salarpour, Mert D. Pes\'e
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 11

CertDW: Towards Certified Dataset Ownership Verification via Conformal Calibration

The paper introduces CertDW, a certified dataset watermark and ownership verification method that remains reliable even under malicious perturbations. By leveraging conformal prediction, it defines two statistical measures—principal probability (PP) and watermark robustness (WR)—to evaluate model stability on benign versus watermarked samples. The authors derive certification conditions linking WR to a PP-based threshold and provide a high‑probability bound on false positives, enabling robust ownership verification when a suspicious model’s WR exceeds the PP values of benign models.

By Ting Qiao, Yiming Li, Jianbin Li, Yingjia Wang, Leyi Qi, Junfeng Guo, Ruili Feng, Dacheng Tao
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 18

Fast Preemptive Robustification: High-Frequency Response Anti-Aligns Shared Vulnerability

The paper introduces Fast Preemptive Robustification (FPR), a lightweight defense that enhances the robustness of deep neural networks against transferable adversarial attacks. By sharpening Laplacian responses through a single 3×3 channel‑wise convolution, FPR eliminates the need for surrogate models, iterative optimization, or specialized training. Experiments show that FPR lowers untargeted attack success rates by 12.7% and reduces targeted attack success from 10.7% to 4.1%.

By Jiaming Liang, Chi-Man Pun
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 8

ADAGE: Active Defenses Against GNN Extraction

arXiv:2503. 00065v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) achieve high performance in various real-world applications, such as drug discovery, traffic states prediction, and recommendation systems.

By Jing Xu, Franziska Boenisch, Adam Dziedzic