arXiv AI

Towards One-for-All Robustness Across a Continuum of Threat Levels

The paper introduces the Threat Conditional Network (TCN), a model that achieves robust performance across a continuous range of adversarial threat levels. TCN splits representation learning into a threat‑invariant backbone and a lightweight threat‑conditional adaptor, using Fourier‑based embeddings and channel‑wise affine modulation to condition on perturbation budgets. Experiments on CIFAR‑10, CIFAR‑100, and Tiny‑ImageNet demonstrate that TCN matches or exceeds ensembles of budget‑specialized models while adding only 4.6% more parameters, and it generalizes to unseen budgets and mismatched threat conditions.

arXiv Machine Learning
2d ago

MIG-COW: Transferable Adversarial Attacks on Deepfake Detectors via Gradient Decomposition

MIG‑COW is a new adversarial attack framework that uses momentum‑integrated gradients and a consensus‑orthogonal decomposition to create highly generalizable, visually imperceptible perturbations against deepfake detectors. It achieves a 99.96% white‑box attack success rate on the AADD‑2025 Challenge benchmarks while maintaining high perceptual similarity (SSIM). In black‑box settings, its success rate drops to 7.16%, and adding low‑performing but diverse models to the ensemble can reduce attack effectiveness, highlighting the importance of careful surrogate model selection.

By Wonjune Seo, Joonhyuk Baek, Yeseong Jung, Saerom Park
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 AI
Jun 18

Revealing Hidden Vulnerabilities in Autoencoders through Gradient Signal Restoration

arXiv:2505. 03646v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Adversarial robustness of deep autoencoders (AEs) has received less attention than that of discriminative models, although their compressed latent representations induce ill-conditioned mappings that can amplify small input perturbations and destabilize reconstructions.

By Chethan Krishnamurthy Ramanaik, Arjun Roy, Tobias Callies, Eirini Ntoutsi