arXiv:2602. 13298v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper presents a controlled comparative study of convolutional neural network (CNN) topology and image classification performance across the architectural families VGG, ResNet, and GoogLeNet, evaluated on CIFAR-10 under a unified training protocol.
By Manfred M. Fischer, Joshua Pitts
arXiv:2608. 12144v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Over the past decade, many test adequacy metrics have been proposed for deep learning that characterize test dataset adequacy from different perspectives, e.
By Yidi Kao, Shawn Burnham, Tommi Rose Fahy, Ali Ghanbari
Over the past decade, deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success on complex machine-learning tasks, yet the theoretical foundations of their performance remain incomplete. From a statistical viewpoint, a natural question is: can DNNs attain feature-learning and prediction consistency comparable to that of classical models?
The paper reviews 50 image augmentation and generation techniques, categorizing them into ten groups, and conducts a large‑scale empirical study to assess their effectiveness as test generators for embedding‑based image retrieval systems. Using Amazon Titan and OpenCLIP embeddings, the authors evaluate the techniques across four dimensions—embedding‑space similarity, embedding uncertainty, semantic realism, and retrieval failure rate—on CIFAR‑10, ImageNet‑1K, and an industrial dataset. Results show that weather simulation and SaSPA yield the highest uncertainty and failure rates while maintaining realistic visuals, whereas GAN‑based methods produce low realism due to synthetic artifacts.
By Yehan De Silva, Anirudh Sridhar, Armin Lotfy, Nafiseh Kahani, Yvan Labiche, Ziyu Wang, Frank Ouyang, Clare Carty, Azalia Shamsaei
arXiv:2211. 14966v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Deep neural networks (DNNs) are highly vulnerable to adversarial attacks.
By Jiancong Xiao, Yanbo Fan, Ruoyu Sun, Zhi-Quan Luo
arXiv:2409. 10094v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Out-of-Distribution (OoD) detection aims to justify whether a given sample is from the training distribution of the classifier-under-protection, i.
By Kun Fang, Zuopeng Yang, Haibo Hu, Xiaolin Huang, Jie Yang, Qinghua Tao