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Adversarial Examples: Attacks and Defenses for Deep Learning

Yuan, Xiaoyong, He, Pan, Zhu, Qile, Li, Xiaolin·2019·IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems

Abstract

With rapid progress and significant successes in a wide spectrum of applications, deep learning is being applied in many safety-critical environments. However, deep neural networks (DNNs) have been recently found vulnerable to well-designed input samples called adversarial examples. Adversarial perturbations are imperceptible to human but can easily fool DNNs in the testing/deploying stage. The vulnerability to adversarial examples becomes one of the major risks for applying DNNs in safety-critical environments. Therefore, attacks and defenses on adversarial examples draw great attention. In this paper, we review recent findings on adversarial examples for DNNs, summarize the methods for generating adversarial examples, and propose a taxonomy of these methods. Under the taxonomy, applications for adversarial examples are investigated. We further elaborate on countermeasures for adversarial examples. In addition, three major challenges in adversarial examples and the potential solutions are discussed.

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Authors
Yuan, X., He, P., Zhu, Q., & Li, X.
Affiliations
University of Florida (US)
Venue
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
Published
2019-09
Volume
30
Issue
9
Pages
2805-2824
ISSN
  • 2162-237X (ISSN-L)
  • 2162-2388
OpenAlex
W2963178695
Cited by
1,733
References
137
Citations by year
2026: 106 · 2025: 170 · 2024: 199 · 2023: 258 · 2022: 258 · 2021: 327 · 2020: 280 · 2019: 119 · 2018: 14 · 2017: 1 · 2012: 1
FWCI
112.23
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
National Science Foundation (CNS-1842407, CNS-1747783, CNS-1624782, OAC-1229576)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Digital Media Forensic Detection
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Security and Verification in Computing
Keywords
adversarial examples, adversarial attacks, adversarial defense, deep neural network, adversarial perturbations, adversarial example generation, safety-critical systems

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