Adversarial examples have posed a serious threat to deep neural networks due to their transferability. Existing transfer-based attacks tend to improve the transferability of adversarial examples by destroying intrinsic features. However, prior work typically employed single-dimensional or additive importance estimates, which provide inaccurate representations of features. In this work, we propose the Multi-Feature Attention Attack (MFAA), which fuses multiple layers of feature representations to disrupt category-related features and thus improve the transferability of the adversarial examples. First, MFAA introduces a layer-aggregation gradient (LAG) to obtain guidance maps, which reflect the importance of features in multiple scales. Second, it generates ensemble attention (EA), preserving object-specific features and offsetting model-specific features based on the guidance maps. Third, EA is iteratively disturbed to achieve high transferability of the adversarial examples. Empirical evaluation on the standard ImageNet dataset shows that adversarial examples crafted by MFAA can effectively attack different networks. Compared to the state-of-the-art transferable attacks, our attack improves the average attack success rate of the black-box model with defense from 88.5% to 94.1% on single-model attacks and from 86.6% to 95.1% on ensemble attacks. Our code is available at Github: https://github.com/KWPCCC/MFAA.

Accurate IP geolocation is indispensable for location-aware applications. While recent advances based on router-centric IP graphs are considered cutting-edge, one challenge remain: the prevalence of sparse IP graphs (14.24% with fewer than 10 nodes, 9.73% isolated) limits graph learning. To mitigate this issue, we designate the target host as the central node and aggregate multiple last-hop routers to construct the target-centric IP graph, instead of relying solely on the router with the smallest last-hop latency as in previous works. Experiments on three real-world datasets show that our method significantly improves the geolocation accuracy compared to existing baselines.

Federated Learning (FL) is an emerging distributed machine learning technology. However, in practical applications, it frequently encounters the challenge of client resource heterogeneity. This can result in long wait times or even model training failures during the communication process of FL. To address this problem, we propose a dynamic hierarchical federated learning mechanism for financial models (DHFM-FLM). The local client adopts a dynamic model training design that leverages the property of resource heterogeneity to enhance the performance of the local model. To avoid prolonged wait times for failing clients, a dynamic communication detection design is proposed at three critical junctures. In each round, the model hierarchical reservation communication design is employed to collect models in segments, thus reducing communication congestion and preventing malicious attacks on the communication process. Experiments with heterogeneous computation and communication resources demonstrate that utilizing the DHFM-FLM boosts model performance by approximately 5-8% and reduces communication time by about 15%. Additionally, DHFM-FLM increases the success rate of the FL task by approximately 6%.

Accurate IP geolocation is crucial for location-aware applications. While recent advances in router-centric IP graph methods have garnered attention, they face two persistent challenges: (1) the sparsity problem of IP graphs in rural areas and (2) the limited explainability of current IP geolocation systems. To tackle these issues, we present ExGeo, a novel and explainable graph-based approach for IP geolocation. Specifically, we introduce a target-centric IP graph, reducing sparsity and enhancing contextual information utilization. Additionally, we endow the model with explainability through a variational graph information bottleneck strategy. Experiments on three real-world datasets demonstrate significant accuracy and explainability improvements. Source code is released at https://github.com/ICDM-UESTC/ExGeo.

Abstract The high‐level semantic information extracted from the pedestrian attribute feature is an important element for pedestrian recognition. Pedestrian attribute recognition plays an important role in both intelligent video surveillance and pedestrian re‐identification promoting the convenience of searching and performance of model. This paper tries finding a practical method to improve the performance of the pedestrian re‐identification by combining pedestrian attributes and identities. The multi‐task learning method combines pedestrian recognition and attribute information in a direct way that considers the correlation between pedestrian attributes and identities but ignores the principle and degree of such correlation. To solve this problem, a new pedestrian recognition framework based on attribute mining and reasoning is proposed in this paper. To enhance the expression ability of attribute features, it designs spatial channel attention module (SCAM) based on attention mechanism to extract features from every attribute. SCAM can not only locate the attributes on the feature map, but also effectively mine channel features with a higher degree of association with attributes. In addition, both spatial attention model and channel attention model are integrated by multiple groups of parallel branches, which further improve the network performance. Finally, using the semantic reasoning and information transmission function of graph convolutional network, the relationship between attribute features and pedestrian features can be mined. Besides, pedestrian features with stronger expression ability can also be obtained. Experiment work is conducted in two databases, DukeMTMC‐reID and Market‐1501, which are commonly used in pedestrian recognition tasks. On the Market‐1501 dataset, the final effect of the algorithm model CMC‐1 can reach 94.74%, and mAP can reach 87.02%; on the DukeMTMC‐reID dataset, CMC‐1 can reach 87.03%, and mAP can reach 77.11%. The results show that our method is at the top of the existing pedestrian recognition methods.

Person Re‐identification (Re‐ID) is aimed at solving the matching problem of the same pedestrian at a different time and in different places. Due to the cross‐device condition, the appearance of different pedestrians may have a high degree of similarity; at this time, using the global features of pedestrians to match often cannot achieve good results. In order to solve these problems, we designed a Spatial Attention Network Guided by Attribute Label (SAN‐GAL), which is a dual‐trace network containing both attribute classification and Re‐ID. Different from the previous approach of simply adding a branch of attribute binary classification network, our SAN‐GAL is mainly divided into two connecting steps. First, with attribute labels as guidance, we generate Attribute Attention Heat map (AAH) through Grad‐CAM algorithm to accurately locate fine‐grained attribute areas of pedestrians. Then, the Attribute Spatial Attention Module (ASAM) is constructed according to the AHH which is taken as the prior knowledge and introduced into the Re‐ID network to assist in the discrimination of the Re‐ID task. In particular, our SAN‐GAL network can integrate the local attribute information and global ID information of pedestrians without introducing additional attribute region annotation, which has good flexibility and adaptability. The test results on Market1501 and DukeMTMC‐reID show that our SAN‐GAL can achieve good results and can achieve 85.8% Rank‐1 accuracy on DukeMTMC‐reID dataset, which is obviously competitive compared with most Re‐ID algorithms.