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Empirical studies have widely demonstrated that neural networks are highly sensitive to small, adversarial perturbations of the input. The worst-case robustness against these so-called adversarial examples can be quantified by the Lipschitz…

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Neural networks are prone to misclassify slightly modified input images. Recently, many defences have been proposed, but none have improved the robustness of neural networks consistently. Here, we propose to use adversarial attacks as a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Shashank Kotyan , Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are a class of nonlinear dynamical systems often used to model sequence-to-sequence maps. RNNs have excellent expressive power but lack the stability or robustness guarantees that are necessary for many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Max Revay , Ruigang Wang , Ian R. Manchester

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have attracted great attention for their energy-efficient operations and biologically inspired structures, offering potential advantages over Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) in terms of energy efficiency and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Yujia Liu , Tong Bu , Jianhao Ding , Zecheng Hao , Tiejun Huang , Zhaofei Yu

Lipschitz continuity characterizes the worst-case sensitivity of neural networks to small input perturbations; yet its dynamics (i.e. temporal evolution) during training remains under-explored. We present a rigorous mathematical framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Róisín Luo , James McDermott , Christian Gagné , Qiang Sun , Colm O'Riordan

This paper proposes a sensitivity analysis framework based on set valued mapping for deep neural networks (DNN) to understand and compute how the solutions (model weights) of DNN respond to perturbations in the training data. As a DNN may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Xin Wang , Feilong Wang , Xuegang Ban

Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have rivaled humans on many visual tasks, yet they remain vulnerable to near-imperceptible perturbations generated by adversarial attacks. Recent work shows that aligning DCNN representations with…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-07 Zhenan Shao , Tianyu Ren , Chengxiao Wang , Leyla Isik , Diane M. Beck

Though Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have surpassed human-level performance on tasks such as object classification and face verification, they can easily be fooled by adversarial attacks. These attacks add a small perturbation to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Rajeev Ranjan , Swami Sankaranarayanan , Carlos D. Castillo , Rama Chellappa

For a given stable recurrent neural network (RNN) that is trained to perform a classification task using sequential inputs, we quantify explicit robustness bounds as a function of trainable weight matrices. The sequential inputs can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Guangyi Liu , Arash Amini , Martin Takac , Nader Motee

Thanks to their extensive capacity, over-parameterized neural networks exhibit superior predictive capabilities and generalization. However, having a large parameter space is considered one of the main suspects of the neural networks'…

Recent work has shown that convolutional networks can be substantially deeper, more accurate, and efficient to train if they contain shorter connections between layers close to the input and those close to the output. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-09 Gao Huang , Zhuang Liu , Geoff Pleiss , Laurens van der Maaten , Kilian Q. Weinberger

Neural networks have been shown to be vulnerable against minor adversarial perturbations of their inputs, especially for high dimensional data under $\ell_\infty$ attacks. To combat this problem, techniques like adversarial training have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Emilio Rafael Balda , Arash Behboodi , Niklas Koep , Rudolf Mathar

Deep neural networks have achieved impressive performance on a variety of tasks, but their brittleness to distributional shifts remains a significant barrier to real-world deployment. In this paper, we propose a framework to analyse and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Divij Khaitan , Subhashis Banerjee

The trend towards increasingly deep neural networks has been driven by a general observation that increasing depth increases the performance of a network. Recently, however, evidence has been amassing that simply increasing depth may not be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-01 Zifeng Wu , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel

Deep neural networks have emerged as powerful tools for learning operators defined over infinite-dimensional function spaces. However, existing theories frequently encounter difficulties related to dimensionality and limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jianfei Li , Shuo Huang , Han Feng , Ding-Xuan Zhou , Gitta Kutyniok

Low precision weights, activations, and gradients have been proposed as a way to improve the computational efficiency and memory footprint of deep neural networks. Recently, low precision networks have even shown to be more robust to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Griffin Lacey , Graham W. Taylor , Shawki Areibi

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved significant success in a variety of real world applications, i.e., image classification. However, tons of parameters in the networks restrict the efficiency of neural networks due to the large model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Yuzhe Ma , Ran Chen , Wei Li , Fanhua Shang , Wenjian Yu , Minsik Cho , Bei Yu

State-of-the-art training algorithms for deep learning models are based on stochastic gradient descent (SGD). Recently, many variations have been explored: perturbing parameters for better accuracy (such as in Extragradient), limiting SGD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Amirkeivan Mohtashami , Martin Jaggi , Sebastian U. Stich

Viewing recurrent neural networks (RNNs) as continuous-time dynamical systems, we propose a recurrent unit that describes the hidden state's evolution with two parts: a well-understood linear component plus a Lipschitz nonlinearity. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 N. Benjamin Erichson , Omri Azencot , Alejandro Queiruga , Liam Hodgkinson , Michael W. Mahoney

Deep Neural Networks are vulnerable to small perturbations that can drastically alter their predictions for perceptually unchanged inputs. The literature on adversarially robust Deep Learning attempts to either enhance the robustness of…

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