English
Related papers

Related papers: Foolbox: A Python toolbox to benchmark the robustn…

200 papers

Black-box finetuning is an emerging interface for adapting state-of-the-art language models to user needs. However, such access may also let malicious actors undermine model safety. To demonstrate the challenge of defending finetuning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Danny Halawi , Alexander Wei , Eric Wallace , Tony T. Wang , Nika Haghtalab , Jacob Steinhardt

PyBADS is a Python implementation of the Bayesian Adaptive Direct Search (BADS) algorithm for fast and robust black-box optimization (Acerbi and Ma 2017). BADS is an optimization algorithm designed to efficiently solve difficult…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-28 Gurjeet Sangra Singh , Luigi Acerbi

Adversarial examples are small and often imperceptible perturbations crafted to fool machine learning models. These attacks seriously threaten the reliability of deep neural networks, especially in security-sensitive domains. Evasion…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Francesco Marchiori , Marco Alecci , Luca Pajola , Mauro Conti

We present BackboneLearn: an open-source software package and framework for scaling mixed-integer optimization (MIO) problems with indicator variables to high-dimensional problems. This optimization paradigm can naturally be used to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Vassilis Digalakis , Christos Ziakas

With the recent advancements in machine learning (ML), numerous ML-based approaches have been extensively applied in software analytics tasks to streamline software development and maintenance processes. Nevertheless, studies indicate that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-15 MD Abdul Awal , Mrigank Rochan , Chanchal K. Roy

Correctly quantifying the robustness of machine learning models is a central aspect in judging their suitability for specific tasks, and ultimately, for generating trust in them. We address the problem of finding the robustness of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Sebastian Scher , Andreas Trügler

Neural network models have become the leading solution for a large variety of tasks, such as classification, language processing, protein folding, and others. However, their reliability is heavily plagued by adversarial inputs: small input…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Natan Levy , Guy Katz

As spin-based quantum systems scale, their setup and control complexity increase sharply. In semiconductor quantum dot (QD) experiments, device-to-device variability, heterogeneous control-electronics stacks, and differing operational…

DeepRobust is a PyTorch adversarial learning library which aims to build a comprehensive and easy-to-use platform to foster this research field. It currently contains more than 10 attack algorithms and 8 defense algorithms in image domain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Yaxin Li , Wei Jin , Han Xu , Jiliang Tang

Frouros is an open-source Python library capable of detecting drift in machine learning systems. It provides a combination of classical and more recent algorithms for drift detection: both concept and data drift. We have designed it with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Jaime Céspedes-Sisniega , Álvaro López-García

Hyperparameter optimization and neural architecture search can become prohibitively expensive for regular black-box Bayesian optimization because the training and evaluation of a single model can easily take several hours. To overcome this,…

In this work, besides improving prediction accuracy, we study whether personalization could bring robustness benefits to backdoor attacks. We conduct the first study of backdoor attacks in the pFL framework, testing 4 widely used backdoor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Zeyu Qin , Liuyi Yao , Daoyuan Chen , Yaliang Li , Bolin Ding , Minhao Cheng

Grey-box fuzzers such as American Fuzzy Lop (AFL) are popular tools for finding bugs and potential vulnerabilities in programs. While these fuzzers have been able to find vulnerabilities in many widely used programs, they are not efficient;…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Siddharth Karamcheti , Gideon Mann , David Rosenberg

Deep learning has become an increasingly common technique for various control problems, such as robotic arm manipulation, robot navigation, and autonomous vehicles. However, the downside of using deep neural networks to learn control…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Sampo Kuutti , Saber Fallah , Richard Bowden

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to small adversarial perturbations, which are tiny changes to the input data that appear insignificant but cause the model to produce drastically different outputs. Many defense methods require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Sedjro Salomon Hotegni , Sebastian Peitz

As we seek to deploy machine learning models beyond virtual and controlled domains, it is critical to analyze not only the accuracy or the fact that it works most of the time, but if such a model is truly robust and reliable. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Samuel Henrique Silva , Peyman Najafirad

High-quality estimates of uncertainty and robustness are crucial for numerous real-world applications, especially for deep learning which underlies many deployed ML systems. The ability to compare techniques for improving these estimates is…

Existing works have shown that fine-tuned textual transformer models achieve state-of-the-art prediction performances but are also vulnerable to adversarial text perturbations. Traditional adversarial evaluation is often done \textit{only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Cuong Dang , Dung D. Le , Thai Le

We present MultiBreak, a scalable and diverse multi-turn jailbreak benchmark to evaluate large language model (LLM) safety. Multi-turn jailbreaks mimic natural conversational settings, making them easier to bypass safety-aligned LLM than…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Jialin Song , Xiaodong Liu , Weiwei Yang , Wuyang Chen , Mingqian Feng , Xuekai Zhu , Jianfeng Gao

It is well-known that machine learning models are vulnerable to small but cleverly-designed adversarial perturbations that can cause misclassification. While there has been major progress in designing attacks and defenses for various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Payam Delgosha , Hamed Hassani , Ramtin Pedarsani