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Adversarial examples are malicious inputs designed to fool machine learning models. They often transfer from one model to another, allowing attackers to mount black box attacks without knowledge of the target model's parameters. Adversarial…

Adversarial examples are inputs for machine learning models that have been designed by attackers to cause the model to make mistakes. In this paper, we demonstrate that adversarial examples can also be utilized for good to improve the…