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Adversarially robust training has been shown to reduce the susceptibility of learned models to targeted input data perturbations. However, it has also been observed that such adversarially robust models suffer a degradation in accuracy when…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-07 Thomas T. C. K. Zhang , Bruce D. Lee , Hamed Hassani , Nikolai Matni

It has been suggested that adversarial examples cause deep learning models to make incorrect predictions with high confidence. In this work, we take the opposite stance: an overly confident model is more likely to be vulnerable to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Angus Galloway , Graham W. Taylor , Medhat Moussa

Adversarial training (i.e., training on adversarially perturbed input data) is a well-studied method for making neural networks robust to potential adversarial attacks during inference. However, the improved robustness does not come for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Mathias Lechner , Alexander Amini , Daniela Rus , Thomas A. Henzinger

In this paper, we aim to understand and explain the decisions of deep neural networks by studying the behavior of predicted attributes when adversarial examples are introduced. We study the changes in attributes for clean as well as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Sadaf Gulshad , Zeynep Akata , Jan Hendrik Metzen , Arnold Smeulders

Robustness is often regarded as a critical future challenge for real-world applications, where stability is essential. However, as models often learn tasks in a similar order, we hypothesize that easier tasks will be easier regardless of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Shir Ashury-Tahan , Ariel Gera , Elron Bandel , Michal Shmueli-Scheuer , Leshem Choshen

We provide a general framework for characterizing the trade-off between accuracy and robustness in supervised learning. We propose a method and define quantities to characterize the trade-off between accuracy and robustness for a given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Zhun Deng , Cynthia Dwork , Jialiang Wang , Yao Zhao

Adversarial training has been actively studied in recent computer vision research to improve the robustness of models. However, due to the huge computational cost of generating adversarial samples, adversarial training methods are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Yihan Wu , Xinda Li , Florian Kerschbaum , Heng Huang , Hongyang Zhang

Most previous works usually explained adversarial examples from several specific perspectives, lacking relatively integral comprehension about this problem. In this paper, we present a systematic study on adversarial examples from three…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Ke Sun , Zhanxing Zhu , Zhouchen Lin

While generalizing well over natural inputs, neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial inputs. Existing defenses against adversarial inputs have largely been detached from the real world. These defenses also come at a cost to accuracy.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Varun Chandrasekaran , Brian Tang , Nicolas Papernot , Kassem Fawaz , Somesh Jha , Xi Wu

The remarkable performance of deep learning models and their applications in consequential domains (e.g., facial recognition) introduces important challenges at the intersection of equity and security. Fairness and robustness are two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Cuong Tran , Keyu Zhu , Ferdinando Fioretto , Pascal Van Hentenryck

Standard adversarial training approaches suffer from robust overfitting where the robust accuracy decreases when models are adversarially trained for too long. The origin of this problem is still unclear and conflicting explanations have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Muhammad Zaid Hameed , Beat Buesser

Adversarial examples have attracted significant attention in machine learning, but the reasons for their existence and pervasiveness remain unclear. We demonstrate that adversarial examples can be directly attributed to the presence of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-08-13 Andrew Ilyas , Shibani Santurkar , Dimitris Tsipras , Logan Engstrom , Brandon Tran , Aleksander Madry

A central challenge of adversarial learning is to interpret the resulting hardened model. In this contribution, we ask how robust generalization can be visually discerned and whether a concise view of the interactions between a hardened…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Alex Huang , Abdullah Al-Dujaili , Erik Hemberg , Una-May O'Reilly

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have made significant advancement, however, they are widely known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Adversarial training is the most widely used technique for improving adversarial robustness to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Philipp Benz , Chaoning Zhang , Adil Karjauv , In So Kweon

This paper revisits the robust overfitting phenomenon of adversarial training. Observing that models with better robust generalization performance are less certain in predicting adversarially generated training inputs, we argue that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Minxing Zhang , Michael Backes , Xiao Zhang

Deep neural classifiers have recently found tremendous success in data-driven control systems. However, existing models suffer from a trade-off between accuracy and adversarial robustness. This limitation must be overcome in the control of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Yatong Bai , Brendon G. Anderson , Somayeh Sojoudi

Adversarial examples have appeared as a ubiquitous property of machine learning models where bounded adversarial perturbation could mislead the models to make arbitrarily incorrect predictions. Such examples provide a way to assess the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Zhuolin Yang , Zhaoxi Chen , Tiffany Cai , Xinyun Chen , Bo Li , Yuandong Tian

Neural networks are known to be highly sensitive to adversarial examples. These may arise due to different factors, such as random initialization, or spurious correlations in the learning problem. To better understand these factors, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-05 Elvis Dohmatob , Alberto Bietti

Despite remarkable success in practice, modern machine learning models have been found to be susceptible to adversarial attacks that make human-imperceptible perturbations to the data, but result in serious and potentially dangerous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Lin Chen , Yifei Min , Mingrui Zhang , Amin Karbasi

With the perpetual increase of complexity of the state-of-the-art deep neural networks, it becomes a more and more challenging task to maintain their interpretability. Our work aims to evaluate the effects of adversarial training utilized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Delyan Boychev