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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

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples - small input perturbations that result in incorrect predictions. We study this problem for models of source code, where we want the network to be robust to source-code…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Goutham Ramakrishnan , Jordan Henkel , Zi Wang , Aws Albarghouthi , Somesh Jha , Thomas Reps

Almost all adversarial attacks are formulated to add an imperceptible perturbation to an image in order to fool a model. Here, we consider the opposite which is adversarial examples that can fool a human but not a model. A large enough and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Ali Borji

In recent years, neural networks have demonstrated outstanding effectiveness in a large amount of applications.However, recent works have shown that neural networks are susceptible to adversarial examples, indicating possible flaws…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Fuxun Yu , Zirui Xu , Yanzhi Wang , Chenchen Liu , Xiang Chen

Fundamental questions remain about when and why adversarial examples arise in neural networks, with competing views characterising them either as artifacts of the irregularities in the decision landscape or as products of sensitivity to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Edward Stevinson , Lucas Prieto , Melih Barsbey , Tolga Birdal

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have demonstrated exceptional performance on most recognition tasks such as image classification and segmentation. However, they have also been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. This phenomenon has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Anurag Arnab , Ondrej Miksik , Philip H. S. Torr

Adversarial attacks - input perturbations imperceptible to humans that fool neural networks - remain both a persistent failure mode in machine learning, and a phenomenon with mysterious origins. To shed light, we define and analyze a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Alessandro Salvatore , Stanislav Fort , Surya Ganguli

Adversarial attacking aims to fool deep neural networks with adversarial examples. In the field of natural language processing, various textual adversarial attack models have been proposed, varying in the accessibility to the victim model.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Yuan Zang , Bairu Hou , Fanchao Qi , Zhiyuan Liu , Xiaojun Meng , Maosong Sun

While being very successful in solving many downstream tasks, the application of deep neural networks is limited in real-life scenarios because of their susceptibility to domain shifts such as common corruptions, and adversarial attacks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Tejaswini Medi , Julia Grabinski , Margret Keuper

This paper considers attacks against machine learning algorithms used in remote sensing applications, a domain that presents a suite of challenges that are not fully addressed by current research focused on natural image data such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Wojciech Czaja , Neil Fendley , Michael Pekala , Christopher Ratto , I-Jeng Wang

Deep Learning algorithms have achieved the state-of-the-art performance for Image Classification and have been used even in security-critical applications, such as biometric recognition systems and self-driving cars. However, recent works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Gabriel Resende Machado , Eugênio Silva , Ronaldo Ribeiro Goldschmidt

Since the discovery of adversarial examples - the ability to fool modern CNN classifiers with tiny perturbations of the input, there has been much discussion whether they are a "bug" that is specific to current neural architectures and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Eitan Richardson , Yair Weiss

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been shown to be vulnerable against adversarial examples, which are data points cleverly constructed to fool the classifier. Such attacks can be devastating in practice, especially as DNNs are being applied…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Linh Nguyen , Sky Wang , Arunesh Sinha

Machine learning models are vulnerable to tiny adversarial input perturbations optimized to cause a very large output error. To measure this vulnerability, we need reliable methods that can find such adversarial perturbations. For image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Levente Halmosi , Bálint Mohos , Márk Jelasity

It has been empirically observed that defense mechanisms designed to protect neural networks against $\ell_\infty$ adversarial examples offer poor performance against $\ell_2$ adversarial examples and vice versa. In this paper we conduct a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Alexandre Araujo , Laurent Meunier , Rafael Pinot , Benjamin Negrevergne

Adversarial attacks, e.g., adversarial perturbations of the input and adversarial samples, pose significant challenges to machine learning and deep learning techniques, including interactive recommendation systems. The latent embedding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Siyu Wang , Yuanjiang Cao , Xiaocong Chen , Lina Yao , Xianzhi Wang , Quan Z. Sheng

Recent works have empirically shown that there exist adversarial examples that can be hidden from neural network interpretability (namely, making network interpretation maps visually similar), or interpretability is itself susceptible to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Akhilan Boopathy , Sijia Liu , Gaoyuan Zhang , Cynthia Liu , Pin-Yu Chen , Shiyu Chang , Luca Daniel

Recent works have shown that the input domain of any machine learning classifier is bound to contain adversarial examples. Thus we can no longer hope to immune classifiers against adversarial examples and instead can only aim to achieve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Gil Fidel , Ron Bitton , Ziv Katzir , Asaf Shabtai

The robustness of neural networks to intended perturbations has recently attracted significant attention. In this paper, we propose a new method, \emph{learning with a strong adversary}, that learns robust classifiers from supervised data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-19 Ruitong Huang , Bing Xu , Dale Schuurmans , Csaba Szepesvari

Deep Neural Networks have been widely used in many fields. However, studies have shown that DNNs are easily attacked by adversarial examples, which have tiny perturbations and greatly mislead the correct judgment of DNNs. Furthermore, even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Shaowei Zhu , Wanli Lyu , Bin Li , Zhaoxia Yin , Bin Luo