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Although promising, existing defenses against query-based attacks share a common limitation: they offer increased robustness against attacks at the price of a considerable accuracy drop on clean samples. In this work, we show how to…

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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

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which becomes one of the most important research problems in the development of deep learning. While a lot of efforts have been made in recent years, it is of great significance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Yinpeng Dong , Qi-An Fu , Xiao Yang , Tianyu Pang , Hang Su , Zihao Xiao , Jun Zhu

State-of-the-art classifiers have been shown to be largely vulnerable to adversarial perturbations. One of the most effective strategies to improve robustness is adversarial training. In this paper, we investigate the effect of adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Seyed-Mohsen Moosavi-Dezfooli , Alhussein Fawzi , Jonathan Uesato , Pascal Frossard

Fine-tuning has become the standard practice for adapting pre-trained models to downstream tasks. However, the impact on model robustness is not well understood. In this work, we characterize the robustness-accuracy trade-off in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Kunyang Li , Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand , Ryan Sheatsley , Blaine Hoak , Yohan Beugin , Eric Pauley , Patrick McDaniel

This work investigates adversarial training in the context of margin-based linear classifiers in the high-dimensional regime where the dimension $d$ and the number of data points $n$ diverge with a fixed ratio $\alpha = n / d$. We introduce…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-13 Kasimir Tanner , Matteo Vilucchio , Bruno Loureiro , Florent Krzakala

Adversarial training has been shown to be reliable in improving robustness against adversarial samples. However, the problem of adversarial training in terms of fairness has not yet been properly studied, and the relationship between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Junyi Chai , Xiaoqian Wang

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

Several existing works study either adversarial or natural distributional robustness of deep neural networks separately. In practice, however, models need to enjoy both types of robustness to ensure reliability. In this work, we bridge this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Mazda Moayeri , Kiarash Banihashem , Soheil Feizi

While adversarial training can improve robust accuracy (against an adversary), it sometimes hurts standard accuracy (when there is no adversary). Previous work has studied this tradeoff between standard and robust accuracy, but only in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Aditi Raghunathan , Sang Michael Xie , Fanny Yang , John C. Duchi , Percy Liang

This chapter introduces and investigates some fundamental questions on the relationship between accuracy and robustness in both classical and quantum classification algorithms under noisy and adversarial conditions. We introduce and clarify…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Nana Liu

One popular hypothesis of neural network generalization is that the flat local minima of loss surface in parameter space leads to good generalization. However, we demonstrate that loss surface in parameter space has no obvious relationship…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Fuxun Yu , Chenchen Liu , Yanzhi Wang , Liang Zhao , Xiang Chen

Adversarial training is among the most effective techniques to improve the robustness of models against adversarial perturbations. However, the full effect of this approach on models is not well understood. For example, while adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Mohammad Mehrabi , Adel Javanmard , Ryan A. Rossi , Anup Rao , Tung Mai

Adversarial training can considerably robustify deep neural networks to resist adversarial attacks. However, some works suggested that adversarial training might comprise the privacy-preserving and generalization abilities. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Fengxiang He , Shaopeng Fu , Bohan Wang , Dacheng Tao

Adversarial training shows promise as an approach for training models that are robust towards adversarial perturbation. In this paper, we explore some of the practical challenges of adversarial training. We present a sensitivity analysis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Evelyn Duesterwald , Anupama Murthi , Ganesh Venkataraman , Mathieu Sinn , Deepak Vijaykeerthy

The quest for Continual Learning (CL) seeks to empower neural networks with the ability to learn and adapt incrementally. Central to this pursuit is addressing the stability-plasticity dilemma, which involves striking a balance between two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Aojun Lu , Hangjie Yuan , Tao Feng , Yanan Sun

Adversarial training is by far the most successful strategy for improving robustness of neural networks to adversarial attacks. Despite its success as a defense mechanism, adversarial training fails to generalize well to unperturbed test…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Yogesh Balaji , Tom Goldstein , Judy Hoffman

Many of the successes of machine learning are based on minimizing an averaged loss function. However, it is well-known that this paradigm suffers from robustness issues that hinder its applicability in safety-critical domains. These issues…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Alexander Robey , Luiz F. O. Chamon , George J. Pappas , Hamed Hassani

We demonstrate that the choice of optimizer, neural network architecture, and regularizer significantly affect the adversarial robustness of linear neural networks, providing guarantees without the need for adversarial training. To this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Fartash Faghri , Sven Gowal , Cristina Vasconcelos , David J. Fleet , Fabian Pedregosa , Nicolas Le Roux

In safety-critical deep learning applications, robustness measures the ability of neural models that handle imperceptible perturbations in input data, which may lead to potential safety hazards. Existing pre-deployment robustness assessment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Wenchuan Mu , Kwan Hui Lim