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Neural networks are becoming increasingly prevalent in software, and it is therefore important to be able to verify their behavior. Because verifying the correctness of neural networks is extremely challenging, it is common to focus on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Ravi Mangal , Aditya V. Nori , Alessandro Orso

Learning models capable of providing reliable predictions in the face of adversarial actions has become a central focus of the machine learning community in recent years. This challenge arises from observing that data encountered at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Marco C. Campi , Algo Carè , Luis G. Crespo , Simone Garatti , Federico A. Ramponi

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

We introduce a probabilistic robustness measure for Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs), defined as the probability that, given a test point, there exists a point within a bounded set such that the BNN prediction differs between the two. Such a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Luca Cardelli , Marta Kwiatkowska , Luca Laurenti , Nicola Paoletti , Andrea Patane , Matthew Wicker

In this paper, we investigate the adversarial robustness of nonparametric regression, a fundamental problem in machine learning, under the setting where an adversary can arbitrarily corrupt a subset of the input data. While the robustness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Parsa Moradi , Hanzaleh Akabrinodehi , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

As Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models become ever more pervasive, it is important to ensure that they make reliable predictions under corruptions present in the physical and digital world. We propose Speech Robust Bench (SRB), a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Muhammad A. Shah , David Solans Noguero , Mikko A. Heikkila , Bhiksha Raj , Nicolas Kourtellis

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

Adversarial examples are inevitable on the road of pervasive applications of deep neural networks (DNN). Imperceptible perturbations applied on natural samples can lead DNN-based classifiers to output wrong prediction with fair confidence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Tao Bai , Jinqi Luo , Jun Zhao

The robustness of deep neural networks is a crucial factor in safety-critical applications, particularly in complex and dynamic environments (e.g., medical or driving scenarios) where localized corruptions can arise. While previous studies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Giulia Marchiori Pietrosanti , Giulio Rossolini , Alessandro Biondi , Giorgio Buttazzo

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a promising direction for energy-efficient and brain-inspired computing, yet their vulnerability to adversarial perturbations remains poorly understood. In this work, we revisit the adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Jihang Wang , Dongcheng Zhao , Ruolin Chen , Qian Zhang , Yi Zeng

Robustness to adversarial attacks is typically evaluated with adversarial accuracy. While essential, this metric does not capture all aspects of robustness and in particular leaves out the question of how many perturbations can be found for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Raphael Olivier , Bhiksha Raj

We propose and investigate probabilistic guarantees for the adversarial robustness of classification algorithms. While traditional formal verification approaches for robustness are intractable and sampling-based approaches do not provide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Peter Blohm , Patrick Indri , Thomas Gärtner , Sagar Malhotra

Despite extraordinary progress, current machine learning systems have been shown to be brittle against adversarial examples: seemingly innocuous but carefully crafted perturbations of test examples that cause machine learning predictors to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Omar Montasser

Despite the significant advances in deep learning over the past decade, a major challenge that limits the wide-spread adoption of deep learning has been their fragility to adversarial attacks. This sensitivity to making erroneous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Hossein Aboutalebi , Mohammad Javad Shafiee , Michelle Karg , Christian Scharfenberger , Alexander Wong

Decision making and learning in the presence of uncertainty has attracted significant attention in view of the increasing need to achieve robust and reliable operations. In the case where uncertainty stems from the presence of adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-25 André Bertolace , Konstatinos Gatsis , Kostas Margellos

Neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples and researchers have proposed many heuristic attack and defense mechanisms. We address this problem through the principled lens of distributionally robust optimization, which guarantees…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-04 Aman Sinha , Hongseok Namkoong , Riccardo Volpi , John Duchi

Despite the growing prevalence of artificial neural networks in real-world applications, their vulnerability to adversarial attacks remains a significant concern, which motivates us to investigate the robustness of machine learning models.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Jie Wang , Rui Gao , Yao Xie

In this paper we aim to explore the general robustness of neural network classifiers by utilizing adversarial as well as natural perturbations. Different from previous works which mainly focus on studying the robustness of neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Sadaf Gulshad , Jan Hendrik Metzen , Arnold Smeulders

We consider a general statistical learning problem where an unknown fraction of the training data is corrupted. We develop a robust learning method that only requires specifying an upper bound on the corrupted data fraction. The method…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-10 Muhammad Osama , Dave Zachariah , Peter Stoica

Neural networks have received a lot of attention recently, and related security issues have come with it. Many studies have shown that neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples that have been artificially perturbed with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Shi Pu , Fu Song , Wenjie Wang