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In recent years, it has been found that neural networks can be easily fooled by adversarial examples, which is a potential safety hazard in some safety-critical applications. Many researchers have proposed various method to make neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Shuangtao Li , Yuanke Chen , Yanlin Peng , Lin Bai

Neural networks have changed the way machines interpret the world. At their core, they learn by following gradients, adjusting their parameters step by step until they identify the most discriminant patterns in the data. This process gives…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Samarup Bhattacharya , Anubhab Bhattacharya , Abir Chakraborty

Deep classifiers are known to rely on spurious features $\unicode{x2013}$ patterns which are correlated with the target on the training data but not inherently relevant to the learning problem, such as the image backgrounds when classifying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Pavel Izmailov , Polina Kirichenko , Nate Gruver , Andrew Gordon Wilson

Deep neural networks have proven remarkably effective at solving many classification problems, but have been criticized recently for two major weaknesses: the reasons behind their predictions are uninterpretable, and the predictions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Andrew Slavin Ross , Finale Doshi-Velez

Large language models exhibit a remarkable capacity for in-context learning, where they learn to solve tasks given a few examples. Recent work has shown that transformers can be trained to perform simple regression tasks in-context. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Hrayr Harutyunyan , Rafayel Darbinyan , Samvel Karapetyan , Hrant Khachatrian

Adversarial examples for neural network image classifiers are known to be transferable: examples optimized to be misclassified by a source classifier are often misclassified as well by classifiers with different architectures. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Jacob M. Springer , Melanie Mitchell , Garrett T. Kenyon

Supervised machine learning models often associate irrelevant nuisance factors with the prediction target, which hurts generalization. We propose a framework for training robust neural networks that induces invariance to nuisances through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Ayush Jaiswal , Rob Brekelmans , Daniel Moyer , Greg Ver Steeg , Wael AbdAlmageed , Premkumar Natarajan

Deep Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) can easily be fooled by subtle, imperceptible changes to the input images. To address this vulnerability, adversarial training creates perturbation patterns and includes them in the training set to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Muzammal Naseer , Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Fatih Porikli

Discriminative approaches to classification often learn shortcuts that hold in-distribution but fail even under minor distribution shift. This failure mode stems from an overreliance on features that are spuriously correlated with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Alexander C. Li , Ananya Kumar , Deepak Pathak

Adversarial robustness refers to a model's ability to resist perturbation of inputs, while distribution robustness evaluates the performance of the model under data shifts. Although both aim to ensure reliable performance, prior work has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Yipei Wang , Zhaoying Pan , Xiaoqian Wang

Many works show that node-level predictions of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are unrobust to small, often termed adversarial, changes to the graph structure. However, because manual inspection of a graph is difficult, it is unclear if the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Lukas Gosch , Daniel Sturm , Simon Geisler , Stephan Günnemann

Existing works have shown that fine-tuned textual transformer models achieve state-of-the-art prediction performances but are also vulnerable to adversarial text perturbations. Traditional adversarial evaluation is often done \textit{only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Cuong Dang , Dung D. Le , Thai Le

Recent advances in Deep Learning show the existence of image-agnostic quasi-imperceptible perturbations that when applied to `any' image can fool a state-of-the-art network classifier to change its prediction about the image label. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Naveed Akhtar , Jian Liu , Ajmal Mian

Given the outstanding progress that convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have made on natural image classification and object recognition problems, it is shown that deep learning methods can achieve very good recognition performance on many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Yingpeng Deng , Lina J. Karam

Adversarial training (AT) and its variants have spearheaded progress in improving neural network robustness to adversarial perturbations and common corruptions in the last few years. Algorithm design of AT and its variants are focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Kaustubh Sridhar , Souradeep Dutta , Ramneet Kaur , James Weimer , Oleg Sokolsky , Insup Lee

Many machine learning classifiers are vulnerable to adversarial perturbations. An adversarial perturbation modifies an input to change a classifier's prediction without causing the input to seem substantially different to human perception.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-27 Dan Hendrycks , Kevin Gimpel

There has been a recent surge in research on adversarial perturbations that defeat Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) in machine vision; most of these perturbation-based attacks target object classifiers. Inspired by the observation that humans…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Shasha Li , Shitong Zhu , Sudipta Paul , Amit Roy-Chowdhury , Chengyu Song , Srikanth Krishnamurthy , Ananthram Swami , Kevin S Chan

Recent work has shown that Transformers can perform in-context learning for linear regression under restrictive assumptions, including i.i.d. data, Gaussian noise, and Gaussian regression coefficients. However, real-world data often violate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Hoang T. H. Cao , Hai D. V. Trinh , Tho Quan , Lan V. Truong

Machine learning models are vulnerable to adversarial examples formed by applying small carefully chosen perturbations to inputs that cause unexpected classification errors. In this paper, we perform experiments on various adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Andras Rozsa , Manuel Günther , Terrance E. Boult

Taking into account information across the temporal domain helps to improve environment perception in autonomous driving. However, it has not been studied so far whether temporally fused neural networks are vulnerable to deliberately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Svetlana Pavlitskaya , Nikolai Polley , Michael Weber , J. Marius Zöllner