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Artificial Intelligence systems require a through assessment of different pillars of trust, namely, fairness, interpretability, data and model privacy, reliability (safety) and robustness against against adversarial attacks. While these…

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Neural ranking models (NRMs) have shown great success in information retrieval (IR). But their predictions can easily be manipulated using adversarial examples, which are crafted by adding imperceptible perturbations to legitimate…

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In this paper, we investigate the impact of test-time adversarial attacks on linear regression models and determine the optimal level of robustness that any model can reach while maintaining a given level of standard predictive performance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-02 Elvis Dohmatob , Meyer Scetbon

Recent works on adversarial perturbations show that there is an inherent trade-off between standard test accuracy and adversarial accuracy. Specifically, they show that no classifier can simultaneously be robust to adversarial perturbations…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-03-26 Arun Sai Suggala , Adarsh Prasad , Vaishnavh Nagarajan , Pradeep Ravikumar

Defenses against adversarial examples, such as adversarial training, are typically tailored to a single perturbation type (e.g., small $\ell_\infty$-noise). For other perturbations, these defenses offer no guarantees and, at times, even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Florian Tramèr , Dan Boneh

Current techniques in machine learning are so far are unable to learn classifiers that are robust to adversarial perturbations. However, they are able to learn non-robust classifiers with very high accuracy, even in the presence of random…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Preetum Nakkiran

Adversarial training is a widely-applied approach to training deep neural networks to be robust against adversarial perturbation. However, although adversarial training has achieved empirical success in practice, it still remains unclear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Binghui Li , Yuanzhi Li

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

Adversarial Training (AT) is one of the most effective methods to train robust Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). However, AT creates an inherent trade-off between clean accuracy and adversarial robustness, which is commonly attributed to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yanyun Wang , Li Liu

We identify a trade-off between robustness and accuracy that serves as a guiding principle in the design of defenses against adversarial examples. Although this problem has been widely studied empirically, much remains unknown concerning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Hongyang Zhang , Yaodong Yu , Jiantao Jiao , Eric P. Xing , Laurent El Ghaoui , Michael I. Jordan

Adversarial training, which is to enhance robustness against adversarial attacks, has received much attention because it is easy to generate human-imperceptible perturbations of data to deceive a given deep neural network. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-02 Dongyoon Yang , Insung Kong , Yongdai Kim

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

The vulnerability of neural networks under adversarial attacks has raised serious concerns and motivated extensive research. It has been shown that both neural networks and adversarial attacks against them can be sensitive to input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Houpu Yao , Zhe Wang , Guangyu Nie , Yassine Mazboudi , Yezhou Yang , Yi Ren

Deep neural networks have achieved remarkable performance in various applications but are extremely vulnerable to adversarial perturbation. The most representative and promising methods that can enhance model robustness, such as adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Faqiang Liu , Rong Zhao

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 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

Adversarial robustness has proven to be a required property of machine learning algorithms. A key and often overlooked aspect of this problem is to try to make the adversarial noise magnitude as large as possible to enhance the benefits of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-31 Amirreza Shaeiri , Rozhin Nobahari , Mohammad Hossein Rohban

Adversarial training is an effective method to boost model robustness to malicious, adversarial attacks. However, such improvement in model robustness often leads to a significant sacrifice of standard performance on clean images. In many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Pengyue Hou , Ming Zhou , Jie Han , Petr Musilek , Xingyu Li

Sensitivity to adversarial noise hinders deployment of machine learning algorithms in security-critical applications. Although many adversarial defenses have been proposed, robustness to adversarial noise remains an open problem. The most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Alex Serban , Erik Poll , Joost Visser

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