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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

Adversarial Training has proved to be an effective training paradigm to enforce robustness against adversarial examples in modern neural network architectures. Despite many efforts, explanations of the foundational principles underpinning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Mattia Carletti , Matteo Terzi , Gian Antonio Susto

It is well known that deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which are implemented by adding crafted perturbations onto benign examples. Min-max robust optimization based adversarial training can provide a notion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Shaokai Ye , Kaidi Xu , Sijia Liu , Jan-Henrik Lambrechts , Huan Zhang , Aojun Zhou , Kaisheng Ma , Yanzhi Wang , Xue Lin

Adversarial training is one of the most effective defenses against adversarial attacks, but it incurs a high computational cost. In this study, we present the first theoretical analysis suggesting that adversarially pretrained transformers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Soichiro Kumano , Hiroshi Kera , Toshihiko Yamasaki

Increasingly more similarities between human vision and convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been revealed in the past few years. Yet, vanilla CNNs often fall short in generalizing to adversarial or out-of-distribution (OOD) examples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Peijie Chen , Chirag Agarwal , Anh Nguyen

Machine learning algorithms can be fooled by small well-designed adversarial perturbations. This is reminiscent of cellular decision-making where ligands (called antagonists) prevent correct signalling, like in early immune recognition. We…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 Thomas J. Rademaker , Emmanuel Bengio , Paul François

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

While some convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved great success in object recognition, they struggle to identify objects in images corrupted with different types of common noise patterns. Recently, it was shown that simulating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Ruxandra Barbulescu , Tiago Marques , Arlindo L. Oliveira

Deep neural networks are at the forefront of machine learning research. However, despite achieving impressive performance on complex tasks, they can be very sensitive: Small perturbations of inputs can be sufficient to induce incorrect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Alex Serban , Erik Poll , Joost Visser

Short answer: Yes, Long answer: No! Indeed, research on adversarial robustness has led to invaluable insights helping us understand and explore different aspects of the problem. Many attacks and defenses have been proposed over the last…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Ali Borji

Adversarial robustness is essential for security and reliability of machine learning systems. However, adversarial robustness enhanced by defense algorithms is easily erased as the neural network's weights update to learn new tasks. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Xiaolei Ru , Xiaowei Cao , Zijia Liu , Jack Murdoch Moore , Xin-Ya Zhang , Xia Zhu , Wenjia Wei , Gang Yan

A recent paper suggests that Deep Neural Networks can be protected from gradient-based adversarial perturbations by driving the network activations into a highly saturated regime. Here we analyse such saturated networks and show that the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-06 Wieland Brendel , Matthias Bethge

Despite unconditional feature inversion being the foundation of many image synthesis applications, training an inverter demands a high computational budget, large decoding capacity and imposing conditions such as autoregressive priors. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Renan A. Rojas-Gomez , Raymond A. Yeh , Minh N. Do , Anh Nguyen

Background. Organisms use a variety of mechanisms to protect themselves against perturbations. For example, repair mechanisms fix damage, feedback loops keep homeostatic systems at their setpoints, and biochemical filters distinguish signal…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2011-12-14 Steven A. Frank

Recently, adversarial deception becomes one of the most considerable threats to deep neural networks. However, compared to extensive research in new designs of various adversarial attacks and defenses, the neural networks' intrinsic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Fuxun Yu , Zhuwei Qin , Chenchen Liu , Liang Zhao , Yanzhi Wang , Xiang Chen

Over the last few years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have proved to reach super-human performance in visual recognition tasks. However, CNNs can easily be fooled by adversarial examples, i.e., maliciously-crafted images that force…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Federico Nesti , Alessandro Biondi , Giorgio Buttazzo

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

In this paper, we uniquely study the adversarial robustness of deep neural networks (NN) for classification tasks against that of optimal classifiers. We look at the smallest magnitude of possible additive perturbations that can change a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Jingchao Gao , Ziqing Lu , Raghu Mudumbai , Xiaodong Wu , Jirong Yi , Myung Cho , Catherine Xu , Hui Xie , Weiyu Xu

Neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks: adding well-crafted, imperceptible perturbations to their input can modify their output. Adversarial training is one of the most effective approaches to training robust models against…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Hadi M. Dolatabadi , Sarah Erfani , Christopher Leckie

We present a new algorithm to learn a deep neural network model robust against adversarial attacks. Previous algorithms demonstrate an adversarially trained Bayesian Neural Network (BNN) provides improved robustness. We recognize the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Bao Gia Doan , Ehsan Abbasnejad , Javen Qinfeng Shi , Damith C. Ranasinghe