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As deep learning (DL) models are increasingly being integrated into our everyday lives, ensuring their safety by making them robust against adversarial attacks has become increasingly critical. DL models have been found to be susceptible to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Hallgrimur Thorsteinsson , Valdemar J Henriksen , Daniel I R Cruz , Raghavendra Selvan , Tong Chen

Transfer learning, in which a network is trained on one task and re-purposed on another, is often used to produce neural network classifiers when data is scarce or full-scale training is too costly. When the goal is to produce a model that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Ali Shafahi , Parsa Saadatpanah , Chen Zhu , Amin Ghiasi , Christoph Studer , David Jacobs , Tom Goldstein

Pre-training is known to generate universal representations for downstream tasks in large-scale deep learning such as large language models. Existing literature, e.g., \cite{kim2020adversarial}, empirically observe that the downstream tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Yue Xing , Xiaofeng Lin , Qifan Song , Yi Xu , Belinda Zeng , Guang Cheng

In the field of high-energy physics, deep learning algorithms continue to gain in relevance and provide performance improvements over traditional methods, for example when identifying rare signals or finding complex patterns. From an…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-05-15 Annika Stein

Deep networks are well-known to be fragile to adversarial attacks, and adversarial training is one of the most popular methods used to train a robust model. To take advantage of unlabeled data, recent works have applied adversarial training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Xin Zou , Weiwei Liu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have had many successes, but they suffer from two major issues: (1) a vulnerability to adversarial examples and (2) a tendency to elude human interpretation. Interestingly, recent empirical and theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Adam Noack , Isaac Ahern , Dejing Dou , Boyang Li

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved state of the art results and even outperformed human accuracy in many challenging tasks, leading to DNNs adoption in a variety of fields including natural language processing, pattern recognition,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Mabel Ogonna , Abigail Adeniran , Adewale Adeyemo

The easiness at which adversarial instances can be generated in deep neural networks raises some fundamental questions on their functioning and concerns on their use in critical systems. In this paper, we draw a connection between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Mahdieh Abbasi , Christian Gagné

We study the robustness of machine learning approaches to adversarial perturbations, with a focus on supervised learning scenarios. We find that typical phase classifiers based on deep neural networks are extremely vulnerable to adversarial…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-01-26 Si Jiang , Sirui Lu , Dong-Ling Deng

Deep neural networks are highly vulnerable to adversarial examples, i.e.,small perturbations that can significantly degrade model performance. While adversarial training has become the primary defense strategy, most studies focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Lilin Zhang , Yimo Guo , Yue Li , Jiancheng Shi , Xianggen Liu

In the past few years, it has become increasingly evident that deep neural networks are not resilient enough to withstand adversarial perturbations in input data, leaving them vulnerable to attack. Various authors have proposed strong…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Shreya Goyal , Sumanth Doddapaneni , Mitesh M. Khapra , Balaraman Ravindran

Machine learning is vulnerable to adversarial examples-inputs designed to cause models to perform poorly. However, it is unclear if adversarial examples represent realistic inputs in the modeled domains. Diverse domains such as networks and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Ryan Sheatsley , Blaine Hoak , Eric Pauley , Yohan Beugin , Michael J. Weisman , Patrick McDaniel

Robustness in deep neural networks and machine learning algorithms in general is an open research challenge. In particular, it is difficult to ensure algorithmic performance is maintained on out-of-distribution inputs or anomalous instances…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Natalie Abreu , Nathan Vaska , Victoria Helus

We identify fragile and robust neurons of deep learning architectures using nodal dropouts of the first convolutional layer. Using an adversarial targeting algorithm, we correlate these neurons with the distribution of adversarial attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Chandresh Pravin , Ivan Martino , Giuseppe Nicosia , Varun Ojha

This paper extensively evaluates the vulnerability of capsule networks to different adversarial attacks. Recent work suggests that these architectures are more robust towards adversarial attacks than other neural networks. However, our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Felix Michels , Tobias Uelwer , Eric Upschulte , Stefan Harmeling

In the last decade, the use of Machine Learning techniques in anomaly-based intrusion detection systems has seen much success. However, recent studies have shown that Machine learning in general and deep learning specifically are vulnerable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Islam Debicha , Thibault Debatty , Jean-Michel Dricot , Wim Mees , Tayeb Kenaza

Despite their unmatched performance, deep neural networks remain susceptible to targeted attacks by nearly imperceptible levels of adversarial noise. While the underlying cause of this sensitivity is not well understood, theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 George Cazenavette , Calvin Murdock , Simon Lucey

In this paper, we investigate the use of pretraining with adversarial networks, with the objective of discovering the relationship between network depth and robustness. For this purpose, we selectively retrain different portions of VGG and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui , Thomas Breuel

Over recent years, devising classification algorithms that are robust to adversarial perturbations has emerged as a challenging problem. In particular, deep neural nets (DNNs) seem to be susceptible to small imperceptible changes over test…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Sanjam Garg , Somesh Jha , Saeed Mahloujifar , Mohammad Mahmoody

Adversarial robustness has become an emerging challenge for neural network owing to its over-sensitivity to small input perturbations. While being critical, we argue that solving this singular issue alone fails to provide a comprehensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Yu-Lin Tsai , Chia-Yi Hsu , Chia-Mu Yu , Pin-Yu Chen