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Natural images are virtually surrounded by low-density misclassified regions that can be efficiently discovered by gradient-guided search --- enabling the generation of adversarial images. While many techniques for detecting these attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Tao Yu , Shengyuan Hu , Chuan Guo , Wei-Lun Chao , Kilian Q. Weinberger

Adversarial attacks involve adding, small, often imperceptible, perturbations to inputs with the goal of getting a machine learning model to misclassifying them. While many different adversarial attack strategies have been proposed on image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Avishek Joey Bose , Parham Aarabi

Optimization over the space of probability measures endowed with the Wasserstein-2 geometry is central to modern machine learning and mean-field modeling. However, traditional methods relying on full Wasserstein gradients often suffer from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-03 Yewei Xu , Qin Li

Motivated by the Bures distance, we introduce a new family of distances, \emph{relative translation invariant Wasserstein distances}, denoted by $RW_p$, as an extension of the classical Wasserstein distances $W_p$ for $p \in [1, +\infty)$.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Binshuai Wang , Qiwei Di , Ming Yin , Mengdi Wang , Quanquan Gu , Peng Wei

Perceptual similarity metrics have progressively become more correlated with human judgments on perceptual similarity; however, despite recent advances, the addition of an imperceptible distortion can still compromise these metrics. In our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Abhijay Ghildyal , Feng Liu

Making sense of Wasserstein distances between discrete measures in high-dimensional settings remains a challenge. Recent work has advocated a two-step approach to improve robustness and facilitate the computation of optimal transport, using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-04 François-Pierre Paty , Marco Cuturi

Standard adversarial attacks change the predicted class label of a selected image by adding specially tailored small perturbations to its pixels. In contrast, a universal perturbation is an update that can be added to any image in a broad…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Ali Shafahi , Mahyar Najibi , Zheng Xu , John Dickerson , Larry S. Davis , Tom Goldstein

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, i.e., carefully-crafted inputs that mislead classification at test time. Recent defenses have been shown to improve adversarial robustness by detecting anomalous deviations from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Francesco Crecchi , Marco Melis , Angelo Sotgiu , Davide Bacciu , Battista Biggio

Empirical evaluation of deep learning models against adversarial attacks entails solving nontrivial constrained optimization problems. Popular algorithms for solving these constrained problems rely on projected gradient descent (PGD) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Hengyue Liang , Buyun Liang , Ying Cui , Tim Mitchell , Ju Sun

Adversarial attacks in the form of imperceptible perturbations of normal images have been extensively studied, and for every new defense methodology created, multiple adversarial attacks are found to counteract it. In particular, a popular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Carl Cheng , Evan Hu

Reinforcement learning algorithms, though successful, tend to over-fit to training environments hampering their application to the real-world. This paper proposes $\text{W}\text{R}^{2}\text{L}$ -- a robust reinforcement learning algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Mohammed Amin Abdullah , Hang Ren , Haitham Bou Ammar , Vladimir Milenkovic , Rui Luo , Mingtian Zhang , Jun Wang

Deep learning models achieve remarkable accuracy in computer vision tasks, yet remain vulnerable to adversarial examples--carefully crafted perturbations to input images that can deceive these models into making confident but incorrect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Khoi Nguyen Tiet Nguyen , Wenyu Zhang , Kangkang Lu , Yuhuan Wu , Xingjian Zheng , Hui Li Tan , Liangli Zhen

Many existing deep learning models are vulnerable to adversarial examples that are imperceptible to humans. To address this issue, various methods have been proposed to design network architectures that are robust to one particular type of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Jia Liu , Yaochu Jin

In this paper, we study fast training of adversarially robust models. From the analyses of the state-of-the-art defense method, i.e., the multi-step adversarial training, we hypothesize that the gradient magnitude links to the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Jianyu Wang , Haichao Zhang

Robustness of huge Transformer-based models for natural language processing is an important issue due to their capabilities and wide adoption. One way to understand and improve robustness of these models is an exploration of an adversarial…

Deep reinforcement learning models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks that can decrease a victim's cumulative expected reward by manipulating the victim's observations. Despite the efficiency of previous optimization-based methods for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 You Qiaoben , Chengyang Ying , Xinning Zhou , Hang Su , Jun Zhu , Bo Zhang

Convolutional Neural Networks have achieved significant success across multiple computer vision tasks. However, they are vulnerable to carefully crafted, human-imperceptible adversarial noise patterns which constrain their deployment in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Aamir Mustafa , Salman H. Khan , Munawar Hayat , Jianbing Shen , Ling Shao

Multi-bit watermarking (MW) has been designed to enhance resistance against watermarking attacks, such as signal processing operations and geometric distortions. Various benchmark tools exist to assess this robustness through simulated…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Seung-Hun Nam , Jihyeon Kang , Daesik Kim , Namhyuk Ahn , Wonhyuk Ahn

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are known to have a fundamental sensitivity to adversarial attacks, perturbations of the input that are imperceptible to humans yet powerful enough to change the visual decision of a model. Adversarial attacks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Drew Linsley , Pinyuan Feng , Thibaut Boissin , Alekh Karkada Ashok , Thomas Fel , Stephanie Olaiya , Thomas Serre

Frank-Wolfe algorithm (FW) and its variants have gained a surge of interests in machine learning community due to its projection-free property. Recently people have reduced the gradient evaluation complexity of FW algorithm to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-22 Yan Li , Chao Qu , Huan Xu