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Neural networks have been widely applied in security applications such as spam and phishing detection, intrusion prevention, and malware detection. This black-box method, however, often has uncertainty and poor explainability in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Mark Huasong Meng , Guangdong Bai , Sin Gee Teo , Zhe Hou , Yan Xiao , Yun Lin , Jin Song Dong

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to so-called adversarial examples: inputs which are intentionally constructed to cause the model to make incorrect predictions or classifications. Adversarial examples are often visually indistinguishable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Jonathan Peck , Bart Goossens

Quantum query complexity is a fundamental model for analyzing the computational power of quantum algorithms. It has played a key role in characterizing quantum speedups, from early breakthroughs such as Grover's and Simon's algorithms to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-13 Yassine Hamoudi

Despite considerable efforts on making them robust, real-world AI-based systems remain vulnerable to decision based attacks, as definitive proofs of their operational robustness have so far proven intractable. Canonical robustness…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Ilias Tsingenopoulos , Vera Rimmer , Davy Preuveneers , Fabio Pierazzi , Lorenzo Cavallaro , Wouter Joosen

We study the design of computationally efficient algorithms with provable guarantees, that are robust to adversarial (test time) perturbations. While there has been an proliferation of recent work on this topic due to its connections to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Pranjal Awasthi , Abhratanu Dutta , Aravindan Vijayaraghavan

Mixtures of classifiers (a.k.a. randomized ensembles) have been proposed as a way to improve robustness against adversarial attacks. However, it has been shown that existing attacks are not well suited for this kind of classifiers. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Lucas Gnecco Heredia , Benjamin Negrevergne , Yann Chevaleyre

In this paper, we study the problem of how to defend classifiers against adversarial attacks that fool the classifiers using subtly modified input data. In contrast to previous works, here we focus on the white-box adversarial defense where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Zudi Lin , Hanspeter Pfister , Ziming Zhang

The polynomial method and the adversary method are the two main techniques to prove lower bounds on quantum query complexity, and they have so far been considered as unrelated approaches. Here, we show an explicit reduction from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-04 Loïck Magnin , Jérémie Roland

Various defense models have been proposed to resist adversarial attack algorithms, but existing adversarial robustness evaluation methods always overestimate the adversarial robustness of these models (i.e., not approaching the lower bound…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Youhuan Yang , Lei Sun , Leyu Dai , Song Guo , Xiuqing Mao , Xiaoqin Wang , Bayi Xu

Motivated by safety-critical classification problems, we investigate adversarial attacks against cost-sensitive classifiers. We use current state-of-the-art adversarially-resistant neural network classifiers [1] as the underlying models.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-08 Gavin S. Hartnett , Andrew J. Lohn , Alexander P. Sedlack

Adversarial attacks expose important vulnerabilities of deep learning models, yet little attention has been paid to settings where data arrives as a stream. In this paper, we formalize the online adversarial attack problem, emphasizing two…

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence within the realm of cybersecurity raises significant security concerns. The vulnerability of deep learning models in adversarial attacks is one of the major issues. In adversarial machine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Khushnaseeb Roshan , Aasim Zafar

Deep neural networks are powerful and popular learning models that achieve state-of-the-art pattern recognition performance on many computer vision, speech, and language processing tasks. However, these networks have also been shown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Nina Narodytska , Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan

Given the widespread use of deep learning models in safety-critical applications, ensuring that the decisions of such models are robust against adversarial exploitation is of fundamental importance. In this thesis, we discuss recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Alexander Robey

Black-box adversarial attacks present a realistic threat to action recognition systems. Existing black-box attacks follow either a query-based approach where an attack is optimized by querying the target model, or a transfer-based approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Rohit Gupta , Naveed Akhtar , Gaurav Kumar Nayak , Ajmal Mian , Mubarak Shah

Making classifiers robust to adversarial examples is hard. Thus, many defenses tackle the seemingly easier task of detecting perturbed inputs. We show a barrier towards this goal. We prove a general hardness reduction between detection and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Florian Tramèr

The existence of adversarial examples points to a basic weakness of deep neural networks. One of the most effective defenses against such examples, adversarial training, entails training models with some degree of robustness, usually at the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Matan Levi , Aryeh Kontorovich

While deep neural networks show unprecedented performance in various tasks, the vulnerability to adversarial examples hinders their deployment in safety-critical systems. Many studies have shown that attacks are also possible even in a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Junyoung Byun , Hyojun Go , Changick Kim

The field of adversarial machine learning has experienced a near exponential growth in the amount of papers being produced since 2018. This massive information output has yet to be properly processed and categorized. In this paper, we seek…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Kaleel Mahmood , Rigel Mahmood , Ethan Rathbun , Marten van Dijk

Neural networks are known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. In this note, we evaluate the two white-box defenses that appeared at CVPR 2018 and find they are ineffective: when applying existing techniques, we can reduce the accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Anish Athalye , Nicholas Carlini