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We show how to turn any classifier that classifies well under Gaussian noise into a new classifier that is certifiably robust to adversarial perturbations under the $\ell_2$ norm. This "randomized smoothing" technique has been proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Jeremy M Cohen , Elan Rosenfeld , J. Zico Kolter

The fact that deep neural networks are susceptible to crafted perturbations severely impacts the use of deep learning in certain domains of application. Among many developed defense models against such attacks, adversarial training emerges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Anh Bui , Trung Le , He Zhao , Paul Montague , Olivier deVel , Tamas Abraham , Dinh Phung

Adversarial examples are inevitable on the road of pervasive applications of deep neural networks (DNN). Imperceptible perturbations applied on natural samples can lead DNN-based classifiers to output wrong prediction with fair confidence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Tao Bai , Jinqi Luo , Jun Zhao

Certified defense using randomized smoothing is a popular technique to provide robustness guarantees for deep neural networks against l2 adversarial attacks. Existing works use this technique to provably secure a pretrained non-robust model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Gaurav Kumar Nayak , Ruchit Rawal , Anirban Chakraborty

Deep neural networks (DNNs) enable high performance across domains but remain vulnerable to adversarial perturbations, limiting their use in safety-critical settings. Here, we introduce two quantum-optimization-based models for robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Wenxin Li , Wenchao Liu , Chuan Wang , Qi Gao , Yin Ma , Hai Wei , Kai Wen

Currently the most popular method of providing robustness certificates is randomized smoothing where an input is smoothed via some probability distribution. We propose a novel approach to randomized smoothing over multiplicative parameters.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Nikita Muravev , Aleksandr Petiushko

Despite the high performance achieved by deep neural networks on various tasks, extensive studies have demonstrated that small tweaks in the input could fail the model predictions. This issue of deep neural networks has led to a number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Ming-Chang Chiu , Xuezhe Ma

The increasing use of machine learning in safety-critical domains amplifies the risk of adversarial threats, especially data poisoning attacks that corrupt training data to degrade performance or induce unsafe behavior. Most existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Sara Taheri , Mahalakshmi Sabanayagam , Debarghya Ghoshdastidar , Majid Zamani

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial examples where inputs with imperceptible perturbations mislead DNNs to incorrect results. Despite the potential risk they bring, adversarial examples are also valuable for providing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Chongzhi Zhang , Aishan Liu , Xianglong Liu , Yitao Xu , Hang Yu , Yuqing Ma , Tianlin Li

Randomized smoothing is a powerful tool for certifying robustness to adversarial perturbations, including poisoning attacks via randomized training and evasion attacks via randomized inference. Extending these guarantees to backdoor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Aman Saxena , Jan Schuchardt , Yan Scholten , Stephan Günnemann

The idea of robustness is central and critical to modern statistical analysis. However, despite the recent advances of deep neural networks (DNNs), many studies have shown that DNNs are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Making…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Jungeum Kim , Xiao Wang

Recent progress in empirical and certified robustness promises to deliver reliable and deployable Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). Despite that success, most existing evaluations of DNN robustness have been done on images sampled from the same…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Kumail Alhamoud , Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud , Motasem Alfarra , Bernard Ghanem

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

Recent studies have shown that deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, including evasion and backdoor (poisoning) attacks. On the defense side, there have been intensive efforts on improving both empirical and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Maurice Weber , Xiaojun Xu , Bojan Karlaš , Ce Zhang , Bo Li

This paper is concerned with the defense of deep models against adversarial attacks. Inspired by the certificate defense approach, we propose a maximal adversarial distortion (MAD) optimization method for robustifying deep networks. MAD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Shai Rozenberg , Gal Elidan , Ran El-Yaniv

Several recent results provide theoretical insights into the phenomena of adversarial examples. Existing results, however, are often limited due to a gap between the simplicity of the models studied and the complexity of those deployed in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Jeremias Sulam , Ramchandran Muthukumar , Raman Arora

A recent technique of randomized smoothing has shown that the worst-case (adversarial) $\ell_2$-robustness can be transformed into the average-case Gaussian-robustness by "smoothing" a classifier, i.e., by considering the averaged…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Jongheon Jeong , Jinwoo Shin

Randomized smoothing (RS) has successfully been used to improve the robustness of predictions for deep neural networks (DNNs) by adding random noise to create multiple variations of an input, followed by deciding the consensus. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Emmanouil Seferis , Stefanos Kollias , Chih-Hong Cheng

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks, i.e., an imperceptible perturbation to the input can mislead DNNs trained on clean images into making erroneous predictions. To tackle this, adversarial training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yonggan Fu , Qixuan Yu , Yang Zhang , Shang Wu , Xu Ouyang , David Cox , Yingyan Celine Lin

Adversarial training attains strong empirical robustness to specific adversarial attacks by training on concrete adversarial perturbations, but it produces neural networks that are not amenable to strong robustness certificates through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Alessandro De Palma