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Adversarial attacks insert small, imperceptible perturbations to input samples that cause large, undesired changes to the output of deep learning models. Despite extensive research on generating adversarial attacks and building defense…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Vyas Raina , Mark Gales

In domain adaptation, maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) has been widely adopted as a discrepancy metric between the distributions of source and target domains. However, existing MMD-based domain adaptation methods generally ignore the changes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Hongliang Yan , Yukang Ding , Peihua Li , Qilong Wang , Yong Xu , Wangmeng Zuo

Motivated by the increasing use of kernel-based metrics for high-dimensional and large-scale data, we study the asymptotic behavior of kernel two-sample tests when the dimension and sample sizes both diverge to infinity. We focus on the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-31 Jian Yan , Xianyang Zhang

Adversarial training, as one of the most effective defense methods against adversarial attacks, tends to learn an inclusive decision boundary to increase the robustness of deep learning models. However, due to the large and unnecessary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Xiaoyu Liang , Yaguan Qian , Jianchang Huang , Xiang Ling , Bin Wang , Chunming Wu , Wassim Swaileh

Explainable machine learning has become increasingly prevalent, especially in healthcare where explainable models are vital for ethical and trusted automated decision making. Work on the susceptibility of deep learning models to adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Matthew Watson , Noura Al Moubayed

Adversarial attack is commonly regarded as a huge threat to neural networks because of misleading behavior. This paper presents an opposite perspective: adversarial attacks can be harnessed to improve neural models if amended correctly.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Chong Yu , Tao Chen , Zhongxue Gan

In the era of widespread public use of AI systems across various domains, ensuring adversarial robustness has become increasingly vital to maintain safety and prevent undesirable errors. Researchers have curated various adversarial datasets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Yuanchen Bai , Raoyi Huang , Vijay Viswanathan , Tzu-Sheng Kuo , Tongshuang Wu

Machine Learning (ML) models are applied in a variety of tasks such as network intrusion detection or Malware classification. Yet, these models are vulnerable to a class of malicious inputs known as adversarial examples. These are slightly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Kathrin Grosse , Praveen Manoharan , Nicolas Papernot , Michael Backes , Patrick McDaniel

Adversarial training (AT) is a prominent technique employed by deep learning models to defend against adversarial attacks, and to some extent, enhance model robustness. However, there are three main drawbacks of the existing AT-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 X. Peng , D. Zhou , G. Sun , J. Shi , L. Wu

The existence of adversarial attacks (or adversarial examples) brings huge concern about the machine learning (ML) model's safety issues. For many safety-critical ML tasks, such as financial forecasting, fraudulent detection, and anomaly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Han Xu , Menghai Pan , Zhimeng Jiang , Huiyuan Chen , Xiaoting Li , Mahashweta Das , Hao Yang

The maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) is a recently proposed test statistic for two-sample test. Its quadratic time complexity, however, greatly hampers its availability to large-scale applications. To accelerate the MMD calculation, in this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Ji Zhao , Deyu Meng

This article provides a practical introduction to kernel discrepancies, focusing on the Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD), the Hilbert-Schmidt Independence Criterion (HSIC), and the Kernel Stein Discrepancy (KSD). Various estimators for these…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-03 Antonin Schrab

Deep Learning based AI systems have shown great promise in various domains such as vision, audio, autonomous systems (vehicles, drones), etc. Recent research on neural networks has shown the susceptibility of deep networks to adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Sambuddha Saha , Aashish Kumar , Pratyush Sahay , George Jose , Srinivas Kruthiventi , Harikrishna Muralidhara

The Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) is a cornerstone statistic for nonparametric two-sample testing, but its test power is dictated entirely by the chosen kernel. Because any fixed kernel inherently fails to distinguish certain…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-11 Yijin Ni , Xiaoming Huo

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

Maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) has enjoyed a lot of success in many machine learning and statistical applications, including non-parametric hypothesis testing, because of its ability to handle non-Euclidean data. Recently, it has been…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-24 Omar Hagrass , Bharath K. Sriperumbudur , Bing Li

It is now well known that deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attack. Adversarial samples are similar to the clean ones, but are able to cheat the attacked DNN to produce incorrect predictions in high confidence. But…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Sizhe Chen , Xiaolin Huang , Zhengbao He , Chengjin Sun

An Adversarial System to attack and an Authorship Attribution System (AAS) to defend itself against the attacks are analyzed. Defending a system against attacks from an adversarial machine learner can be done by randomly switching between…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Alison Jenkins

Despite providing high-performance solutions for computer vision tasks, the deep neural network (DNN) model has been proved to be extremely vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Current defense mainly focuses on the known attacks, but the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Lei Zhang , Yuhang Zhou , Yi Yang , Xinbo Gao

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown impressive performance in generating photo-realistic images. They fit generative models by minimizing certain distance measure between the real image distribution and the generated data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Jianbo Guo , Guangxiang Zhu , Jian Li