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In multiple domains such as malware detection, automated driving systems, or fraud detection, classification algorithms are susceptible to being attacked by malicious agents willing to perturb the value of instance covariates to pursue…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-10 Victor Gallego , Roi Naveiro , Alberto Redondo , David Rios Insua , Fabrizio Ruggeri

Most existing machine learning classifiers are highly vulnerable to adversarial examples. An adversarial example is a sample of input data which has been modified very slightly in a way that is intended to cause a machine learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Alexey Kurakin , Ian Goodfellow , Samy Bengio

We consider the problem of prediction by a machine learning algorithm, called learner, within an adversarial learning setting. The learner's task is to correctly predict the class of data passed to it as a query. However, along with queries…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Prithviraj Dasgupta , Joseph B. Collins , Michael McCarrick

The existence of adversarial examples is relatively understood for random fully connected neural networks, but much less so for convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The recent work [Daniely, 2025] establishes that adversarial examples can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Amit Daniely , Idan Mehalel

Bayesian regression games are a special class of two-player general-sum Bayesian games in which the learner is partially informed about the adversary's objective through a Bayesian prior. This formulation captures the uncertainty in regard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Wenshuo Guo , Michael I. Jordan , Tianyi Lin

Machine learning models are vulnerable to adversarial perturbations, that when added to an input, can cause high confidence misclassifications. The adversarial learning research community has made remarkable progress in the understanding of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Jamie Hayes

Deep neural network classifiers suffer from adversarial vulnerability: well-crafted, unnoticeable changes to the input data can affect the classifier decision. In this regard, the study of powerful adversarial attacks can help shed light on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Hadi M. Dolatabadi , Sarah Erfani , Christopher Leckie

Standard methods for generating adversarial examples for neural networks do not consistently fool neural network classifiers in the physical world due to a combination of viewpoint shifts, camera noise, and other natural transformations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Anish Athalye , Logan Engstrom , Andrew Ilyas , Kevin Kwok

Despite the considerable success enjoyed by machine learning techniques in practice, numerous studies demonstrated that many approaches are vulnerable to attacks. An important class of such attacks involves adversaries changing features at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Liang Tong , Sixie Yu , Scott Alfeld , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

Motivated by safety-critical applications, test-time attacks on classifiers via adversarial examples has recently received a great deal of attention. However, there is a general lack of understanding on why adversarial examples arise;…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-20 Yizhen Wang , Somesh Jha , Kamalika Chaudhuri

Attack detection is usually approached as a classification problem. However, standard classification tools often perform poorly because an adaptive attacker can shape his attacks in response to the algorithm. This has led to the recent…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-26 Lemonia Dritsoula , Patrick Loiseau , John Musacchio

Adversarial examples have been found for various deep as well as shallow learning models, and have at various times been suggested to be either fixable model-specific bugs, or else inherent dataset feature, or both. We present theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Benjamin L. Badger

We study the problem of sequential prediction in the stochastic setting with an adversary that is allowed to inject clean-label adversarial (or out-of-distribution) examples. Algorithms designed to handle purely stochastic data tend to fail…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Surbhi Goel , Steve Hanneke , Shay Moran , Abhishek Shetty

Adversarial examples are input examples that are specifically crafted to deceive machine learning classifiers. State-of-the-art adversarial example detection methods characterize an input example as adversarial either by quantifying the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Yuhang Wu , Sunpreet S. Arora , Yanhong Wu , Hao Yang

Adversarial examples are a pervasive phenomenon of machine learning models where seemingly imperceptible perturbations to the input lead to misclassifications for otherwise statistically accurate models. In this paper we study how the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Marc Khoury

Adversarial training is a principled approach for training robust neural networks. Despite of tremendous successes in practice, its theoretical properties still remain largely unexplored. In this paper, we provide new theoretical insights…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Yan Li , Ethan X. Fang , Huan Xu , Tuo Zhao

Ensuring that all supposedly valid configurations of a software product line (SPL) lead to well-formed and acceptable products is challenging since it is most of the time impractical to enumerate and test all individual products of an SPL.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Paul Temple , Mathieu Acher , Battista Biggio , Jean-Marc Jézéquel , Fabio Roli

The great success of convolutional neural networks has caused a massive spread of the use of such models in a large variety of Computer Vision applications. However, these models are vulnerable to certain inputs, the adversarial examples,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Stefanos Pertigkiozoglou , Petros Maragos

Adversarial examples have recently drawn considerable attention in the field of machine learning due to the fact that small perturbations in the data can result in major performance degradation. This phenomenon is usually modeled by a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Payam Delgosha , Hamed Hassani , Ramtin Pedarsani

Traditional classification algorithms assume that training and test data come from similar distributions. This assumption is violated in adversarial settings, where malicious actors modify instances to evade detection. A number of custom…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Bo Li , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Xinyun Chen