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Although deep neural networks have shown promising performances on various tasks, even achieving human-level performance on some, they are shown to be susceptible to incorrect predictions even with imperceptibly small perturbations to an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Byunggill Joe , Sung Ju Hwang , Insik Shin

The ability of machine learning (ML) classification models to resist small, targeted input perturbations -- known as adversarial attacks -- is a key measure of their safety and reliability. We show that floating-point non-associativity…

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In this paper, we study the adversarial robustness of subspace learning problems. Different from the assumptions made in existing work on robust subspace learning where data samples are contaminated by gross sparse outliers or small dense…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-22 Fuwei Li , Lifeng Lai , Shuguang Cui

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

An important goal in deep learning is to learn versatile, high-level feature representations of input data. However, standard networks' representations seem to possess shortcomings that, as we illustrate, prevent them from fully realizing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-30 Logan Engstrom , Andrew Ilyas , Shibani Santurkar , Dimitris Tsipras , Brandon Tran , Aleksander Madry

Deep neural networks represent the state of the art in machine learning in a growing number of fields, including vision, speech and natural language processing. However, recent work raises important questions about the robustness of such…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-20 Zhinus Marzi , Soorya Gopalakrishnan , Upamanyu Madhow , Ramtin Pedarsani

In the contemporary of deep learning, where models often grapple with the challenge of simultaneously achieving robustness against adversarial attacks and strong generalization capabilities, this study introduces an innovative Local Feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Yunpeng Gong , Chuangliang Zhang , Yongjie Hou , Lifei Chen , Min Jiang

Transfer adversarial attack is a non-trivial black-box adversarial attack that aims to craft adversarial perturbations on the surrogate model and then apply such perturbations to the victim model. However, the transferability of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Shuman Fang , Jie Li , Xianming Lin , Rongrong Ji

Recent research showed that deep neural networks are highly sensitive to so-called adversarial perturbations, which are tiny perturbations of the input data purposely designed to fool a machine learning classifier. Most classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-15 Akram Erraqabi , Aristide Baratin , Yoshua Bengio , Simon Lacoste-Julien

Deep learning techniques have been widely used in autonomous driving systems for the semantic understanding of urban scenes. However, they need a huge amount of labeled data for training, which is difficult and expensive to acquire. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Umberto Michieli , Matteo Biasetton , Gianluca Agresti , Pietro Zanuttigh

Decentralized machine learning often relies on outsourcing computations, such as gradient evaluations, to untrusted worker nodes. Existing robust aggregation methods can mitigate malicious behavior under honest-majority assumptions, but may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Hanzaleh Akbari Nodehi , Parsa Moradi , Soheil Mohajer , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

Estimating causal effects from nonexperimental data is a fundamental problem in many fields of science. A key component of this task is selecting an appropriate set of covariates for confounding adjustment to avoid bias. Most existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Zheng Li , Xichen Guo , Feng Xie , Yan Zeng , Hao Zhang , Zhi Geng

The vulnerability of deep neural networks (DNNs) to adversarial examples has attracted great attention in the machine learning community. The problem is related to non-flatness and non-smoothness of normally obtained loss landscapes.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Qizhang Li , Yiwen Guo , Wangmeng Zuo , Hao Chen

Recent studies have shown that modern deep neural network classifiers are easy to fool, assuming that an adversary is able to slightly modify their inputs. Many papers have proposed adversarial attacks, defenses and methods to measure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Igor Buzhinsky , Arseny Nerinovsky , Stavros Tripakis

With deep neural networks (DNNs) increasingly embedded in modern society, ensuring their safety has become a critical and urgent issue. In response, substantial efforts have been dedicated to the red-blue adversarial framework, where the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Runqi Lin

Neural networks are known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks -- slight but carefully constructed perturbations of the inputs which can drastically impair the network's performance. Many defense methods have been proposed for improving…

Recent studies have highlighted that deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial examples. In this paper, we improve the robustness of DNNs by utilizing techniques of Distance Metric Learning. Specifically, we incorporate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Pengcheng Li , Jinfeng Yi , Bowen Zhou , Lijun Zhang

Adversarial training (AT) is among the most effective techniques to improve model robustness by augmenting training data with adversarial examples. However, most existing AT methods adopt a specific attack to craft adversarial examples,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Yinpeng Dong , Zhijie Deng , Tianyu Pang , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

We propose local distributional smoothness (LDS), a new notion of smoothness for statistical model that can be used as a regularization term to promote the smoothness of the model distribution. We named the LDS based regularization as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-06-14 Takeru Miyato , Shin-ichi Maeda , Masanori Koyama , Ken Nakae , Shin Ishii

Deep Learning (DL) is one of the most common subjects when Machine Learning and Data Science approaches are considered. There are clearly two movements related to DL: the first aggregates researchers in quest to outperform other algorithms…

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