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For sensitive problems, such as medical imaging or fraud detection, Neural Network (NN) adoption has been slow due to concerns about their reliability, leading to a number of algorithms for explaining their decisions. NNs have also been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Walt Woods , Jack Chen , Christof Teuscher

Adversarial robustness corresponds to the susceptibility of deep neural networks to imperceptible perturbations made at test time. In the context of image tasks, many algorithms have been proposed to make neural networks robust to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Pranjal Awasthi , George Yu , Chun-Sung Ferng , Andrew Tomkins , Da-Cheng Juan

It is well-known that standard neural networks, even with a high classification accuracy, are vulnerable to small $\ell_\infty$-norm bounded adversarial perturbations. Although many attempts have been made, most previous works either can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Bohang Zhang , Tianle Cai , Zhou Lu , Di He , Liwei Wang

This paper presents a framework for bounding the approximation error in imitation model predictive controllers utilizing neural networks. Leveraging the Lipschitz properties of these neural networks, we derive a bound that guides dataset…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-27 Hendrik Alsmeier , Lukas Theiner , Anton Savchenko , Ali Mesbah , Rolf Findeisen

Over the last decade, the development of deep image classification networks has mostly been driven by the search for the best performance in terms of classification accuracy on standardized benchmarks like ImageNet. More recently, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Kalun Ho , Franz-Josef Pfreundt , Janis Keuper , Margret Keuper

Despite the improved accuracy of deep neural networks, the discovery of adversarial examples has raised serious safety concerns. In this paper, we study two variants of pointwise robustness, the maximum safe radius problem, which for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Min Wu , Matthew Wicker , Wenjie Ruan , Xiaowei Huang , Marta Kwiatkowska

An emerging problem in trustworthy machine learning is to train models that produce robust interpretations for their predictions. We take a step towards solving this problem through the lens of axiomatic attribution of neural networks. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Jiefeng Chen , Xi Wu , Vaibhav Rastogi , Yingyu Liang , Somesh Jha

Despite the exploding interest in graph neural networks there has been little effort to verify and improve their robustness. This is even more alarming given recent findings showing that they are extremely vulnerable to adversarial attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Aleksandar Bojchevski , Stephan Günnemann

Existing certified training methods can only train models to be robust against a certain perturbation type (e.g. $l_\infty$ or $l_2$). However, an $l_\infty$ certifiably robust model may not be certifiably robust against $l_2$ perturbation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Enyi Jiang , David S. Cheung , Gagandeep Singh

Adversarial training has been actively studied in recent computer vision research to improve the robustness of models. However, due to the huge computational cost of generating adversarial samples, adversarial training methods are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Yihan Wu , Xinda Li , Florian Kerschbaum , Heng Huang , Hongyang Zhang

Deep neural networks have reached human-level performance on many computer vision tasks. However, the objectives used to train these networks enforce only that similar images are embedded at similar locations in the representation space,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Lukas Muttenthaler , Lorenz Linhardt , Jonas Dippel , Robert A. Vandermeulen , Katherine Hermann , Andrew K. Lampinen , Simon Kornblith

In deep learning applications, robustness measures the ability of neural models that handle slight changes in input data, which could lead to potential safety hazards, especially in safety-critical applications. Pre-deployment assessment of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Wenchuan Mu , Kwan Hui Lim

Neural networks achieve strong empirical performance, but robustness concerns still hinder deployment in safety-critical applications. Formal verification provides robustness guarantees, but current methods face a scalability-completeness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Wenting Li , Saif R. Kazi , Russell Bent , Duo Zhou , Huan Zhang

Deep learning has achieved remarkable success across a wide range of tasks, but its models often suffer from instability and vulnerability: small changes to the input may drastically affect predictions, while optimization can be hindered by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Blaise Delattre

Neural networks offer a computationally efficient approximation of model predictive control, but they lack guarantees on the resulting controlled system's properties. Formal certification of neural networks is crucial for ensuring safety,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Philip Sosnin , Calvin Tsay

Neural networks are often highly sensitive to input and weight perturbations. This sensitivity has been linked to pathologies such as vulnerability to adversarial examples, divergent training, and overfitting. To combat these problems, past…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Laker Newhouse , R. Preston Hess , Franz Cesista , Andrii Zahorodnii , Jeremy Bernstein , Phillip Isola

Recent work has shown that state-of-the-art classifiers are quite brittle, in the sense that a small adversarial change of an originally with high confidence correctly classified input leads to a wrong classification again with high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Matthias Hein , Maksym Andriushchenko

Labelling of data for supervised learning can be costly and time-consuming and the risk of incorporating label noise in large data sets is imminent. When training a flexible discriminative model using a strictly proper loss, such noise will…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-13 Amanda Olmin , Fredrik Lindsten

Viewing neural network models in terms of their loss landscapes has a long history in the statistical mechanics approach to learning, and in recent years it has received attention within machine learning proper. Among other things, local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Yaoqing Yang , Liam Hodgkinson , Ryan Theisen , Joe Zou , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Kannan Ramchandran , Michael W. Mahoney

Neural network robustness has become a central topic in machine learning in recent years. Most training algorithms that improve the model's robustness to adversarial and common corruptions also introduce a large computational overhead,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Weizhe Hua , Yichi Zhang , Chuan Guo , Zhiru Zhang , G. Edward Suh