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Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Existing methods are devoted to developing various robust training strategies or regularizations to update the weights of the neural network. But beyond the weights, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Minjing Dong , Yanxi Li , Yunhe Wang , Chang Xu

Adversarial training and its variants have become de facto standards for learning robust deep neural networks. In this paper, we explore the landscape around adversarial training in a bid to uncover its limits. We systematically study the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-31 Sven Gowal , Chongli Qin , Jonathan Uesato , Timothy Mann , Pushmeet Kohli

Machine learning is vulnerable to adversarial examples-inputs designed to cause models to perform poorly. However, it is unclear if adversarial examples represent realistic inputs in the modeled domains. Diverse domains such as networks and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Ryan Sheatsley , Blaine Hoak , Eric Pauley , Yohan Beugin , Michael J. Weisman , Patrick McDaniel

Vulnerability to adversarial attacks is one of the principal hurdles to the adoption of deep learning in safety-critical applications. Despite significant efforts, both practical and theoretical, training deep learning models robust to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Luca Bortolussi , Ginevra Carbone , Luca Laurenti , Andrea Patane , Guido Sanguinetti , Matthew Wicker

Robust overfitting widely exists in adversarial training of deep networks. The exact underlying reasons for this are still not completely understood. Here, we explore the causes of robust overfitting by comparing the data distribution of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Chaojian Yu , Bo Han , Li Shen , Jun Yu , Chen Gong , Mingming Gong , Tongliang Liu

As deep learning (DL) models are increasingly being integrated into our everyday lives, ensuring their safety by making them robust against adversarial attacks has become increasingly critical. DL models have been found to be susceptible to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Hallgrimur Thorsteinsson , Valdemar J Henriksen , Daniel I R Cruz , Raghavendra Selvan , Tong Chen

Transfer-based adversarial attacks raise a severe threat to real-world deep learning systems since they do not require access to target models. Adversarial training (AT), which is recognized as the strongest defense against white-box…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Yulong Yang , Chenhao Lin , Xiang Ji , Qiwei Tian , Qian Li , Hongshan Yang , Zhibo Wang , Chao Shen

With the wide application of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) techniques in complex fields such as autonomous driving, intelligent manufacturing, and smart healthcare, how to improve its security and robustness in dynamic and changeable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Wu Yichao , Wang Yirui , Ding Panpan , Wang Hailong , Zhu Bingqian , Liu Chun

Deep neural networks have achieved impressive results in many image classification tasks. However, since their performance is usually measured in controlled settings, it is important to ensure that their decisions remain correct when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Apostolos Modas

Adversarial Training has proved to be an effective training paradigm to enforce robustness against adversarial examples in modern neural network architectures. Despite many efforts, explanations of the foundational principles underpinning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Mattia Carletti , Matteo Terzi , Gian Antonio Susto

Adversarial training, which is to enhance robustness against adversarial attacks, has received much attention because it is easy to generate human-imperceptible perturbations of data to deceive a given deep neural network. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-02 Dongyoon Yang , Insung Kong , Yongdai Kim

Over the past decade, numerous theories have been proposed to explain the widespread vulnerability of deep neural networks to adversarial evasion attacks. Among these, the theory of non-robust features proposed by Ilyas et al. has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Jennifer Crawford , Amol Khanna , Fred Lu , Amy R. Wagoner , Stella Biderman , Andre T. Nguyen , Edward Raff

Deep learning-based image denoising models demonstrate remarkable performance, but their lack of robustness analysis remains a significant concern. A major issue is that these models are susceptible to adversarial attacks, where small,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Jie Ning , Jiebao Sun , Shengzhu Shi , Zhichang Guo , Yao Li , Hongwei Li , Boying Wu

Machine learning researchers have long noticed the phenomenon that the model training process will be more effective and efficient when the training samples are densely sampled around the underlying decision boundary. While this observation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Honggang Yu , Shihfeng Zeng , Teng Zhang , Ing-Chao Lin , Yier Jin

This paper introduces a comprehensive framework designed to analyze and secure decision-support systems trained with Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL), prior to deployment, by providing insights into learned behavior patterns and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Brett Bissey , Kyle Gatesman , Walker Dimon , Mohammad Alam , Luis Robaina , Joseph Weissman

Learning from raw high dimensional data via interaction with a given environment has been effectively achieved through the utilization of deep neural networks. Yet the observed degradation in policy performance caused by imperceptible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Ezgi Korkmaz

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples. Prior defenses attempted to make deep networks more robust by either changing the network architecture or augmenting the training set with adversarial examples, but both have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Yongshuai Liu , Jiyu Chen , Hao Chen

Deep neural networks have been successful in diverse discriminative classification tasks, although, they are poorly calibrated often assigning high probability to misclassified predictions. Potential consequences could lead to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-06 John Mitros , Arjun Pakrashi , Brian Mac Namee

Adversarial examples derived from deliberately crafted perturbations on visual inputs can easily harm decision process of deep neural networks. To prevent potential threats, various adversarial training-based defense methods have grown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Byung-Kwan Lee , Junho Kim , Yong Man Ro

Representation learning, i.e. the generation of representations useful for downstream applications, is a task of fundamental importance that underlies much of the success of deep neural networks (DNNs). Recently, robustness to adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Christian Cianfarani , Arjun Nitin Bhagoji , Vikash Sehwag , Ben Y. Zhao , Prateek Mittal , Haitao Zheng