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A recent technique of randomized smoothing has shown that the worst-case (adversarial) $\ell_2$-robustness can be transformed into the average-case Gaussian-robustness by "smoothing" a classifier, i.e., by considering the averaged…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Jongheon Jeong , Jinwoo Shin

As a certified defensive technique, randomized smoothing has received considerable attention due to its scalability to large datasets and neural networks. However, several important questions remain unanswered, such as (i) whether the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Tianhang Zheng , Di Wang , Baochun Li , Jinhui Xu

Deep neural networks are known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Current methods of defense from such attacks are based on either implicit or explicit regularization, e.g., adversarial training. Randomized smoothing, the averaging of…

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) aim at providing energy-efficient learning capabilities when implemented on neuromorphic chips with event-based Dynamic Vision Sensors (DVS). This paper studies the robustness of SNNs against adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Alberto Marchisio , Giacomo Pira , Maurizio Martina , Guido Masera , Muhammad Shafique

Machine learning models have demonstrated remarkable success across diverse domains but remain vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Empirical defense mechanisms often fail, as new attacks constantly emerge, rendering existing defenses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Anupriya Kumari , Devansh Bhardwaj , Sukrit Jindal

Randomized smoothing provides strong, model-agnostic robustness certificates, but existing guarantees are limited to single modalities, treating continuous and discrete inputs in isolation. This limitation becomes critical in multimodal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Blaise Delattre , Hengyu Wu , Paul Caillon , Wei Yang Bryan Lim , Yang Cao

Randomized Smoothing (RS) is a prominent technique for certifying the robustness of neural networks against adversarial perturbations. With RS, achieving high accuracy at small radii requires a small noise variance, while achieving high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Chenhao Sun , Yuhao Mao , Martin Vechev

Randomized smoothing (RS) is one of the prominent techniques to ensure the correctness of machine learning models, where point-wise robustness certificates can be derived analytically. While RS is well understood for classification, its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Emmanouil Seferis , Changshun Wu , Stefanos Kollias , Saddek Bensalem , Chih-Hong Cheng

Machine Learning (ML) models have been utilized for malware detection for over two decades. Consequently, this ignited an ongoing arms race between malware authors and antivirus systems, compelling researchers to propose defenses for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Shoumik Saha , Wenxiao Wang , Yigitcan Kaya , Soheil Feizi , Tudor Dumitras

Randomized smoothing has recently attracted attentions in the field of adversarial robustness to provide provable robustness guarantees on smoothed neural network classifiers. However, existing works show that vanilla randomized smoothing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Linbo Liu , Trong Nghia Hoang , Lam M. Nguyen , Tsui-Wei Weng

The study of provable adversarial robustness has mostly been limited to classification tasks and models with one-dimensional real-valued outputs. We extend the scope of certifiable robustness to problems with more general and structured…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Aounon Kumar , Tom Goldstein

Machine learning-based static malware detectors remain vulnerable to adversarial evasion techniques, such as metamorphic engine mutations. To address this vulnerability, we propose a certifiably robust malware detection framework based on…

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Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have received widespread attention due to their unique neuronal dynamics and low-power nature. Previous research empirically shows that SNNs with Poisson coding are more robust than Artificial Neural Networks…

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Robustness is essential for deep neural networks, especially in security-sensitive applications. To this end, randomized smoothing provides theoretical guarantees for certifying robustness against adversarial perturbations. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Jiachen Lei , Julius Berner , Jiongxiao Wang , Zhongzhu Chen , Zhongjia Ba , Kui Ren , Jun Zhu , Anima Anandkumar

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown vulnerability to adversarial attacks, i.e., carefully perturbed inputs designed to mislead the network at inference time. Recently introduced localized attacks, Localized and Visible Adversarial Noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Muzammal Naseer , Salman H. Khan , Fatih Porikli

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have led to their widespread adoption in daily applications. Despite their impressive capabilities, they remain vulnerable to adversarial attacks, as even minor meaning-preserving changes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Zixia Wang , Gaojie Jin , Jia Hu , Ronghui Mu

During a surface acquisition process using 3D scanners, noise is inevitable and an important step in geometry processing is to remove these noise components from these surfaces (given as points-set or triangulated mesh). The noise-removal…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Sunil Kumar Yadav , Martin Skrodzki , Eric Zimmermann , Konrad Polthier

Randomized smoothing is a popular way of providing robustness guarantees against adversarial attacks: randomly-smoothed functions have a universal Lipschitz-like bound, allowing for robustness certificates to be easily computed. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Alexander Levine , Aounon Kumar , Thomas Goldstein , Soheil Feizi

Models for image segmentation, node classification and many other tasks map a single input to multiple labels. By perturbing this single shared input (e.g. the image) an adversary can manipulate several predictions (e.g. misclassify several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Jan Schuchardt , Tom Wollschläger , Aleksandar Bojchevski , Stephan Günnemann

Real-life applications of deep neural networks are hindered by their unsteady predictions when faced with noisy inputs and adversarial attacks. The certified radius in this context is a crucial indicator of the robustness of models. However…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Blaise Delattre , Alexandre Araujo , Quentin Barthélemy , Alexandre Allauzen