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Despite its successes in various machine learning and data science tasks, crowdsourcing can be susceptible to attacks from dedicated adversaries. This work investigates the effects of adversaries on crowdsourced classification, under the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Panagiotis A. Traganitis , Georgios B. Giannakis

As neural networks become the tool of choice to solve an increasing variety of problems in our society, adversarial attacks become critical. The possibility of generating data instances deliberately designed to fool a network's analysis can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Gabriel D. Cantareira , Rodrigo F. Mello , Fernando V. Paulovich

Machine learning models are vulnerable to adversarial examples formed by applying small carefully chosen perturbations to inputs that cause unexpected classification errors. In this paper, we perform experiments on various adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Andras Rozsa , Manuel Günther , Terrance E. Boult

Can machine learning models for recommendation be easily fooled? While the question has been answered for hand-engineered fake user profiles, it has not been explored for machine learned adversarial attacks. This paper attempts to close…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Konstantina Christakopoulou , Arindam Banerjee

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are capable of producing high quality image samples. However, unlike variational autoencoders (VAEs), GANs lack encoders that provide the inverse mapping for the generators, i.e., encode images back to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-20 Paul K. Rubenstein , Yunpeng Li , Dominik Roblek

Adversarial examples are perturbed inputs which can cause a serious threat for machine learning models. Finding these perturbations is such a hard task that we can only use the iterative methods to traverse. For computational efficiency,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Xiaofeng Mao , Yuefeng Chen , Yuhong Li , Yuan He , Hui Xue

In the present day we use machine learning for sensitive tasks that require models to be both understandable and robust. Although traditional models such as decision trees are understandable, they suffer from adversarial attacks. When a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Daniël Vos , Sicco Verwer

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) struggle to generate structured objects like molecules and game maps. The issue is that structured objects must satisfy hard requirements (e.g., molecules must be chemically valid) that are difficult…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Luca Di Liello , Pierfrancesco Ardino , Jacopo Gobbi , Paolo Morettin , Stefano Teso , Andrea Passerini

We provide an approach for learning deep neural net representations of models described via conditional moment restrictions. Conditional moment restrictions are widely used, as they are the language by which social scientists describe the…

Econometrics · Economics 2018-04-25 Greg Lewis , Vasilis Syrgkanis

We address the problem of allocating limited resources in a network under persistent yet statistically unknown adversarial attacks. Each node in the network may be degraded, but not fully disabled, depending on its available defensive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Mansoor Davoodi , Setareh Maghsudi

Due to their complex nature, it is hard to characterize the ways in which machine learning models can misbehave or be exploited when deployed. Recent work on adversarial examples, i.e. inputs with minor perturbations that result in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Zhengli Zhao , Dheeru Dua , Sameer Singh

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

Before executing an attack, adversaries usually explore the victim's network in an attempt to infer the network topology and identify vulnerabilities in the victim's servers and personal computers. Falsifying the information collected by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Rami Puzis , Hadar Polad , Bracha Shapira

Attacks on machine learning models have been extensively studied through stateless optimization. In this paper, we demonstrate how a reinforcement learning (RL) agent can learn a new class of attack algorithms that generate adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Kyle Domico , Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand , Ryan Sheatsley , Eric Pauley , Josiah Hanna , Patrick McDaniel

Quantum Machine Learning is where nowadays machine learning meets quantum information science. In order to implement this new paradigm for novel quantum technologies, we still need a much deeper understanding of its underlying mechanisms,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Paolo Braccia , Filippo Caruso , Leonardo Banchi

We propose a framework of generative adversarial networks with multiple discriminators, which collaborate to represent a real dataset more effectively. Our approach facilitates learning a generator consistent with the underlying data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Jinyoung Choi , Bohyung Han

Due to their powerful image generation capabilities, diffusion-based adversarial example generation methods through image editing are rapidly gaining popularity. However, due to reliance on the discriminative capability of the diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Gaozheng Pei , Ke Ma , Dongpeng Zhang , Chengzhi Sun , Qianqian Xu , Qingming Huang

Despite the empirical success in various domains, it has been revealed that deep neural networks are vulnerable to maliciously perturbed input data that much degrade their performance. This is known as adversarial attacks. To counter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Nanyang Ye , Qianxiao Li , Xiao-Yun Zhou , Zhanxing Zhu

Deep reinforcement learning has shown promising results in learning control policies for complex sequential decision-making tasks. However, these neural network-based policies are known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-04 Yen-Chen Lin , Ming-Yu Liu , Min Sun , Jia-Bin Huang

Deep learning has been a popular topic and has achieved success in many areas. It has drawn the attention of researchers and machine learning practitioners alike, with developed models deployed to a variety of settings. Along with its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Daniel Steinberg , Paul Munro