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Adversarial training augments the training set with perturbations to improve the robust error (over worst-case perturbations), but it often leads to an increase in the standard error (on unperturbed test inputs). Previous explanations for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Aditi Raghunathan , Sang Michael Xie , Fanny Yang , John Duchi , Percy Liang

Adversarial robustness is a critical measure of a neural network's ability to withstand adversarial attacks at inference time. While robust training techniques have improved defenses against individual $\ell_p$-norm attacks (e.g., $\ell_2$…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Ren Wang , Yuxuan Li , Can Chen , Dakuo Wang , Jinjun Xiong , Pin-Yu Chen , Sijia Liu , Mohammad Shahidehpour , Alfred Hero

We leverage diffusion models to study the robustness-performance tradeoff of robust classifiers. Our approach introduces a simple, pretrained diffusion method to generate low-norm counterfactual examples (CEs): semantically altered data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Eric Yeats , Cameron Darwin , Eduardo Ortega , Frank Liu , Hai Li

In our recent work (Bubeck, Price, Razenshteyn, arXiv:1805.10204) we argued that adversarial examples in machine learning might be due to an inherent computational hardness of the problem. More precisely, we constructed a binary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Sébastien Bubeck , Yin Tat Lee , Eric Price , Ilya Razenshteyn

The reliability of a learning model is key to the successful deployment of machine learning in various applications. However, it is difficult to describe the phenomenon due to the complicated nature of the problems in machine learning. It…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Ramin Barati , Reza Safabakhsh , Mohammad Rahmati

Measuring uncertainty is a promising technique for detecting adversarial examples, crafted inputs on which the model predicts an incorrect class with high confidence. But many measures of uncertainty exist, including predictive en- tropy…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-26 Lewis Smith , Yarin Gal

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial examples, in which DNNs are misled to false outputs due to inputs containing imperceptible perturbations. Adversarial training, a reliable and effective method of defense, may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Zongyuan Zhang , Qingwen Bu , Tianyang Duan , Zheng Lin , Yuhao Qing , Zihan Fang , Heming Cui , Dong Huang

We identify a trade-off between robustness and accuracy that serves as a guiding principle in the design of defenses against adversarial examples. Although this problem has been widely studied empirically, much remains unknown concerning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Hongyang Zhang , Yaodong Yu , Jiantao Jiao , Eric P. Xing , Laurent El Ghaoui , Michael I. Jordan

This paper presents RADAR-Robust Adversarial Detection via Adversarial Retraining-an approach designed to enhance the robustness of adversarial detectors against adaptive attacks, while maintaining classifier performance. An adaptive attack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Raz Lapid , Almog Dubin , Moshe Sipper

We introduce a two-player contest for evaluating the safety and robustness of machine learning systems, with a large prize pool. Unlike most prior work in ML robustness, which studies norm-constrained adversaries, we shift our focus to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-25 Tom B. Brown , Nicholas Carlini , Chiyuan Zhang , Catherine Olsson , Paul Christiano , Ian Goodfellow

Recently, adversarial training has been incorporated in self-supervised contrastive pre-training to augment label efficiency with exciting adversarial robustness. However, the robustness came at a cost of expensive adversarial training. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Yijiang Pang , Boyang Liu , Jiayu Zhou

Question answering (QA) systems achieve impressive performance on standard benchmarks like SQuAD, but remain vulnerable to adversarial examples. This project investigates the adversarial robustness of transformer models on the AddSent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Agniv Roy Choudhury , Vignesh Ponselvan Rajasingh

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

Despite vast research in adversarial examples, the root causes of model susceptibility are not well understood. Instead of looking at attack-specific robustness, we propose a notion that evaluates the sensitivity of individual neurons in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Anshuman Suri , David Evans

As ML models are increasingly deployed in critical applications, robustness against adversarial perturbations is crucial. While numerous defenses have been proposed to counter such attacks, they typically assume that all adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Yuan Xin , Dingfan Chen , Michael Backes , Xiao Zhang

Quantifying robustness in a single measure for the purposes of model selection, development of adversarial training methods, and anticipating trends has so far been elusive. The simplest metric to consider is the number of trainable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-25 David Khachaturov , Robert Mullins

Conformal prediction is a powerful tool to generate uncertainty sets with guaranteed coverage using any predictive model, under the assumption that the training and test data are i.i.d.. Recently, it has been shown that adversarial examples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Ge Yan , Yaniv Romano , Tsui-Wei Weng

The security of deep learning (DL) systems is an extremely important field of study as they are being deployed in several applications due to their ever-improving performance to solve challenging tasks. Despite overwhelming promises, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Manaar Alam , Shubhajit Datta , Debdeep Mukhopadhyay , Arijit Mondal , Partha Pratim Chakrabarti

Despite the impressive performances reported by deep neural networks in different application domains, they remain largely vulnerable to adversarial examples, i.e., input samples that are carefully perturbed to cause misclassification at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Angelo Sotgiu , Ambra Demontis , Marco Melis , Battista Biggio , Giorgio Fumera , Xiaoyi Feng , Fabio Roli

Confident prediction is highly relevant in machine learning; for example, in applications such as medical diagnoses, wrong prediction can be fatal. For classification, there already exist procedures that allow to not classify data when the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-07-28 Christophe Denis , Mohamed Hebiri