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The existence of adversarial examples points to a basic weakness of deep neural networks. One of the most effective defenses against such examples, adversarial training, entails training models with some degree of robustness, usually at the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Matan Levi , Aryeh Kontorovich

The paper proposes a new approach to model risk measurement based on the Wasserstein distance between two probability measures. It formulates the theoretical motivation resulting from the interpretation of fictitious adversary of robust…

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We propose a large margin criterion for training neural language models. Conventionally, neural language models are trained by minimizing perplexity (PPL) on grammatical sentences. However, we demonstrate that PPL may not be the best metric…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Jiaji Huang , Yi Li , Wei Ping , Liang Huang

Machine learning models have shone in a variety of domains and attracted increasing attention from both the security and the privacy communities. One important yet worrying question is: Will training models under the differential privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Yuan Zhang , Zhiqi Bu

Despite the wide empirical success of modern machine learning algorithms and models in a multitude of applications, they are known to be highly susceptible to seemingly small indiscernible perturbations to the input data known as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-04-05 Adel Javanmard , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

When machine learning systems meet real world applications, accuracy is only one of several requirements. In this paper, we assay a complementary perspective originating from the increasing availability of pre-trained and regularly…

Adversarial training is an effective learning technique to improve the robustness of deep neural networks. In this study, the influence of adversarial training on deep learning models in terms of fairness, robustness, and generalization is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Xiaoling Zhou , Nan Yang , Ou Wu

Neural network pruning has shown to be an effective technique for reducing the network size, trading desirable properties like generalization and robustness to adversarial attacks for higher sparsity. Recent work has claimed that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Giorgio Piras , Maura Pintor , Ambra Demontis , Battista Biggio

In safety-critical deep learning applications, robustness measures the ability of neural models that handle imperceptible perturbations in input data, which may lead to potential safety hazards. Existing pre-deployment robustness assessment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Wenchuan Mu , Kwan Hui Lim

It has been demonstrated that deep neural networks are prone to noisy examples particular adversarial samples during inference process. The gap between robust deep learning systems in real world applications and vulnerable neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Xinhan Di , Pengqian Yu , Meng Tian

Many machine learning tasks that involve predicting an output response can be solved by training a weighted regression model. Unfortunately, the predictive power of this type of models may severely deteriorate under low sample sizes or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-01 Tam Le , Truyen Nguyen , Makoto Yamada , Jose Blanchet , Viet Anh Nguyen

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

Neural networks are becoming increasingly prevalent in software, and it is therefore important to be able to verify their behavior. Because verifying the correctness of neural networks is extremely challenging, it is common to focus on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Ravi Mangal , Aditya V. Nori , Alessandro Orso

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have shown substantial success in various applications but remain vulnerable to adversarial attacks. This study aims to identify and isolate the components of two different adversarial training techniques that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 William Brooks , Marelie H. Davel , Coenraad Mouton

It has been consistently reported that many machine learning models are susceptible to adversarial attacks i.e., small additive adversarial perturbations applied to data points can cause misclassification. Adversarial training using…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-15 Hossein Taheri , Ramtin Pedarsani , Christos Thrampoulidis

Here we propose a general theoretical method for analyzing the risk bound in the presence of adversaries. Specifically, we try to fit the adversarial learning problem into the minimax framework. We first show that the original adversarial…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-25 Zhuozhuo Tu , Jingwei Zhang , Dacheng Tao

Randomized smoothing is a popular certified defense against adversarial attacks. In its essence, we need to solve a problem of statistical estimation which is usually very time-consuming since we need to perform numerous (usually $10^5$)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-01-22 Vaclav Voracek

Performance-critical machine learning models should be robust to input perturbations not seen during training. Adversarial training is a method for improving a model's robustness to some perturbations by including them in the training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Angus Galloway , Thomas Tanay , Graham W. Taylor

Differential privacy (DP) is a mathematical privacy notion increasingly deployed across government and industry. With DP, privacy protections are probabilistic: they are bounded by the privacy budget parameter, $\epsilon$. Prior work in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Priyanka Nanayakkara , Mary Anne Smart , Rachel Cummings , Gabriel Kaptchuk , Elissa Redmiles

Adversarial attacks insert small, imperceptible perturbations to input samples that cause large, undesired changes to the output of deep learning models. Despite extensive research on generating adversarial attacks and building defense…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Vyas Raina , Mark Gales