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Adversarial examples raise questions about whether neural network models are sensitive to the same visual features as humans. In this paper, we first detect adversarial examples or otherwise corrupted images based on a class-conditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Yao Qin , Nicholas Frosst , Sara Sabour , Colin Raffel , Garrison Cottrell , Geoffrey Hinton

Machine learning models are vulnerable to tiny adversarial input perturbations optimized to cause a very large output error. To measure this vulnerability, we need reliable methods that can find such adversarial perturbations. For image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Levente Halmosi , Bálint Mohos , Márk Jelasity

Despite significant advances, deep networks remain highly susceptible to adversarial attack. One fundamental challenge is that small input perturbations can often produce large movements in the network's final-layer feature space. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Maria-Florina Balcan , Avrim Blum , Dravyansh Sharma , Hongyang Zhang

Currently, a plethora of saliency models based on deep neural networks have led great breakthroughs in many complex high-level vision tasks (e.g. scene description, object detection). The robustness of these models, however, has not yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Zhaohui Che , Ali Borji , Guangtao Zhai , Suiyi Ling , Guodong Guo , Patrick Le Callet

Malicious domains are increasingly common and pose a severe cybersecurity threat. Specifically, many types of current cyber attacks use URLs for attack communications (e.g., C\&C, phishing, and spear-phishing). Despite the continuous…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Chen Hajaj , Nitay Hason , Nissim Harel , Amit Dvir

Neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks -- small visually imperceptible crafted noise which when added to the input drastically changes the output. The most effective method of defending against these adversarial attacks is to…

We propose a new adversarial attack to Deep Neural Networks for image classification. Different from most existing attacks that directly perturb input pixels, our attack focuses on perturbing abstract features, more specifically, features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Qiuling Xu , Guanhong Tao , Siyuan Cheng , Xiangyu Zhang

Deep Learning methods have become state-of-the-art for solving tasks such as Face Recognition (FR). Unfortunately, despite their success, it has been pointed out that these learning models are exposed to adversarial inputs - images to which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Fabio Valerio Massoli , Fabio Carrara , Giuseppe Amato , Fabrizio Falchi

Making classifiers robust to adversarial examples is hard. Thus, many defenses tackle the seemingly easier task of detecting perturbed inputs. We show a barrier towards this goal. We prove a general hardness reduction between detection and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Florian Tramèr

There has been an ongoing cycle where stronger defenses against adversarial attacks are subsequently broken by a more advanced defense-aware attack. We present a new approach towards ending this cycle where we "deflect'' adversarial attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Yao Qin , Nicholas Frosst , Colin Raffel , Garrison Cottrell , Geoffrey Hinton

Adversarial attacks dramatically change the output of an otherwise accurate learning system using a seemingly inconsequential modification to a piece of input data. Paradoxically, empirical evidence indicates that even systems which are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Oliver J. Sutton , Qinghua Zhou , Ivan Y. Tyukin , Alexander N. Gorban , Alexander Bastounis , Desmond J. Higham

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, i.e., carefully-perturbed inputs aimed to mislead classification. This work proposes a detection method based on combining non-linear dimensionality reduction and density…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Francesco Crecchi , Davide Bacciu , Battista Biggio

Adversarial sample attacks perturb benign inputs to induce DNN misbehaviors. Recent research has demonstrated the widespread presence and the devastating consequences of such attacks. Existing defense techniques either assume prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Guanhong Tao , Shiqing Ma , Yingqi Liu , Xiangyu Zhang

The landscape of adversarial attacks against text classifiers continues to grow, with new attacks developed every year and many of them available in standard toolkits, such as TextAttack and OpenAttack. In response, there is a growing body…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Zhouhang Xie , Jonathan Brophy , Adam Noack , Wencong You , Kalyani Asthana , Carter Perkins , Sabrina Reis , Sameer Singh , Daniel Lowd

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

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are notoriously vulnerable to adversarial input designs with limited noise budgets. While numerous successful attacks with subtle modifications to original input have been proposed, defense techniques against…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Furkan Mumcu , Yasin Yilmaz

As humans, we inherently perceive images based on their predominant features, and ignore noise embedded within lower bit planes. On the contrary, Deep Neural Networks are known to confidently misclassify images corrupted with meticulously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Sravanti Addepalli , Vivek B. S. , Arya Baburaj , Gaurang Sriramanan , R. Venkatesh Babu

Fundamental questions remain about when and why adversarial examples arise in neural networks, with competing views characterising them either as artifacts of the irregularities in the decision landscape or as products of sensitivity to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Edward Stevinson , Lucas Prieto , Melih Barsbey , Tolga Birdal

Neural networks are known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks -- slight but carefully constructed perturbations of the inputs which can drastically impair the network's performance. Many defense methods have been proposed for improving…

In recent years, deep neural networks demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in a large variety of tasks and therefore have been adopted in many applications. On the other hand, the latest studies revealed that neural networks are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Jingyang Zhang , Hsin-Pai Cheng , Chunpeng Wu , Hai Li , Yiran Chen