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The robustness of neural networks is challenged by adversarial examples that contain almost imperceptible perturbations to inputs, which mislead a classifier to incorrect outputs in high confidence. Limited by the extreme difficulty in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Honglin Li , Yifei Fan , Frieder Ganz , Anthony Yezzi , Payam Barnaghi

Nowadays, pretrained models are increasingly used as general-purpose backbones and adapted at test-time to downstream environments where target data are scarce and unlabeled. While this paradigm has proven effective for improving clean…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Stefano Bianchettin , Giulio Rossolini , Giorgio Buttazzo

Matching the performance of conditional Generative Adversarial Networks with little supervision is an important task, especially in venturing into new domains. We design a new training algorithm, which is robust to missing or ambiguous…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-11 Kiran Koshy Thekumparampil , Sewoong Oh , Ashish Khetan

Recent works have empirically shown that there exist adversarial examples that can be hidden from neural network interpretability (namely, making network interpretation maps visually similar), or interpretability is itself susceptible to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Akhilan Boopathy , Sijia Liu , Gaoyuan Zhang , Cynthia Liu , Pin-Yu Chen , Shiyu Chang , Luca Daniel

Adversarial attacks have verified the existence of the vulnerability of neural networks. By adding small perturbations to a benign example, adversarial attacks successfully generate adversarial examples that lead misclassification of deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Hoki Kim , Jinseong Park , Jaewook Lee

Adversarial attacks are a type of attack on machine learning models where an attacker deliberately modifies the inputs to cause the model to make incorrect predictions. Adversarial attacks can have serious consequences, particularly in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Prathyusha Devabhakthini , Sasmita Parida , Raj Mani Shukla , Suvendu Chandan Nayak , Tapadhir Das

The fact that deep neural networks are susceptible to crafted perturbations severely impacts the use of deep learning in certain domains of application. Among many developed defense models against such attacks, adversarial training emerges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Anh Bui , Trung Le , He Zhao , Paul Montague , Olivier deVel , Tamas Abraham , Dinh Phung

Adversarial training is a widely-applied approach to training deep neural networks to be robust against adversarial perturbation. However, although adversarial training has achieved empirical success in practice, it still remains unclear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Binghui Li , Yuanzhi Li

With rapid progress and significant successes in a wide spectrum of applications, deep learning is being applied in many safety-critical environments. However, deep neural networks have been recently found vulnerable to well-designed input…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Xiaoyong Yuan , Pan He , Qile Zhu , Xiaolin Li

Deep learning has achieved great success in computer vision, but remains vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Adversarial training is the leading defense designed to improve model robustness. However, its effect on the transferability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Mohamed Awad , Mahmoud Akrm , Walid Gomaa

Adversarial examples have attracted significant attention in machine learning, but the reasons for their existence and pervasiveness remain unclear. We demonstrate that adversarial examples can be directly attributed to the presence of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-08-13 Andrew Ilyas , Shibani Santurkar , Dimitris Tsipras , Logan Engstrom , Brandon Tran , Aleksander Madry

Why are classifiers in high dimension vulnerable to "adversarial" perturbations? We show that it is likely not due to information theoretic limitations, but rather it could be due to computational constraints. First we prove that, for a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-28 Sébastien Bubeck , Eric Price , Ilya Razenshteyn

This paper proposes an attack-independent (non-adversarial training) technique for improving adversarial robustness of neural network models, with minimal loss of standard accuracy. We suggest creating a neighborhood around each training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Bronya Roni Chernyak , Bhiksha Raj , Tamir Hazan , Joseph Keshet

The susceptibility of modern machine learning classifiers to adversarial examples has motivated theoretical results suggesting that these might be unavoidable. However, these results can be too general to be applicable to natural data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Ambar Pal , Jeremias Sulam , René Vidal

Deep learning-based discriminative classifiers, despite their remarkable success, remain vulnerable to adversarial examples that can mislead model predictions. While adversarial training can enhance robustness, it fails to address the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Chunheng Zhao , Pierluigi Pisu , Gurcan Comert , Negash Begashaw , Varghese Vaidyan , Nina Christine Hubig

Machine learning systems based on deep neural networks, being able to produce state-of-the-art results on various perception tasks, have gained mainstream adoption in many applications. However, they are shown to be vulnerable to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Bo Luo , Yannan Liu , Lingxiao Wei , Qiang Xu

Adversarial examples pose a unique challenge for deep learning systems. Despite recent advances in both attacks and defenses, there is still a lack of clarity and consensus in the community about the true nature and underlying properties of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Shishira R Maiya , Max Ehrlich , Vatsal Agarwal , Ser-Nam Lim , Tom Goldstein , Abhinav Shrivastava

State-of-the-art deep neural networks (DNNs) have been proved to have excellent performance on unsupervised domain adaption (UDA). However, recent work shows that DNNs perform poorly when being attacked by adversarial samples, where these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Liyuan Zhang , Yuhang Zhou , Lei Zhang

In recent years, Deep Neural Network models have been developed in different fields, where they have brought many advances. However, they have also started to be used in tasks where risk is critical. A misdiagnosis of these models can lead…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Xabier Echeberria-Barrio , Amaia Gil-Lerchundi , Jon Egana-Zubia , Raul Orduna-Urrutia

In the last a few decades, deep neural networks have achieved remarkable success in machine learning, computer vision, and pattern recognition. Recent studies however show that neural networks (both shallow and deep) may be easily fooled by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Zhuang Qian , Kaizhu Huang , Qiu-Feng Wang , Xu-Yao Zhang