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Adversarial training is arguably the most popular way to provide empirical robustness against specific adversarial examples. While variants based on multi-step attacks incur significant computational overhead, single-step variants are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Alessandro De Palma , Serge Durand , Zakaria Chihani , François Terrier , Caterina Urban

Implicit models such as Deep Equilibrium Models (DEQs) have emerged as promising alternative approaches for building deep neural networks. Their certified robustness has gained increasing research attention due to security concerns.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Weizhi Gao , Zhichao Hou , Han Xu , Xiaorui Liu

Vision Transformers (ViTs) are increasingly used in computer vision due to their high performance, but their vulnerability to adversarial attacks is a concern. Existing methods lack a solid theoretical basis, focusing mainly on empirical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Xixu Hu , Runkai Zheng , Jindong Wang , Cheuk Hang Leung , Qi Wu , Xing Xie

In response to subtle adversarial examples flipping classifications of neural network models, recent research has promoted certified robustness as a solution. There, invariance of predictions to all norm-bounded attacks is achieved through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Andrew C. Cullen , Paul Montague , Shijie Liu , Sarah M. Erfani , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein

We study certified robustness of machine learning classifiers against adversarial perturbations. In particular, we propose the first universally approximated certified robustness (UniCR) framework, which can approximate the robustness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Hanbin Hong , Binghui Wang , Yuan Hong

Backdoor attack is a severe security threat to deep neural networks (DNNs). We envision that, like adversarial examples, there will be a cat-and-mouse game for backdoor attacks, i.e., new empirical defenses are developed to defend against…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Binghui Wang , Xiaoyu Cao , Jinyuan jia , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Patch-based adversarial attacks introduce a perceptible but localized change to the input that induces misclassification. While progress has been made in defending against imperceptible attacks, it remains unclear how patch-based attacks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Christian Cosgrove , Adam Kortylewski , Chenglin Yang , Alan Yuille

This paper aims to provide a thorough study on the effectiveness of the transformation-based ensemble defence for image classification and its reasons. It has been empirically shown that they can enhance the robustness against evasion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Chang Liao , Yao Cheng , Chengfang Fang , Jie Shi

Robustness verification of neural networks, referring to formally proving that neural networks satisfy robustness properties, is of crucial importance in safety-critical applications, where model failures can result in loss of human life or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Minh Le , Phuong Cao

Despite their great success, deep neural networks rely on high-dimensional, non-robust representations, making them vulnerable to imperceptible perturbations, even in transfer scenarios. To address this, both training-time defenses (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Jiaming Liang , Chi-Man Pun

Strong theoretical guarantees of robustness can be given for ensembles of classifiers generated by input randomization. Specifically, an $\ell_2$ bounded adversary cannot alter the ensemble prediction generated by an additive isotropic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Guang-He Lee , Yang Yuan , Shiyu Chang , Tommi S. Jaakkola

Neural networks are often susceptible to minor perturbations in input that cause them to misclassify. A recent solution to this problem is the use of globally-robust neural networks, which employ a function to certify that the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-05-13 James Tobler , Hira Taqdees Syeda , Toby Murray

The smoothness of the transformer architecture has been extensively studied in the context of generalization, training stability, and adversarial robustness. However, its role in transfer learning remains poorly understood. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Ambroise Odonnat , Laetitia Chapel , Romain Tavenard , Ievgen Redko

Implicit neural networks are a general class of learning models that replace the layers in traditional feedforward models with implicit algebraic equations. Compared to traditional learning models, implicit networks offer competitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Saber Jafarpour , Matthew Abate , Alexander Davydov , Francesco Bullo , Samuel Coogan

Visual State Space Model (VMamba) has recently emerged as a promising architecture, exhibiting remarkable performance in various computer vision tasks. However, its robustness has not yet been thoroughly studied. In this paper, we delve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Chengbin Du , Yanxi Li , Chang Xu

Visual place recognition tasks often encounter significant challenges in landmark detection due to the presence of irrelevant objects such as humans, cars, and trees, despite the remarkable progress achieved by previous models, especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Mohammad Javad Rajabi , Morteza Mirzai , Ahmad Nickabadi

Data-driven models, especially deep learning classifiers often demonstrate great success on clean datasets. Yet, they remain vulnerable to common data distortions such as adversarial and common corruption perturbations. These perturbations…

The safety and robustness of learning-based decision-making systems are under threats from adversarial examples, as imperceptible perturbations can mislead neural networks to completely different outputs. In this paper, we present an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Chao Tang , Yifei Fan , Anthony Yezzi

Deep neural networks may be susceptible to learning spurious correlations that hold on average but not in atypical test samples. As with the recent emergence of vision transformer (ViT) models, it remains underexplored how spurious…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Soumya Suvra Ghosal , Yifei Ming , Yixuan Li

Vision Transformer (ViT) has emerged as a powerful architecture in the realm of modern computer vision. However, its application in certain imaging fields, such as microscopy and satellite imaging, presents unique challenges. In these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Yujia Bao , Srinivasan Sivanandan , Theofanis Karaletsos