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Adversarial attacks rely on transferability, where an adversarial example (AE) crafted on a surrogate classifier tends to mislead a target classifier. Recent ensemble methods demonstrate that AEs are less likely to mislead multiple…

A necessary characteristic for the deployment of deep learning models in real world applications is resistance to small adversarial perturbations while maintaining accuracy on non-malicious inputs. While robust training provides models that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-27 Aditya Saligrama , Guillaume Leclerc

The safety and security of public spaces is of vital importance, driving the need for sophisticated surveillance systems capable of accurately detecting weapons, which are often hampered by issues like partial occlusion, varying lighting,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Atharva Jadhav , Arush Karekar , Manas Divekar , Shachi Natu

Adversarial examples pose a threat to deep neural network models in a variety of scenarios, from settings where the adversary has complete knowledge of the model and to the opposite "black box" setting. Black box attacks are particularly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Haidar Khan , Daniel Park , Azer Khan , Bülent Yener

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have proven to be quite effective in a vast array of machine learning tasks, with recent examples in cyber security and autonomous vehicles. Despite the superior performance of DNNs in these applications, it has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Qinglong Wang , Wenbo Guo , Kaixuan Zhang , Alexander G. Ororbia , Xinyu Xing , Xue Liu , C. Lee Giles

Model ensemble adversarial attack has become a powerful method for generating transferable adversarial examples that can target even unknown models, but its theoretical foundation remains underexplored. To address this gap, we provide early…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Wei Yao , Zeliang Zhang , Huayi Tang , Yong Liu

In the last decade, deep neural networks have proven to be very powerful in computer vision tasks, starting a revolution in the computer vision and machine learning fields. However, deep neural networks, usually, are not robust to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Hao Qiu , Leonardo Lucio Custode , Giovanni Iacca

Deep learning models are known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples crafted by adding human-imperceptible perturbations on benign images. Many existing adversarial attack methods have achieved great white-box attack performance, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Xiaosen Wang , Jiadong Lin , Han Hu , Jingdong Wang , Kun He

Robustness and security of machine learning (ML) systems are intertwined, wherein a non-robust ML system (classifiers, regressors, etc.) can be subject to attacks using a wide variety of exploits. With the advent of scalable deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Antonia Creswell , Anil A. Bharath , Biswa Sengupta

We propose the use of data transformations as a defense against evasion attacks on ML classifiers. We present and investigate strategies for incorporating a variety of data transformations including dimensionality reduction via Principal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-01 Arjun Nitin Bhagoji , Daniel Cullina , Chawin Sitawarin , Prateek Mittal

The vulnerability of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to adversarial examples has been confirmed. Existing adversarial defenses primarily aim at preventing adversarial examples from attacking DNNs successfully, rather than preventing their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Jinwei Wang , Hao Wu , Haihua Wang , Jiawei Zhang , Xiangyang Luo , Bin Ma

Verifying the robustness of machine learning models against evasion attacks at test time is an important research problem. Unfortunately, prior work established that this problem is NP-hard for decision tree ensembles, hence bound to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Stefano Calzavara , Lorenzo Cazzaro , Giulio Ermanno Pibiri , Nicola Prezza

Deep neural networks are susceptible to adversarial inputs and various methods have been proposed to defend these models against adversarial attacks under different perturbation models. The robustness of models to adversarial attacks has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Jian Vora , Pranay Reddy Samala

Although deep neural networks have shown promising performances on various tasks, even achieving human-level performance on some, they are shown to be susceptible to incorrect predictions even with imperceptibly small perturbations to an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Byunggill Joe , Sung Ju Hwang , Insik Shin

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which are crafted by adding small, human-imperceptible perturbations to the original images, but make the model output inaccurate predictions. Before deep neural networks are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Bo Yang , Kaiyong Xu , Hengjun Wang , Hengwei Zhang

Adversarial attacks constitute a notable threat to machine learning systems, given their potential to induce erroneous predictions and classifications. However, within real-world contexts, the essential specifics of the deployed model are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Jingwen Ye , Ruonan Yu , Songhua Liu , Xinchao Wang

Semantic segmentation models classifying hyperspectral images (HSI) are vulnerable to adversarial examples. Traditional approaches to adversarial robustness focus on training or retraining a single network on attacked data, however, in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Nicholas Soucy , Salimeh Yasaei Sekeh

Deep neural networks have proven to be quite effective in a wide variety of machine learning tasks, ranging from improved speech recognition systems to advancing the development of autonomous vehicles. However, despite their superior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Qinglong Wang , Wenbo Guo , Alexander G. Ororbia , Xinyu Xing , Lin Lin , C. Lee Giles , Xue Liu , Peng Liu , Gang Xiong

Deep neural networks learn fragile "shortcut" features, rendering them difficult to interpret (black box) and vulnerable to adversarial attacks. This paper proposes semantic features as a general architectural solution to this problem. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Maciej Satkiewicz

Randomized smoothing is a powerful tool for certifying robustness to adversarial perturbations, including poisoning attacks via randomized training and evasion attacks via randomized inference. Extending these guarantees to backdoor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Aman Saxena , Jan Schuchardt , Yan Scholten , Stephan Günnemann