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Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which becomes one of the most important research problems in the development of deep learning. While a lot of efforts have been made in recent years, it is of great significance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Yinpeng Dong , Qi-An Fu , Xiao Yang , Tianyu Pang , Hang Su , Zihao Xiao , Jun Zhu

The great performance of machine learning algorithms and deep neural networks in several perception and control tasks is pushing the industry to adopt such technologies in safety-critical applications, as autonomous robots and self-driving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Giulio Rossolini , Alessandro Biondi , Giorgio Buttazzo

Deep learning models operating in the image domain are vulnerable to small input perturbations. For years, robustness to such perturbations was pursued by training models from scratch (i.e., with random initializations) using specialized…

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have attracted significant attention for their outstanding performance in graph learning and node classification tasks. However, their vulnerability to adversarial attacks, particularly through susceptible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Sepideh Neshatfar , Salimeh Yasaei Sekeh

Due to numerous breakthroughs in real-world applications brought by machine intelligence, deep neural networks (DNNs) are widely employed in critical applications. However, predictions of DNNs are easily manipulated with imperceptible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Hongjun Wang , Yisen Wang

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to so-called adversarial examples: inputs which are intentionally constructed to cause the model to make incorrect predictions or classifications. Adversarial examples are often visually indistinguishable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Jonathan Peck , Bart Goossens

In this paper, we present a novel nonlinear programming-based approach to fine-tune pre-trained neural networks to improve robustness against adversarial attacks while maintaining high accuracy on clean data. Our method introduces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Shudian Zhao , Jan Kronqvist

Owing to security implications of adversarial vulnerability, adversarial robustness of deep metric learning models has to be improved. In order to avoid model collapse due to excessively hard examples, the existing defenses dismiss the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Mo Zhou , Vishal M. Patel

Robustness against unwanted perturbations is an important aspect of deploying neural network classifiers in the real world. Common natural perturbations include noise, saturation, occlusion, viewpoint changes, and blur deformations. All of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Sadaf Gulshad , Ivan Sosnovik , Arnold Smeulders

Deep networks achieve state-of-the-art performance on computer vision tasks, yet they fail under adversarial attacks that are imperceptible to humans. In this paper, we propose a novel defense that can dynamically adapt the input using the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Matthew Lawhon , Chengzhi Mao , Junfeng Yang

Recent work has demonstrated that deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples---inputs that are almost indistinguishable from natural data and yet classified incorrectly by the network. In fact, some of the latest findings…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-06 Aleksander Madry , Aleksandar Makelov , Ludwig Schmidt , Dimitris Tsipras , Adrian Vladu

Adversarial training (AT) and its variants have spearheaded progress in improving neural network robustness to adversarial perturbations and common corruptions in the last few years. Algorithm design of AT and its variants are focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Kaustubh Sridhar , Souradeep Dutta , Ramneet Kaur , James Weimer , Oleg Sokolsky , Insup Lee

Recent studies demonstrate that deep networks, even robustified by the state-of-the-art adversarial training (AT), still suffer from large robust generalization gaps, in addition to the much more expensive training costs than standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Tianlong Chen , Zhenyu Zhang , Pengjun Wang , Santosh Balachandra , Haoyu Ma , Zehao Wang , Zhangyang Wang

Concurrent accesses to databases are typically encapsulated in transactions in order to enable isolation from other concurrent computations and resilience to failures. Modern databases provide transactions with various semantics…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Sidi Mohamed Beillahi , Ahmed Bouajjani , Constantin Enea

Design of adversarial attacks for deep neural networks, as well as methods of adversarial training against them, are subject of intense research. In this paper, we propose methods to train against distributional attack threats, extending…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Xingjian Bai , Guangyi He , Yifan Jiang , Jan Obloj

Throughout the past five years, the susceptibility of neural networks to minimal adversarial perturbations has moved from a peculiar phenomenon to a core issue in Deep Learning. Despite much attention, however, progress towards more robust…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-13 Wieland Brendel , Jonas Rauber , Matthias Kümmerer , Ivan Ustyuzhaninov , Matthias Bethge

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a dominant paradigm for learning on graph-structured data, thanks to their ability to jointly exploit node features and relational information encoded in the graph topology. This joint modeling,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Yongyu Wang

In order to gain access to networks, different types of intrusion attacks have been designed, and the attackers are working on improving them. Computer networks have become increasingly important in daily life due to the increasing reliance…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Mohammad Hossein Modirrousta , Parisa Forghani Arani , Mahdi Aliyari Shoorehdeli

This paper proposes a theoretical and computational framework for training and robustness verification of implicit neural networks based upon non-Euclidean contraction theory. The basic idea is to cast the robustness analysis of a neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Saber Jafarpour , Alexander Davydov , Matthew Abate , Francesco Bullo , Samuel Coogan

We present and evaluate the capacity of a deep neural network to learn robust features from EEG to automatically detect seizures. This is a challenging problem because seizure manifestations on EEG are extremely variable both inter- and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-02 Pierre Thodoroff , Joelle Pineau , Andrew Lim