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Despite the growing prevalence of artificial neural networks in real-world applications, their vulnerability to adversarial attacks remains a significant concern, which motivates us to investigate the robustness of machine learning models.…
Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples. Adversarial training (AT) is an effective defense against adversarial examples. However, AT is prone to overfitting which degrades robustness substantially. Recently, data…
Deep Learning has revolutionized machine learning and artificial intelligence, achieving superhuman performance in several standard benchmarks. It is well-known that deep learning models are inefficient to train; they learn by processing…
We propose a general framework for increasing local stability of Artificial Neural Nets (ANNs) using Robust Optimization (RO). We achieve this through an alternating minimization-maximization procedure, in which the loss of the network is…
We propose a new approach to Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to achieve an improved performance with additional robustness to its so-called and well recognized mode collapse. We first proceed by mapping the desired data onto a…
As deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly deployed in sensitive applications, ensuring their security and robustness has become critical. A major threat to DNNs arises from adversarial attacks, where small input perturbations can lead…
Recent research has proposed the lottery ticket hypothesis, suggesting that for a deep neural network, there exist trainable sub-networks performing equally or better than the original model with commensurate training steps. While this…
While deep learning in the form of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) has caused a significant improvement in neural language modeling, the fact that they are extremely prone to overfitting is still a mainly unresolved issue. In this paper we…
Adversarial examples have been shown to be the severe threat to deep neural networks (DNNs). One of the most effective adversarial defense methods is adversarial training (AT) through minimizing the adversarial risk $R_{adv}$, which…
Despite the success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in many academic benchmarks for computer vision tasks, their application in the real-world is still facing fundamental challenges. One of these open problems is the inherent lack…
Sparse regularization techniques are well-established in machine learning, yet their application in neural networks remains challenging due to the non-differentiability of penalties like the $L_1$ norm, which is incompatible with stochastic…
Recent research in robust optimization has shown an overfitting-like phenomenon in which models trained against adversarial attacks exhibit higher robustness on the training set compared to the test set. Although previous work provided…
We demonstrate the possibility of what we call sparse learning: accelerated training of deep neural networks that maintain sparse weights throughout training while achieving dense performance levels. We accomplish this by developing sparse…
The vulnerability of deep neural networks (DNNs) to adversarial attack, which is an attack that can mislead state-of-the-art classifiers into making an incorrect classification with high confidence by deliberately perturbing the original…
Adversarial training (AT) has been demonstrated to be effective in improving model robustness by leveraging adversarial examples for training. However, most AT methods are in face of expensive time and computational cost for calculating…
Gradient-based saliency methods such as Vanilla Gradient (VG) and Integrated Gradients (IG) are widely used to explain image classifiers, yet the resulting maps are often noisy and unstable, limiting their usefulness in high-stakes…
Many variants of adversarial training have been proposed, with most research focusing on problems with relatively few classes. In this paper, we propose Two Head Adversarial Training (THAT), a two-stream adversarial learning network that is…
It has been demonstrated that deep neural networks are prone to noisy examples particular adversarial samples during inference process. The gap between robust deep learning systems in real world applications and vulnerable neural networks…
Deep artificial neural networks achieve surprising generalization abilities that remain poorly understood. In this paper, we present a new approach to analyzing generalization for deep feed-forward ReLU networks that takes advantage of the…
Adversarial training serves as one of the most popular and effective methods to defend against adversarial perturbations. However, most defense mechanisms only consider a single type of perturbation while various attack methods might be…