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Adversarial robustness has become an emerging challenge for neural network owing to its over-sensitivity to small input perturbations. While being critical, we argue that solving this singular issue alone fails to provide a comprehensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Yu-Lin Tsai , Chia-Yi Hsu , Chia-Mu Yu , Pin-Yu Chen

Adversarial robustness refers to a model's ability to resist perturbation of inputs, while distribution robustness evaluates the performance of the model under data shifts. Although both aim to ensure reliable performance, prior work has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Yipei Wang , Zhaoying Pan , Xiaoqian Wang

Adversarial examples have attracted significant attention over the years, yet understanding their frequency-based characteristics remains insufficient. In this paper, we investigate the intriguing properties of adversarial examples in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Lu Chen , Han Yang , Hu Wang , Yuxin Cao , Shaofeng Li , Yuan Luo

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Currently, there is no clear insight into how slight perturbations cause such a large difference in classification results and how we can design a more robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Haizhong Zheng , Ziqi Zhang , Honglak Lee , Atul Prakash

In recent years, there has been significant attention given to the robustness assessment of neural networks. Robustness plays a critical role in ensuring reliable operation of artificial intelligence (AI) systems in complex and uncertain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Jie Wang , Jun Ai , Minyan Lu , Haoran Su , Dan Yu , Yutao Zhang , Junda Zhu , Jingyu Liu

Convolutional Neural Networks have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial examples, which are known to locate in subspaces close to where normal data lies but are not naturally occurring and of low probability. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Fu Lin , Rohit Mittapalli , Prithvijit Chattopadhyay , Daniel Bolya , Judy Hoffman

It is well known that deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which are implemented by adding crafted perturbations onto benign examples. Min-max robust optimization based adversarial training can provide a notion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Shaokai Ye , Kaidi Xu , Sijia Liu , Jan-Henrik Lambrechts , Huan Zhang , Aojun Zhou , Kaisheng Ma , Yanzhi Wang , Xue Lin

Convolutional Neural Networks have achieved significant success across multiple computer vision tasks. However, they are vulnerable to carefully crafted, human-imperceptible adversarial noise patterns which constrain their deployment in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Aamir Mustafa , Salman H. Khan , Munawar Hayat , Jianbing Shen , Ling Shao

Despite having high accuracy, neural nets have been shown to be susceptible to adversarial examples, where a small perturbation to an input can cause it to become mislabeled. We propose metrics for measuring the robustness of a neural net…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-19 Osbert Bastani , Yani Ioannou , Leonidas Lampropoulos , Dimitrios Vytiniotis , Aditya Nori , Antonio Criminisi

Causal Neural Network models have shown high levels of robustness to adversarial attacks as well as an increased capacity for generalisation tasks such as few-shot learning and rare-context classification compared to traditional Neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Preben M. Ness , Dusica Marijan , Sunanda Bose

Neural networks have received a lot of attention recently, and related security issues have come with it. Many studies have shown that neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples that have been artificially perturbed with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Shi Pu , Fu Song , Wenjie Wang

Despite their unmatched performance, deep neural networks remain susceptible to targeted attacks by nearly imperceptible levels of adversarial noise. While the underlying cause of this sensitivity is not well understood, theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 George Cazenavette , Calvin Murdock , Simon Lucey

Our research aims to unify existing works' diverging opinions on how architectural components affect the adversarial robustness of CNNs. To accomplish our goal, we synthesize a suite of three generalizable robust architectural design…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 ShengYun Peng , Weilin Xu , Cory Cornelius , Matthew Hull , Kevin Li , Rahul Duggal , Mansi Phute , Jason Martin , Duen Horng Chau

Classifiers such as deep neural networks have been shown to be vulnerable against adversarial perturbations on problems with high-dimensional input space. While adversarial training improves the robustness of image classifiers against such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Chaithanya Kumar Mummadi , Thomas Brox , Jan Hendrik Metzen

Adversarial training is the industry standard for producing models that are robust to small adversarial perturbations. However, machine learning practitioners need models that are robust to other kinds of changes that occur naturally, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Manli Shu , Zuxuan Wu , Micah Goldblum , Tom Goldstein

Despite their empirical success, neural networks remain vulnerable to small, adversarial perturbations. A longstanding hypothesis suggests that flat minima, regions of low curvature in the loss landscape, offer increased robustness. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Nils Philipp Walter , Linara Adilova , Jilles Vreeken , Michael Kamp

It is not fully understood why adversarial examples can deceive neural networks and transfer between different networks. To elucidate this, several studies have hypothesized that adversarial perturbations, while appearing as noises, contain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Soichiro Kumano , Hiroshi Kera , Toshihiko Yamasaki

Increasing shape-bias in deep neural networks has been shown to improve robustness to common corruptions and noise. In this paper we analyze the adversarial robustness of texture and shape-biased models to Universal Adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Kenneth T. Co , Luis Muñoz-González , Leslie Kanthan , Ben Glocker , Emil C. Lupu

We focus on the robustness of neural networks for classification. To permit a fair comparison between methods to achieve robustness, we first introduce a standard based on the mensuration of a classifier's degradation. Then, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Sadaf Gulshad , Arnold Smeulders

Neural networks perform exceedingly well across various machine learning tasks but are not immune to adversarial perturbations. This vulnerability has implications for real-world applications. While much research has been conducted, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Dennis Y. Menn , Tzu-hsun Feng , Sriram Vishwanath , Hung-yi Lee