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Although deep networks achieve strong accuracy on a range of computer vision benchmarks, they remain vulnerable to adversarial attacks, where imperceptible input perturbations fool the network. We present both theoretical and empirical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Chengzhi Mao , Amogh Gupta , Vikram Nitin , Baishakhi Ray , Shuran Song , Junfeng Yang , Carl Vondrick

Ideally, what confuses neural network should be confusing to humans. However, recent experiments have shown that small, imperceptible perturbations can change the network prediction. To address this gap in perception, we propose a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Alexander Matyasko , Lap-Pui Chau

Adversarial examples reveal critical vulnerabilities in deep neural networks by exploiting their sensitivity to imperceptible input perturbations. While adversarial training remains the predominant defense strategy, it often incurs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Longwei Wang , Ifrat Ikhtear Uddin , KC Santosh , Chaowei Zhang , Xiao Qin , Yang Zhou

In practice, deep neural networks have been found to be vulnerable to various types of noise, such as adversarial examples and corruption. Various adversarial defense methods have accordingly been developed to improve adversarial robustness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Aishan Liu , Xianglong Liu , Chongzhi Zhang , Hang Yu , Qiang Liu , Dacheng Tao

The paper uses statistical and differential geometric motivation to acquire prior information about the learning capability of an artificial neural network on a given dataset. The paper considers a broad class of neural networks with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Ankan Dutta , Arnab Rakshit

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial perturbations, including those that affect both node features and graph topology. This paper investigates GNNs derived from diverse neural flows, concentrating on their connection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Kai Zhao , Qiyu Kang , Yang Song , Rui She , Sijie Wang , Wee Peng Tay

Connectivity robustness, a crucial aspect for understanding, optimizing, and repairing complex networks, has traditionally been evaluated through time-consuming and often impractical simulations. Fortunately, machine learning provides a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Wenjun Jiang , Tianlong Fan , Changhao Li , Chuanfu Zhang , Tao Zhang , Zong-fu Luo

While deep learning has resulted in major breakthroughs in many application domains, the frameworks commonly used in deep learning remain fragile to artificially-crafted and imperceptible changes in the data. In response to this fragility,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Alexander Robey , Hamed Hassani , George J. Pappas

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples - small input perturbations that result in incorrect predictions. We study this problem for models of source code, where we want the network to be robust to source-code…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Goutham Ramakrishnan , Jordan Henkel , Zi Wang , Aws Albarghouthi , Somesh Jha , Thomas Reps

We investigate the topics of sensitivity and robustness in feedforward and convolutional neural networks. Combining energy landscape techniques developed in computational chemistry with tools drawn from formal methods, we produce empirical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-06 Timothy E. Wang , Yiming Gu , Dhagash Mehta , Xiaojun Zhao , Edgar A. Bernal

While deep neural networks have achieved remarkable success in various computer vision tasks, they often fail to generalize to new domains and subtle variations of input images. Several defenses have been proposed to improve the robustness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Omid Poursaeed , Tianxing Jiang , Harry Yang , Serge Belongie , SerNam Lim

Deep Neural Networks for image classification have been found to be vulnerable to adversarial samples, which consist of sub-perceptual noise added to a benign image that can easily fool trained neural networks, posing a significant risk to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Malhar Jere , Sandro Herbig , Christine Lind , Farinaz Koushanfar

Adversarial training is one of the main defenses against adversarial attacks. In this paper, we provide the first rigorous study on diagnosing elements of adversarial training, which reveals two intriguing properties. First, we study the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Cihang Xie , Alan Yuille

Adversarial patches are optimized contiguous pixel blocks in an input image that cause a machine-learning model to misclassify it. However, their optimization is computationally demanding, and requires careful hyperparameter tuning,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Maura Pintor , Daniele Angioni , Angelo Sotgiu , Luca Demetrio , Ambra Demontis , Battista Biggio , Fabio Roli

Deep learning models have proven to be successful in a wide range of machine learning tasks. Yet, they are often highly sensitive to perturbations on the input data which can lead to incorrect decisions with high confidence, hampering their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Steffen Jung , Jovita Lukasik , Margret Keuper

Progress in making neural networks more robust against adversarial attacks is mostly marginal, despite the great efforts of the research community. Moreover, the robustness evaluation is often imprecise, making it difficult to identify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Leo Schwinn , René Raab , An Nguyen , Dario Zanca , Bjoern Eskofier

It is well established that neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which are almost imperceptible on human vision and can cause the deep models misbehave. Such phenomenon may lead to severely inestimable consequences in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Dengpan Ye , Chuanxi Chen , Changrui Liu , Hao Wang , Shunzhi Jiang

Adversarial examples can easily degrade the classification performance in neural networks. Empirical methods for promoting robustness to such examples have been proposed, but often lack both analytical insights and formal guarantees.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Bernardo Aquino , Arash Rahnama , Peter Seiler , Lizhen Lin , Vijay Gupta

We introduce Parseval networks, a form of deep neural networks in which the Lipschitz constant of linear, convolutional and aggregation layers is constrained to be smaller than 1. Parseval networks are empirically and theoretically…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-08-08 Moustapha Cisse , Piotr Bojanowski , Edouard Grave , Yann Dauphin , Nicolas Usunier

The vulnerability to slight input perturbations is a worrying yet intriguing property of deep neural networks (DNNs). Despite many previous works studying the reason behind such adversarial behavior, the relationship between the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-07 Yujun Shi , Benben Liao , Guangyong Chen , Yun Liu , Ming-Ming Cheng , Jiashi Feng