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Adversarial training is a training scheme designed to counter adversarial attacks by augmenting the training dataset with adversarial examples. Surprisingly, several studies have observed that loss gradients from adversarially trained DNNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Beomsu Kim , Junghoon Seo , Taegyun Jeon

Adversarial attacks, e.g., adversarial perturbations of the input and adversarial samples, pose significant challenges to machine learning and deep learning techniques, including interactive recommendation systems. The latent embedding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Siyu Wang , Yuanjiang Cao , Xiaocong Chen , Lina Yao , Xianzhi Wang , Quan Z. Sheng

Recent work has demonstrated that neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples. To escape from the predicament, many works try to harden the model in various ways, in which adversarial training is an effective way which learns…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Kejiang Chen , Hang Zhou , Yuefeng Chen , Xiaofeng Mao , Yuhong Li , Yuan He , Hui Xue , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

Deep learning-based discriminative classifiers, despite their remarkable success, remain vulnerable to adversarial examples that can mislead model predictions. While adversarial training can enhance robustness, it fails to address the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Chunheng Zhao , Pierluigi Pisu , Gurcan Comert , Negash Begashaw , Varghese Vaidyan , Nina Christine Hubig

This paper examines the robustness of deployed few-shot meta-learning systems when they are fed an imperceptibly perturbed few-shot dataset. We attack amortized meta-learners, which allows us to craft colluding sets of inputs that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Elre T. Oldewage , John Bronskill , Richard E. Turner

It has been shown that most machine learning algorithms are susceptible to adversarial perturbations. Slightly perturbing an image in a carefully chosen direction in the image space may cause a trained neural network model to misclassify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-13 Jiajun Lu , Hussein Sibai , Evan Fabry , David Forsyth

Recent works have shown the effectiveness of randomized smoothing as a scalable technique for building neural network-based classifiers that are provably robust to $\ell_2$-norm adversarial perturbations. In this paper, we employ…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Hadi Salman , Greg Yang , Jerry Li , Pengchuan Zhang , Huan Zhang , Ilya Razenshteyn , Sebastien Bubeck

How can we learn a classifier that is "fair" for a protected or sensitive group, when we do not know if the input to the classifier belongs to the protected group? How can we train such a classifier when data on the protected group is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-10 Alex Beutel , Jilin Chen , Zhe Zhao , Ed H. Chi

Although many fields have witnessed the superior performance brought about by deep learning, the robustness of neural networks remains an open issue. Specifically, a small adversarial perturbation on the input may cause the model to produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Binxiao Huang , Chaofan Tao , Rui Lin , Ngai Wong

It is common practice in deep learning to use overparameterized networks and train for as long as possible; there are numerous studies that show, both theoretically and empirically, that such practices surprisingly do not unduly harm the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Leslie Rice , Eric Wong , J. Zico Kolter

The field of adversarial robustness has attracted significant attention in machine learning. Contrary to the common approach of training models that are accurate in average case, it aims at training models that are accurate for worst case…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Oriol Barbany Mayor

Recent research has found that many families of machine learning models are vulnerable to adversarial examples: inputs that are specifically designed to cause the target model to produce erroneous outputs. In this survey, we focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Rey Reza Wiyatno , Anqi Xu , Ousmane Dia , Archy de Berker

Adversarial training is widely used to improve the robustness of deep neural networks to adversarial attack. However, adversarial training is prone to overfitting, and the cause is far from clear. This work sheds light on the mechanisms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Lin Li , Michael Spratling

We evaluate machine comprehension models' robustness to noise and adversarial attacks by performing novel perturbations at the character, word, and sentence level. We experiment with different amounts of perturbations to examine model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Winston Wu , Dustin Arendt , Svitlana Volkova

Adversarial examples, or nearly indistinguishable inputs created by an attacker, significantly reduce machine learning accuracy. Theoretical evidence has shown that the high intrinsic dimensionality of datasets facilitates an adversary's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Sheila Alemany , Niki Pissinou

Neural networks have a number of shortcomings. Amongst the severest ones is the sensitivity to distribution shifts which allows models to be easily fooled into wrong predictions by small perturbations to inputs that are often imperceivable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Paul Gavrikov , Janis Keuper , Margret Keuper

Adversarial training has proven to be effective in hardening networks against adversarial examples. However, the gained robustness is limited by network capacity and number of training samples. Consequently, to build more robust models, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Zheng Xu , Ali Shafahi , Tom Goldstein

This paper proposes a classification framework with a rejection option to mitigate the performance deterioration caused by adversarial examples. While recent machine learning algorithms achieve high prediction performance, they are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Masahiro Kato , Zhenghang Cui , Yoshihiro Fukuhara

Machine learning based solutions have been very helpful in solving problems that deal with immense amounts of data, such as malware detection and classification. However, deep neural networks have been found to be vulnerable to adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Daniel Park , Bülent Yener

Adversarial attacks are a major concern in security-centered applications, where malicious actors continuously try to mislead Machine Learning (ML) models into wrongly classifying fraudulent activity as legitimate, whereas system…