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Deep neural networks perform well on real world data but are prone to adversarial perturbations: small changes in the input easily lead to misclassification. In this work, we propose an attack methodology not only for cases where the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Aram-Alexandre Pooladian , Chris Finlay , Tim Hoheisel , Adam Oberman

Deep learning has emerged as a powerful approach for malware detection, demonstrating impressive accuracy across various data representations. However, these models face critical limitations in real-world, non-stationary environments where…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Pawan Acharya , Lan Zhang

Despite the tremendous success of deep neural networks in various learning problems, it has been observed that adding an intentionally designed adversarial perturbation to inputs of these architectures leads to erroneous classification with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Emilio Rafael Balda , Arash Behboodi , Rudolf Mathar

We consider a model of robust learning in an adversarial environment. The learner gets uncorrupted training data with access to possible corruptions that may be affected by the adversary during testing. The learner's goal is to build a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Idan Attias , Aryeh Kontorovich , Yishay Mansour

In this work, we consider one challenging training time attack by modifying training data with bounded perturbation, hoping to manipulate the behavior (both targeted or non-targeted) of any corresponding trained classifier during test time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Ji Feng , Qi-Zhi Cai , Zhi-Hua Zhou

Deep reinforcement learning models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks that can decrease a victim's cumulative expected reward by manipulating the victim's observations. Despite the efficiency of previous optimization-based methods for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 You Qiaoben , Chengyang Ying , Xinning Zhou , Hang Su , Jun Zhu , Bo Zhang

In this paper, we consider batch supervised learning where an adversary is allowed to corrupt instances with arbitrarily large noise. The adversary is allowed to corrupt any $l$ features in each instance and the adversary can change their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Chris Mesterharm , Rauf Izmailov , Scott Alexander , Simon Tsang

This paper analyzes $\ell_1$ regularized linear regression under the challenging scenario of having only adversarially corrupted data for training. We use the primal-dual witness paradigm to provide provable performance guarantees for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Deepak Maurya , Jean Honorio

The existence of adversarial examples is relatively understood for random fully connected neural networks, but much less so for convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The recent work [Daniely, 2025] establishes that adversarial examples can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Amit Daniely , Idan Mehalel

State-of-art deep neural networks (DNN) are vulnerable to attacks by adversarial examples: a carefully designed small perturbation to the input, that is imperceptible to human, can mislead DNN. To understand the root cause of adversarial…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-29 Xupeng Shi , A. Adam Ding

Adversarial robustness has proven to be a required property of machine learning algorithms. A key and often overlooked aspect of this problem is to try to make the adversarial noise magnitude as large as possible to enhance the benefits of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-31 Amirreza Shaeiri , Rozhin Nobahari , Mohammad Hossein Rohban

Why are classifiers in high dimension vulnerable to "adversarial" perturbations? We show that it is likely not due to information theoretic limitations, but rather it could be due to computational constraints. First we prove that, for a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-28 Sébastien Bubeck , Eric Price , Ilya Razenshteyn

The vulnerabilities of deep neural networks against adversarial examples have become a significant concern for deploying these models in sensitive domains. Devising a definitive defense against such attacks is proven to be challenging, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Xuwang Yin , Soheil Kolouri , Gustavo K. Rohde

Several recent works have shown that state-of-the-art classifiers are vulnerable to worst-case (i.e., adversarial) perturbations of the datapoints. On the other hand, it has been empirically observed that these same classifiers are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-09-02 Alhussein Fawzi , Seyed-Mohsen Moosavi-Dezfooli , Pascal Frossard

This paper studies the problem of detecting adversarial perturbations in a sequence of observations. Given a data sample $X_1, \ldots, X_n$ drawn from a standard normal distribution, an adversary, after observing the sample, can perturb…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-10-28 Gleb Smirnov

We study the problem of learning adversarially robust halfspaces in the distribution-independent setting. In the realizable setting, we provide necessary and sufficient conditions on the adversarial perturbation sets under which halfspaces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Omar Montasser , Surbhi Goel , Ilias Diakonikolas , Nathan Srebro

Most studies on learning from noisy labels rely on unrealistic models of i.i.d. label noise, such as class-conditional transition matrices. More recent work on instance-dependent noise models are more realistic, but assume a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Glenn Dawson , Robi Polikar

Top-k predictions are used in many real-world applications such as machine learning as a service, recommender systems, and web searches. $\ell_0$-norm adversarial perturbation characterizes an attack that arbitrarily modifies some features…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Jinyuan Jia , Binghui Wang , Xiaoyu Cao , Hongbin Liu , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Adversarial examples are carefully perturbed in-puts for fooling machine learning models. A well-acknowledged defense method against such examples is adversarial training, where adversarial examples are injected into training data to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Bai Li , Changyou Chen , Wenlin Wang , Lawrence Carin

Adversarial examples are perturbed inputs that are designed (from a deep learning network's (DLN) parameter gradients) to mislead the DLN during test time. Intuitively, constraining the dimensionality of inputs or parameters of a network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Priyadarshini Panda , Indranil Chakraborty , Kaushik Roy