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Adversarially robust learning aims to design algorithms that are robust to small adversarial perturbations on input variables. Beyond the existing studies on the predictive performance to adversarial samples, our goal is to understand…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-21 Yue Xing , Ruizhi Zhang , Guang Cheng

Adversarial attack is a technique for deceiving Machine Learning (ML) models, which provides a way to evaluate the adversarial robustness. In practice, attack algorithms are artificially selected and tuned by human experts to break a ML…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Xiaofeng Mao , Yuefeng Chen , Shuhui Wang , Hang Su , Yuan He , Hui Xue

Machine learning is a key tool for Android malware detection, effectively identifying malicious patterns in apps. However, ML-based detectors are vulnerable to evasion attacks, where small, crafted changes bypass detection. Despite progress…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Mostafa Jafari , Alireza Shameli-Sendi

Owing to security implications of adversarial vulnerability, adversarial robustness of deep metric learning models has to be improved. In order to avoid model collapse due to excessively hard examples, the existing defenses dismiss the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Mo Zhou , Vishal M. Patel

Adversarial training (AT) is always formulated as a minimax problem, of which the performance depends on the inner optimization that involves the generation of adversarial examples (AEs). Most previous methods adopt Projected Gradient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Xiaojun Jia , Yong Zhang , Baoyuan Wu , Ke Ma , Jue Wang , Xiaochun Cao

Learning models capable of providing reliable predictions in the face of adversarial actions has become a central focus of the machine learning community in recent years. This challenge arises from observing that data encountered at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Marco C. Campi , Algo Carè , Luis G. Crespo , Simone Garatti , Federico A. Ramponi

It is well-known that deep neural networks (DNNs) are susceptible to adversarial attacks, exposing a severe fragility of deep learning systems. As the result, adversarial training (AT) method, by incorporating adversarial examples during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Tuan Anh Bui , Trung Le , Quan Tran , He Zhao , Dinh Phung

Adversarial Examples Detection (AED) is a crucial defense technique against adversarial attacks and has drawn increasing attention from the Natural Language Processing (NLP) community. Despite the surge of new AED methods, our studies show…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Fan Yin , Yao Li , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Kai-Wei Chang

Although Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have shown incredible performance in perceptive and control tasks, several trustworthy issues are still open. One of the most discussed topics is the existence of adversarial perturbations, which has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Fabio Brau , Giulio Rossolini , Alessandro Biondi , Giorgio Buttazzo

By leveraging the principles of quantum mechanics, QML opens doors to novel approaches in machine learning and offers potential speedup. However, machine learning models are well-documented to be vulnerable to malicious manipulations, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Bacui Li , Tansu Alpcan , Chandra Thapa , Udaya Parampalli

A rich line of recent work has studied distributionally robust learning approaches that seek to learn a hypothesis that performs well, in the worst-case, on many different distributions over a population. We argue that although the most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Jabari Hastings , Christopher Jung , Charlotte Peale , Vasilis Syrgkanis

Adversarial training is one of the best-performing methods in improving the robustness of deep language models. However, robust models come at the cost of high time consumption, as they require multi-step gradient ascents or word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Songyang Gao , Shihan Dou , Yan Liu , Xiao Wang , Qi Zhang , Zhongyu Wei , Jin Ma , Ying Shan

Object detection models are critical components of automated systems, such as autonomous vehicles and perception-based robots, but their sensitivity to adversarial attacks poses a serious security risk. Progress in defending these models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Alexis Winter , Jean-Vincent Martini , Romaric Audigier , Angelique Loesch , Bertrand Luvison

A Markov Decision Process (MDP) is a popular model for reinforcement learning. However, its commonly used assumption of stationary dynamics and rewards is too stringent and fails to hold in adversarial, nonstationary, or multi-agent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Tiancheng Yu , Suvrit Sra

We identify three common cases that lead to overestimation of adversarial accuracy against bounded first-order attack methods, which is popularly used as a proxy for adversarial robustness in empirical studies. For each case, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Kyungmi Lee , Anantha P. Chandrakasan

Adversarial Training (AT) has been demonstrated as one of the most effective methods against adversarial examples. While most existing works focus on AT with a single type of perturbation e.g., the $\ell_\infty$ attacks), DNNs are facing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Jiancong Xiao , Zeyu Qin , Yanbo Fan , Baoyuan Wu , Jue Wang , Zhi-Quan Luo

While multi-step adversarial training is widely popular as an effective defense method against strong adversarial attacks, its computational cost is notoriously expensive, compared to standard training. Several single-step adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Geon Yeong Park , Sang Wan Lee

Despite the wide use of machine learning in adversarial settings including computer security, recent studies have demonstrated vulnerabilities to evasion attacks---carefully crafted adversarial samples that closely resemble legitimate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-05-26 Yi Han , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein

Machine Learning (ML) techniques can facilitate the automation of malicious software (malware for short) detection, but suffer from evasion attacks. Many studies counter such attacks in heuristic manners, lacking theoretical guarantees and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Deqiang Li , Shicheng Cui , Yun Li , Jia Xu , Fu Xiao , Shouhuai Xu

Adversarial robustness is essential for security and reliability of machine learning systems. However, adversarial robustness enhanced by defense algorithms is easily erased as the neural network's weights update to learn new tasks. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Xiaolei Ru , Xiaowei Cao , Zijia Liu , Jack Murdoch Moore , Xin-Ya Zhang , Xia Zhu , Wenjia Wei , Gang Yan