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We identify fragile and robust neurons of deep learning architectures using nodal dropouts of the first convolutional layer. Using an adversarial targeting algorithm, we correlate these neurons with the distribution of adversarial attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Chandresh Pravin , Ivan Martino , Giuseppe Nicosia , Varun Ojha

Reinforcement learning (RL) policies often fail under dynamics that differ from training, a gap not fully addressed by domain randomization or existing adversarial RL methods. Distributionally robust RL provides a formal remedy but still…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Mintae Kim , Koushil Sreenath

Efforts to improve the adversarial robustness of convolutional neural networks have primarily focused on developing more effective adversarial training methods. In contrast, little attention was devoted to analyzing the role of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Shihua Huang , Zhichao Lu , Kalyanmoy Deb , Vishnu Naresh Boddeti

Transfer learning across domains with distribution shift remains a fundamental challenge in building robust and adaptable machine learning systems. While adversarial perturbations are traditionally viewed as threats that expose model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Hana Satou , Alan Mitkiy

Extensive Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) studies have shown great success in practice by learning transferable representations across a labeled source domain and an unlabeled target domain with deep models. However, previous works…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Muhammad Awais , Fengwei Zhou , Hang Xu , Lanqing Hong , Ping Luo , Sung-Ho Bae , Zhenguo Li

Research on adversarial robustness is primarily focused on image and text data. Yet, many scenarios in which lack of robustness can result in serious risks, such as fraud detection, medical diagnosis, or recommender systems often do not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Klim Kireev , Maksym Andriushchenko , Carmela Troncoso , Nicolas Flammarion

Deep neural networks are the default choice of learning models for computer vision tasks. Extensive work has been carried out in recent years on explaining deep models for vision tasks such as classification. However, recent work has shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Anindya Sarkar , Anirban Sarkar , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

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

A major drawback of adversarially robust models, in particular for large scale datasets like ImageNet, is the extremely long training time compared to standard ones. Moreover, models should be robust not only to one $l_p$-threat model but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Francesco Croce , Matthias Hein

In learning problems, the noise inherent to the task at hand hinders the possibility to infer without a certain degree of uncertainty. Quantifying this uncertainty, regardless of its wide use, assumes high relevance for security-sensitive…

The increasing reliance on large language models (LLMs) for diverse applications necessitates a thorough understanding of their robustness to adversarial perturbations and out-of-distribution (OOD) inputs. In this study, we investigate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-17 April Yang , Jordan Tab , Parth Shah , Paul Kotchavong

Deep networks are well-known to be fragile to adversarial attacks, and adversarial training is one of the most popular methods used to train a robust model. To take advantage of unlabeled data, recent works have applied adversarial training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Xin Zou , Weiwei Liu

We propose a method to learn deep ReLU-based classifiers that are provably robust against norm-bounded adversarial perturbations on the training data. For previously unseen examples, the approach is guaranteed to detect all adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Eric Wong , J. Zico Kolter

Despite significant advancements in out-of-distribution (OOD) detection, existing methods still struggle to maintain robustness against adversarial attacks, compromising their reliability in critical real-world applications. Previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Hossein Mirzaei , Mackenzie W. Mathis

Current SOTA adversarially robust models are mostly based on adversarial training (AT) and differ only by some regularizers either at inner maximization or outer minimization steps. Being repetitive in nature during the inner maximization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Anindya Sarkar , Anirban Sarkar , Sowrya Gali , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

Adversarial robustness corresponds to the susceptibility of deep neural networks to imperceptible perturbations made at test time. In the context of image tasks, many algorithms have been proposed to make neural networks robust to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Pranjal Awasthi , George Yu , Chun-Sung Ferng , Andrew Tomkins , Da-Cheng Juan

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

The adversarial robustness of attributions is a fundamental requirement for reliable explainability in deep learning, yet existing approaches typically rely on computationally expensive explicit regularization. In this work, we show that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Amir Mehrpanah , Matteo Gamba , Hossein Azizpour

While many defences against adversarial examples have been proposed, finding robust machine learning models is still an open problem. The most compelling defence to date is adversarial training and consists of complementing the training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Alex Serban , Erik Poll , Joost Visser

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) policies have been shown to be deceived by perturbations (e.g., random noise or intensional adversarial attacks) on state observations that appear at test time but are unknown during training. To increase…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Xinghua Qu , Yew-Soon Ong , Abhishek Gupta , Zhu Sun