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Machine Learning (ML) models are applied in a variety of tasks such as network intrusion detection or Malware classification. Yet, these models are vulnerable to a class of malicious inputs known as adversarial examples. These are slightly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Kathrin Grosse , Praveen Manoharan , Nicolas Papernot , Michael Backes , Patrick McDaniel

Transformer-based language models for code have shown remarkable performance in various software analytics tasks, but their adoption is hindered by high computational costs, slow inference speeds, and substantial environmental impact. Model…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Md. Abdul Awal , Mrigank Rochan , Chanchal K. Roy

We propose a new simulation-based estimation method, adversarial estimation, for structural models. The estimator is formulated as the solution to a minimax problem between a generator (which generates simulated observations using the…

Econometrics · Economics 2024-01-09 Tetsuya Kaji , Elena Manresa , Guillaume Pouliot

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, posing a threat to the models' applications and raising security concerns. An intriguing property of adversarial examples is their strong transferability. Several methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Shuo Zhang , Ziruo Wang , Zikai Zhou , Huanran Chen

As frontier AIs become more powerful and costly to develop, adversaries have increasing incentives to steal model weights by mounting exfiltration attacks. In this work, we consider exfiltration attacks where an adversary attempts to sneak…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Davis Brown , Juan-Pablo Rivera , Dan Hendrycks , Mantas Mazeika

As machine learning algorithms continue to improve, there is an increasing need for explaining why a model produces a certain prediction for a certain input. In recent years, several methods for model interpretability have been developed,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Yoel Shoshan , Vadim Ratner

Despite numerous attempts to defend deep learning based image classifiers, they remain susceptible to the adversarial attacks. This paper proposes a technique to identify susceptible classes, those classes that are more easily subverted. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Rangeet Pan , Md Johirul Islam , Shibbir Ahmed , Hridesh Rajan

The transferability of adversarial examples allows for the attack on unknown deep neural networks (DNNs), posing a serious threat to many applications and attracting great attention. In this paper, we improve the transferability of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Qizhang Li , Yiwen Guo , Xiaochen Yang , Wangmeng Zuo , Hao Chen

Adversarial training has been widely studied in recent years due to its role in improving model robustness against adversarial attacks. This paper focuses on comparing different distributed adversarial training algorithms--including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Ying Cao , Kun Yuan , Ali H. Sayed

Adversarial face examples possess two critical properties: Visual Quality and Transferability. However, existing approaches rarely address these properties simultaneously, leading to subpar results. To address this issue, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Fengfan Zhou , Hefei Ling , Yuxuan Shi , Jiazhong Chen , Ping Li

We study adversarial examples in a black-box setting where the adversary only has API access to the target model and each query is expensive. Prior work on black-box adversarial examples follows one of two main strategies: (1) transfer…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Fnu Suya , Jianfeng Chi , David Evans , Yuan Tian

We study Label-Smoothing as a means for improving adversarial robustness of supervised deep-learning models. After establishing a thorough and unified framework, we propose several variations to this general method: adversarial, Boltzmann…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Morgane Goibert , Elvis Dohmatob

We study the problem of aligning the supports of distributions. Compared to the existing work on distribution alignment, support alignment does not require the densities to be matched. We propose symmetric support difference as a divergence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Shangyuan Tong , Timur Garipov , Yang Zhang , Shiyu Chang , Tommi S. Jaakkola

Adversarial transferability refers to the capacity of adversarial examples generated on the surrogate model to deceive alternate, unexposed victim models. This property eliminates the need for direct access to the victim model during an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Xiaosen Wang , Zhijin Ge , Bohan Liu , Zheng Fang , Fengfan Zhou , Ruixuan Zhang , Shaokang Wang , Yuyang Luo

Making classifiers robust to adversarial examples is hard. Thus, many defenses tackle the seemingly easier task of detecting perturbed inputs. We show a barrier towards this goal. We prove a general hardness reduction between detection and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Florian Tramèr

The adversarial machine learning literature is largely partitioned into evasion attacks on testing data and poisoning attacks on training data. In this work, we show that adversarial examples, originally intended for attacking pre-trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Liam Fowl , Micah Goldblum , Ping-yeh Chiang , Jonas Geiping , Wojtek Czaja , Tom Goldstein

Adversarial Transferability is an intriguing property - adversarial perturbation crafted against one model is also effective against another model, while these models are from different model families or training processes. To better…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Zhuolin Yang , Linyi Li , Xiaojun Xu , Shiliang Zuo , Qian Chen , Benjamin Rubinstein , Pan Zhou , Ce Zhang , Bo Li

We consider adversarial attacks to a black-box model when no queries are allowed. In this setting, many methods directly attack surrogate models and transfer the obtained adversarial examples to fool the target model. Plenty of previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Yunxiao Qin , Yuanhao Xiong , Jinfeng Yi , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Deep learning models are known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. A practical adversarial attack should require as little as possible knowledge of attacked models. Current substitute attacks need pre-trained models to generate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Mingyi Zhou , Jing Wu , Yipeng Liu , Xiaolin Huang , Shuaicheng Liu , Xiang Zhang , Ce Zhu

Network pruning has been known to produce compact models without much accuracy degradation. However, how the pruning process affects a network's robustness and the working mechanism behind remain unresolved. In this work, we theoretically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Shufan Wang , Ningyi Liao , Liyao Xiang , Nanyang Ye , Quanshi Zhang