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Despite their overwhelming success on a wide range of applications, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are widely recognized to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. This intriguing phenomenon led to a competition between adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Philipp Benz , Chaoning Zhang , Adil Karjauv , In So Kweon

We present a method to learn automaton models that are more robust to input modifications. It iteratively aligns sequences to a learned model, modifies the sequences to their aligned versions, and re-learns the model. Automaton learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Dennis Mouwen , Sicco Verwer , Azqa Nadeem

Adversarial Training (AT) is proposed to alleviate the adversarial vulnerability of machine learning models by extracting only robust features from the input, which, however, inevitably leads to severe accuracy reduction as it discards the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-06 Yifei Wang , Dan Peng , Furui Liu , Zhenguo Li , Zhitang Chen , Jiansheng Yang

There is an increasing interest in analyzing the behavior of machine learning systems against adversarial attacks. However, most of the research in adversarial machine learning has focused on studying weaknesses against evasion or poisoning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-12 Pablo G. Arce , Roi Naveiro , David Ríos Insua

In communication systems, there are many tasks, like modulation recognition, which rely on Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) models. However, these models have been shown to be susceptible to adversarial perturbations, namely imperceptible…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-31 Javier Maroto , Gérôme Bovet , Pascal Frossard

Adversarial Training (AT) with Projected Gradient Descent (PGD) is an effective approach for improving the robustness of the deep neural networks. However, PGD AT has been shown to suffer from two main limitations: i) high computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Ahmadreza Jeddi , Mohammad Javad Shafiee , Alexander Wong

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

AI systems can take harmful actions and are highly vulnerable to adversarial attacks. We present an approach, inspired by recent advances in representation engineering, that interrupts the models as they respond with harmful outputs with…

Despite extensive diagnostics and debugging by developers, AI systems sometimes exhibit harmful unintended behaviors. Finding and fixing these is challenging because the attack surface is so large -- it is not tractable to exhaustively…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Stephen Casper , Lennart Schulze , Oam Patel , Dylan Hadfield-Menell

Transfer adversarial attack is a non-trivial black-box adversarial attack that aims to craft adversarial perturbations on the surrogate model and then apply such perturbations to the victim model. However, the transferability of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Shuman Fang , Jie Li , Xianming Lin , Rongrong Ji

Evaluating the worst-case performance of a reinforcement learning (RL) agent under the strongest/optimal adversarial perturbations on state observations (within some constraints) is crucial for understanding the robustness of RL agents.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Yanchao Sun , Ruijie Zheng , Yongyuan Liang , Furong Huang

Adversarial training is an effective learning technique to improve the robustness of deep neural networks. In this study, the influence of adversarial training on deep learning models in terms of fairness, robustness, and generalization is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Xiaoling Zhou , Nan Yang , Ou Wu

Machine learning algorithms are used to construct a mathematical model for a system based on training data. Such a model is capable of making highly accurate predictions without being explicitly programmed to do so. These techniques have a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Cato Pauling , Michael Gimson , Muhammed Qaid , Ahmad Kida , Basel Halak

Adversarial learning has emerged as one of the successful techniques to circumvent the susceptibility of existing methods against adversarial perturbations. However, the majority of existing defense methods are tailored to defend against a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Divyam Madaan , Jinwoo Shin , Sung Ju Hwang

Traditional classification algorithms assume that training and test data come from similar distributions. This assumption is violated in adversarial settings, where malicious actors modify instances to evade detection. A number of custom…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Bo Li , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Xinyun Chen

In this paper, we present an approach to improve the robustness of BERT language models against word substitution-based adversarial attacks by leveraging adversarial perturbations for self-supervised contrastive learning. We create a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Zhao Meng , Yihan Dong , Mrinmaya Sachan , Roger Wattenhofer

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are widely acknowledged to be susceptible to adversarial examples, wherein imperceptible perturbations are added to clean examples through diverse input transformation attacks. However, these methods originally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Haobo Lu , Xin Liu , Kun He

While deep neural networks have been achieving state-of-the-art performance across a wide variety of applications, their vulnerability to adversarial attacks limits their widespread deployment for safety-critical applications. Alongside…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Ahmadreza Jeddi , Mohammad Javad Shafiee , Michelle Karg , Christian Scharfenberger , Alexander Wong

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial noise. Adversarial Training (AT) has been demonstrated to be the most effective defense strategy to protect neural networks from being fooled. However, we find AT omits to learning robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Nuoyan Zhou , Nannan Wang , Decheng Liu , Dawei Zhou , Xinbo Gao

In this work, we make two contributions towards understanding of in-context learning of linear models by transformers. First, we investigate the adversarial robustness of in-context learning in transformers to hijacking attacks -- a type of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Usman Anwar , Johannes Von Oswald , Louis Kirsch , David Krueger , Spencer Frei