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Deep neural networks have been widely deployed in various machine learning tasks. However, recent works have demonstrated that they are vulnerable to adversarial examples: carefully crafted small perturbations to cause misclassification by…

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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…

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In deep learning applications, the architectures of deep neural networks are crucial in achieving high accuracy. Many methods have been proposed to search for high-performance neural architectures automatically. However, these searched…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Ramtin Hosseini , Xingyi Yang , Pengtao Xie

Adversarial training has proven effective in improving the robustness of deep neural networks against adversarial attacks. However, this enhanced robustness often comes at the cost of a substantial drop in accuracy on clean data. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Bongsoo Yi , Rongjie Lai , Yao Li

Neural networks have led to major improvements in image classification but suffer from being non-robust to adversarial changes, unreliable uncertainty estimates on out-distribution samples and their inscrutable black-box decisions. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Maximilian Augustin , Alexander Meinke , Matthias Hein

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

Deep neural networks (DNNs) has shown great promise in computer vision tasks. However, machine vision achieved by DNNs cannot be as robust as human perception. Adversarial attacks and data distribution shifts have been known as two major…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Xiaofeng Mao , Yuefeng Chen , Rong Zhang , Hui Xue , Zhao Li , Hang Su

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

Current deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, where adversarial perturbations to the inputs can change or manipulate classification. To defend against such attacks, an effective and popular approach, known as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Gaoyuan Zhang , Songtao Lu , Yihua Zhang , Xiangyi Chen , Pin-Yu Chen , Quanfu Fan , Lee Martie , Lior Horesh , Mingyi Hong , Sijia Liu

State-of-the-art classifiers have been shown to be largely vulnerable to adversarial perturbations. One of the most effective strategies to improve robustness is adversarial training. In this paper, we investigate the effect of adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Seyed-Mohsen Moosavi-Dezfooli , Alhussein Fawzi , Jonathan Uesato , Pascal Frossard

It is known that Deep Neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, and the adversarial robustness of DNNs could be improved by adding adversarial noises to training data (e.g., the standard adversarial training (SAT)).…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-23 Linhai Ma , Liang Liang

This work investigates adversarial training in the context of margin-based linear classifiers in the high-dimensional regime where the dimension $d$ and the number of data points $n$ diverge with a fixed ratio $\alpha = n / d$. We introduce…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-13 Kasimir Tanner , Matteo Vilucchio , Bruno Loureiro , Florent Krzakala

Upon the discovery of adversarial attacks, robust models have become obligatory for deep learning-based systems. Adversarial training with first-order attacks has been one of the most effective defenses against adversarial perturbations to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Inci M. Baytas , Debayan Deb

Adversarial training often suffers from a robustness-accuracy trade-off, where achieving high robustness comes at the cost of accuracy. One approach to mitigate this trade-off is leveraging invariance regularization, which encourages model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Futa Waseda , Ching-Chun Chang , Isao Echizen

Robust Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) address environmental shift through distributionally robust optimization (DRO) by finding an optimal worst-case policy within an uncertainty set of transition kernels. However, standard DRO approaches…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-10 Akram S. Awad , Shihab Ahmed , Yue Wang , George K. Atia

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art results in various pattern recognition tasks. However, they perform poorly on out-of-distribution adversarial examples i.e. inputs that are specifically crafted by an adversary to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Chirag Agarwal , Anh Nguyen , Dan Schonfeld

Label noise and class imbalance commonly coexist in real-world data. Previous works for robust learning, however, usually address either one type of the data biases and underperform when facing them both. To mitigate this gap, this work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Shenwang Jiang , Jianan Li , Jizhou Zhang , Ying Wang , Tingfa Xu

In response to the threat of adversarial examples, adversarial training provides an attractive option for enhancing the model robustness by training models on online-augmented adversarial examples. However, most of the existing adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Jia-Li Yin , Lehui Xie , Wanqing Zhu , Ximeng Liu , Bo-Hao Chen

Deep neural networks continue to awe the world with their remarkable performance. Their predictions, however, are prone to be corrupted by adversarial examples that are imperceptible to humans. Current efforts to improve the robustness of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Jisoo Mok , Byunggook Na , Hyeokjun Choe , Sungroh Yoon

Despite its popularity, deep neural networks are easily fooled. To alleviate this deficiency, researchers are actively developing new training strategies, which encourage models that are robust to small input perturbations. Several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Jingyue Lu , M. Pawan Kumar