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Adversarial attacks are widely used to identify model vulnerabilities; however, their validity as proxies for robustness to random perturbations remains debated. We ask whether an adversarial example provides a representative estimate of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Giulio Rossolini

Adversarial vulnerability remains a major obstacle to constructing reliable NLP systems. When imperceptible perturbations are added to raw input text, the performance of a deep learning model may drop dramatically under attacks. Recent work…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Jiahao Zhao , Wenji Mao

We study optimal covariate balance for causal inferences from observational data when rich covariates and complex relationships necessitate flexible modeling with neural networks. Standard approaches such as propensity weighting and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-16 Nathan Kallus

Despite extraordinary progress, current machine learning systems have been shown to be brittle against adversarial examples: seemingly innocuous but carefully crafted perturbations of test examples that cause machine learning predictors to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Omar Montasser

Despite remarkable achievements in deep learning across various domains, its inherent vulnerability to adversarial examples still remains a critical concern for practical deployment. Adversarial training has emerged as one of the most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Junhao Dong , Xinghua Qu , Z. Jane Wang , Yew-Soon Ong

The robustness of neural networks is challenged by adversarial examples that contain almost imperceptible perturbations to inputs, which mislead a classifier to incorrect outputs in high confidence. Limited by the extreme difficulty in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Honglin Li , Yifei Fan , Frieder Ganz , Anthony Yezzi , Payam Barnaghi

Recent research has found that many families of machine learning models are vulnerable to adversarial examples: inputs that are specifically designed to cause the target model to produce erroneous outputs. In this survey, we focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Rey Reza Wiyatno , Anqi Xu , Ousmane Dia , Archy de Berker

Adversarial examples, generated by carefully crafted perturbation, have attracted considerable attention in research fields. Recent works have argued that the existence of the robust and non-robust features is a primary cause of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Junho Kim , Byung-Kwan Lee , Yong Man Ro

In this paper we study leveraging confidence information induced by adversarial training to reinforce adversarial robustness of a given adversarially trained model. A natural measure of confidence is $\|F({\bf x})\|_\infty$ (i.e. how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Xi Wu , Uyeong Jang , Jiefeng Chen , Lingjiao Chen , Somesh Jha

Causal Neural Network models have shown high levels of robustness to adversarial attacks as well as an increased capacity for generalisation tasks such as few-shot learning and rare-context classification compared to traditional Neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Preben M. Ness , Dusica Marijan , Sunanda Bose

We provide a complete characterisation of the phenomenon of adversarial examples - inputs intentionally crafted to fool machine learning models. We aim to cover all the important concerns in this field of study: (1) the conjectures on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Alexandru Constantin Serban , Erik Poll , Joost Visser

Machine learning systems based on deep neural networks, being able to produce state-of-the-art results on various perception tasks, have gained mainstream adoption in many applications. However, they are shown to be vulnerable to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Bo Luo , Yannan Liu , Lingxiao Wei , Qiang Xu

We show new connections between adversarial learning and explainability for deep neural networks (DNNs). One form of explanation of the output of a neural network model in terms of its input features, is a vector of feature-attributions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Prasad Chalasani , Jiefeng Chen , Amrita Roy Chowdhury , Somesh Jha , Xi Wu

Adversarial examples pose a unique challenge for deep learning systems. Despite recent advances in both attacks and defenses, there is still a lack of clarity and consensus in the community about the true nature and underlying properties of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Shishira R Maiya , Max Ehrlich , Vatsal Agarwal , Ser-Nam Lim , Tom Goldstein , Abhinav Shrivastava

Adding perturbations via utilizing auxiliary gradient information or discarding existing details of the benign images are two common approaches for generating adversarial examples. Though visual imperceptibility is the desired property of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Zihan Chen , Ziyue Wang , Junjie Huang , Wentao Zhao , Xiao Liu , Dejian Guan

This paper analyzes $\ell_1$ regularized linear regression under the challenging scenario of having only adversarially corrupted data for training. We use the primal-dual witness paradigm to provide provable performance guarantees for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Deepak Maurya , Jean Honorio

Causal inference is the process of using assumptions, study designs, and estimation strategies to draw conclusions about the causal relationships between variables based on data. This allows researchers to better understand the underlying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Anpeng Wu , Kun Kuang , Ruoxuan Xiong , Fei Wu

Adversarial examples have attracted significant attention over the years, yet understanding their frequency-based characteristics remains insufficient. In this paper, we investigate the intriguing properties of adversarial examples in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Lu Chen , Han Yang , Hu Wang , Yuxin Cao , Shaofeng Li , Yuan Luo

Deep neural networks are known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples, i.e., images that are maliciously perturbed to fool the model. Generating adversarial examples has been mostly limited to finding small perturbations that maximize the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Hossein Hosseini , Radha Poovendran

We are in the middle of a remarkable rise in the use and capability of artificial intelligence. Much of this growth has been fueled by the success of deep learning architectures: models that map from observables to outputs via multiple…

Applications · Statistics 2017-01-02 Jason Hartford , Greg Lewis , Kevin Leyton-Brown , Matt Taddy