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Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to invisible perturbations on the images generated by adversarial attacks, which raises researches on the adversarial robustness of DNNs. A series of methods represented by the adversarial training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Kun Fang , Qinghua Tao , Yingwen Wu , Tao Li , Jia Cai , Feipeng Cai , Xiaolin Huang , Jie Yang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely used in the fields such as natural language processing, computer vision and image recognition. But several studies have been shown that deep neural networks can be easily fooled by artificial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Long Zhang , Xuechao Sun , Yong Li , Zhenyu Zhang

Image classifiers are an important component of today's software, from consumer and business applications to safety-critical domains. The advent of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) is the key catalyst behind such wide-spread success. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Yuchi Tian , Ziyuan Zhong , Vicente Ordonez , Gail Kaiser , Baishakhi Ray

Despite the remarkable success of deep neural networks (DNNs), the security threat of adversarial attacks poses a significant challenge to the reliability of DNNs. In this paper, both theoretically and empirically, we discover a universal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Ran Wang , Xinlei Zhou , Meng Hu , Rihao Li , Wenhui Wu , Yuheng Jia

We investigate the topics of sensitivity and robustness in feedforward and convolutional neural networks. Combining energy landscape techniques developed in computational chemistry with tools drawn from formal methods, we produce empirical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-06 Timothy E. Wang , Yiming Gu , Dhagash Mehta , Xiaojun Zhao , Edgar A. Bernal

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become the leading approach for addressing graph analytical problems in various real-world scenarios. However, GNNs may produce biased predictions against certain demographic subgroups due to node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Yonas Sium , Qi Li

The existence of adversarial data examples has drawn significant attention in the deep-learning community; such data are seemingly minimally perturbed relative to the original data, but lead to very different outputs from a deep-learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Bai Li , Changyou Chen , Wenlin Wang , Lawrence Carin

With the rise of deep neural networks, the challenge of explaining the predictions of these networks has become increasingly recognized. While many methods for explaining the decisions of deep neural networks exist, there is currently no…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Ian E. Nielsen , Dimah Dera , Ghulam Rasool , Nidhal Bouaynaya , Ravi P. Ramachandran

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are being deployed in a wide range of settings today, from safety-critical applications like autonomous driving to commercial applications involving image classifications. However, recent research has shown that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Ziyuan Zhong , Yuchi Tian , Baishakhi Ray

Machine learning models, including state-of-the-art deep neural networks, are vulnerable to small perturbations that cause unexpected classification errors. This unexpected lack of robustness raises fundamental questions about their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Andras Rozsa , Manuel Gunther , Terrance E. Boult

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are often prone to learn the spurious correlations between target classes and bias attributes, like gender and race, inherent in a major portion of training data (bias-aligned samples), thus showing unfair…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Mei Wang , Weihong Deng , Jiani Hu , Sen Su

In sequential decision-making problems involving sensitive attributes like race and gender, reinforcement learning (RL) agents must carefully consider long-term fairness while maximizing returns. Recent works have proposed many different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Zhihong Deng , Jing Jiang , Guodong Long , Chengqi Zhang

In this research, we focus on the usage of adversarial sampling to test for the fairness in the prediction of deep neural network model across different classes of image in a given dataset. While several framework had been proposed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Tosin Ige , William Marfo , Justin Tonkinson , Sikiru Adewale , Bolanle Hafiz Matti

Deep neural networks (DNN) are increasingly being used to perform algorithm-selection in combinatorial optimisation domains, particularly as they accommodate input representations which avoid designing and calculating features. Mounting…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Emma Hart , Quentin Renau , Kevin Sim , Mohamad Alissa

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) often rely on statistical correlations rather than causal reasoning, limiting their robustness and interpretability. While testing methods can identify failures, effective debugging and repair remain challenging.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Fatemeh Vares , Brittany Johnson

Neural networks have revolutionized various domains, exhibiting remarkable accuracy in tasks like natural language processing and computer vision. However, their vulnerability to slight alterations in input samples poses challenges,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Shashank Kotyan , Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas

Deep neural networks (DNNs), are widely used in many industries such as image recognition, supply chain, medical diagnosis, and autonomous driving. However, prior work has shown the high accuracy of a DNN model does not imply high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Guanqin Zhang , Jiankun Sun , Feng Xu , H. M. N. Dilum Bandara , Shiping Chen , Yulei Sui , Tim Menzies

Despite the significant advances in deep learning over the past decade, a major challenge that limits the wide-spread adoption of deep learning has been their fragility to adversarial attacks. This sensitivity to making erroneous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Hossein Aboutalebi , Mohammad Javad Shafiee , Michelle Karg , Christian Scharfenberger , Alexander Wong

In recent years, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have made significant advancements, particularly in tasks such as node classification, link prediction, and graph representation. However, challenges arise from biases that can be hidden not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Mahdi Tavassoli Kejani , Fadi Dornaika , Jean-Michel Loubes

Existing bias mitigation methods to reduce disparities in model outcomes across cohorts have focused on data augmentation, debiasing model embeddings, or adding fairness-based optimization objectives during training. Separately, certified…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Yada Pruksachatkun , Satyapriya Krishna , Jwala Dhamala , Rahul Gupta , Kai-Wei Chang