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Deep neural networks remain vulnerable to adversarial examples despite advances in architectures and training paradigms. We investigate how training data characteristics affect adversarial robustness across 36 state-of-the-art vision models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Marco Zimmerli , Andreas Plesner , Till Aczel , Roger Wattenhofer

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Existing methods are devoted to developing various robust training strategies or regularizations to update the weights of the neural network. But beyond the weights, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Minjing Dong , Yanxi Li , Yunhe Wang , Chang Xu

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

Quantized neural networks (QNNs) have received increasing attention in resource-constrained scenarios due to their exceptional generalizability. However, their robustness against realistic black-box adversarial attacks has not been…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Yulong Yang , Chenhao Lin , Qian Li , Zhengyu Zhao , Haoran Fan , Dawei Zhou , Nannan Wang , Tongliang Liu , Chao Shen

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 neural networks are widely known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples, especially showing significantly poor performance on adversarial examples generated under the white-box setting. However, most white-box attack methods rely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Zeliang Zhang , Peihan Liu , Xiaosen Wang , Chenliang Xu

The growing interest for adversarial examples, i.e. maliciously modified examples which fool a classifier, has resulted in many defenses intended to detect them, render them inoffensive or make the model more robust against them. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Rémi Bernhard , Pierre-Alain Moellic , Jean-Max Dutertre

As deep neural networks (DNNs) are widely applied in the physical world, many researches are focusing on physical-world adversarial examples (PAEs), which introduce perturbations to inputs and cause the model's incorrect outputs. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Yichen Wang , Yuxuan Chou , Ziqi Zhou , Hangtao Zhang , Wei Wan , Shengshan Hu , Minghui Li

Neural networks are known to be highly sensitive to adversarial examples. These may arise due to different factors, such as random initialization, or spurious correlations in the learning problem. To better understand these factors, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-05 Elvis Dohmatob , Alberto Bietti

Recent results show that features of adversarially trained networks for classification, in addition to being robust, enable desirable properties such as invertibility. The latter property may seem counter-intuitive as it is widely accepted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Matteo Terzi , Alessandro Achille , Marco Maggipinto , Gian Antonio Susto

Despite the great success achieved in machine learning (ML), adversarial examples have caused concerns with regards to its trustworthiness: A small perturbation of an input results in an arbitrary failure of an otherwise seemingly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Jingkang Wang , Ruoxi Jia , Gerald Friedland , Bo Li , Costas Spanos

The easiness at which adversarial instances can be generated in deep neural networks raises some fundamental questions on their functioning and concerns on their use in critical systems. In this paper, we draw a connection between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Mahdieh Abbasi , Christian Gagné

Adversarial examples are inputs to machine learning models that an attacker has intentionally designed to confuse the model into making a mistake. Such examples pose a serious threat to the applicability of machine-learning-based systems,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Peiyu Xiong , Michael Tegegn , Jaskeerat Singh Sarin , Shubhraneel Pal , Julia Rubin

While deep learning has led to remarkable results on a number of challenging problems, researchers have discovered a vulnerability of neural networks in adversarial settings, where small but carefully chosen perturbations to the input can…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Edward Grefenstette , Robert Stanforth , Brendan O'Donoghue , Jonathan Uesato , Grzegorz Swirszcz , Pushmeet Kohli

Robustness towards adversarial attacks is a vital property for classifiers in several applications such as autonomous driving, medical diagnosis, etc. Also, in such scenarios, where the cost of misclassification is very high, knowing when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Vrund Shah , Tejas Chaudhari , Naresh Manwani

Adversarial training (i.e., training on adversarially perturbed input data) is a well-studied method for making neural networks robust to potential adversarial attacks during inference. However, the improved robustness does not come for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Mathias Lechner , Alexander Amini , Daniela Rus , Thomas A. Henzinger

Transfer-based adversarial attacks raise a severe threat to real-world deep learning systems since they do not require access to target models. Adversarial training (AT), which is recognized as the strongest defense against white-box…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Yulong Yang , Chenhao Lin , Xiang Ji , Qiwei Tian , Qian Li , Hongshan Yang , Zhibo Wang , Chao Shen

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

Adversarial attacks have been proven to be potential threats to Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), and many methods are proposed to defend against adversarial attacks. However, while enhancing the robustness, the clean accuracy will decline to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Xingxing Wei , Shiji Zhao , Bo li

Transfer learning aims to leverage models pre-trained on source data to efficiently adapt to target setting, where only limited data are available for model fine-tuning. Recent works empirically demonstrate that adversarial training in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Zhun Deng , Linjun Zhang , Kailas Vodrahalli , Kenji Kawaguchi , James Zou