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Neural networks are vulnerable to small adversarial perturbations. Existing literature largely focused on understanding and mitigating the vulnerability of learned models. In this paper, we demonstrate an intriguing phenomenon about the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Gavin Weiguang Ding , Kry Yik Chau Lui , Xiaomeng Jin , Luyu Wang , Ruitong Huang

The phenomenon of adversarial examples in deep learning models has caused substantial concern over their reliability. While many deep neural networks have shown impressive performance in terms of predictive accuracy, it has been shown that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Sadia Chowdhury , Ruth Urner

We investigate the problem of learning Bayesian networks in a robust model where an $\epsilon$-fraction of the samples are adversarially corrupted. In this work, we study the fully observable discrete case where the structure of the network…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Yu Cheng , Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel Kane , Alistair Stewart

Consider the problem of simultaneous estimation of location and variance matrix under Huber's contaminated Gaussian model. First, we study minimum $f$-divergence estimation at the population level, corresponding to a generative adversarial…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-08-09 Ziyue Wang , Zhiqiang Tan

In this work we solve the problem of robustly learning a high-dimensional Gaussian mixture model with $k$ components from $\epsilon$-corrupted samples up to accuracy $\widetilde{O}(\epsilon)$ in total variation distance for any constant $k$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Allen Liu , Ankur Moitra

The reliability of deep learning algorithms is fundamentally challenged by the existence of adversarial examples, which are incorrectly classified inputs that are extremely close to a correctly classified input. We explore the properties of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-23 Giacomo De Palma , Bobak T. Kiani , Seth Lloyd

Quantum state learning is a fundamental problem in physics and computer science. As near-term quantum devices are error-prone, it is important to design error-resistant algorithms. Apart from device errors, other unexpected factors could…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-20 Maryam Aliakbarpour , Vladimir Braverman , Nai-Hui Chia , Yuhan Liu

Ideally, what confuses neural network should be confusing to humans. However, recent experiments have shown that small, imperceptible perturbations can change the network prediction. To address this gap in perception, we propose a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Alexander Matyasko , Lap-Pui Chau

Machine learning models are vulnerable to adversarial examples formed by applying small carefully chosen perturbations to inputs that cause unexpected classification errors. In this paper, we perform experiments on various adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Andras Rozsa , Manuel Günther , Terrance E. Boult

We study the problem of learning general (i.e., not necessarily homogeneous) halfspaces with Random Classification Noise under the Gaussian distribution. We establish nearly-matching algorithmic and Statistical Query (SQ) lower bound…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Ilias Diakonikolas , Jelena Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Puqian Wang , Nikos Zarifis

Several existing works study either adversarial or natural distributional robustness of deep neural networks separately. In practice, however, models need to enjoy both types of robustness to ensure reliability. In this work, we bridge this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Mazda Moayeri , Kiarash Banihashem , Soheil Feizi

We consider learning in an adversarial environment, where an $\varepsilon$-fraction of samples from a distribution $P$ are arbitrarily modified (global corruptions) and the remaining perturbations have average magnitude bounded by $\rho$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Sloan Nietert , Ziv Goldfeld , Soroosh Shafiee

Adversarial robustness has become a fundamental requirement in modern machine learning applications. Yet, there has been surprisingly little statistical understanding so far. In this paper, we provide the first result of the optimal minimax…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-01 Chen Dan , Yuting Wei , Pradeep Ravikumar

Smoothing classifiers and probability density functions with Gaussian kernels appear unrelated, but in this work, they are unified for the problem of robust classification. The key building block is approximating the $\textit{energy…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-12 Saeed Saremi , Rupesh Srivastava

In this paper, we investigate the adversarial robustness of nonparametric regression, a fundamental problem in machine learning, under the setting where an adversary can arbitrarily corrupt a subset of the input data. While the robustness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Parsa Moradi , Hanzaleh Akabrinodehi , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

Most previous works usually explained adversarial examples from several specific perspectives, lacking relatively integral comprehension about this problem. In this paper, we present a systematic study on adversarial examples from three…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Ke Sun , Zhanxing Zhu , Zhouchen Lin

It is well-known that machine learning models are vulnerable to small but cleverly-designed adversarial perturbations that can cause misclassification. While there has been major progress in designing attacks and defenses for various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Payam Delgosha , Hamed Hassani , Ramtin Pedarsani

We consider a model of robust learning in an adversarial environment. The learner gets uncorrupted training data with access to possible corruptions that may be affected by the adversary during testing. The learner's goal is to build a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Idan Attias , Aryeh Kontorovich , Yishay Mansour

To advance the understanding of robust deep learning, we delve into the effects of adversarial training on self-supervised and supervised contrastive learning alongside supervised learning. Our analysis uncovers significant disparities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Fatemeh Ghofrani , Mehdi Yaghouti , Pooyan Jamshidi