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Adversarial robustness has become an emerging challenge for neural network owing to its over-sensitivity to small input perturbations. While being critical, we argue that solving this singular issue alone fails to provide a comprehensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Yu-Lin Tsai , Chia-Yi Hsu , Chia-Mu Yu , Pin-Yu Chen

Deep neural networks (DNN), while becoming the driving force of many novel technology and achieving tremendous success in many cutting-edge applications, are still vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Differentiable neural computer (DNC) is a…

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In the recent quest for trustworthy neural networks, we present Spiking Neural Network (SNN) as a potential candidate for inherent robustness against adversarial attacks. In this work, we demonstrate that adversarial accuracy of SNNs under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Saima Sharmin , Nitin Rathi , Priyadarshini Panda , Kaushik Roy

Deep neural networks for computer vision are deployed in increasingly safety-critical and socially-impactful applications, motivating the need to close the gap in model performance under varied, naturally occurring imaging conditions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Nathan Drenkow , Numair Sani , Ilya Shpitser , Mathias Unberath

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. A range of defense methods have been proposed to train adversarially robust DNNs, among which adversarial training has demonstrated promising results. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Hanxun Huang , Yisen Wang , Sarah Monazam Erfani , Quanquan Gu , James Bailey , Xingjun Ma

Despite their impressive performance, deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been shown to be sensitive to small adversarial perturbations. These nuisances, which one can barely notice, are powerful enough to fool sophisticated and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-08-07 Yaniv Romano , Aviad Aberdam , Jeremias Sulam , Michael Elad

Robustness of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) has gained in importance on account of adversarial examples, i.e., inputs added as well-designed perturbations that are imperceptible to humans but can cause the model to predict…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Tiange Luo , Tianle Cai , Mengxiao Zhang , Siyu Chen , Di He , Liwei Wang

Recently, there has been an abundance of works on designing Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) that are robust to adversarial examples. In particular, a central question is which features of DNNs influence adversarial robustness and, therefore,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Peter Langenberg , Emilio Rafael Balda , Arash Behboodi , Rudolf Mathar

Machine learning and deep learning in particular has advanced tremendously on perceptual tasks in recent years. However, it remains vulnerable against adversarial perturbations of the input that have been crafted specifically to fool the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-22 Jan Hendrik Metzen , Tim Genewein , Volker Fischer , Bastian Bischoff

In this paper, we uniquely study the adversarial robustness of deep neural networks (NN) for classification tasks against that of optimal classifiers. We look at the smallest magnitude of possible additive perturbations that can change a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Jingchao Gao , Ziqing Lu , Raghu Mudumbai , Xiaodong Wu , Jirong Yi , Myung Cho , Catherine Xu , Hui Xie , Weiyu Xu

Machine learning technologies using deep neural networks (DNNs), especially convolutional neural networks (CNNs), have made automated, accurate, and fast medical image analysis a reality for many applications, and some DNN-based medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-08 Jiasong Chen , Linchen Qian , Timur Urakov , Weiyong Gu , Liang Liang

As spiking neural networks (SNNs) are deployed increasingly in real-world efficiency critical applications, the security concerns in SNNs attract more attention. Currently, researchers have already demonstrated an SNN can be attacked with…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Ling Liang , Kaidi Xu , Xing Hu , Lei Deng , Yuan Xie

In recent years numerous methods have been developed to formally verify the robustness of deep neural networks (DNNs). Though the proposed techniques are effective in providing mathematical guarantees about the DNNs behavior, it is not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Debangshu Banerjee , Avaljot Singh , Gagandeep Singh

Deep neural networks have achieved human-level accuracy on almost all perceptual benchmarks. It is interesting that these advances were made using two ideas that are decades old: (a) an artificial neuron based on a linear summator and (b)…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Sergey Bochkanov

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success in various tasks (e.g., image classification, speech recognition, and natural language processing (NLP)). However, researchers have demonstrated that DNN-based models are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Wenqi Wang , Run Wang , Lina Wang , Zhibo Wang , Aoshuang Ye

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly used in real-world applications (e.g. facial recognition). This has resulted in concerns about the fairness of decisions made by these models. Various notions and measures of fairness have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Vedant Nanda , Samuel Dooley , Sahil Singla , Soheil Feizi , John P. Dickerson

The increasing use of deep neural networks (DNNs) has motivated a parallel endeavor: the design of adversaries that profit from successful misclassifications. However, not all adversarial examples are crafted for malicious purposes. For…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Pk Douglas , Farzad Vasheghani Farahani

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Currently, there is no clear insight into how slight perturbations cause such a large difference in classification results and how we can design a more robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Haizhong Zheng , Ziqi Zhang , Honglak Lee , Atul Prakash

Robustness in deep neural networks and machine learning algorithms in general is an open research challenge. In particular, it is difficult to ensure algorithmic performance is maintained on out-of-distribution inputs or anomalous instances…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Natalie Abreu , Nathan Vaska , Victoria Helus

Recent work has extensively shown that randomized perturbations of neural networks can improve robustness to adversarial attacks. The literature is, however, lacking a detailed compare-and-contrast of the latest proposals to understand what…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Adam Dziedzic , Sanjay Krishnan