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Backdoor attack is a severe security threat to deep neural networks (DNNs). We envision that, like adversarial examples, there will be a cat-and-mouse game for backdoor attacks, i.e., new empirical defenses are developed to defend against…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Binghui Wang , Xiaoyu Cao , Jinyuan jia , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Adversarial training is one of the most popular ways to learn robust models but is usually attack-dependent and time costly. In this paper, we propose the MACER algorithm, which learns robust models without using adversarial training but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Runtian Zhai , Chen Dan , Di He , Huan Zhang , Boqing Gong , Pradeep Ravikumar , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Liwei Wang

Adversarial robustness is considered as a required property of deep neural networks. In this study, we discover that adversarially trained models might have significantly different characteristics in terms of margin and smoothness, even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Hoki Kim , Woojin Lee , Sungyoon Lee , Jaewook Lee

Randomized smoothing has established state-of-the-art provable robustness against $\ell_2$ norm adversarial attacks with high probability. However, the introduced Gaussian data augmentation causes a severe decrease in natural accuracy. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Ching-Chia Kao , Jhe-Bang Ko , Chun-Shien Lu

Despite the high performance achieved by deep neural networks on various tasks, extensive studies have demonstrated that small tweaks in the input could fail the model predictions. This issue of deep neural networks has led to a number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Ming-Chang Chiu , Xuezhe Ma

Randomized smoothing (RS) has successfully been used to improve the robustness of predictions for deep neural networks (DNNs) by adding random noise to create multiple variations of an input, followed by deciding the consensus. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Emmanouil Seferis , Stefanos Kollias , Chih-Hong Cheng

Advances in adversarial defenses have led to a significant improvement in the robustness of Deep Neural Networks. However, the robust accuracy of present state-ofthe-art defenses is far from the requirements in critical applications such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Sravanti Addepalli , Samyak Jain , Gaurang Sriramanan , R. Venkatesh Babu

Deep neural networks have achieved substantial achievements in several computer vision areas, but have vulnerabilities that are often fooled by adversarial examples that are not recognized by humans. This is an important issue for security…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Hakmin Lee , Hong Joo Lee , Seong Tae Kim , Yong Man Ro

There has been great interest in enhancing the robustness of neural network classifiers to defend against adversarial perturbations through adversarial training, while balancing the trade-off between robust accuracy and standard accuracy.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Chester Holtz , Tsui-Wei Weng , Gal Mishne

Deep neural networks have proven to be extremely powerful, however, they are also vulnerable to adversarial attacks which can cause hazardous incorrect predictions in safety-critical applications. Certified robustness via randomized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Sina Däubener , Kira Maag , David Krueger , Asja Fischer

As we seek to deploy machine learning models beyond virtual and controlled domains, it is critical to analyze not only the accuracy or the fact that it works most of the time, but if such a model is truly robust and reliable. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Samuel Henrique Silva , Peyman Najafirad

Real-life applications of deep neural networks are hindered by their unsteady predictions when faced with noisy inputs and adversarial attacks. The certified radius in this context is a crucial indicator of the robustness of models. However…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Blaise Delattre , Alexandre Araujo , Quentin Barthélemy , Alexandre Allauzen

Adversarial training has been actively studied in recent computer vision research to improve the robustness of models. However, due to the huge computational cost of generating adversarial samples, adversarial training methods are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Yihan Wu , Xinda Li , Florian Kerschbaum , Heng Huang , Hongyang Zhang

Randomized smoothing is a popular way of providing robustness guarantees against adversarial attacks: randomly-smoothed functions have a universal Lipschitz-like bound, allowing for robustness certificates to be easily computed. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Alexander Levine , Aounon Kumar , Thomas Goldstein , Soheil Feizi

The vulnerability of neural network classifiers to adversarial attacks is a major obstacle to their deployment in safety-critical applications. Regularization of network parameters during training can be used to improve adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Sheng Yang , Jacob A. Zavatone-Veth , Cengiz Pehlevan

Neural ranking models have achieved remarkable progress and are now widely deployed in real-world applications such as Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). However, like other neural architectures, they remain vulnerable to adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Jiawei Liu , Zhuo Chen , Rui Zhu , Miaokun Chen , Yuyang Gong , Wei Lu , Xiaofeng Wang

Adversarial robustness has become an important research topic given empirical demonstrations on the lack of robustness of deep neural networks. Unfortunately, recent theoretical results suggest that adversarial training induces a strict…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Matt Olfat , Anil Aswani

Randomized Smoothing (RS) is a promising technique for certified robustness, and recently in RS the ensemble of multiple Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has shown state-of-the-art performances due to its variance reduction effect over Gaussian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Kun Fang , Qinghua Tao , Yingwen Wu , Tao Li , Xiaolin Huang , Jie Yang

Randomized Smoothing (RS), being one of few provable defenses, has been showing great effectiveness and scalability in terms of defending against $\ell_2$-norm adversarial perturbations. However, the cost of MC sampling needed in RS for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Huimin Zeng , Jiahao Su , Furong Huang

Certifiable robustness gives the guarantee that small perturbations around an input to a classifier will not change the prediction. There are two approaches to provide certifiable robustness to adversarial examples: a) explicitly training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Meiyu Zhong , Ravi Tandon