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It is becoming increasingly clear that many machine learning classifiers are vulnerable to adversarial examples. In attempting to explain the origin of adversarial examples, previous studies have typically focused on the fact that neural…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-09 Ekin D. Cubuk , Barret Zoph , Samuel S. Schoenholz , Quoc V. Le

Robustness is widely regarded as a fundamental problem in the analysis of machine learning (ML) models. Most often robustness equates with deciding the non-existence of adversarial examples, where adversarial examples denote situations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Yacine Izza , Joao Marques-Silva

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have gained prominence in various applications, such as classification, recognition, and prediction, prompting increased scrutiny of their properties. A fundamental attribute of traditional DNNs is their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Roman Garaev , Bader Rasheed , Adil Khan

In spite of the successful application in many fields, machine learning models today suffer from notorious problems like vulnerability to adversarial examples. Beyond falling into the cat-and-mouse game between adversarial attack and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Jitao Sang , Xian Zhao , Jiaming Zhang , Zhiyu Lin

Current techniques in machine learning are so far are unable to learn classifiers that are robust to adversarial perturbations. However, they are able to learn non-robust classifiers with very high accuracy, even in the presence of random…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Preetum Nakkiran

Adversarial examples -- inputs with imperceptible perturbations that fool neural networks -- remain one of deep learning's most perplexing phenomena despite nearly a decade of research. While numerous defenses and explanations have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Liv Gorton , Owen Lewis

In this paper, we address the open question: "What do adversarially robust models look at?" Recently, it has been reported in many works that there exists the trade-off between standard accuracy and adversarial robustness. According to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Takahiro Itazuri , Yoshihiro Fukuhara , Hirokatsu Kataoka , Shigeo Morishima

Training machine learning models that are robust against adversarial inputs poses seemingly insurmountable challenges. To better understand adversarial robustness, we consider the underlying problem of learning robust representations. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Sicheng Zhu , Xiao Zhang , David Evans

In learning problems, the noise inherent to the task at hand hinders the possibility to infer without a certain degree of uncertainty. Quantifying this uncertainty, regardless of its wide use, assumes high relevance for security-sensitive…

A wide range of defenses have been proposed to harden neural networks against adversarial attacks. However, a pattern has emerged in which the majority of adversarial defenses are quickly broken by new attacks. Given the lack of success at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Ali Shafahi , W. Ronny Huang , Christoph Studer , Soheil Feizi , Tom Goldstein

We leverage diffusion models to study the robustness-performance tradeoff of robust classifiers. Our approach introduces a simple, pretrained diffusion method to generate low-norm counterfactual examples (CEs): semantically altered data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Eric Yeats , Cameron Darwin , Eduardo Ortega , Frank Liu , Hai Li

The existence of adversarial examples has led to considerable uncertainty regarding the trust one can justifiably put in predictions produced by automated systems. This uncertainty has, in turn, lead to considerable research effort in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Christina Göpfert , Jan Philip Göpfert , Barbara Hammer

In the last a few decades, deep neural networks have achieved remarkable success in machine learning, computer vision, and pattern recognition. Recent studies however show that neural networks (both shallow and deep) may be easily fooled by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Zhuang Qian , Kaizhu Huang , Qiu-Feng Wang , Xu-Yao Zhang

With the perpetual increase of complexity of the state-of-the-art deep neural networks, it becomes a more and more challenging task to maintain their interpretability. Our work aims to evaluate the effects of adversarial training utilized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Delyan Boychev

Adversarial attacks are widely used to identify model vulnerabilities; however, their validity as proxies for robustness to random perturbations remains debated. We ask whether an adversarial example provides a representative estimate of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Giulio Rossolini

We provide a complete characterisation of the phenomenon of adversarial examples - inputs intentionally crafted to fool machine learning models. We aim to cover all the important concerns in this field of study: (1) the conjectures on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Alexandru Constantin Serban , Erik Poll , Joost Visser

In our recent work (Bubeck, Price, Razenshteyn, arXiv:1805.10204) we argued that adversarial examples in machine learning might be due to an inherent computational hardness of the problem. More precisely, we constructed a binary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Sébastien Bubeck , Yin Tat Lee , Eric Price , Ilya Razenshteyn

Recent research has found that many families of machine learning models are vulnerable to adversarial examples: inputs that are specifically designed to cause the target model to produce erroneous outputs. In this survey, we focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Rey Reza Wiyatno , Anqi Xu , Ousmane Dia , Archy de Berker

We show that there may exist an inherent tension between the goal of adversarial robustness and that of standard generalization. Specifically, training robust models may not only be more resource-consuming, but also lead to a reduction of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-10 Dimitris Tsipras , Shibani Santurkar , Logan Engstrom , Alexander Turner , Aleksander Madry

Deep learning models (with neural networks) have been widely used in challenging tasks such as computer-aided disease diagnosis based on medical images. Recent studies have shown deep diagnostic models may not be robust in the inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Mengting Xu , Tao Zhang , Zhongnian Li , Mingxia Liu , Daoqiang Zhang