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To tackle the susceptibility of deep neural networks to adversarial examples, the adversarial training has been proposed which provides a notion of security through an inner maximization problem presenting the first-order adversaries…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Hao Cheng , Kaidi Xu , Chenan Wang , Bhavya Kailkhura , Xue Lin , Ryan Goldhahn

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

Training convolutional networks (CNN's) that fit on a single GPU with minibatch stochastic gradient descent has become effective in practice. However, there is still no effective method for training large CNN's that do not fit in the memory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Sam Gross , Marc'Aurelio Ranzato , Arthur Szlam

We study the extent to which standard machine learning algorithms rely on exchangeability and independence of data by introducing a monotone adversarial corruption model. In this model, an adversary, upon looking at a "clean" i.i.d.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Kasper Green Larsen , Chirag Pabbaraju , Abhishek Shetty

Recent studies have shown that higher accuracy on ImageNet usually leads to better robustness against different corruptions. Therefore, in this paper, instead of following the traditional research paradigm that investigates new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Xiaodan Li , Yuefeng Chen , Yao Zhu , Shuhui Wang , Rong Zhang , Hui Xue

While deep learning has resulted in major breakthroughs in many application domains, the frameworks commonly used in deep learning remain fragile to artificially-crafted and imperceptible changes in the data. In response to this fragility,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Alexander Robey , Hamed Hassani , George J. Pappas

Studies show that neural networks, not unlike traditional programs, are subject to bugs, e.g., adversarial samples that cause classification errors and discriminatory instances that demonstrate the lack of fairness. Given that neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Long H. Pham , Jiaying Li , Jun Sun

Mixture of Experts (MoE) have shown remarkable success in leveraging specialized expert networks for complex machine learning tasks. However, their susceptibility to adversarial attacks presents a critical challenge for deployment in robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Xu Zhang , Kaidi Xu , Ziqing Hu , Ren Wang

Robustness of machine learning models is critical for security related applications, where real-world adversaries are uniquely focused on evading neural network based detectors. Prior work mainly focus on crafting adversarial examples (AEs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Ecenaz Erdemir , Jeffrey Bickford , Luca Melis , Sergul Aydore

Alongside the well-publicized accomplishments of deep neural networks there has emerged an apparent bug in their success on tasks such as object recognition: with deep models trained using vanilla methods, input images can be slightly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Jacob Abernethy , Pranjal Awasthi , Satyen Kale

Recent research studies revealed that neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. State-of-the-art defensive techniques add various adversarial examples in training to improve models' adversarial robustness. However, these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Chang Song , Zuoguan Wang , Hai Li

Today's state-of-the-art machine vision models are vulnerable to image corruptions like blurring or compression artefacts, limiting their performance in many real-world applications. We here argue that popular benchmarks to measure model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Steffen Schneider , Evgenia Rusak , Luisa Eck , Oliver Bringmann , Wieland Brendel , Matthias Bethge

In this paper, we investigate the relationship between diversity metrics, accuracy, and resiliency to natural image corruptions of Deep Learning (DL) image classifier ensembles. We investigate the potential of an attribution-based diversity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Rafael Rosales , Pablo Munoz , Michael Paulitsch

We study deep neural networks for classification of images with quality distortions. We first show that networks fine-tuned on distorted data greatly outperform the original networks when tested on distorted data. However, fine-tuned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-24 Samuel Dodge , Lina Karam

The fact that deep neural networks are susceptible to crafted perturbations severely impacts the use of deep learning in certain domains of application. Among many developed defense models against such attacks, adversarial training emerges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Anh Bui , Trung Le , He Zhao , Paul Montague , Olivier deVel , Tamas Abraham , Dinh Phung

Designing neural network architectures is a challenging task and knowing which specific layers of a model must be adapted to improve the performance is almost a mystery. In this paper, we introduce a novel theory and metric to identify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-06 David Peer , Sebastian Stabinger , Antonio Rodriguez-Sanchez

Federated Learning has emerged as a dominant computational paradigm for distributed machine learning. Its unique data privacy properties allow us to collaboratively train models while offering participating clients certain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Dimitris Stripelis , Marcin Abram , Jose Luis Ambite

Robustness against adversarial attack in neural networks is an important research topic in the machine learning community. We observe one major source of vulnerability of neural nets is from overparameterized fully-connected layers. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Bingyuan Liu , Christopher Malon , Lingzhou Xue , Erik Kruus

The robustness of deep neural networks is a crucial factor in safety-critical applications, particularly in complex and dynamic environments (e.g., medical or driving scenarios) where localized corruptions can arise. While previous studies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Giulia Marchiori Pietrosanti , Giulio Rossolini , Alessandro Biondi , Giorgio Buttazzo

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are well-known for their vulnerability to adversarial attacks, posing significant security concerns. In response to these threats, various defense methods have emerged to bolster the model's robustness.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Jiacong Hu , Jingwen Ye , Zunlei Feng , Jiazhen Yang , Shunyu Liu , Xiaotian Yu , Lingxiang Jia , Mingli Song