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We evaluate machine comprehension models' robustness to noise and adversarial attacks by performing novel perturbations at the character, word, and sentence level. We experiment with different amounts of perturbations to examine model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Winston Wu , Dustin Arendt , Svitlana Volkova

While sequential recommender systems achieve significant improvements on capturing user dynamics, we argue that sequential recommenders are vulnerable against substitution-based profile pollution attacks. To demonstrate our hypothesis, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Zhenrui Yue , Huimin Zeng , Ziyi Kou , Lanyu Shang , Dong Wang

Deep Neural Network classifiers are vulnerable to adversarial attack, where an imperceptible perturbation could result in misclassification. However, the vulnerability of DNN-based image ranking systems remains under-explored. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Mo Zhou , Le Wang , Zhenxing Niu , Qilin Zhang , Nanning Zheng , Gang Hua

In electronic marketplaces, after each transaction buyers will rate the products provided by the sellers. To decide the most trustworthy sellers to transact with, buyers rely on trust models to leverage these ratings to evaluate the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-06-24 Lizi Zhang

We study bi-criteria combinatorial optimization under noisy function evaluations. While resilience and black-box offline-to-online reductions have been studied in single-objective settings, extending these ideas to bi-criteria problems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Vaneet Aggarwal , Shweta Jain , Subham Pokhriyal , Christopher John Quinn

Neural text ranking models have witnessed significant advancement and are increasingly being deployed in practice. Unfortunately, they also inherit adversarial vulnerabilities of general neural models, which have been detected but remain…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Jiawei Liu , Yangyang Kang , Di Tang , Kaisong Song , Changlong Sun , Xiaofeng Wang , Wei Lu , Xiaozhong Liu

Recently, researchers have discovered that the state-of-the-art object classifiers can be fooled easily by small perturbations in the input unnoticeable to human eyes. It is also known that an attacker can generate strong adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Jihun Hamm , Akshay Mehra

Many Machine Learning models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks: There exist methodologies that add a small (imperceptible) perturbation to an input such that the model comes up with a wrong prediction. Better understanding of such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Paul Stahlhofen , André Artelt , Luca Hermes , Barbara Hammer

Machine learning is vulnerable to adversarial examples-inputs designed to cause models to perform poorly. However, it is unclear if adversarial examples represent realistic inputs in the modeled domains. Diverse domains such as networks and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Ryan Sheatsley , Blaine Hoak , Eric Pauley , Yohan Beugin , Michael J. Weisman , Patrick McDaniel

We introduce a two-player contest for evaluating the safety and robustness of machine learning systems, with a large prize pool. Unlike most prior work in ML robustness, which studies norm-constrained adversaries, we shift our focus to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-25 Tom B. Brown , Nicholas Carlini , Chiyuan Zhang , Catherine Olsson , Paul Christiano , Ian Goodfellow

Adversarial robust models have been shown to learn more robust and interpretable features than standard trained models. As shown in [\cite{tsipras2018robustness}], such robust models inherit useful interpretable properties where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Gunjan Aggarwal , Abhishek Sinha , Nupur Kumari , Mayank Singh

In the problem of online unweighted interval selection, the objective is to maximize the number of non-conflicting intervals accepted by the algorithm. In the conventional online model of irrevocable decisions, there is an Omega(n) lower…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Allan Borodin , Christodoulos Karavasilis

We revisit the framework of interactive proofs for distribution testing, first introduced by Chiesa and Gur (ITCS 2018), which has recently experienced a surge in interest, accompanied by notable progress (e.g., Herman and Rothblum, STOC…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Ari Biswas , Mark Bun , Clément Canonne , Satchit Sivakumar

This paper investigates the vulnerability of the nearest neighbors search, which is a pivotal tool in data analysis and machine learning. The vulnerability is gauged as the relative amount of perturbation that an attacker needs to add onto…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Teddy Furon

One of the main subjects of this paper is to study quantum property testing with local measurement. In particular, we establish a novel $\ell_2$ norm connection between quantum property testing problems and the corresponding distribution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-14 Nengkun Yu

Adversarial reprogramming allows stealing computational resources by repurposing machine learning models to perform a different task chosen by the attacker. For example, a model trained to recognize images of animals can be reprogrammed to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Yang Zheng , Xiaoyi Feng , Zhaoqiang Xia , Xiaoyue Jiang , Maura Pintor , Ambra Demontis , Battista Biggio , Fabio Roli

Throughout the past five years, the susceptibility of neural networks to minimal adversarial perturbations has moved from a peculiar phenomenon to a core issue in Deep Learning. Despite much attention, however, progress towards more robust…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-13 Wieland Brendel , Jonas Rauber , Matthias Kümmerer , Ivan Ustyuzhaninov , Matthias Bethge

We explore rigorous, systematic, and controlled experimental evaluation of adversarial examples in the real world and propose a testing regimen for evaluation of real world adversarial objects. We show that for small scene/ environmental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Brett Jefferson , Carlos Ortiz Marrero

We study the relative-error property testing model for Boolean functions that was recently introduced in the work of Chen et al. (SODA 2025). In relative-error testing, the testing algorithm gets uniform random satisfying assignments as…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Xi Chen , William Pires , Toniann Pitassi , Rocco A. Servedio

We consider the problem of online prediction for an unknown, non-explosive linear stochastic system. With a known system model, the optimal predictor is the celebrated Kalman filter. In the case of unknown systems, existing approaches based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Jiachen Qian , Yang Zheng