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Although deep neural networks offer better face detection results than shallow or handcrafted models, their complex architectures come with higher computational requirements and slower inference speeds than shallow neural networks. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Petru Soviany , Radu Tudor Ionescu

Robust machine learning formulations have emerged to address the prevalent vulnerability of deep neural networks to adversarial examples. Our work draws the connection between optimal robust learning and the privacy-utility tradeoff…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Ye Wang , Shuchin Aeron , Adnan Siraj Rakin , Toshiaki Koike-Akino , Pierre Moulin

While additional training data improves the robustness of deep neural networks against adversarial examples, it presents the challenge of curating a large number of specific real-world samples. We circumvent this challenge by using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Vikash Sehwag , Saeed Mahloujifar , Tinashe Handina , Sihui Dai , Chong Xiang , Mung Chiang , Prateek Mittal

Backdoor attacks, which maliciously control a well-trained model's outputs of the instances with specific triggers, are recently shown to be serious threats to the safety of reusing deep neural networks (DNNs). In this work, we propose an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Wenkai Yang , Yankai Lin , Peng Li , Jie Zhou , Xu Sun

We propose a novel defense against all existing gradient based adversarial attacks on deep neural networks for image classification problems. Our defense is based on a combination of deep neural networks and simple image transformations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Kaleel Mahmood , Phuong Ha Nguyen , Lam M. Nguyen , Thanh Nguyen , Marten van Dijk

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

Adversarial Training (AT) is one of the most effective methods to enhance the robustness of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). However, existing AT methods suffer from an inherent accuracy-robustness trade-off. Previous works have studied this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Yanyun Wang , Li Liu , Zi Liang , Yi R. , Fung , Qingqing Ye , Haibo Hu

The safety and robustness of learning-based decision-making systems are under threats from adversarial examples, as imperceptible perturbations can mislead neural networks to completely different outputs. In this paper, we present an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Chao Tang , Yifei Fan , Anthony Yezzi

We identify three common cases that lead to overestimation of adversarial accuracy against bounded first-order attack methods, which is popularly used as a proxy for adversarial robustness in empirical studies. For each case, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Kyungmi Lee , Anantha P. Chandrakasan

Algorithmic recourse provides individuals who receive undesirable outcomes from machine learning systems with minimum-cost improvements to achieve a desirable outcome. However, machine learning models often get updated, so the recourse may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Kshitij Kayastha , Vasilis Gkatzelis , Shahin Jabbari

We demonstrate that the choice of optimizer, neural network architecture, and regularizer significantly affect the adversarial robustness of linear neural networks, providing guarantees without the need for adversarial training. To this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Fartash Faghri , Sven Gowal , Cristina Vasconcelos , David J. Fleet , Fabian Pedregosa , Nicolas Le Roux

Adversarial training has been proven to be an effective technique for improving the adversarial robustness of models. However, there seems to be an inherent trade-off between optimizing the model for accuracy and robustness. To this end, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Elahe Arani , Fahad Sarfraz , Bahram Zonooz

In this paper we propose to augment a modern neural-network architecture with an attention model inspired by human perception. Specifically, we adversarially train and analyze a neural model incorporating a human inspired, visual attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Daniel Zoran , Mike Chrzanowski , Po-Sen Huang , Sven Gowal , Alex Mott , Pushmeet Kohl

Deep Neural Networks are known to be vulnerable to small, adversarially crafted, perturbations. The current most effective defense methods against these adversarial attacks are variants of adversarial training. In this paper, we introduce a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Can Bakiskan , Metehan Cekic , Ahmet Dundar Sezer , Upamanyu Madhow

Deep Neural Networks, despite their great success in diverse domains, are provably sensitive to small perturbations on correctly classified examples and lead to erroneous predictions. Recently, it was proposed that this behavior can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Nan Xu , Oluwaseyi Feyisetan , Abhinav Aggarwal , Zekun Xu , Nathanael Teissier

Neural ranking models (NRMs) have shown great success in information retrieval (IR). But their predictions can easily be manipulated using adversarial examples, which are crafted by adding imperceptible perturbations to legitimate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Yu-An Liu , Ruqing Zhang , Mingkun Zhang , Wei Chen , Maarten de Rijke , Jiafeng Guo , Xueqi Cheng

We propose a novel and low-cost test-time adversarial defense by devising interpretability-guided neuron importance ranking methods to identify neurons important to the output classes. Our method is a training-free approach that can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Akshay Kulkarni , Tsui-Wei Weng

To obtain, deterministic guarantees of adversarial robustness, specialized training methods are used. We propose, SABR, a novel such certified training method, based on the key insight that propagating interval bounds for a small but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Mark Niklas Müller , Franziska Eckert , Marc Fischer , Martin Vechev

In this paper, we present the first detailed analysis of how training hyperparameters -- such as learning rate, weight decay, momentum, and batch size -- influence robustness against both transfer-based and query-based attacks. Supported by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Pascal Zimmer , Ghassan Karame

As ML models are increasingly deployed in critical applications, robustness against adversarial perturbations is crucial. While numerous defenses have been proposed to counter such attacks, they typically assume that all adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Yuan Xin , Dingfan Chen , Michael Backes , Xiao Zhang