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Machine learning algorithms with empirical risk minimization are vulnerable under distributional shifts due to the greedy adoption of all the correlations found in training data. There is an emerging literature on tackling this problem by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Jiashuo Liu , Zheyan Shen , Peng Cui , Linjun Zhou , Kun Kuang , Bo Li

Adversarial training has been widely studied in recent years due to its role in improving model robustness against adversarial attacks. This paper focuses on comparing different distributed adversarial training algorithms--including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Ying Cao , Kun Yuan , Ali H. Sayed

We study adversarial robustness of neural networks from a margin maximization perspective, where margins are defined as the distances from inputs to a classifier's decision boundary. Our study shows that maximizing margins can be achieved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Gavin Weiguang Ding , Yash Sharma , Kry Yik Chau Lui , Ruitong Huang

While being very successful in solving many downstream tasks, the application of deep neural networks is limited in real-life scenarios because of their susceptibility to domain shifts such as common corruptions, and adversarial attacks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Tejaswini Medi , Julia Grabinski , Margret Keuper

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

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

Multiple intriguing problems are hovering in adversarial training, including robust overfitting, robustness overestimation, and robustness-accuracy trade-off. These problems pose great challenges to both reliable evaluation and practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Chengyu Dong , Liyuan Liu , Jingbo Shang

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

Deep neural classifiers have recently found tremendous success in data-driven control systems. However, existing models suffer from a trade-off between accuracy and adversarial robustness. This limitation must be overcome in the control of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Yatong Bai , Brendon G. Anderson , Somayeh Sojoudi

As deep neural networks (DNNs) are widely applied in the physical world, many researches are focusing on physical-world adversarial examples (PAEs), which introduce perturbations to inputs and cause the model's incorrect outputs. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Yichen Wang , Yuxuan Chou , Ziqi Zhou , Hangtao Zhang , Wei Wan , Shengshan Hu , Minghui Li

This paper presents a reinforcement learning-based path-following controller for a fixed-wing small uncrewed aircraft system (sUAS) that is robust to uncertainties in the aerodynamic model of the sUAS. The controller is trained using the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Dennis J. Marquis , Blake Wilhelm , Devaprakash Muniraj , Mazen Farhood

This tutorial aims to introduce the fundamentals of adversarial robustness of deep learning, presenting a well-structured review of up-to-date techniques to assess the vulnerability of various types of deep learning models to adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Wenjie Ruan , Xinping Yi , Xiaowei Huang

Transfer learning across domains with distribution shift remains a fundamental challenge in building robust and adaptable machine learning systems. While adversarial perturbations are traditionally viewed as threats that expose model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Hana Satou , Alan Mitkiy

Fairness and robustness play vital roles in trustworthy machine learning. Observing safety-critical needs in various annotation-expensive vision applications, we introduce a novel learning framework, Fair Robust Active Learning (FRAL),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Tsung-Han Wu , Hung-Ting Su , Shang-Tse Chen , Winston H. Hsu

Adversarially robust classifiers possess a trait that non-robust models do not -- Perceptually Aligned Gradients (PAG). Their gradients with respect to the input align well with human perception. Several works have identified PAG as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Roy Ganz , Bahjat Kawar , Michael Elad

In this paper, we investigate on improving the adversarial robustness obtained in adversarial training (AT) via reducing the difficulty of optimization. To better study this problem, we build a novel Bregman divergence perspective for AT,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Zihui Wu , Haichang Gao , Bingqian Zhou , Xiaoyan Guo , Shudong Zhang

Reinforcement learning has become a cornerstone technique for developing reasoning models in complex tasks, ranging from mathematical problem-solving to imaginary reasoning. The optimization of these models typically relies on policy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Qingnan Ren , Shiting Huang , Zhen Fang , Zehui Chen , Lin Chen , Lijun Li , Feng Zhao

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples. Adversarial training (AT) is an effective defense against adversarial examples. However, AT is prone to overfitting which degrades robustness substantially. Recently, data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Lin Li , Jianing Qiu , Michael Spratling

Ideally, what confuses neural network should be confusing to humans. However, recent experiments have shown that small, imperceptible perturbations can change the network prediction. To address this gap in perception, we propose a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Alexander Matyasko , Lap-Pui Chau

Adversarially robust training has been shown to reduce the susceptibility of learned models to targeted input data perturbations. However, it has also been observed that such adversarially robust models suffer a degradation in accuracy when…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-07 Thomas T. C. K. Zhang , Bruce D. Lee , Hamed Hassani , Nikolai Matni