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Recent work in adversarial robustness suggests that natural data distributions are localized, i.e., they place high probability in small volume regions of the input space, and that this property can be utilized for designing classifiers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Ambar Pal , René Vidal , Jeremias Sulam

Gradient-based adversarial attacks on deep neural networks pose a serious threat, since they can be deployed by adding imperceptible perturbations to the test data of any network, and the risk they introduce cannot be assessed through the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Rehana Mahfuz , Rajeev Sahay , Aly El Gamal

It is by now well-known that small adversarial perturbations can induce classification errors in deep neural networks. In this paper, we take a bottom-up signal processing perspective to this problem and show that a systematic exploitation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-26 Soorya Gopalakrishnan , Zhinus Marzi , Metehan Cekic , Upamanyu Madhow , Ramtin Pedarsani

Recent work has developed methods for learning deep network classifiers that are provably robust to norm-bounded adversarial perturbation; however, these methods are currently only possible for relatively small feedforward networks. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Eric Wong , Frank R. Schmidt , Jan Hendrik Metzen , J. Zico Kolter

This paper is concerned with learning the input-output mapping of general nonlinear dynamical systems. While the existing literature focuses on Gaussian inputs and benign disturbances, we significantly broaden the scope of admissible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Jihun Kim , Yuchen Fang , Javad Lavaei

Graph neural networks (GNNs) which apply the deep neural networks to graph data have achieved significant performance for the task of semi-supervised node classification. However, only few work has addressed the adversarial robustness of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Kaidi Xu , Hongge Chen , Sijia Liu , Pin-Yu Chen , Tsui-Wei Weng , Mingyi Hong , Xue Lin

Operator learning models are rapidly emerging as the predictive core of digital twins for nuclear and energy systems, promising real-time field reconstruction from sparse sensor measurements. Yet their robustness to adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Samrendra Roy , Kazuma Kobayashi , Souvik Chakraborty , Rizwan-uddin , Syed Bahauddin Alam

Deep neural networks could be fooled by adversarial examples with trivial differences to original samples. To keep the difference imperceptible in human eyes, researchers bound the adversarial perturbations by the $\ell_\infty$ norm, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Sizhe Chen , Qinghua Tao , Zhixing Ye , Xiaolin Huang

Adversarial robustness of deep autoencoders (AEs) has received less attention than that of discriminative models, although their compressed latent representations induce ill-conditioned mappings that can amplify small input perturbations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Chethan Krishnamurthy Ramanaik , Arjun Roy , Tobias Callies , Eirini Ntoutsi

We have widely observed that neural networks are vulnerable to small additive perturbations to the input causing misclassification. In this paper, we focus on the $\ell_0$-bounded adversarial attacks, and aim to theoretically characterize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Payam Delgosha , Hamed Hassani , Ramtin Pedarsani

Achieving robustness against adversarial input perturbation is an important and intriguing problem in machine learning. In the area of semantic image segmentation, a number of adversarial training approaches have been proposed as a defense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Levente Halmosi , Mark Jelasity

Deep neural networks are known to be vulnerable to adversarial perturbations, which are small and carefully crafted inputs that lead to incorrect predictions. In this paper, we propose DeepDefense, a novel defense framework that applies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Ci Lin , Tet Yeap , Iluju Kiringa , Biwei Zhang

Defenses against adversarial examples, such as adversarial training, are typically tailored to a single perturbation type (e.g., small $\ell_\infty$-noise). For other perturbations, these defenses offer no guarantees and, at times, even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Florian Tramèr , Dan Boneh

The existence of adversarial examples underscores the importance of understanding the robustness of machine learning models. Bayesian neural networks (BNNs), due to their calibrated uncertainty, have been shown to posses favorable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Matthew Yuan , Matthew Wicker , Luca Laurenti

We identify fragile and robust neurons of deep learning architectures using nodal dropouts of the first convolutional layer. Using an adversarial targeting algorithm, we correlate these neurons with the distribution of adversarial attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Chandresh Pravin , Ivan Martino , Giuseppe Nicosia , Varun Ojha

Despite strong performance in numerous applications, the fragility of deep learning to input perturbations has raised serious questions about its use in safety-critical domains. While adversarial training can mitigate this issue in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-01 Alexander Robey , Luiz F. O. Chamon , George J. Pappas , Hamed Hassani , Alejandro Ribeiro

Sparse adversarial attacks can fool deep neural networks (DNNs) by only perturbing a few pixels (regularized by l_0 norm). Recent efforts combine it with another l_infty imperceptible on the perturbation magnitudes. The resultant sparse and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Mingkang Zhu , Tianlong Chen , Zhangyang Wang

Deep neural network-based classifiers have been shown to be vulnerable to imperceptible perturbations to their input, such as $\ell_p$-bounded norm adversarial attacks. This has motivated the development of many defense methods, which are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Darshan Thaker , Paris Giampouras , René Vidal

Most adversarial attacks and defenses focus on perturbations within small $\ell_p$-norm constraints. However, $\ell_p$ threat models cannot capture all relevant semantics-preserving perturbations, and hence, the scope of robustness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Marcel Kollovieh , Lukas Gosch , Marten Lienen , Yan Scholten , Leo Schwinn , Stephan Günnemann

We introduce a Noise-based prior Learning (NoL) approach for training neural networks that are intrinsically robust to adversarial attacks. We find that the implicit generative modeling of random noise with the same loss function used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Priyadarshini Panda , Kaushik Roy