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Robustness is a key requirement for widespread deployment of machine learning algorithms, and has received much attention in both statistics and computer science. We study a natural model of robustness for high-dimensional statistical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Pranjal Awasthi , Xue Chen , Aravindan Vijayaraghavan

While existing work in robust deep learning has focused on small pixel-level norm-based perturbations, this may not account for perturbations encountered in several real-world settings. In many such cases although test data might not be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Tejas Gokhale , Rushil Anirudh , Bhavya Kailkhura , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , Chitta Baral , Yezhou Yang

Deep neural networks have become widely used, obtaining remarkable results in domains such as computer vision, speech recognition, natural language processing, audio recognition, social network filtering, machine translation, and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Divya Gopinath , Guy Katz , Corina S. Pasareanu , Clark Barrett

In the past five years, deep learning methods have become state-of-the-art in solving various inverse problems. Before such approaches can find application in safety-critical fields, a verification of their reliability appears mandatory.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Martin Genzel , Jan Macdonald , Maximilian März

Despite having high accuracy, neural nets have been shown to be susceptible to adversarial examples, where a small perturbation to an input can cause it to become mislabeled. We propose metrics for measuring the robustness of a neural net…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-19 Osbert Bastani , Yani Ioannou , Leonidas Lampropoulos , Dimitrios Vytiniotis , Aditya Nori , Antonio Criminisi

Deep neural networks are easily misled by adversarial examples. Although lots of defense methods are proposed, many of them are demonstrated to lose effectiveness when against properly performed adaptive attacks. How to evaluate the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Pengfei Xia , Ziqiang Li , Hongjing Niu , Bin Li

Adversarial training has been actively studied in recent computer vision research to improve the robustness of models. However, due to the huge computational cost of generating adversarial samples, adversarial training methods are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Yihan Wu , Xinda Li , Florian Kerschbaum , Heng Huang , Hongyang Zhang

Deep Neural Network-based systems are now the state-of-the-art in many robotics tasks, but their application in safety-critical domains remains dangerous without formal guarantees on network robustness. Small perturbations to sensor inputs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Björn Lütjens , Michael Everett , Jonathan P. How

It is necessary to improve the performance of some special classes or to particularly protect them from attacks in adversarial learning. This paper proposes a framework combining cost-sensitive classification and adversarial learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Haojing Shen , Sihong Chen , Ran Wang , Xizhao Wang

Adversarial examples pose a unique challenge for deep learning systems. Despite recent advances in both attacks and defenses, there is still a lack of clarity and consensus in the community about the true nature and underlying properties of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Shishira R Maiya , Max Ehrlich , Vatsal Agarwal , Ser-Nam Lim , Tom Goldstein , Abhinav Shrivastava

In this paper we study leveraging confidence information induced by adversarial training to reinforce adversarial robustness of a given adversarially trained model. A natural measure of confidence is $\|F({\bf x})\|_\infty$ (i.e. how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Xi Wu , Uyeong Jang , Jiefeng Chen , Lingjiao Chen , Somesh Jha

With the successful application of deep learning models in many real-world tasks, the model robustness becomes more and more critical. Often, we evaluate the robustness of the deep models by attacking them with purposely generated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Jinyin Chen , Zhen Wang , Haibin Zheng , Jun Xiao , Zhaoyan Ming

Deep Neural Network-based systems are now the state-of-the-art in many robotics tasks, but their application in safety-critical domains remains dangerous without formal guarantees on network robustness. Small perturbations to sensor inputs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Michael Everett , Bjorn Lutjens , Jonathan P. How

Adversarial robustness is a critical measure of a neural network's ability to withstand adversarial attacks at inference time. While robust training techniques have improved defenses against individual $\ell_p$-norm attacks (e.g., $\ell_2$…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Ren Wang , Yuxuan Li , Can Chen , Dakuo Wang , Jinjun Xiong , Pin-Yu Chen , Sijia Liu , Mohammad Shahidehpour , Alfred Hero

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are found to be vulnerable to adversarial noise. They are typically misled by adversarial samples to make wrong predictions. To alleviate this negative effect, in this paper, we investigate the dependence between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Dawei Zhou , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao , Bo Han , Xiaoyu Wang , Yibing Zhan , Tongliang Liu

In the field of high-energy physics, deep learning algorithms continue to gain in relevance and provide performance improvements over traditional methods, for example when identifying rare signals or finding complex patterns. From an…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-05-15 Annika Stein

The reliability of a learning model is key to the successful deployment of machine learning in various industries. Creating a robust model, particularly one unaffected by adversarial attacks, requires a comprehensive understanding of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Ramin Barati , Reza Safabakhsh , Mohammad Rahmati

Over the past decade, numerous theories have been proposed to explain the widespread vulnerability of deep neural networks to adversarial evasion attacks. Among these, the theory of non-robust features proposed by Ilyas et al. has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Jennifer Crawford , Amol Khanna , Fred Lu , Amy R. Wagoner , Stella Biderman , Andre T. Nguyen , Edward Raff

A necessary characteristic for the deployment of deep learning models in real world applications is resistance to small adversarial perturbations while maintaining accuracy on non-malicious inputs. While robust training provides models that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-27 Aditya Saligrama , Guillaume Leclerc

Adversarial training (AT) is a prominent technique employed by deep learning models to defend against adversarial attacks, and to some extent, enhance model robustness. However, there are three main drawbacks of the existing AT-based…

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