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Automatic Essay Scoring (AES) is widely used to evaluate candidates for educational purposes. However, due to the lack of representative data, most existing AES systems are not robust, and their scoring predictions are biased towards the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Haddad Philip , Tsegaye Misikir Tashu

Vulnerability to adversarial attacks is one of the principal hurdles to the adoption of deep learning in safety-critical applications. Despite significant efforts, both practical and theoretical, training deep learning models robust to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Luca Bortolussi , Ginevra Carbone , Luca Laurenti , Andrea Patane , Guido Sanguinetti , Matthew Wicker

The vulnerability of machine learning models to adversarial attacks remains a critical security challenge. Traditional defenses, such as adversarial training, typically robustify models by minimizing a worst-case loss. However, these…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-13 Pablo G. Arce , Roi Naveiro , David Ríos Insua

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are widely deployed on real-world devices. Concerns regarding their security have gained great attention from researchers. Recently, a new weight modification attack called bit flip attack (BFA) was proposed,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Jianshuo Dong , Han Qiu , Yiming Li , Tianwei Zhang , Yuanjie Li , Zeqi Lai , Chao Zhang , Shu-Tao Xia

Despite the success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in many academic benchmarks for computer vision tasks, their application in the real-world is still facing fundamental challenges. One of these open problems is the inherent lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Julia Grabinski , Paul Gavrikov , Janis Keuper , Margret Keuper

In this paper, we study the robustness of classical deep hedging strategies under distributional shifts by leveraging the concept of adversarial attacks. We first demonstrate that standard deep hedging models are highly vulnerable to small…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Guangyi He , Tobias Sutter , Lukas Gonon

In spite of the enormous success of neural networks, adversarial examples remain a relatively weakly understood feature of deep learning systems. There is a considerable effort in both building more powerful adversarial attacks and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Maciej Żelaszczyk , Jacek Mańdziuk

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

Neural networks are prone to misclassify slightly modified input images. Recently, many defences have been proposed, but none have improved the robustness of neural networks consistently. Here, we propose to use adversarial attacks as a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Shashank Kotyan , Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas

Adversarial extraction attacks constitute an insidious threat against Deep Learning (DL) models in-which an adversary aims to steal the architecture, parameters, and hyper-parameters of a targeted DL model. Existing extraction attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-01 William Hackett , Stefan Trawicki , Zhengxin Yu , Neeraj Suri , Peter Garraghan

It has been empirically observed that defense mechanisms designed to protect neural networks against $\ell_\infty$ adversarial examples offer poor performance against $\ell_2$ adversarial examples and vice versa. In this paper we conduct a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Alexandre Araujo , Laurent Meunier , Rafael Pinot , Benjamin Negrevergne

We study the model robustness against adversarial examples, referred to as small perturbed input data that may however fool many state-of-the-art deep learning models. Unlike previous research, we establish a novel theory addressing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Shufei Zhang , Kaizhu Huang , Zenglin Xu

Modern applications of artificial neural networks have yielded remarkable performance gains in a wide range of tasks. However, recent studies have discovered that such modelling strategy is vulnerable to Adversarial Examples, i.e. examples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-24 João Monteiro , Isabela Albuquerque , Zahid Akhtar , Tiago H. Falk

Neural networks have shown remarkable performance in various tasks, yet they remain susceptible to subtle changes in their input or model parameters. One particularly impactful vulnerability arises through the Bit-Flip Attack (BFA), where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Nadav Benedek , Matan Levy , Mahmood Sharif

The adversarial training procedure proposed by Madry et al. (2018) is one of the most effective methods to defend against adversarial examples in deep neural networks (DNNs). In our paper, we shed some lights on the practicality and the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-28 Huan Zhang , Hongge Chen , Zhao Song , Duane Boning , Inderjit S. Dhillon , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Vulnerability to adversarial attacks is one of the principal hurdles to the adoption of deep learning in safety-critical applications. Despite significant efforts, both practical and theoretical, the problem remains open. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Ginevra Carbone , Matthew Wicker , Luca Laurenti , Andrea Patane , Luca Bortolussi , Guido Sanguinetti

Deep neural networks have been shown to suffer from critical vulnerabilities under adversarial attacks. This phenomenon stimulated the creation of different attack and defense strategies similar to those adopted in cyberspace security. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Ruoxi Qin , Linyuan Wang , Xingyuan Chen , Xuehui Du , Bin Yan

The deep neural network has attained significant efficiency in image recognition. However, it has vulnerable recognition robustness under extensive data uncertainty in practical applications. The uncertainty is attributed to the inevitable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Ruoxi Qin , Linyuan Wang , Xuehui Du , Xingyuan Chen , Bin Yan

Machine learning algorithms, however effective, are known to be vulnerable in adversarial scenarios where a malicious user may inject manipulated instances. In this work we focus on evasion attacks, where a model is trained in a safe…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Stefano Calzavara , Claudio Lucchese , Federico Marcuzzi , Salvatore Orlando

To explore the vulnerability of deep neural networks (DNNs), many attack paradigms have been well studied, such as the poisoning-based backdoor attack in the training stage and the adversarial attack in the inference stage. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Jiawang Bai , Baoyuan Wu , Yong Zhang , Yiming Li , Zhifeng Li , Shu-Tao Xia