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Machine-learning models demand periodic updates to improve their average accuracy, exploiting novel architectures and additional data. However, a newly updated model may commit mistakes the previous model did not make. Such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Daniele Angioni , Luca Demetrio , Maura Pintor , Luca Oneto , Davide Anguita , Battista Biggio , Fabio Roli

Modern machine learning increasingly requires training on a large collection of data from multiple sources, not all of which can be trusted. A particularly concerning scenario is when a small fraction of poisoned data changes the behavior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Jonathan Hayase , Weihao Kong , Raghav Somani , Sewoong Oh

Adversarial robustness is one of the most challenging problems in Deep Learning and Computer Vision research. All the state-of-the-art techniques require a time-consuming procedure that creates cleverly perturbed images. Due to its cost,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Matteo Terzi , Mattia Carletti , Gian Antonio Susto

Almost all adversarial attacks are formulated to add an imperceptible perturbation to an image in order to fool a model. Here, we consider the opposite which is adversarial examples that can fool a human but not a model. A large enough and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Ali Borji

Adversarial examples provoke weak reliability and potential security issues in deep neural networks. Although adversarial training has been widely studied to improve adversarial robustness, it works in an over-parameterized regime and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Byung-Kwan Lee , Junho Kim , Yong Man Ro

Various defense models have been proposed to resist adversarial attack algorithms, but existing adversarial robustness evaluation methods always overestimate the adversarial robustness of these models (i.e., not approaching the lower bound…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Youhuan Yang , Lei Sun , Leyu Dai , Song Guo , Xiuqing Mao , Xiaoqin Wang , Bayi Xu

Recent studies indicate that current adversarial attack methods are flawed and easy to fail when encountering some deliberately designed defense. Sometimes even a slight modification in the model details will invalidate the attack. We find…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Chaohao Fu , Hongbin Chen , Na Ruan , Weijia Jia

In multiple domains such as malware detection, automated driving systems, or fraud detection, classification algorithms are susceptible to being attacked by malicious agents willing to perturb the value of instance covariates to pursue…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-10 Victor Gallego , Roi Naveiro , Alberto Redondo , David Rios Insua , Fabrizio Ruggeri

The ability to deploy neural networks in real-world, safety-critical systems is severely limited by the presence of adversarial examples: slightly perturbed inputs that are misclassified by the network. In recent years, several techniques…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Nicholas Carlini , Guy Katz , Clark Barrett , David L. Dill

Adversarial robustness is essential for security and reliability of machine learning systems. However, adversarial robustness enhanced by defense algorithms is easily erased as the neural network's weights update to learn new tasks. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Xiaolei Ru , Xiaowei Cao , Zijia Liu , Jack Murdoch Moore , Xin-Ya Zhang , Xia Zhu , Wenjia Wei , Gang Yan

Adversarial robustness is a critical property in a variety of modern machine learning applications. While it has been the subject of several recent theoretical studies, many important questions related to adversarial robustness are still…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Pranjal Awasthi , Natalie S. Frank , Mehryar Mohri

Neural networks have been proven to be vulnerable to a variety of adversarial attacks. From a safety perspective, highly sparse adversarial attacks are particularly dangerous. On the other hand the pixelwise perturbations of sparse attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Francesco Croce , Matthias Hein

One popular group of defense techniques against adversarial attacks is based on injecting stochastic noise into the network. The main source of robustness of such stochastic defenses however is often due to the obfuscation of the gradients,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Nikola Popovic , Danda Pani Paudel , Thomas Probst , Luc Van Gool

Over the last few years, the phenomenon of adversarial examples --- maliciously constructed inputs that fool trained machine learning models --- has captured the attention of the research community, especially when the adversary is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Nic Ford , Justin Gilmer , Nicolas Carlini , Dogus Cubuk

Throughout the past five years, the susceptibility of neural networks to minimal adversarial perturbations has moved from a peculiar phenomenon to a core issue in Deep Learning. Despite much attention, however, progress towards more robust…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-13 Wieland Brendel , Jonas Rauber , Matthias Kümmerer , Ivan Ustyuzhaninov , Matthias Bethge

Although deep learning has shown great success in recent years, researchers have discovered a critical flaw where small, imperceptible changes in the input to the system can drastically change the output classification. These attacks are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Jacob M. Springer , Charles S. Strauss , Austin M. Thresher , Edward Kim , Garrett T. Kenyon

Ensemble defenses, are widely employed in various security-related applications to enhance model performance and robustness. The widespread adoption of these techniques also raises many questions: Are general ensembles defenses guaranteed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Hangsheng Zhang , Jiqiang Liu , Jinsong Dong

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to so-called adversarial examples: inputs which are intentionally constructed to cause the model to make incorrect predictions or classifications. Adversarial examples are often visually indistinguishable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Jonathan Peck , Bart Goossens

Recent work has proposed several efficient approaches for generating gradient-based adversarial perturbations on embeddings and proved that the model's performance and robustness can be improved when they are trained with these contaminated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Yao Qiu , Jinchao Zhang , Jie Zhou

It is well established that neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which are almost imperceptible on human vision and can cause the deep models misbehave. Such phenomenon may lead to severely inestimable consequences in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Dengpan Ye , Chuanxi Chen , Changrui Liu , Hao Wang , Shunzhi Jiang