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Conventional adversarial defenses reduce classification accuracy whether or not a model is under attacks. Moreover, most of image processing based defenses are defeated due to the problem of obfuscated gradients. In this paper, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-19 MaungMaung AprilPyone , Hitoshi Kiya

In this paper, we investigate the adversarial robustness of nonparametric regression, a fundamental problem in machine learning, under the setting where an adversary can arbitrarily corrupt a subset of the input data. While the robustness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Parsa Moradi , Hanzaleh Akabrinodehi , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

We introduce a two-player contest for evaluating the safety and robustness of machine learning systems, with a large prize pool. Unlike most prior work in ML robustness, which studies norm-constrained adversaries, we shift our focus to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-25 Tom B. Brown , Nicholas Carlini , Chiyuan Zhang , Catherine Olsson , Paul Christiano , Ian Goodfellow

Generating and eliminating adversarial examples has been an intriguing topic in the field of deep learning. While previous research verified that adversarial attacks are often fragile and can be defended via image-level processing, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Yifeng Li , Lingxi Xie , Ya Zhang , Rui Zhang , Yanfeng Wang , Qi Tian

Modern image classification systems are often built on deep neural networks, which suffer from adversarial examples--images with deliberately crafted, imperceptible noise to mislead the network's classification. To defend against…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Chang Xiao , Changxi Zheng

While adversarial robustness in computer vision is a mature research field, fewer researchers have tackled the evasion attacks against tabular deep learning, and even fewer investigated robustification mechanisms and reliable defenses. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Thibault Simonetto , Salah Ghamizi , Maxime Cordy

Efforts to address declining accuracy as a result of data shifts often involve various data-augmentation strategies. Adversarial training is one such method, designed to improve robustness to worst-case distribution shifts caused by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Fatemeh Amerehi , Patrick Healy

In this paper, we uniquely study the adversarial robustness of deep neural networks (NN) for classification tasks against that of optimal classifiers. We look at the smallest magnitude of possible additive perturbations that can change a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Jingchao Gao , Ziqing Lu , Raghu Mudumbai , Xiaodong Wu , Jirong Yi , Myung Cho , Catherine Xu , Hui Xie , Weiyu Xu

In malware behavioral analysis, the list of accessed and created files very often indicates whether the examined file is malicious or benign. However, malware authors are trying to avoid detection by generating random filenames and/or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Marek Galovic , Branislav Bosansky , Viliam Lisy

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable performance across a wide range of applications, while they are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which motivates the evaluation and benchmark of model robustness. However, current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Jun Guo , Wei Bao , Jiakai Wang , Yuqing Ma , Xinghai Gao , Gang Xiao , Aishan Liu , Jian Dong , Xianglong Liu , Wenjun Wu

Adversarial examples are maliciously modified inputs created to fool deep neural networks (DNN). The discovery of such inputs presents a major issue to the expansion of DNN-based solutions. Many researchers have already contributed to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Alessandro Cennamo , Ido Freeman , Anton Kummert

The vulnerability of deep neural networks (DNNs) to adversarial examples has attracted great attention in the machine learning community. The problem is related to non-flatness and non-smoothness of normally obtained loss landscapes.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Qizhang Li , Yiwen Guo , Wangmeng Zuo , Hao Chen

Deep learning models are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which poses an indisputable threat to their applications. However, recent studies observe gradient-masking defenses are self-deceiving methods if an attacker can realize this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Yueyao Yu , Pengfei Yu , Wenye Li

Adversarial attacks have been expanded to speaker recognition (SR). However, existing attacks are often assessed using different SR models, recognition tasks and datasets, and only few adversarial defenses borrowed from computer vision are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Guangke Chen , Zhe Zhao , Fu Song , Sen Chen , Lingling Fan , Yang Liu

Image classifiers often suffer from adversarial examples, which are generated by strategically adding a small amount of noise to input images to trick classifiers into misclassification. Over the years, many defense mechanisms have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Huangyi Ge , Sze Yiu Chau , Bruno Ribeiro , Ninghui Li

Machine learning models are vulnerable to Adversarial Examples: minor perturbations to input samples intended to deliberately cause misclassification. Current defenses against adversarial examples, especially for Deep Neural Networks (DNN),…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Kathrin Grosse , David Pfaff , Michael Thomas Smith , Michael Backes

The growth of hateful online content, or hate speech, has been associated with a global increase in violent crimes against minorities [23]. Harmful online content can be produced easily, automatically and anonymously. Even though, some form…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-09 David Herel , Hugo Cisneros , Tomas Mikolov

The existence of adversarial examples has been a mystery for years and attracted much interest. A well-known theory by \citet{ilyas2019adversarial} explains adversarial vulnerability from a data perspective by showing that one can extract…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Ang Li , Yifei Wang , Yiwen Guo , Yisen Wang

MagNet and "Efficient Defenses..." were recently proposed as a defense to adversarial examples. We find that we can construct adversarial examples that defeat these defenses with only a slight increase in distortion.

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Nicholas Carlini , David Wagner

At IEEE S&P 2019, the paper "DeepSec: A Uniform Platform for Security Analysis of Deep Learning Model" aims to to "systematically evaluate the existing adversarial attack and defense methods." While the paper's goals are laudable, it fails…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Nicholas Carlini