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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

The impact of inference-time data perturbation (e.g., adversarial attacks) has been extensively studied in machine learning, leading to well-established certification techniques for adversarial robustness. In contrast, certifying models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Philip Sosnin , Matthew Wicker , Josh Collyer , Calvin Tsay

Classifiers such as deep neural networks have been shown to be vulnerable against adversarial perturbations on problems with high-dimensional input space. While adversarial training improves the robustness of image classifiers against such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Chaithanya Kumar Mummadi , Thomas Brox , Jan Hendrik Metzen

The vulnerability of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to adversarial samples has recently garnered significant attention in the machine learning community. Furthermore, recent studies have unveiled the existence of universal adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Juanjuan Weng , Zhiming Luo , Dazhen Lin , Shaozi Li

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

The existence of adversarial data examples has drawn significant attention in the deep-learning community; such data are seemingly minimally perturbed relative to the original data, but lead to very different outputs from a deep-learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Bai Li , Changyou Chen , Wenlin Wang , Lawrence Carin

Adversarial training has become one of the most effective methods for improving robustness of neural networks. However, it often suffers from poor generalization on both clean and perturbed data. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Minhao Cheng , Qi Lei , Pin-Yu Chen , Inderjit Dhillon , Cho-Jui Hsieh

The increasing use of machine learning in safety-critical domains amplifies the risk of adversarial threats, especially data poisoning attacks that corrupt training data to degrade performance or induce unsafe behavior. Most existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Sara Taheri , Mahalakshmi Sabanayagam , Debarghya Ghoshdastidar , Majid Zamani

Adversarial examples pose a security risk as they can alter decisions of a machine learning classifier through slight input perturbations. Certified robustness has been proposed as a mitigation where given an input $\mathbf{x}$, a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Jiankai Jin , Olga Ohrimenko , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein

The deep neural networks are known to be vulnerable to well-designed adversarial attacks. The most successful defense technique based on adversarial training (AT) can achieve optimal robustness against particular attacks but cannot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Guang Lin , Chao Li , Jianhai Zhang , Toshihisa Tanaka , Qibin Zhao

Existing certified training methods can only train models to be robust against a certain perturbation type (e.g. $l_\infty$ or $l_2$). However, an $l_\infty$ certifiably robust model may not be certifiably robust against $l_2$ perturbation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Enyi Jiang , David S. Cheung , Gagandeep Singh

Adversarial training is an approach of increasing the robustness of models to adversarial attacks by including adversarial examples in the training set. One major challenge of producing adversarial examples is to contain sufficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Tianjin Huang , Vlado Menkovski , Yulong Pei , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Certified defenses promise provable robustness guarantees. We study the malicious exploitation of probabilistic certification frameworks to better understand the limits of guarantee provisions. Now, the objective is to not only mislead a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Quoc Viet Vo , Tashreque M. Haq , Paul Montague , Tamas Abraham , Ehsan Abbasnejad , Damith C. Ranasinghe

Adversarial training and its many variants substantially improve deep network robustness, yet at the cost of compromising standard accuracy. Moreover, the training process is heavy and hence it becomes impractical to thoroughly explore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Haotao Wang , Tianlong Chen , Shupeng Gui , Ting-Kuei Hu , Ji Liu , Zhangyang Wang

This work introduces a verification framework that provides both sound and complete guarantees for data poisoning attacks during neural network training. We formulate adversarial data manipulation, model training, and test-time evaluation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Philip Sosnin , Jodie Knapp , Fraser Kennedy , Josh Collyer , Calvin Tsay

In guaranteeing the absence of adversarial examples in an instance's neighbourhood, certification mechanisms play an important role in demonstrating neural net robustness. In this paper, we ask if these certifications can compromise the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Andrew C. Cullen , Shijie Liu , Paul Montague , Sarah M. Erfani , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein

Universal Adversarial Perturbations (UAPs) are input perturbations that can fool a neural network on large sets of data. They are a class of attacks that represents a significant threat as they facilitate realistic, practical, and low-cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Kenneth T. Co , David Martinez Rego , Emil C. Lupu

Adversarial training, in which a network is trained on both adversarial and clean examples, is one of the most trusted defense methods against adversarial attacks. However, there are three major practical difficulties in implementing and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Shixian Wen , Laurent Itti

Deep neural networks have achieved remarkable success in a wide range of classification tasks. However, they remain highly susceptible to adversarial examples - inputs that are subtly perturbed to induce misclassification while appearing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Virendra Nishad , Bhaskar Mukhoty , Hilal AlQuabeh , Sandeep K. Shukla , Sayak Ray Chowdhury

Adversarial training yields robust models against a specific threat model, e.g., $L_\infty$ adversarial examples. Typically robustness does not generalize to previously unseen threat models, e.g., other $L_p$ norms, or larger perturbations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-01 David Stutz , Matthias Hein , Bernt Schiele