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Adversarial training (AT) has become the de-facto standard to obtain models robust against adversarial examples. However, AT exhibits severe robust overfitting: cross-entropy loss on adversarial examples, so-called robust loss, decreases…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-07 David Stutz , Matthias Hein , Bernt Schiele

Despite their empirical success, neural networks remain vulnerable to small, adversarial perturbations. A longstanding hypothesis suggests that flat minima, regions of low curvature in the loss landscape, offer increased robustness. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Nils Philipp Walter , Linara Adilova , Jilles Vreeken , Michael Kamp

A central challenge of adversarial learning is to interpret the resulting hardened model. In this contribution, we ask how robust generalization can be visually discerned and whether a concise view of the interactions between a hardened…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Alex Huang , Abdullah Al-Dujaili , Erik Hemberg , Una-May O'Reilly

Convolutional Neural Networks have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial examples, which are known to locate in subspaces close to where normal data lies but are not naturally occurring and of low probability. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Fu Lin , Rohit Mittapalli , Prithvijit Chattopadhyay , Daniel Bolya , Judy Hoffman

The safety and robustness of learning-based decision-making systems are under threats from adversarial examples, as imperceptible perturbations can mislead neural networks to completely different outputs. In this paper, we present an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Chao Tang , Yifei Fan , Anthony Yezzi

Recent studies on the adversarial vulnerability of neural networks have shown that models trained to be more robust to adversarial attacks exhibit more interpretable saliency maps than their non-robust counterparts. We aim to quantify this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-13 Christian Etmann , Sebastian Lunz , Peter Maass , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

One popular hypothesis of neural network generalization is that the flat local minima of loss surface in parameter space leads to good generalization. However, we demonstrate that loss surface in parameter space has no obvious relationship…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Fuxun Yu , Chenchen Liu , Yanzhi Wang , Liang Zhao , Xiang Chen

The phenomenon of adversarial examples in deep learning models has caused substantial concern over their reliability. While many deep neural networks have shown impressive performance in terms of predictive accuracy, it has been shown that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Sadia Chowdhury , Ruth Urner

Adversarial examples have appeared as a ubiquitous property of machine learning models where bounded adversarial perturbation could mislead the models to make arbitrarily incorrect predictions. Such examples provide a way to assess the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Zhuolin Yang , Zhaoxi Chen , Tiffany Cai , Xinyun Chen , Bo Li , Yuandong Tian

This paper investigates the visual quality of the adversarial examples. Recent papers propose to smooth the perturbations to get rid of high frequency artefacts. In this work, smoothing has a different meaning as it perceptually shapes the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Hanwei Zhang , Yannis Avrithis , Teddy Furon , Laurent Amsaleg

It is becoming increasingly clear that many machine learning classifiers are vulnerable to adversarial examples. In attempting to explain the origin of adversarial examples, previous studies have typically focused on the fact that neural…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-09 Ekin D. Cubuk , Barret Zoph , Samuel S. Schoenholz , Quoc V. Le

Transferable attacks generate adversarial examples on surrogate models to fool unknown victim models, posing real-world threats and growing research interest. Despite focusing on flat losses for transferable adversarial examples, recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Zhixuan Zhang , Pingyu Wang , Xingjian Zheng , Linbo Qing , Qi Liu

The study on improving the robustness of deep neural networks against adversarial examples grows rapidly in recent years. Among them, adversarial training is the most promising one, which flattens the input loss landscape (loss change with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Dongxian Wu , Shu-tao Xia , Yisen Wang

Deep neural networks have been shown to suffer from a surprising weakness: their classification outputs can be changed by small, non-random perturbations of their inputs. This adversarial example phenomenon has been explained as originating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-30 Thomas Tanay , Lewis Griffin

Adversarial defense is a popular and important research area. Due to its intrinsic mechanism, one of the most straightforward and effective ways of defending attacks is to analyze the property of loss surface in the input space. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Jia Xu , Yiming Li , Yong Jiang , Shu-Tao Xia

Model robustness indicates a model's capability to generalize well on unforeseen distributional shifts, including data corruptions and adversarial attacks. Data augmentation is one of the most prevalent and effective ways to enhance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Weebum Yoo , Sung Whan Yoon

Despite achieving impressive performance, state-of-the-art classifiers remain highly vulnerable to small, imperceptible, adversarial perturbations. This vulnerability has proven empirically to be very intricate to address. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Alhussein Fawzi , Hamza Fawzi , Omar Fawzi

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

Despite the remarkable success of deep neural networks, significant concerns have emerged about their robustness to adversarial perturbations to inputs. While most attacks aim to ensure that these are imperceptible, physical perturbation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Liang Tong , Minzhe Guo , Atul Prakash , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

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
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