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Neural language models show vulnerability to adversarial examples which are semantically similar to their original counterparts with a few words replaced by their synonyms. A common way to improve model robustness is adversarial training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Hanjie Chen , Yangfeng Ji

Adversarial examples are inputs to machine learning models that an attacker has intentionally designed to confuse the model into making a mistake. Such examples pose a serious threat to the applicability of machine-learning-based systems,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Peiyu Xiong , Michael Tegegn , Jaskeerat Singh Sarin , Shubhraneel Pal , Julia Rubin

Flatness of the loss curve is conjectured to be connected to the generalization ability of machine learning models, in particular neural networks. While it has been empirically observed that flatness measures consistently correlate strongly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Henning Petzka , Michael Kamp , Linara Adilova , Cristian Sminchisescu , Mario Boley

Most machine learning classifiers, including deep neural networks, are vulnerable to adversarial examples. Such inputs are typically generated by adding small but purposeful modifications that lead to incorrect outputs while imperceptible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-28 Beilun Wang , Ji Gao , Yanjun Qi

Robustness of huge Transformer-based models for natural language processing is an important issue due to their capabilities and wide adoption. One way to understand and improve robustness of these models is an exploration of an adversarial…

Obtaining deep networks that are robust against adversarial examples and generalize well is an open problem. A recent hypothesis even states that both robust and accurate models are impossible, i.e., adversarial robustness and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 David Stutz , Matthias Hein , Bernt Schiele

Adversarial examples are a type of attack on machine learning (ML) systems which cause misclassification of inputs. Achieving robustness against adversarial examples is crucial to apply ML in the real world. While most prior work on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Nico Döttling , Kathrin Grosse , Michael Backes , Ian Molloy

Most previous works usually explained adversarial examples from several specific perspectives, lacking relatively integral comprehension about this problem. In this paper, we present a systematic study on adversarial examples from three…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Ke Sun , Zhanxing Zhu , Zhouchen Lin

Adversarial robustness, which primarily comprises sensitivity-based robustness and spatial robustness, plays an integral part in achieving robust generalization. In this paper, we endeavor to design strategies to achieve universal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Ke Sun , Mingjie Li , Zhouchen Lin

It has been suggested that adversarial examples cause deep learning models to make incorrect predictions with high confidence. In this work, we take the opposite stance: an overly confident model is more likely to be vulnerable to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Angus Galloway , Graham W. Taylor , Medhat Moussa

Adversarial attack perturbs an image with an imperceptible noise, leading to incorrect model prediction. Recently, a few works showed inherent bias associated with such attack (robustness bias), where certain subgroups in a dataset (e.g.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Gaurav Kumar Nayak , Ruchit Rawal , Rohit Lal , Himanshu Patil , Anirban Chakraborty

It is becoming increasingly important to understand the vulnerability of machine learning models to adversarial attacks. One of the fundamental problems in adversarial machine learning is to quantify how much training data is needed in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Pascale Gourdeau

Research on adversarial robustness in language models is currently fragmented across applications and attacks, obscuring shared vulnerabilities. In this work, we propose unifying the study of adversarial robustness in text scoring models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Manveer Singh Tamber , Hosna Oyarhoseini , Jimmy Lin

In recent years, it has been found that neural networks can be easily fooled by adversarial examples, which is a potential safety hazard in some safety-critical applications. Many researchers have proposed various method to make neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Shuangtao Li , Yuanke Chen , Yanlin Peng , Lin Bai

We consider the problem of generalization of arbitrarily overparameterized two-layer ReLU Neural Networks with univariate input. Recent work showed that under square loss, flat solutions (motivated by flat / stable minima and Edge of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Dan Qiao , Yu-Xiang Wang

Neural networks trained on visual data are well-known to be vulnerable to often imperceptible adversarial perturbations. The reasons for this vulnerability are still being debated in the literature. Recently Ilyas et al. (2019) showed that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Jacob M. Springer , Melanie Mitchell , Garrett T. Kenyon

Deep neural networks have been demonstrated to be vulnerable to adversarial noise, promoting the development of defense against adversarial attacks. Motivated by the fact that adversarial noise contains well-generalizing features and that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Dawei Zhou , Nannan Wang , Bo Han , Tongliang Liu

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have made significant advancement, however, they are widely known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Adversarial training is the most widely used technique for improving adversarial robustness to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Philipp Benz , Chaoning Zhang , Adil Karjauv , In So Kweon

In the field of high-energy physics, deep learning algorithms continue to gain in relevance and provide performance improvements over traditional methods, for example when identifying rare signals or finding complex patterns. From an…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-05-15 Annika Stein

We study the adversarial robustness of information bottleneck models for classification. Previous works showed that the robustness of models trained with information bottlenecks can improve upon adversarial training. Our evaluation under a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Iryna Korshunova , David Stutz , Alexander A. Alemi , Olivia Wiles , Sven Gowal