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Certified defense using randomized smoothing is a popular technique to provide robustness guarantees for deep neural networks against l2 adversarial attacks. Existing works use this technique to provably secure a pretrained non-robust model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Gaurav Kumar Nayak , Ruchit Rawal , Anirban Chakraborty

Many of the successes of machine learning are based on minimizing an averaged loss function. However, it is well-known that this paradigm suffers from robustness issues that hinder its applicability in safety-critical domains. These issues…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Alexander Robey , Luiz F. O. Chamon , George J. Pappas , Hamed Hassani

Deep learning has shown outstanding performance in several applications including image classification. However, deep classifiers are known to be highly vulnerable to adversarial attacks, in that a minor perturbation of the input can easily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Arslan Ali , Andrea Migliorati , Tiziano Bianchi , Enrico Magli

We propose and investigate probabilistic guarantees for the adversarial robustness of classification algorithms. While traditional formal verification approaches for robustness are intractable and sampling-based approaches do not provide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Peter Blohm , Patrick Indri , Thomas Gärtner , Sagar Malhotra

We study the problem of learning conditional generators from noisy labeled samples, where the labels are corrupted by random noise. A standard training of conditional GANs will not only produce samples with wrong labels, but also generate…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-09 Kiran Koshy Thekumparampil , Ashish Khetan , Zinan Lin , Sewoong Oh

Distributional robustness is a central goal of prediction algorithms due to the prevalent distribution shifts in real-world data. The prediction model aims to minimize the worst-case risk among a class of distributions, a.k.a., an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-20 Marin Šola , Peter Bühlmann , Xinwei Shen

This paper studies how encouraging semantically-aligned features during deep neural network training can increase network robustness. Recent works observed that Adversarial Training leads to robust models, whose learnt features appear to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Motasem Alfarra , Juan C. Pérez , Adel Bibi , Ali Thabet , Pablo Arbeláez , Bernard Ghanem

We propose a novel data-dependent structured gradient regularizer to increase the robustness of neural networks vis-a-vis adversarial perturbations. Our regularizer can be derived as a controlled approximation from first principles,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-23 Kevin Roth , Aurelien Lucchi , Sebastian Nowozin , Thomas Hofmann

This work studies the robustness certification problem of neural network models, which aims to find certified adversary-free regions as large as possible around data points. In contrast to the existing approaches that seek regions bounded…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Chen Liu , Ryota Tomioka , Volkan Cevher

Most of previous machine learning algorithms are proposed based on the i.i.d. hypothesis. However, this ideal assumption is often violated in real applications, where selection bias may arise between training and testing process. Moreover,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Zheyan Shen , Peng Cui , Kun Kuang , Bo Li , Peixuan Chen

Large language models are increasingly embedded into systems that interact with user data, retrieved web content, and external tools, creating a new attack surface: prompt injection, where malicious commands embedded in untrusted data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yuyang Gong , Zihao Wang , Jiawei Liu , XiaoFeng Wang

Certified defenses against small-norm adversarial examples have received growing attention in recent years; though certified accuracies of state-of-the-art methods remain far below their non-robust counterparts, despite the fact that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Klas Leino

The advent of Federated Learning (FL) as a distributed machine learning paradigm has introduced new cybersecurity challenges, notably adversarial attacks that threaten model integrity and participant privacy. This study proposes an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Zahir Alsulaimawi

Autonomous systems increasingly rely on machine learning techniques to transform high-dimensional raw inputs into predictions that are then used for decision-making and control. However, it is often easy to maliciously manipulate such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Jinghan Yang , Hunmin Kim , Wenbin Wan , Naira Hovakimyan , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

Robustness of deep learning models is a property that has recently gained increasing attention. We explore a notion of robustness for generative adversarial models that is pertinent to their internal interactive structure, and show that,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Zhi Xu , Chengtao Li , Stefanie Jegelka

Machine learning-based static malware detectors remain vulnerable to adversarial evasion techniques, such as metamorphic engine mutations. To address this vulnerability, we propose a certifiably robust malware detection framework based on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Nandakrishna Giri , Asmitha K. A. , Serena Nicolazzo , Antonino Nocera , Vinod P

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

Automating arrhythmia detection from ECG requires a robust and trusted system that retains high accuracy under electrical disturbances. Many machine learning approaches have reached human-level performance in classifying arrhythmia from…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-14 Khondker Fariha Hossain , Sharif Amit Kamran , Alireza Tavakkoli , Xingjun Ma

To operate in real-world high-stakes environments, deep learning systems have to endure noises that have been continuously thwarting their robustness. Data-end defense, which improves robustness by operations on input data instead of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Jiakai Wang , Zixin Yin , Pengfei Hu , Aishan Liu , Renshuai Tao , Haotong Qin , Xianglong Liu , Dacheng Tao

Neural networks have been shown to frequently fail to learn critical safety and correctness properties purely from data, highlighting the need for training methods that directly integrate logical specifications. While adversarial training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Thomas Flinkow , Marco Casadio , Colin Kessler , Rosemary Monahan , Ekaterina Komendantskaya