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With deep neural networks (DNNs) increasingly embedded in modern society, ensuring their safety has become a critical and urgent issue. In response, substantial efforts have been dedicated to the red-blue adversarial framework, where the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Runqi Lin

The escalating threat of adversarial attacks on deep learning models, particularly in security-critical fields, has underscored the need for robust deep learning systems. Conventional robustness evaluations have relied on adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Ping Guo , Cheng Gong , Xi Lin , Zhiyuan Yang , Qingfu Zhang

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithms can suffer from modeling errors between the simulation and the real world. Many studies use adversarial learning to generate perturbation during training process to model the discrepancy and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Qianmei Liu , Yufei Kuang , Jie Wang

This work tackles an intriguing and fundamental open challenge in representation learning: Given a well-trained deep learning model, can it be reprogrammed to enhance its robustness against adversarial or noisy input perturbations without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Zhichao Hou , MohamadAli Torkamani , Hamid Krim , Xiaorui Liu

Since the inception of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) algorithms, there has been a growing interest in both research and industrial communities in the promising potentials of this paradigm. The list of current and envisioned applications…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Vahid Behzadan , Arslan Munir

This paper targets the efficient construction of a safety shield for decision making in scenarios that incorporate uncertainty. Markov decision processes (MDPs) are prominent models to capture such planning problems. Reinforcement learning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Nils Jansen , Bettina Könighofer , Sebastian Junges , Alexandru C. Serban , Roderick Bloem

The utilisation of Deep Learning (DL) is advancing into increasingly more sophisticated applications. While it shows great potential to provide transformational capabilities, DL also raises new challenges regarding its reliability in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Xingyu Zhao , Wei Huang , Alec Banks , Victoria Cox , David Flynn , Sven Schewe , Xiaowei Huang

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has gained widespread adoption in control and decision-making tasks due to its strong performance in dynamic environments. However, DRL agents are vulnerable to noisy observations and adversarial attacks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Derui Wang , Kristen Moore , Diksha Goel , Minjune Kim , Gang Li , Yang Li , Robin Doss , Minhui Xue , Bo Li , Seyit Camtepe , Liming Zhu

Deep learning (DL) has been applied extensively in a wide range of fields. However, it has been shown that DL models are susceptible to a certain kinds of perturbations called \emph{adversarial attacks}. To fully unlock the power of DL in…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2020-06-09 Jun-Hao Chen , Samuel Yen-Chi Chen , Yun-Cheng Tsai , Chih-Shiang Shur

Recent studies have shown that deep reinforcement learning (DRL) policies are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which raise concerns about applications of DRL to safety-critical systems. In this work, we adopt a principled way and study…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Chao Wang

Deep neural networks are capable of training fast and generalizing well within many domains. Despite their promising performance, deep networks have shown sensitivities to perturbations of their inputs (e.g., adversarial examples) and their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Justin Goodwin , Olivia Brown , Victoria Helus

Robustness is critical for machine learning (ML) classifiers to ensure consistent performance in real-world applications where models may encounter corrupted or adversarial inputs. In particular, assessing the robustness of classifiers to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Georg Siedel , Ekagra Gupta , Andrey Morozov

While existing work in robust deep learning has focused on small pixel-level norm-based perturbations, this may not account for perturbations encountered in several real-world settings. In many such cases although test data might not be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Tejas Gokhale , Rushil Anirudh , Bhavya Kailkhura , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , Chitta Baral , Yezhou Yang

Sequential decision making under uncertainty is central to many Process Systems Engineering (PSE) challenges, where traditional methods often face limitations related to controlling and optimizing complex and stochastic systems.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-29 Maximilian Bloor , Max Mowbray , Ehecatl Antonio Del Rio Chanona , Calvin Tsay

The recent advances in machine learning in various fields of applications can be largely attributed to the rise of deep learning (DL) methods and architectures. Despite being a key technology behind autonomous cars, image processing, speech…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Carsten Hartmann , Lorenz Richter

Despite many proposed algorithms to provide robustness to deep learning (DL) models, DL models remain susceptible to adversarial attacks. We hypothesize that the adversarial vulnerability of DL models stems from two factors. The first…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Mahsa Paknezhad , Cuong Phuc Ngo , Amadeus Aristo Winarto , Alistair Cheong , Chuen Yang Beh , Jiayang Wu , Hwee Kuan Lee

Non-adversarial robustness, also known as natural robustness, is a property of deep learning models that enables them to maintain performance even when faced with distribution shifts caused by natural variations in data. However, achieving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Gorana Gojić , Vladimir Vincan , Ognjen Kundačina , Dragiša Mišković , Dinu Dragan

Constrained reinforcement learning is to maximize the expected reward subject to constraints on utilities/costs. However, the training environment may not be the same as the test one, due to, e.g., modeling error, adversarial attack,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Yue Wang , Fei Miao , Shaofeng Zou

Recent works have shown the effectiveness of randomized smoothing as a scalable technique for building neural network-based classifiers that are provably robust to $\ell_2$-norm adversarial perturbations. In this paper, we employ…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Hadi Salman , Greg Yang , Jerry Li , Pengchuan Zhang , Huan Zhang , Ilya Razenshteyn , Sebastien Bubeck

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