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Recent improvements in deep learning models and their practical applications have raised concerns about the robustness of these models against adversarial examples. Adversarial training (AT) has been shown effective to reach a robust model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Mohammad Azizmalayeri , Mohammad Hossein Rohban

Existing segmentation models exhibit significant vulnerability to adversarial attacks.To improve robustness, adversarial training incorporates adversarial examples into model training. However, existing attack methods consider only global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Yufei Song , Ziqi Zhou , Menghao Deng , Yifan Hu , Shengshan Hu , Minghui Li , Leo Yu Zhang

In this paper, we study the problem of sparse mean estimation under adversarial corruptions, where the goal is to estimate the $k$-sparse mean of a heavy-tailed distribution from samples contaminated by adversarial noise. Existing methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Jianhao Ma , Rui Ray Chen , Yinghui He , Salar Fattahi , Wei Hu

It is by now well-known that small adversarial perturbations can induce classification errors in deep neural networks. In this paper, we take a bottom-up signal processing perspective to this problem and show that a systematic exploitation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-26 Soorya Gopalakrishnan , Zhinus Marzi , Metehan Cekic , Upamanyu Madhow , Ramtin Pedarsani

In this work, we propose a novel adversarial defence mechanism for image classification - CARSO - blending the paradigms of adversarial training and adversarial purification in a synergistic robustness-enhancing way. The method builds upon…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Emanuele Ballarin , Alessio Ansuini , Luca Bortolussi

Neural networks are susceptible to adversarial examples-small input perturbations that cause models to fail. Adversarial training is one of the solutions that stops adversarial examples; models are exposed to attacks during training and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Maximilian Kaufmann , Yiren Zhao , Ilia Shumailov , Robert Mullins , Nicolas Papernot

State-of-the-art machine learning models can be vulnerable to very small input perturbations that are adversarially constructed. Adversarial training is an effective approach to defend against it. Formulated as a min-max problem, it…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-18 Antônio H. Ribeiro , Dave Zachariah , Francis Bach , Thomas B. Schön

Enhancing model robustness under new and even adversarial environments is a crucial milestone toward building trustworthy machine learning systems. Current robust training methods such as adversarial training explicitly uses an "attack"…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Minhao Cheng , Pin-Yu Chen , Sijia Liu , Shiyu Chang , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Payel Das

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

Deep neural network models are used today in various applications of artificial intelligence, the strengthening of which, in the face of adversarial attacks is of particular importance. An appropriate solution to adversarial attacks is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Mohammad Khalooei , Mohammad Mehdi Homayounpour , Maryam Amirmazlaghani

Federated learning (FL) is a trending training paradigm to utilize decentralized training data. FL allows clients to update model parameters locally for several epochs, then share them to a global model for aggregation. This training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Xiaoxiao Li , Zhao Song , Jiaming Yang

The $L_0$-regularized least squares problem (a.k.a. best subsets) is central to sparse statistical learning and has attracted significant attention across the wider statistics, machine learning, and optimization communities. Recent work has…

Computation · Statistics 2020-01-28 Hussein Hazimeh , Rahul Mazumder

Meta learning algorithms have been widely applied in many tasks for efficient learning, such as few-shot image classification and fast reinforcement learning. During meta training, the meta learner develops a common learning strategy, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Han Xu , Yaxin Li , Xiaorui Liu , Hui Liu , Jiliang Tang

Defenses against adversarial examples, such as adversarial training, are typically tailored to a single perturbation type (e.g., small $\ell_\infty$-noise). For other perturbations, these defenses offer no guarantees and, at times, even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Florian Tramèr , Dan Boneh

This paper analyzes $\ell_1$ regularized linear regression under the challenging scenario of having only adversarially corrupted data for training. We use the primal-dual witness paradigm to provide provable performance guarantees for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Deepak Maurya , Jean Honorio

Adversarial training enhances neural network robustness but suffers from a tendency to overfit and increased generalization errors on clean data. This work introduces CLAT, an innovative approach that mitigates adversarial overfitting by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Bhavna Gopal , Huanrui Yang , Jingyang Zhang , Mark Horton , Yiran Chen

Deep learning models can be fooled by small $l_p$-norm adversarial perturbations and natural perturbations in terms of attributes. Although the robustness against each perturbation has been explored, it remains a challenge to address the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Dashan Gao , Yunce Zhao , Yinghua Yao , Zeqi Zhang , Bifei Mao , Xin Yao

Gradient-based saliency methods such as Vanilla Gradient (VG) and Integrated Gradients (IG) are widely used to explain image classifiers, yet the resulting maps are often noisy and unstable, limiting their usefulness in high-stakes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Dipkamal Bhusal , Md Tanvirul Alam , Nidhi Rastogi

This paper proposes a new loss function for adversarial training. Since adversarial training has difficulties, e.g., necessity of high model capacity, focusing on important data points by weighting cross-entropy loss has attracted much…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Sekitoshi Kanai , Shin'ya Yamaguchi , Masanori Yamada , Hiroshi Takahashi , Kentaro Ohno , Yasutoshi Ida

Adversarial attacks pose significant challenges in many machine learning applications, particularly in the setting of distributed training and federated learning, where malicious agents seek to corrupt the training process with the goal of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Nicolás García Trillos , Aditya Kumar Akash , Sixu Li , Konstantin Riedl , Yuhua Zhu