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Adversarial examples are inevitable on the road of pervasive applications of deep neural networks (DNN). Imperceptible perturbations applied on natural samples can lead DNN-based classifiers to output wrong prediction with fair confidence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Tao Bai , Jinqi Luo , Jun Zhao

Deep neural networks enjoy a powerful representation and have proven effective in a number of applications. However, recent advances show that deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks incurred by the so-called adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Lirong He , Ziyi Guo , Kaizhu Huang , Zenglin Xu

Evaluating adversarial robustness amounts to finding the minimum perturbation needed to have an input sample misclassified. The inherent complexity of the underlying optimization requires current gradient-based attacks to be carefully…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Maura Pintor , Fabio Roli , Wieland Brendel , Battista Biggio

With the recent advancements in machine learning (ML), numerous ML-based approaches have been extensively applied in software analytics tasks to streamline software development and maintenance processes. Nevertheless, studies indicate that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-15 MD Abdul Awal , Mrigank Rochan , Chanchal K. Roy

In recent years, with the popularization of deep learning frameworks and large datasets, researchers have started parallelizing their models in order to train faster. This is crucially important, because they typically explore many…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Renato L. de F. Cunha , Eduardo R. Rodrigues , Matheus Palhares Viana , Dario Augusto Borges Oliveira

The highly non-linear nature of deep neural networks causes them to be susceptible to adversarial examples and have unstable gradients which hinders interpretability. However, existing methods to solve these issues, such as adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Suraj Srinivas , Kyle Matoba , Himabindu Lakkaraju , Francois Fleuret

Deep neural networks have proven to be quite effective in a wide variety of machine learning tasks, ranging from improved speech recognition systems to advancing the development of autonomous vehicles. However, despite their superior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Qinglong Wang , Wenbo Guo , Alexander G. Ororbia , Xinyu Xing , Lin Lin , C. Lee Giles , Xue Liu , Peng Liu , Gang Xiong

Mixup is a procedure for data augmentation that trains networks to make smoothly interpolated predictions between datapoints. Adversarial training is a strong form of data augmentation that optimizes for worst-case predictions in a compact…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Jason Bunk , Srinjoy Chattopadhyay , B. S. Manjunath , Shivkumar Chandrasekaran

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

Existing deep neural networks, say for image classification, have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial images that can cause a DNN misclassification, without any perceptible change to an image. In this work, we propose shock absorbing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Kevin Eykholt , Swati Gupta , Atul Prakash , Amir Rahmati , Pratik Vaishnavi , Haizhong Zheng

Despite the vast success of Deep Neural Networks in numerous application domains, it has been shown that such models are not robust i.e., they are vulnerable to small adversarial perturbations of the input. While extensive work has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Sharon Qian , Dimitris Kalimeris , Gal Kaplun , Yaron Singer

Adversarial examples reveal critical vulnerabilities in deep neural networks by exploiting their sensitivity to imperceptible input perturbations. While adversarial training remains the predominant defense strategy, it often incurs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Longwei Wang , Ifrat Ikhtear Uddin , KC Santosh , Chaowei Zhang , Xiao Qin , Yang Zhou

Floating-point non-associativity makes fundamental deep learning operations, such as matrix multiplication (matmul) on GPUs, inherently non-deterministic. Despite this, the statistical structure of the resulting numerical error remains…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Tadisetty Sai Yashwanth

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

Federated learning learns a neural network model by aggregating the knowledge from a group of distributed clients under the privacy-preserving constraint. In this work, we show that this paradigm might inherit the adversarial vulnerability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Yao Zhou , Jun Wu , Haixun Wang , Jingrui He

Although deep neural networks have shown promising performances on various tasks, they are susceptible to incorrect predictions induced by imperceptibly small perturbations in inputs. A large number of previous works proposed to detect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Byunggill Joe , Jihun Hamm , Sung Ju Hwang , Sooel Son , Insik Shin

Artificial Intelligence systems require a through assessment of different pillars of trust, namely, fairness, interpretability, data and model privacy, reliability (safety) and robustness against against adversarial attacks. While these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Vasisht Duddu , N. Rajesh Pillai , D. Vijay Rao , Valentina E. Balas

While machine-learning algorithms have demonstrated a strong ability in detecting Android malware, they can be evaded by sparse evasion attacks crafted by injecting a small set of fake components, e.g., permissions and system calls, without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Marco Melis , Michele Scalas , Ambra Demontis , Davide Maiorca , Battista Biggio , Giorgio Giacinto , Fabio Roli

Adversarial attacks and defenses are currently active areas of research for the deep learning community. A recent review paper divided the defense approaches into three categories; gradient masking, robust optimization, and adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Leslie N. Smith

Despite significant advances, deep networks remain highly susceptible to adversarial attack. One fundamental challenge is that small input perturbations can often produce large movements in the network's final-layer feature space. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Maria-Florina Balcan , Avrim Blum , Dravyansh Sharma , Hongyang Zhang