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Current methods for training robust networks lead to a drop in test accuracy, which has led prior works to posit that a robustness-accuracy tradeoff may be inevitable in deep learning. We take a closer look at this phenomenon and first show…

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It is well-known that classifiers are vulnerable to adversarial perturbations. To defend against adversarial perturbations, various certified robustness results have been derived. However, existing certified robustnesses are limited to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Jinyuan Jia , Xiaoyu Cao , Binghui Wang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Sensitivity-based robustness certification has emerged as a practical approach for certifying neural network robustness, including in settings that require verifiable guarantees. A key advantage of these methods is that certification is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Toby Murray

The robustness of neural networks against input perturbations with bounded magnitude represents a serious concern in the deployment of deep learning models in safety-critical systems. Recently, the scientific community has focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Bernd Prach , Fabio Brau , Giorgio Buttazzo , Christoph H. Lampert

Randomized smoothing is a widely adopted technique for optimizing nonsmooth objective functions. However, its efficiency analysis typically relies on global Lipschitz continuity, a condition rarely met in practical applications. To address…

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Deep Neural Networks are vulnerable to small perturbations that can drastically alter their predictions for perceptually unchanged inputs. The literature on adversarially robust Deep Learning attempts to either enhance the robustness of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Thomas Massena , Corentin Friedrich , Franck Mamalet , Mathieu Serrurier

Randomized smoothing is a recent and celebrated solution to certify the robustness of any classifier. While it indeed provides a theoretical robustness against adversarial attacks, the dimensionality of current classifiers necessarily…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Thibault Maho , Teddy Furon , Erwan Le Merrer

Randomized smoothing-based certification is an effective approach for obtaining robustness certificates of deep neural networks (DNNs) against adversarial attacks. This method constructs a smoothed DNN model and certifies its robustness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Shubham Ugare , Tarun Suresh , Debangshu Banerjee , Gagandeep Singh , Sasa Misailovic

As a certified defensive technique, randomized smoothing has received considerable attention due to its scalability to large datasets and neural networks. However, several important questions remain unanswered, such as (i) whether the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Tianhang Zheng , Di Wang , Baochun Li , Jinhui Xu

Federated learning is an emerging data-private distributed learning framework, which, however, is vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Although several heuristic defenses are proposed to enhance the robustness of federated learning, they do…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Cheng Chen , Bhavya Kailkhura , Ryan Goldhahn , Yi Zhou

Randomized smoothing (RS) has been shown to be a fast, scalable technique for certifying the robustness of deep neural network classifiers. However, methods based on RS require augmenting data with large amounts of noise, which leads to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Ameya Joshi , Minh Pham , Minsu Cho , Leonid Boytsov , Filipe Condessa , J. Zico Kolter , Chinmay Hegde

This paper presents novel methods for estimating certified radii in randomized smoothing, a technique crucial for certifying the robustness of neural networks against adversarial perturbations. Our proposed techniques significantly improve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Zixuan Liang

Randomized Smoothing (RS), being one of few provable defenses, has been showing great effectiveness and scalability in terms of defending against $\ell_2$-norm adversarial perturbations. However, the cost of MC sampling needed in RS for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Huimin Zeng , Jiahao Su , Furong Huang

As reinforcement learning (RL) has achieved great success and been even adopted in safety-critical domains such as autonomous vehicles, a range of empirical studies have been conducted to improve its robustness against adversarial attacks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Fan Wu , Linyi Li , Zijian Huang , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Ding Zhao , Bo Li

Randomized smoothing has recently attracted attentions in the field of adversarial robustness to provide provable robustness guarantees on smoothed neural network classifiers. However, existing works show that vanilla randomized smoothing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Linbo Liu , Trong Nghia Hoang , Lam M. Nguyen , Tsui-Wei Weng

Randomized smoothing is a popular way of providing robustness guarantees against adversarial attacks: randomly-smoothed functions have a universal Lipschitz-like bound, allowing for robustness certificates to be easily computed. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Alexander Levine , Aounon Kumar , Thomas Goldstein , Soheil Feizi

Randomized smoothing is the current state-of-the-art method for producing provably robust classifiers. While randomized smoothing typically yields robust $\ell_2$-ball certificates, recent research has generalized provable robustness to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Samuel Pfrommer , Brendon G. Anderson , Somayeh Sojoudi

Recently smoothing deep neural network based classifiers via isotropic Gaussian perturbation is shown to be an effective and scalable way to provide state-of-the-art probabilistic robustness guarantee against $\ell_2$ norm bounded…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-19 Huijie Feng , Chunpeng Wu , Guoyang Chen , Weifeng Zhang , Yang Ning

Explainability models are now prevalent within machine learning to address the black-box nature of neural networks. The question now is which explainability model is most effective. Probabilistic Lipschitzness has demonstrated that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Lachlan Simpson , Kyle Millar , Adriel Cheng , Cheng-Chew Lim , Hong Gunn Chew

Currently the most popular method of providing robustness certificates is randomized smoothing where an input is smoothed via some probability distribution. We propose a novel approach to randomized smoothing over multiplicative parameters.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Nikita Muravev , Aleksandr Petiushko