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Fundamental questions remain about when and why adversarial examples arise in neural networks, with competing views characterising them either as artifacts of the irregularities in the decision landscape or as products of sensitivity to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Edward Stevinson , Lucas Prieto , Melih Barsbey , Tolga Birdal

Adversarial training, originally designed to resist test-time adversarial examples, has shown to be promising in mitigating training-time availability attacks. This defense ability, however, is challenged in this paper. We identify a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Lue Tao , Lei Feng , Hongxin Wei , Jinfeng Yi , Sheng-Jun Huang , Songcan Chen

We consider the theoretical problem of designing an optimal adversarial attack on a decision system that maximally degrades the achievable performance of the system as measured by the mutual information between the degraded signal and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Jirong Yi , Raghu Mudumbai , Weiyu Xu

In this paper, we empirically analyze adversarial attacks on selected federated learning models. The specific learning models considered are Multinominal Logistic Regression (MLR), Support Vector Classifier (SVC), Multilayer Perceptron…

The goal of this paper is to analyze an intriguing phenomenon recently discovered in deep networks, namely their instability to adversarial perturbations (Szegedy et. al., 2014). We provide a theoretical framework for analyzing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-30 Alhussein Fawzi , Omar Fawzi , Pascal Frossard

The literature on adversarial attacks in computer vision typically focuses on pixel-level perturbations. These tend to be very difficult to interpret. Recent work that manipulates the latent representations of image generators to create…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Stephen Casper , Max Nadeau , Dylan Hadfield-Menell , Gabriel Kreiman

Recent studies have shown that modern deep neural network classifiers are easy to fool, assuming that an adversary is able to slightly modify their inputs. Many papers have proposed adversarial attacks, defenses and methods to measure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Igor Buzhinsky , Arseny Nerinovsky , Stavros Tripakis

Adversarial examples --- perturbations to the input of a model that elicit large changes in the output --- have been shown to be an effective way of assessing the robustness of sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) models. However, these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Paul Michel , Xian Li , Graham Neubig , Juan Miguel Pino

Deep Learning has empowered us to train neural networks for complex data with high performance. However, with the growing research, several vulnerabilities in neural networks have been exposed. A particular branch of research, Adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Shashank Kotyan

Deep neural networks are at the forefront of machine learning research. However, despite achieving impressive performance on complex tasks, they can be very sensitive: Small perturbations of inputs can be sufficient to induce incorrect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Alex Serban , Erik Poll , Joost Visser

In this work, we make two contributions towards understanding of in-context learning of linear models by transformers. First, we investigate the adversarial robustness of in-context learning in transformers to hijacking attacks -- a type of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Usman Anwar , Johannes Von Oswald , Louis Kirsch , David Krueger , Spencer Frei

The landscape of adversarial attacks against text classifiers continues to grow, with new attacks developed every year and many of them available in standard toolkits, such as TextAttack and OpenAttack. In response, there is a growing body…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Zhouhang Xie , Jonathan Brophy , Adam Noack , Wencong You , Kalyani Asthana , Carter Perkins , Sabrina Reis , Sameer Singh , Daniel Lowd

Deep neural networks have been shown to exhibit an intriguing vulnerability to adversarial input images corrupted with imperceptible perturbations. However, the majority of adversarial attacks assume global, fine-grained control over the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Ameya Joshi , Amitangshu Mukherjee , Soumik Sarkar , Chinmay Hegde

Machine learning models are vulnerable to simple model stealing attacks if the adversary can obtain output labels for chosen inputs. To protect against these attacks, it has been proposed to limit the information provided to the adversary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-14 Taesung Lee , Benjamin Edwards , Ian Molloy , Dong Su

The existence of adversarial attacks (or adversarial examples) brings huge concern about the machine learning (ML) model's safety issues. For many safety-critical ML tasks, such as financial forecasting, fraudulent detection, and anomaly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Han Xu , Menghai Pan , Zhimeng Jiang , Huiyuan Chen , Xiaoting Li , Mahashweta Das , Hao Yang

Autonomous agents deployed in the real world need to be robust against adversarial attacks on sensory inputs. Robustifying agent policies requires anticipating the strongest attacks possible. We demonstrate that existing observation-space…

Deep neural networks have been successfully applied in various machine learning tasks. However, studies show that neural networks are susceptible to adversarial attacks. This exposes a potential threat to neural network-based intelligent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Haimin Zhang , Min Xu

Adversarial robustness refers to a model's ability to resist perturbation of inputs, while distribution robustness evaluates the performance of the model under data shifts. Although both aim to ensure reliable performance, prior work has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Yipei Wang , Zhaoying Pan , Xiaoqian Wang

The adversarial vulnerability of deep networks has spurred the interest of researchers worldwide. Unsurprisingly, like images, adversarial examples also translate to time-series data as they are an inherent weakness of the model itself…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui , Andreas Dengel , Sheraz Ahmed

Neural networks perform exceedingly well across various machine learning tasks but are not immune to adversarial perturbations. This vulnerability has implications for real-world applications. While much research has been conducted, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Dennis Y. Menn , Tzu-hsun Feng , Sriram Vishwanath , Hung-yi Lee