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We investigate the role of transferability of adversarial attacks in the observed vulnerabilities of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). We demonstrate that introducing randomness to the DNN models is sufficient to defeat adversarial attacks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Yan Zhou , Murat Kantarcioglu , Bowei Xi

Ensuring reliability in adversarial settings necessitates treating privacy as a foundational component of data-driven systems. While differential privacy and cryptographic protocols offer strong guarantees, existing schemes rely on a fixed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Labani Halder , Payel Sadhukhan , Sarbani Palit

The widespread integration of embedded systems across various industries has facilitated seamless connectivity among devices and bolstered computational capabilities. Despite their extensive applications, embedded systems encounter…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Sreenitha Kasarapu , Sathwika Bavikadi , Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao

We study the adversarial robustness in offline reinforcement learning. Given a batch dataset consisting of tuples $(s, a, r, s')$, an adversary is allowed to arbitrarily modify $\epsilon$ fraction of the tuples. From the corrupted dataset…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Xuezhou Zhang , Yiding Chen , Jerry Zhu , Wen Sun

Obtainable computational efficiency is evaluated when using an Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) strategy in time accurate simulations governed by sets of conservation laws. For a variety of 1D, 2D, and 3D hydro- and magnetohydrodynamic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Keppens , M. Nool , G. Toth , J. P. Goedbloed

Recent studies indicate that current adversarial attack methods are flawed and easy to fail when encountering some deliberately designed defense. Sometimes even a slight modification in the model details will invalidate the attack. We find…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Chaohao Fu , Hongbin Chen , Na Ruan , Weijia Jia

We consider the question of Gaussian mean testing, a fundamental task in high-dimensional distribution testing and signal processing, subject to adversarial corruptions of the samples. We focus on the relative power of different…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Clément L. Canonne , Samuel B. Hopkins , Jerry Li , Allen Liu , Shyam Narayanan

Despite their great success, deep neural networks rely on high-dimensional, non-robust representations, making them vulnerable to imperceptible perturbations, even in transfer scenarios. To address this, both training-time defenses (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Jiaming Liang , Chi-Man Pun

The fact that deep neural networks are susceptible to crafted perturbations severely impacts the use of deep learning in certain domains of application. Among many developed defense models against such attacks, adversarial training emerges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Anh Bui , Trung Le , He Zhao , Paul Montague , Olivier deVel , Tamas Abraham , Dinh Phung

Adversarial examples pose a security threat to many critical systems built on neural networks (such as face recognition systems, and self-driving cars). While many methods have been proposed to build robust models, how to build certifiably…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Ruihan Zhang , Peixin Zhang , Jun Sun

Adversarial training has proven to be effective in hardening networks against adversarial examples. However, the gained robustness is limited by network capacity and number of training samples. Consequently, to build more robust models, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Zheng Xu , Ali Shafahi , Tom Goldstein

As humans, we inherently perceive images based on their predominant features, and ignore noise embedded within lower bit planes. On the contrary, Deep Neural Networks are known to confidently misclassify images corrupted with meticulously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Sravanti Addepalli , Vivek B. S. , Arya Baburaj , Gaurang Sriramanan , R. Venkatesh Babu

Defense techniques such as Data Execution Prevention (DEP) and Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) were the early role models preventing primitive code injection and return-oriented programming (ROP) attacks. Notably, these techniques…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Christopher Jelesnianski , Jinwoo Yom , Changwoo Min , Yeongjin Jang

Several companies often safeguard their trained deep models (i.e., details of architecture, learnt weights, training details etc.) from third-party users by exposing them only as black boxes through APIs. Moreover, they may not even provide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Gaurav Kumar Nayak , Inder Khatri , Ruchit Rawal , Anirban Chakraborty

Several recent results provide theoretical insights into the phenomena of adversarial examples. Existing results, however, are often limited due to a gap between the simplicity of the models studied and the complexity of those deployed in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Jeremias Sulam , Ramchandran Muthukumar , Raman Arora

We introduce the concept of provably robust adversarial examples for deep neural networks - connected input regions constructed from standard adversarial examples which are guaranteed to be robust to a set of real-world perturbations (such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Dimitar I. Dimitrov , Gagandeep Singh , Timon Gehr , Martin Vechev

Despite demonstrating superior rate-distortion (RD) performance, learning-based image compression (LIC) algorithms have been found to be vulnerable to malicious perturbations in recent studies. However, the adversarial attacks considered in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-08 Chenhao Wu , Qingbo Wu , Haoran Wei , Shuai Chen , Lei Wang , King Ngi Ngan , Fanman Meng , Hongliang Li

Although state-of-the-art PDF malware classifiers can be trained with almost perfect test accuracy (99%) and extremely low false positive rate (under 0.1%), it has been shown that even a simple adversary can evade them. A practically useful…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Yizheng Chen , Shiqi Wang , Dongdong She , Suman Jana

Adversarially robust optimization (ARO) has emerged as the *de facto* standard for training models that hedge against adversarial attacks in the test stage. While these models are robust against adversarial attacks, they tend to suffer…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Aras Selvi , Eleonora Kreacic , Mohsen Ghassemi , Vamsi Potluru , Tucker Balch , Manuela Veloso

Most existing works focus on improving robustness against adversarial attacks bounded by a single $l_p$ norm using adversarial training (AT). However, these AT models' multiple-norm robustness (union accuracy) is still low, which is crucial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Enyi Jiang , Gagandeep Singh