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Adversarial training (AT) methods are effective against adversarial attacks, yet they introduce severe disparity of accuracy and robustness between different classes, known as the robust fairness problem. Previously proposed Fair Robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Chunyu Sun , Chenye Xu , Chengyuan Yao , Siyuan Liang , Yichao Wu , Ding Liang , XiangLong Liu , Aishan Liu

The existence of adversarial data examples has drawn significant attention in the deep-learning community; such data are seemingly minimally perturbed relative to the original data, but lead to very different outputs from a deep-learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Bai Li , Changyou Chen , Wenlin Wang , Lawrence Carin

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are highly susceptible to adversarial samples, raising concerns about their reliability in safety-critical tasks. Currently, methods of evaluating adversarial robustness are primarily categorized into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jialei Song , Xingquan Zuo , Feiyang Wang , Hai Huang , Tianle Zhang

Efforts in the recommendation community are shifting from the sole emphasis on utility to considering beyond-utility factors, such as fairness and robustness. Robustness of recommendation models is typically linked to their ability to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Ludovico Boratto , Francesco Fabbri , Gianni Fenu , Mirko Marras , Giacomo Medda

Adversarial training has been widely acknowledged as the most effective method to improve the adversarial robustness against adversarial examples for Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). So far, most existing works focus on enhancing the overall…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Zeming Wei , Yifei Wang , Yiwen Guo , Yisen Wang

Representation learning is increasingly applied to generate representations that generalize well across multiple downstream tasks. Ensuring fairness guarantees in representation learning is crucial to prevent unfairness toward specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Yuhong Luo , Austin Hoag , Xintong Wang , Philip S. Thomas , Przemyslaw A. Grabowicz

Fairness has been a significant challenge in graph neural networks (GNNs) since degree biases often result in un-equal prediction performance among nodes with varying degrees. Existing GNN models focus on prediction accuracy, frequently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Jiaxin Liu , Xiaoqian Jiang , Xiang Li , Bohan Zhang , Jing Zhang

This paper introduces the Fair Fairness Benchmark (\textsf{FFB}), a benchmarking framework for in-processing group fairness methods. Ensuring fairness in machine learning is important for ethical compliance. However, there exist challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Xiaotian Han , Jianfeng Chi , Yu Chen , Qifan Wang , Han Zhao , Na Zou , Xia Hu

Verifiable training has shown success in creating neural networks that are provably robust to a given amount of noise. However, despite only enforcing a single robustness criterion, its performance scales poorly with dataset complexity. On…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Shiqi Wang , Kevin Eykholt , Taesung Lee , Jiyong Jang , Ian Molloy

Adversarial examples can easily degrade the classification performance in neural networks. Empirical methods for promoting robustness to such examples have been proposed, but often lack both analytical insights and formal guarantees.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Bernardo Aquino , Arash Rahnama , Peter Seiler , Lizhen Lin , Vijay Gupta

In learning problems, the noise inherent to the task at hand hinders the possibility to infer without a certain degree of uncertainty. Quantifying this uncertainty, regardless of its wide use, assumes high relevance for security-sensitive…

Adversarial robustness is essential for security and reliability of machine learning systems. However, adversarial robustness enhanced by defense algorithms is easily erased as the neural network's weights update to learn new tasks. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Xiaolei Ru , Xiaowei Cao , Zijia Liu , Jack Murdoch Moore , Xin-Ya Zhang , Xia Zhu , Wenjia Wei , Gang Yan

While machine learning models have proven effective across various scenarios, it is widely acknowledged that many models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Recently, there have emerged numerous efforts in adversarial defense. Among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yiran Qiao , Yu Yin , Chen Chen , Jing Ma

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

Deep Neural Network-based systems are now the state-of-the-art in many robotics tasks, but their application in safety-critical domains remains dangerous without formal guarantees on network robustness. Small perturbations to sensor inputs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Michael Everett , Bjorn Lutjens , Jonathan P. How

Deep neural networks are susceptible to small-but-specific adversarial perturbations capable of deceiving the network. This vulnerability can lead to potentially harmful consequences in security-critical applications. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Jasjeet Dhaliwal , Saurabh Shintre

Reliable and robust evaluation methods are a necessary first step towards developing machine learning models that are themselves robust and reliable. Unfortunately, current evaluation protocols typically used to assess classifiers fail to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Michael W. Spratling

Certified defenses against adversarial attacks offer formal guarantees on the robustness of a model, making them more reliable than empirical methods such as adversarial training, whose effectiveness is often later reduced by unseen…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Thomas Altstidl , David Dobre , Björn Eskofier , Gauthier Gidel , Leo Schwinn

The current state-of-the-art defense methods against adversarial examples typically focus on improving either empirical or certified robustness. Among them, adversarially trained (AT) models produce empirical state-of-the-art defense…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Jay Nandy , Sudipan Saha , Wynne Hsu , Mong Li Lee , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) often face challenges due to their vulnerability to various adversarial perturbations, including false perturbations that undermine prediction accuracy and biased perturbations that cause biased predictions for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Xuran Li , Peng Wu , Kaixiang Dong , Zhen Zhang , Yanting Chen