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48 results for adversarial susceptibility

Despite numerous attempts to defend deep learning based image classifiers, they remain susceptible to the adversarial attacks. This paper proposes a technique to identify susceptible classes, those classes that are more easily subverted. To identify the susceptible classes we use distance-based measures and apply them …

2019-05-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Overparameterized linear model shows strong classification but weak regression, susceptible to adversarial perturbations.

problem Adversarial vulnerability of overparameterized linear models.
method Lifted Fourier feature map, analyzing overparameterized linear ensemble.
result Spatial localization leads to adversarial vulnerability in an intermediate classification regime.

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are known for their good performance and generalization in vision-related tasks and have become state-of-the-art in both application and research-based domains. However, just like other neural network models, they suffer from a susceptibility to noise and adversarial attacks. An adv…

2019-05-02abs ↗pdf ↗

It is well-known that many machine learning models are susceptible to adversarial attacks, in which an attacker evades a classifier by making small perturbations to inputs. This paper discusses how industrial copyright detection tools, which serve a central role on the web, are susceptible to adversarial attacks. We di…

2019-06-17abs ↗pdf ↗

A wide range of defenses have been proposed to harden neural networks against adversarial attacks. However, a pattern has emerged in which the majority of adversarial defenses are quickly broken by new attacks. Given the lack of success at generating robust defenses, we are led to ask a fundamental question: Are advers…

2018-09-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Machine learning models, especially based on deep architectures are used in everyday applications ranging from self driving cars to medical diagnostics. It has been shown that such models are dangerously susceptible to adversarial samples, indistinguishable from real samples to human eye, adversarial samples lead to in…

2017-05-05abs ↗pdf ↗

New method makes neural networks more resilient to location-optimized adversarial patches.

problem Neural networks' vulnerability to adversarial patches that are visible but still effective.
method Developed a practical approach to optimize patch locations and applied adversarial training.
result Significantly improved robustness against adversarial patches on CIFAR10 and GTSRB.

New method improves neural network interpretability against adversarial attacks.

problem Adversarial attacks can hide from neural network interpretability methods.
method Develops an interpretability-aware defensive scheme promoting robust interpretation.
result Achieves both robust classification and robust interpretation.

Computational paralinguistic analysis is increasingly being used in a wide range of cyber applications, including security-sensitive applications such as speaker verification, deceptive speech detection, and medical diagnostics. While state-of-the-art machine learning techniques, such as deep neural networks, can provi…

2017-11-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper explores fast adversarial training to improve robustness with less computation.

problem Efficiently defending against adversarial examples.
method Integrates simple self-attacks for faster training, focusing on overfitting recovery.
result Shows superior robust accuracy with reduced training time compared to strong adversarial training.

Two-layer networks trained on low-dimensional subspaces are vulnerable to adversarial examples.

problem Vulnerability of two-layer neural networks to adversarial examples on low-dimensional subspaces.
method Analysis of gradient behavior and effect of initialization scale and regularization.
result Decreasing initialization scale or adding L2 regularization can improve robustness to adversarial perturbations orthogonal to the data.

The susceptibility of deep learning to adversarial attack can be understood in the framework of the Renormalisation Group (RG) and the vulnerability of a specific network may be diagnosed provided the weights in each layer are known. An adversary with access to the inputs and outputs could train a second network to clo…

2018-03-29abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper analyzes how machine learning models resist adversarial attacks in nonparametric regression.

problem Adversarial attacks on machine learning models in nonparametric regression.
method Theoretical analysis of minimax rates of convergence under adversarial sup-norm.
result The minimax rate under adversarial attacks is the sum of two terms: standard rate and deviation of true function.

Bayesian neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks.

problem Adversarial robustness of Bayesian neural networks.
method Examination of adversarial robustness through three tasks: label prediction, adversarial example detection, and semantic shift detection.
result Bayesian neural networks are highly susceptible to adversarial attacks.

Bayesian adversaries can outsmart traditional adversarial attacks.

problem Bayesian adversaries can manipulate machine learning models through small perturbations.
method Developed a continuous-time particle system (Abram) to approximate the gradient flow of the Bayesian adversarial robustness problem.
result Abram approximates the minimizer of the Bayesian adversarial robustness problem under certain assumptions.

Charmer improves character-level adversarial attacks for language models.

problem Efficiency and effectiveness of character-level adversarial attacks for language models.
method Query-based adversarial attack method that maintains semantic similarity.
result Charmer achieves high attack success rate and similar adversarial examples.

Localized uncertainty attacks target uncertain regions to create imperceptible adversarial examples.

problem Adversarial examples that are imperceptible to humans and strong under deterministic classifiers.
method Localized uncertainty attacks by perturbing uncertain regions, using predictive uncertainty or surrogate models.
result Localized uncertainty attacks produce strong adversarial examples that retain input similarity.

Recent breakthroughs in the field of deep learning have led to advancements in a broad spectrum of tasks in computer vision, audio processing, natural language processing and other areas. In most instances where these tasks are deployed in real-world scenarios, the models used in them have been shown to be susceptible …

2019-05-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep Learning based AI systems have shown great promise in various domains such as vision, audio, autonomous systems (vehicles, drones), etc. Recent research on neural networks has shown the susceptibility of deep networks to adversarial attacks - a technique of adding small perturbations to the inputs which can fool a…

2019-11-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Note that this paper is superceded by "Black-Box Adversarial Attacks with Limited Queries and Information." Current neural network-based image classifiers are susceptible to adversarial examples, even in the black-box setting, where the attacker is limited to query access without access to gradients. Previous methods -…

2017-12-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Improves deep learning robustness by enforcing local and global compactness.

problem Deep neural networks' vulnerability to adversarial attacks.
method Proposes Adversary Divergence Reduction Network (ADRN) that enforces local/global compactness and clustering assumption.
result Augmenting adversarial training with ADRN components improves robustness.

Paper analyzes adversarial training's performance in binary classification.

problem Understanding the generalization performance of adversarial training.
method Derives precise theoretical predictions for adversarial training performance.
result Provides exact asymptotics for test errors of adversarial training.

Gradient flow in ReLU networks biases towards generalization but makes them vulnerable to adversarial attacks.

problem Generalization vs. Adversarial Robustness in ReLU Networks
method Analysis of gradient flow in two-layer ReLU networks with clustered data.
result Gradient flow biases towards generalization but also makes networks vulnerable to adversarial attacks.