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On the Robustness of the CVPR 2018 White-Box Adversarial Example Defenses

10 Apr 2018arXiv:1804.03286archive 2025-07-28

Anish Athalye, Nicholas Carlini

Neural networks are known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. In this note, we evaluate the two white-box defenses that appeared at CVPR 2018 and find they are ineffective: when applying existing techniques, we can reduce the accuracy of the defended models to 0%.

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