Adversarial Example

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Machine learning input sample formed by applying a small but intentionally worst-case perturbation ... to a clean example, such that the perturbed input causes a learned model to output an incorrect answer.

MWEA Taxonomy and Terminology of Adversarial Machine Learning

Senses

1 more sense beyond the canonical

Principal component adversarial example

Samples generated from real samples with carefully designed imperceptible perturbations

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Threat100%manual revieweval-seeds-v0.4-2026-05-14

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OVERRIDE Vulnerability→Threat. Adversarial examples are attack inputs.

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

4 surface forms

synonym: adversarial perturbation
plural: Adversarial Examples
possessive: Adversarial Example's
pluralpossessive: Adversarial Examples'

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