Safety, alignment & interpretability· 2016
Towards Evaluating the Robustness of Neural Networks
On the reading lists
- #251 in the Top 500 (2026 edition)
- #31 in Safety, alignment & interpretability (2026 edition)
Why it matters
Introduced powerful optimization-based attacks that became standard robustness evaluation tools.
Condensed from the expert lists' notes.
The record
- First released
- 2016 (from arXiv 1608.04644)
- Citations
- 10,423 citations, as counted by
Semantic Scholar (non-commercial licence) - Named by
- both expert lists
- Score
- 0.482 · computed rank 251 · consensus 0.54, must-read 0, citations percentile 0.915 (2010s · safety), awards 0, existing lists 0. Method
Data sources
Catalogue data from OpenAlex (CC0), Crossref (CC0 metadata; no abstracts are shown), arXiv, and Papers With Code (CC BY-SA 4.0), and
Semantic Scholar (used under its non-commercial API licence). Each count names its source. See the method.