# ImageNet-Patch: A Dataset for Benchmarking Machine Learning Robustness against Adversarial Patches Source: [ImageNet-Patch: A Dataset for Benchmarking Machine Learning Robustness against Adversarial Patches]() Collection index: [llms.txt]() Data updated: 2025-10-26T03:58:19.729Z Authors: Maura Pintor, Daniele Angioni, Angelo Sotgiu, Luca Demetrio, Ambra Demontis, Battista Biggio, Fabio Roli Published: 2022-03-07T17:22:30.000Z ## Abstract Adversarial patches are optimized contiguous pixel blocks in an input image that cause a machine-learning model to misclassify it. However, their optimization is computationally demanding, and requires careful hyperparameter tuning, potentially leading to suboptimal robustness evaluations. To overcome these issues, we propose ImageNet-Patch, a dataset to benchmark machine-learning models against adversarial patches. It consists of a set of patches, optimized to generalize across different models, and readily applicable to ImageNet data after preprocessing them with affine transformations. This process enables an approximate yet faster robustness evaluation, leveraging the transferability of adversarial perturbations. We showcase the usefulness of this dataset by testing the effectiveness of the computed patches against 127 models. We conclude by discussing how our dataset could be used as a benchmark for robustness, and how our methodology can be generalized to other domains. We open source our dataset and evaluation code at https://github.com/pralab/ImageNet-Patch. ## Recorded benchmark results A research result applies to its stated dataset, split, metric and evaluation configuration. Compare like-for-like settings, preserve the metric's unit and direction, and distinguish paper-reported results from independent reproduction. The best result recorded here is not a claim of exhaustive, current global coverage. ## Original sources and implementation [Original paper]() [PDF]()