Formulation of Adversarial ML

Machine learning is being used in a variety of domains to restrict or prevent undesirable behaviors by hackers, fraudsters and even ordinary users. Algorithms deployed for fraud prevention, network security, anti-money laundering belong to the broad area of adversarial machine learning where instead of ML trying to learn the patterns of benevolent nature, it is confronted with a malicious adversary that is looking for opportunities to exploit loopholes and weaknesses for personal gain.