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Randomized smoothing is a general technique for computing sample-dependent robustness guarantees against adversarial attacks for deep classifiers. Prior works on randomized smoothing against L_1 adversarial attacks use additive smoothing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Alexander Levine , Soheil Feizi

Randomized smoothing is a well-established method for achieving certified robustness against l2-adversarial perturbations. By incorporating a denoiser before the base classifier, pretrained classifiers can be seamlessly integrated into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Ali Hedayatnia , Mostafa Tavassolipour , Babak Nadjar Araabi , Abdol-Hossein Vahabie

Despite remarkable achievements in deep learning across various domains, its inherent vulnerability to adversarial examples still remains a critical concern for practical deployment. Adversarial training has emerged as one of the most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Junhao Dong , Xinghua Qu , Z. Jane Wang , Yew-Soon Ong

Understanding minimal assumptions that enable learning and generalization is perhaps the central question of learning theory. Several celebrated results in statistical learning theory, such as the VC theorem and Littlestone's…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-25 Moïse Blanchard , Abhishek Shetty , Alexander Rakhlin

Fast adversarial training (FAT) is beneficial for improving the adversarial robustness of neural networks. However, previous FAT work has encountered a significant issue known as catastrophic overfitting when dealing with large perturbation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Mengnan Zhao , Lihe Zhang , Yuqiu Kong , Baocai Yin

Offline reinforcement learning (RL) provides a promising direction to exploit massive amount of offline data for complex decision-making tasks. Due to the distribution shift issue, current offline RL algorithms are generally designed to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Rui Yang , Chenjia Bai , Xiaoteng Ma , Zhaoran Wang , Chongjie Zhang , Lei Han

Deep learning models, especially convolutional neural networks, have achieved impressive results in medical image classification. However, these models often produce overconfident predictions, which can undermine their reliability in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Kushan Choudhury , Shubhrodeep Roy , Ankur Chanda , Shubhajit Biswas , Somenath Kuiry

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) aims to transfer knowledge from a label-rich source domain to an unlabeled target domain by addressing domain shifts. Most UDA approaches emphasize transfer ability, but often overlook robustness against…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Fuxiang Huang , Xiaowei Fu , Shiyu Ye , Lina Ma , Wen Li , Xinbo Gao , David Zhang , Lei Zhang

Despite the recent advances in large-scale diffusion models, little progress has been made on the layout-to-image (L2I) synthesis task. Current L2I models either suffer from poor editability via text or weak alignment between the generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Yumeng Li , Margret Keuper , Dan Zhang , Anna Khoreva

Domain Randomization (DR) is known to require a significant amount of training data for good performance. We argue that this is due to DR's strategy of random data generation using a uniform distribution over simulation parameters, as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Rawal Khirodkar , Kris M. Kitani

We introduce Negative Sampling in Semi-Supervised Learning (NS3L), a simple, fast, easy to tune algorithm for semi-supervised learning (SSL). NS3L is motivated by the success of negative sampling/contrastive estimation. We demonstrate that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-30 John Chen , Vatsal Shah , Anastasios Kyrillidis

Adversarial Training (AT) and Virtual Adversarial Training (VAT) are the regularization techniques that train Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) with adversarial examples generated by adding small but worst-case perturbations to input examples. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Xiulong Yang , Shihao Ji

Recently proposed adversarial training methods show the robustness to both adversarial and original examples and achieve state-of-the-art results in supervised and semi-supervised learning. All the existing adversarial training methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Shufei Zhang , Kaizhu Huang , Jianke Zhu , Yang Liu

To evaluate the robustness of non-classifier models, we propose probabilistic local equivalence, based on the notion of randomized smoothing, as a way to quantitatively evaluate the robustness of an arbitrary function. In addition, to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Jacob Bond , Andrew Lingg

Adversarial training has proven to be a highly effective method for improving the robustness of deep neural networks against adversarial attacks. Nonetheless, it has been observed to exhibit a limitation in terms of robust fairness,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Hongxin Zhi , Hongtao Yu , Shaome Li , Xiuming Zhao , Yiteng Wu

Smoothness is a key inductive bias in machine learning and is closely related to generalization. Existing smoothness-inducing methods typically rely either on explicit gradient regularization, which often incurs substantial computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Parsa Moradi , Tayyebeh Jahaninezhad , Hanzaleh Akbarinodehi , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

Most deep metric learning (DML) methods employ a strategy that forces all positive samples to be close in the embedding space while keeping them away from negative ones. However, such a strategy ignores the internal relationships of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Zelong Zeng , Fan Yang , Zheng Wang , Shin'ichi Satoh

This paper is a contribution to the reproducibility challenge in the field of machine learning, specifically addressing the issue of certifying the robustness of neural networks (NNs) against adversarial perturbations. The proposed Double…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Aryan Gupta , Sarthak Gupta , Abhay Kumar , Harsh Dugar

In-network distributed estimation of sparse parameter vectors via diffusion LMS strategies has been studied and investigated in recent years. In all the existing works, some convex regularization approach has been used at each node of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Bijit Kumar Das , Mrityunjoy Chakraborty , Jerónimo Arenas-García

We introduce Latent Space Distribution Matching (LSDM), a novel framework for semi-supervised generative modeling of conditional distributions. LSDM operates in two stages: (i) learning a low-dimensional latent space from both paired and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-05 Kwong Yu Chong , Long Feng