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Typical adversarial-training-based unsupervised domain adaptation methods are vulnerable when the source and target datasets are highly-complex or exhibit a large discrepancy between their data distributions. Recently, several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Guanyu Cai , Lianghua He , Mengchu Zhou , Hesham Alhumade , Die Hu

The safety and robustness of learning-based decision-making systems are under threats from adversarial examples, as imperceptible perturbations can mislead neural networks to completely different outputs. In this paper, we present an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Chao Tang , Yifei Fan , Anthony Yezzi

The Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved great success on a variety of computer vision tasks, however, they are highly vulnerable to adversarial attacks. To address this problem, we propose to improve the local smoothness of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Yaoyao Zhong , Weihong Deng

Adversarial Training (AT), which is commonly accepted as one of the most effective approaches defending against adversarial examples, can largely harm the standard performance, thus has limited usefulness on industrial-scale production and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Xiaofeng Mao , Yuefeng Chen , Ranjie Duan , Yao Zhu , Gege Qi , Shaokai Ye , Xiaodan Li , Rong Zhang , Hui Xue

Deep learning models are vulnerable to adversarial examples, posing critical security challenges in real-world applications. While Adversarial Training (AT ) is a widely adopted defense mechanism to enhance robustness, it often incurs a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Jing Zou , Shungeng Zhang , Meikang Qiu , Chong Li

Training deep reinforcement learning (RL) agents necessitates overcoming the highly unstable nonconvex stochastic optimization inherent in the trial-and-error mechanism. To tackle this challenge, we propose a physics-inspired optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Yao Lyu , Xiangteng Zhang , Shengbo Eben Li , Jingliang Duan , Letian Tao , Qing Xu , Lei He , Keqiang Li

Diffusion models have recently shown promise in offline RL. However, these methods often suffer from high training costs and slow convergence, particularly when using transformer-based denoising backbones. While several optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Zhiying Qiu , Tao Lin

Adversarial Training (AT) has been widely proved to be an effective method to improve the adversarial robustness against adversarial examples for Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). As a variant of AT, Adversarial Robustness Distillation (ARD) has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Shiji Zhao , Ranjie Duan , Xizhe Wang , Xingxing Wei

Linear Dynamical System (LDS) is an elegant mathematical framework for modeling and learning multivariate time series. However, in general, it is difficult to set the dimension of its hidden state space. A small number of hidden states may…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-12-04 Zitao Liu , Milos Hauskrecht

Randomized smoothing is a technique for providing provable robustness guarantees against adversarial attacks while making minimal assumptions about a classifier. This method relies on taking a majority vote of any base classifier over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Ambar Pal , Jeremias Sulam

Adversarial defense is a popular and important research area. Due to its intrinsic mechanism, one of the most straightforward and effective ways of defending attacks is to analyze the property of loss surface in the input space. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Jia Xu , Yiming Li , Yong Jiang , Shu-Tao Xia

Federated Learning (FL) is a machine learning paradigm that enables clients to jointly train a global model by aggregating the locally trained models without sharing any local training data. In practice, there can often be substantial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-11 M Yashwanth , Gaurav Kumar Nayak , Arya Singh , Yogesh Simmhan , Anirban Chakraborty

Although attention mechanisms have become fundamental components of deep learning models, they are vulnerable to perturbations, which may degrade the prediction performance and model interpretability. Adversarial training (AT) for attention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Shunsuke Kitada , Hitoshi Iyatomi

Semi-supervised learning for medical image segmentation is an important area of research for alleviating the huge cost associated with the construction of reliable large-scale annotations in the medical domain. Recent semi-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Chae Eun Lee , Hyelim Park , Yeong-Gil Shin , Minyoung Chung

Adversarial training has been actively studied in recent computer vision research to improve the robustness of models. However, due to the huge computational cost of generating adversarial samples, adversarial training methods are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Yihan Wu , Xinda Li , Florian Kerschbaum , Heng Huang , Hongyang Zhang

Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is computationally efficient but often yields inferior generalization compared to reinforcement learning (RL). This gap is primarily driven by RL's use of on-policy data. We propose a framework to bridge this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Miaosen Zhang , Yishan Liu , Shuxia Lin , Xu Yang , Qi Dai , Chong Luo , Weihao Jiang , Peng Hou , Anxiang Zeng , Xin Geng , Baining Guo

It is broadly known that deep neural networks are susceptible to being fooled by adversarial examples with perturbations imperceptible by humans. Various defenses have been proposed to improve adversarial robustness, among which adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Wei Wei , Jiahuan Zhou , Ying Wu

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a crucial technique in image processing, encoding, and understanding, especially for developing today's vision foundation models that utilize large-scale datasets without annotations to enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Chuang Niu , Wenjun Xia , Hongming Shan , Ge Wang

Neural networks lack adversarial robustness, i.e., they are vulnerable to adversarial examples that through small perturbations to inputs cause incorrect predictions. Further, trust is undermined when models give miscalibrated predictions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Yao Qin , Xuezhi Wang , Alex Beutel , Ed H. Chi

Model-based offline reinforcement learning trains policies using pre-collected datasets and learned environment models, eliminating the need for direct real-world environment interaction. However, this paradigm is inherently challenged by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Wang Luo , Haoran Li , Zicheng Zhang , Congying Han , Chi Zhou , Jiayu Lv , Tiande Guo