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We introduce Harmonic Robustness, a powerful and intuitive method to test the robustness of any machine-learning model either during training or in black-box real-time inference monitoring without ground-truth labels. It is based on…

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Over recent years, devising classification algorithms that are robust to adversarial perturbations has emerged as a challenging problem. In particular, deep neural nets (DNNs) seem to be susceptible to small imperceptible changes over test…

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Robustness to label noise is a critical property for weakly-supervised classifiers trained on massive datasets. Robustness to label noise is a critical property for weakly-supervised classifiers trained on massive datasets. In this paper,…

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The vulnerability to slight input perturbations is a worrying yet intriguing property of deep neural networks (DNNs). Despite many previous works studying the reason behind such adversarial behavior, the relationship between the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-07 Yujun Shi , Benben Liao , Guangyong Chen , Yun Liu , Ming-Ming Cheng , Jiashi Feng

Deep neural networks have achieved impressive performance on a variety of tasks, but their brittleness to distributional shifts remains a significant barrier to real-world deployment. In this paper, we propose a framework to analyse and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Divij Khaitan , Subhashis Banerjee

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. A range of defense methods have been proposed to train adversarially robust DNNs, among which adversarial training has demonstrated promising results. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Hanxun Huang , Yisen Wang , Sarah Monazam Erfani , Quanquan Gu , James Bailey , Xingjun Ma

The escalating threat of adversarial attacks on deep learning models, particularly in security-critical fields, has underscored the need for robust deep learning systems. Conventional robustness evaluations have relied on adversarial…

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Labelling of data for supervised learning can be costly and time-consuming and the risk of incorporating label noise in large data sets is imminent. When training a flexible discriminative model using a strictly proper loss, such noise will…

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Lifted neural networks (i.e. neural architectures explicitly optimizing over respective network potentials to determine the neural activities) can be combined with a type of adversarial training to gain robustness for internal as well as…

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Deep-learning-based NLP models are found to be vulnerable to word substitution perturbations. Before they are widely adopted, the fundamental issues of robustness need to be addressed. Along this line, we propose a formal framework to…

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Learning to Optimize is a recently proposed framework for learning optimization algorithms using reinforcement learning. In this paper, we explore learning an optimization algorithm for training shallow neural nets. Such high-dimensional…

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Neural network pruning has traditionally focused on weight-based criteria to achieve model compression, frequently overlooking the crucial balance between adversarial robustness and accuracy. Existing approaches often fail to preserve…

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With the tremendous advances in the architecture and scale of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) over the past few decades, they can easily reach or even exceed the performance of humans in certain tasks. However, a recently discovered…

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Despite extraordinary progress, current machine learning systems have been shown to be brittle against adversarial examples: seemingly innocuous but carefully crafted perturbations of test examples that cause machine learning predictors to…

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The robustness of deep neural networks is crucial to modern AI-enabled systems and should be formally verified. Sigmoid-like neural networks have been adopted in a wide range of applications. Due to their non-linearity, Sigmoid-like…

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Deep networks are well-known to be fragile to adversarial attacks. We conduct an empirical analysis of deep representations under the state-of-the-art attack method called PGD, and find that the attack causes the internal representation to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Chengzhi Mao , Ziyuan Zhong , Junfeng Yang , Carl Vondrick , Baishakhi Ray

We present a theoretical study of the robustness of parameterized networks to random input perturbations. Specifically, we analyze local robustness at a given network input by quantifying the probability that a small additive random…

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This paper proposes an attack-independent (non-adversarial training) technique for improving adversarial robustness of neural network models, with minimal loss of standard accuracy. We suggest creating a neighborhood around each training…

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Neural networks (NNs) are now routinely implemented on systems that must operate in uncertain environments, but the tools for formally analyzing how this uncertainty propagates to NN outputs are not yet commonplace. Computing tight bounds…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Michael Everett , Golnaz Habibi , Jonathan P. How

We focus on the robustness of neural networks for classification. To permit a fair comparison between methods to achieve robustness, we first introduce a standard based on the mensuration of a classifier's degradation. Then, we propose…

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