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Transformers have excelled in natural language modeling and one reason behind this success is their exceptional ability to combine contextual informal and global knowledge. However, the theoretical basis remains unclear. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Yunwei Ren , Zixuan Wang , Jason D. Lee

Kernel methods are ubiquitous tools in machine learning. However, there is often little reason for the common practice of selecting a kernel a priori. Even if a universal approximating kernel is selected, the quality of the finite sample…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-01-31 Junier Oliva , Avinava Dubey , Andrew G. Wilson , Barnabas Poczos , Jeff Schneider , Eric P. Xing

Machine learning models can learn from data samples to carry out various tasks efficiently. When data samples are adversarially manipulated, such as by insertion of carefully crafted noise, it can cause the model to make mistakes. Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Emma Andrews , Sahan Sanjaya , Prabhat Mishra

We present a new algorithm to train a robust malware detector. Modern malware detectors rely on machine learning algorithms. Now, the adversarial objective is to devise alterations to the malware code to decrease the chance of being…

Partial Bayesian neural networks (pBNNs) have been shown to perform competitively with fully Bayesian neural networks while only having a subset of the parameters be stochastic. Using sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) samplers as the inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Andrew Millard , Joshua Murphy , Simon Maskell , Zheng Zhao

GAIL is a recent successful imitation learning architecture that exploits the adversarial training procedure introduced in GANs. Albeit successful at generating behaviours similar to those demonstrated to the agent, GAIL suffers from a high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Lionel Blondé , Alexandros Kalousis

Achieving robust uncertainty quantification for deep neural networks represents an important requirement in many real-world applications of deep learning such as medical imaging where it is necessary to assess the reliability of a neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Tim Rensmeyer , Oliver Niggemann

The Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) was recently introduced in the literature as a novel machine learning method for training generative models. It has many applications in statistics such as nonparametric clustering and nonparametric…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-26 Sehwan Kim , Qifan Song , Faming Liang

Adversarial attacks by generating examples which are almost indistinguishable from natural examples, pose a serious threat to learning models. Defending against adversarial attacks is a critical element for a reliable learning system.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Huimin Wu , Zhengmian Hu , Bin Gu

Susceptibility of deep neural networks to adversarial attacks poses a major theoretical and practical challenge. All efforts to harden classifiers against such attacks have seen limited success. Two distinct categories of samples to which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Partha Ghosh , Arpan Losalka , Michael J Black

We propose a framework for adversarial training that relies on a sample rather than a single sample point as the fundamental unit of discrimination. Inspired by discrepancy measures and two-sample tests between probability distributions, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Chengtao Li , David Alvarez-Melis , Keyulu Xu , Stefanie Jegelka , Suvrit Sra

In the context of solving inverse problems for physics applications within a Bayesian framework, we present a new approach, Markov Chain Generative Adversarial Neural Networks (MCGANs), to alleviate the computational costs associated with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-08 Nikolaj T. Mücke , Benjamin Sanderse , Sander Bohté , Cornelis W. Oosterlee

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a class of machine-learning models that use adversarial training to generate new samples with the same (potentially very complex) statistics as the training samples. One major form of training…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-12-12 Steven Durr , Youssef Mroueh , Yuhai Tu , Shenshen Wang

A framework is introduced for actively and adaptively solving a sequence of machine learning problems, which are changing in bounded manner from one time step to the next. An algorithm is developed that actively queries the labels of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Yuheng Bu , Jiaxun Lu , Venugopal V. Veeravalli

In real-world classification tasks, it is difficult to collect training samples from all possible categories of the environment. Therefore, when an instance of an unseen class appears in the prediction stage, a robust classifier should be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Yang Yu , Wei-Yang Qu , Nan Li , Zimin Guo

Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) require scalable sampling algorithms to approximate posterior distributions over parameters. Existing stochastic gradient Markov Chain Monte Carlo (SGMCMC) methods are highly sensitive to the choice of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Rajit Rajpal , Benedict Leimkuhler , Yuanhao Jiang

Many engineering problems require the prediction of realization-to-realization variability or a refined description of modeled quantities. In that case, it is necessary to sample elements from unknown high-dimensional spaces with possibly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-01-05 Malik Hassanaly , Andrew Glaws , Karen Stengel , Ryan N. King

We present a new algorithm to learn a deep neural network model robust against adversarial attacks. Previous algorithms demonstrate an adversarially trained Bayesian Neural Network (BNN) provides improved robustness. We recognize the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Bao Gia Doan , Ehsan Abbasnejad , Javen Qinfeng Shi , Damith C. Ranasinghe

Drawing inspiration from the achievements of natural language processing, we adopt self-supervised learning and utilize an equivariant graph neural network to develop a unified platform designed for training generative models capable of…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-21 Fangze Liu , Zhantao Chen , Tianyi Liu , Ruyi Song , Yu Lin , Joshua J. Turner , Chunjing Jia

Traditional GANs use a deterministic generator function (typically a neural network) to transform a random noise input $z$ to a sample $\mathbf{x}$ that the discriminator seeks to distinguish. We propose a new GAN called Bayesian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-20 M. Ehsan Abbasnejad , Qinfeng Shi , Iman Abbasnejad , Anton van den Hengel , Anthony Dick