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We study the problem of adversarially robust self-supervised learning on graphs. In the contrastive learning framework, we introduce a new method that increases the adversarial robustness of the learned representations through i)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Nikola Jovanović , Zhao Meng , Lukas Faber , Roger Wattenhofer

We demonstrate a compactness result holding broadly across supervised learning with a general class of loss functions: Any hypothesis class $H$ is learnable with transductive sample complexity $m$ precisely when all of its finite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Julian Asilis , Siddartha Devic , Shaddin Dughmi , Vatsal Sharan , Shang-Hua Teng

In this paper, we consider the problem of replicable realizable PAC learning. We construct a particularly hard learning problem and show a sample complexity lower bound with a close to $(\log|H|)^{3/2}$ dependence on the size of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Kasper Green Larsen , Markus Engelund Mathiasen , Chirag Pabbaraju , Clement Svendsen

Robustness is critical for machine learning (ML) classifiers to ensure consistent performance in real-world applications where models may encounter corrupted or adversarial inputs. In particular, assessing the robustness of classifiers to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Georg Siedel , Ekagra Gupta , Andrey Morozov

Adversarial examples pose a unique challenge for deep learning systems. Despite recent advances in both attacks and defenses, there is still a lack of clarity and consensus in the community about the true nature and underlying properties of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Shishira R Maiya , Max Ehrlich , Vatsal Agarwal , Ser-Nam Lim , Tom Goldstein , Abhinav Shrivastava

It is necessary to improve the performance of some special classes or to particularly protect them from attacks in adversarial learning. This paper proposes a framework combining cost-sensitive classification and adversarial learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Haojing Shen , Sihong Chen , Ran Wang , Xizhao Wang

Several recent results provide theoretical insights into the phenomena of adversarial examples. Existing results, however, are often limited due to a gap between the simplicity of the models studied and the complexity of those deployed in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Jeremias Sulam , Ramchandran Muthukumar , Raman Arora

Recent continual learning approaches have primarily focused on mitigating catastrophic forgetting. Nevertheless, two critical areas have remained relatively unexplored: 1) evaluating the robustness of proposed methods and 2) ensuring the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Hikmat Khan , Pir Masoom Shah , Syed Farhan Alam Zaidi , Saif ul Islam , Qasim Zia

Deep neural networks are easily misled by adversarial examples. Although lots of defense methods are proposed, many of them are demonstrated to lose effectiveness when against properly performed adaptive attacks. How to evaluate the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Pengfei Xia , Ziqiang Li , Hongjing Niu , Bin Li

The phenomenon of adversarial examples in deep learning models has caused substantial concern over their reliability. While many deep neural networks have shown impressive performance in terms of predictive accuracy, it has been shown that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Sadia Chowdhury , Ruth Urner

We continue the study of statistical/computational tradeoffs in learning robust classifiers, following the recent work of Bubeck, Lee, Price and Razenshteyn who showed examples of classification tasks where (a) an efficient robust…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-06 Akshay Degwekar , Preetum Nakkiran , Vinod Vaikuntanathan

Contrastive Learning first extracts features from unlabeled data, followed by linear probing with labeled data. Adversarial Contrastive Learning (ACL) integrates Adversarial Training into the first phase to enhance feature robustness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Ngoc N. Tran , Lam Tran , Hoang Phan , Anh Bui , Tung Pham , Toan Tran , Dinh Phung , Trung Le

Deep neural networks have been shown to be susceptible to adversarial examples -- small, imperceptible changes constructed to cause mis-classification in otherwise highly accurate image classifiers. As a practical alternative, recent work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Sukrut Rao , David Stutz , Bernt Schiele

Neural networks are known to be highly sensitive to adversarial examples. These may arise due to different factors, such as random initialization, or spurious correlations in the learning problem. To better understand these factors, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-05 Elvis Dohmatob , Alberto Bietti

Despite being widely adopted as a canonical framework for learning robust models, adversarial training suffers from robust overfitting. Existing empirical measures and theoretical explorations are insufficient to provide satisfying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yuelin Xu , Xiao Zhang

We study learning in a dynamically evolving environment modeled as a Markov game between a learner and a strategic opponent that can adapt to the learner's strategies. While most existing works in Markov games focus on external regret as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Thanh Nguyen-Tang , Raman Arora

Recent works have demonstrated convolutional neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, i.e., inputs to machine learning models that an attacker has intentionally designed to cause the models to make a mistake. To improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Xianxu Hou , Jingxin Liu , Bolei Xu , Xiaolong Wang , Bozhi Liu , Guoping Qiu

Many existing deep learning models are vulnerable to adversarial examples that are imperceptible to humans. To address this issue, various methods have been proposed to design network architectures that are robust to one particular type of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Jia Liu , Yaochu Jin

Deep networks are well-known to be fragile to adversarial attacks, and adversarial training is one of the most popular methods used to train a robust model. To take advantage of unlabeled data, recent works have applied adversarial training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Xin Zou , Weiwei Liu

In many learning theory problems, a central role is played by a hypothesis class: we might assume that the data is labeled according to a hypothesis in the class (usually referred to as the realizable setting), or we might evaluate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Lunjia Hu , Charlotte Peale