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Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to small adversarial perturbations, which are tiny changes to the input data that appear insignificant but cause the model to produce drastically different outputs. Many defense methods require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Sedjro Salomon Hotegni , Sebastian Peitz

Contrastive learning (CL) is one of the most successful paradigms for self-supervised learning (SSL). In a principled way, it considers two augmented "views" of the same image as positive to be pulled closer, and all other images as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Chun-Hsiao Yeh , Cheng-Yao Hong , Yen-Chi Hsu , Tyng-Luh Liu , Yubei Chen , Yann LeCun

Recent studies have highlighted that deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial examples. In this paper, we improve the robustness of DNNs by utilizing techniques of Distance Metric Learning. Specifically, we incorporate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Pengcheng Li , Jinfeng Yi , Bowen Zhou , Lijun Zhang

In supervised learning, the presence of noise can have a significant impact on decision making. Since many classifiers do not take label noise into account in the derivation of the loss function, including the loss functions of logistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Dawei Dai , Donggen Li , Zhiguo Zhuang

Deep neural networks have established as a powerful tool for large scale supervised classification tasks. The state-of-the-art performances of deep neural networks are conditioned to the availability of large number of accurately labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Bharath Bhushan Damodaran , Rémi Flamary , Viven Seguy , Nicolas Courty

Contrastive learning (CL) methods effectively learn data representations in a self-supervision manner, where the encoder contrasts each positive sample over multiple negative samples via a one-vs-many softmax cross-entropy loss. By…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Huangjie Zheng , Xu Chen , Jiangchao Yao , Hongxia Yang , Chunyuan Li , Ya Zhang , Hao Zhang , Ivor Tsang , Jingren Zhou , Mingyuan Zhou

In the real world, data is often noisy, affecting not only the quality of features but also the accuracy of labels. Current research on mitigating label errors stems primarily from advances in deep learning, and a gap exists in exploring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Lukasz Sztukiewicz , Jack Henry Good , Artur Dubrawski

In deep learning (DL) systems, label noise in training datasets often degrades model performance, as models may learn incorrect patterns from mislabeled data. The area of Learning with Noisy Labels (LNL) has introduced methods to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Gordon Lim , Stefan Larson , Kevin Leach

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

Matching the performance of conditional Generative Adversarial Networks with little supervision is an important task, especially in venturing into new domains. We design a new training algorithm, which is robust to missing or ambiguous…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-11 Kiran Koshy Thekumparampil , Sewoong Oh , Ashish Khetan

Deep learning algorithms have been recently targeted by attackers due to their vulnerability. Several research studies have been conducted to address this issue and build more robust deep learning models. Non-continuous deep models are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Mohammed Hassanin , Nour Moustafa , Murat Tahtali

Designing objective functions robust to label noise is crucial for real-world classification algorithms. In this paper, we investigate the robustness to label noise of an $f$-divergence-based class of objective functions recently proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Nicola Novello , Andrea M. Tonello

Curriculum learning (CL) aims to increase the performance of a learner on a given task by applying a specialized learning strategy. This strategy focuses on either the dataset, the task, or the model. There is little to no work analysing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Luca Scharr , Vanessa Toborek

Deep supervised learning has achieved remarkable success across a wide range of tasks, yet it remains susceptible to overfitting when confronted with noisy labels. To address this issue, noise-robust loss functions offer an effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Xichen Ye , Yifan Wu , Yiqi Wang , Xiaoqiang Li , Weizhong Zhang , Yifan Chen

Modern machine learning and deep learning models are shown to be vulnerable when testing data are slightly perturbed. Existing theoretical studies of adversarial training algorithms mostly focus on either adversarial training losses or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-07 Yue Xing , Qifan Song , Guang Cheng

The highly non-linear nature of deep neural networks causes them to be susceptible to adversarial examples and have unstable gradients which hinders interpretability. However, existing methods to solve these issues, such as adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Suraj Srinivas , Kyle Matoba , Himabindu Lakkaraju , Francois Fleuret

It has been reported that deep learning models are extremely vulnerable to small but intentionally chosen perturbations of its input. In particular, a deep network, despite its near-optimal accuracy on the clean images, often mis-classifies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-16 A. Tuan Nguyen , Ser Nam Lim , Philip Torr

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) trained with logistic and softmax losses have made significant advancement in visual recognition tasks in computer vision. When training data exhibit class imbalances, the class-wise reweighted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Xiangrui Li , Xin Li , Deng Pan , Dongxiao Zhu

Curriculum Learning (CL) is a meta-learning paradigm that trains a model by feeding the data instances incrementally according to a schedule, which is based on difficulty progression. Defining meaningful difficulty assessment measures is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Gaspard Abel , Eloi Campagne , Mohamed Benloughmari , Argyris Kalogeratos

Supervised learning of deep neural networks heavily relies on large-scale datasets annotated by high-quality labels. In contrast, mislabeled samples can significantly degrade the generalization of models and result in memorizing samples,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Tsung-Ming Tai , Yun-Jie Jhang , Wen-Jyi Hwang