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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Franziska Eberle , Alexander Lindermayr , Nicole Megow , Lukas Nölke , Jens Schlöter

The adversarial robustness of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) has been questioned due to the false sense of security uncovered by strong adaptive attacks despite the existence of numerous defenses. In this work, we delve into the robustness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Zhichao Hou , Ruiqi Feng , Tyler Derr , Xiaorui Liu

Neural networks are prone to misclassify slightly modified input images. Recently, many defences have been proposed, but none have improved the robustness of neural networks consistently. Here, we propose to use adversarial attacks as a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Shashank Kotyan , Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas

This work aims to address an open problem in data valuation literature concerning the efficient computation of Data Shapley for weighted $K$ nearest neighbor algorithm (WKNN-Shapley). By considering the accuracy of hard-label KNN with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Jiachen T. Wang , Prateek Mittal , Ruoxi Jia

The k-Nearest Neighbors (kNN) classifier is a fundamental non-parametric machine learning algorithm. However, it is well known that it suffers from the curse of dimensionality, which is why in practice one often applies a kNN classifier on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Luka Rimanic , Cedric Renggli , Bo Li , Ce Zhang

Despite the recent advances of graph neural networks (GNNs) in modeling graph data, the training of GNNs on large datasets is notoriously hard due to the overfitting. Adversarial training, which augments data with the worst-case adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Haotian Xue , Kaixiong Zhou , Tianlong Chen , Kai Guo , Xia Hu , Yi Chang , Xin Wang

In this paper, we take a first step towards answering the question of how to design fair machine learning algorithms that are robust to adversarial attacks. Using a minimax framework, we aim to design an adversarially robust fair regression…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Yulu Jin , Lifeng Lai

As machine learning techniques become increasingly prevalent in data analysis, the threat of adversarial attacks has surged, necessitating robust defense mechanisms. Among these defenses, methods exploiting low-rank approximations for input…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Manish Bhattarai , Mehmet Cagri Kaymak , Ryan Barron , Ben Nebgen , Kim Rasmussen , Boian Alexandrov

The reliability of deep learning algorithms is fundamentally challenged by the existence of adversarial examples, which are incorrectly classified inputs that are extremely close to a correctly classified input. We explore the properties of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-23 Giacomo De Palma , Bobak T. Kiani , Seth Lloyd

Collective learning methods exploit relations among data points to enhance classification performance. However, such relations, represented as edges in the underlying graphical model, expose an extra attack surface to the adversaries. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Kai Zhou , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly being used in a variety of traditional radiofrequency (RF) problems. Previous work has shown that while DNN classifiers are typically more accurate than traditional signal processing algorithms,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Roman A. Sandler , Peter K. Relich , Cloud Cho , Sean Holloway

In practice, deep neural networks have been found to be vulnerable to various types of noise, such as adversarial examples and corruption. Various adversarial defense methods have accordingly been developed to improve adversarial robustness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Aishan Liu , Xianglong Liu , Chongzhi Zhang , Hang Yu , Qiang Liu , Dacheng Tao

When data is of an extraordinarily large size or physically stored in different locations, the distributed nearest neighbor (NN) classifier is an attractive tool for classification. We propose a novel distributed adaptive NN classifier for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-06 Ruiqi Liu , Ganggang Xu , Zuofeng Shang

It is well-known that machine learning models are vulnerable to small but cleverly-designed adversarial perturbations that can cause misclassification. While there has been major progress in designing attacks and defenses for various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Payam Delgosha , Hamed Hassani , Ramtin Pedarsani

We propose a general framework for increasing local stability of Artificial Neural Nets (ANNs) using Robust Optimization (RO). We achieve this through an alternating minimization-maximization procedure, in which the loss of the network is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-07 Uri Shaham , Yutaro Yamada , Sahand Negahban

Motivated by applications in computer vision and databases, we introduce and study the Simultaneous Nearest Neighbor Search (SNN) problem. Given a set of data points, the goal of SNN is to design a data structure that, given a collection of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-11 Piotr Indyk , Robert Kleinberg , Sepideh Mahabadi , Yang Yuan

The increasing size of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) poses a pressing need for model compression, particularly when employed on resource constrained devices. Concurrently, the susceptibility of DNNs to adversarial attacks presents another…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Brijesh Vora , Kartik Patwari , Syed Mahbub Hafiz , Zubair Shafiq , Chen-Nee Chuah

Neural Probabilistic Circuits (NPCs), a new class of concept bottleneck models, comprise an attribute recognition model and a probabilistic circuit for reasoning. By integrating the outputs from these two modules, NPCs produce compositional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Weixin Chen , Han Zhao

A wide range of defenses have been proposed to harden neural networks against adversarial attacks. However, a pattern has emerged in which the majority of adversarial defenses are quickly broken by new attacks. Given the lack of success at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Ali Shafahi , W. Ronny Huang , Christoph Studer , Soheil Feizi , Tom Goldstein

Neural networks have revolutionized various domains, exhibiting remarkable accuracy in tasks like natural language processing and computer vision. However, their vulnerability to slight alterations in input samples poses challenges,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Shashank Kotyan , Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas