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In the recent quest for trustworthy neural networks, we present Spiking Neural Network (SNN) as a potential candidate for inherent robustness against adversarial attacks. In this work, we demonstrate that adversarial accuracy of SNNs under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Saima Sharmin , Nitin Rathi , Priyadarshini Panda , Kaushik Roy

We propose an unsupervised approach for learning end-to-end reconstruction operators for ill-posed inverse problems. The proposed method combines the classical variational framework with iterative unrolling, which essentially seeks to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Subhadip Mukherjee , Marcello Carioni , Ozan Öktem , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Adversarial examples are perturbed inputs that are designed (from a deep learning network's (DLN) parameter gradients) to mislead the DLN during test time. Intuitively, constraining the dimensionality of inputs or parameters of a network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Priyadarshini Panda , Indranil Chakraborty , Kaushik Roy

Neural networks have led to major improvements in image classification but suffer from being non-robust to adversarial changes, unreliable uncertainty estimates on out-distribution samples and their inscrutable black-box decisions. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Maximilian Augustin , Alexander Meinke , Matthias Hein

It is common practice in deep learning to use overparameterized networks and train for as long as possible; there are numerous studies that show, both theoretically and empirically, that such practices surprisingly do not unduly harm the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Leslie Rice , Eric Wong , J. Zico Kolter

We analyze the effect of quantizing weights and activations of neural networks on their loss and derive a simple regularization scheme that improves robustness against post-training quantization. By training quantization-ready networks, our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Milad Alizadeh , Arash Behboodi , Mart van Baalen , Christos Louizos , Tijmen Blankevoort , Max Welling

Training certifiable neural networks enables one to obtain models with robustness guarantees against adversarial attacks. In this work, we introduce a framework to bound the adversary-free region in the neighborhood of the input data by a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Chen Liu , Mathieu Salzmann , Sabine Süsstrunk

Solving image classification tasks given small training datasets remains an open challenge for modern computer vision. Aggressive data augmentation and generative models are among the most straightforward approaches to overcoming the lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Lorenzo Brigato , Stavroula Mougiakakou

Robustness against unwanted perturbations is an important aspect of deploying neural network classifiers in the real world. Common natural perturbations include noise, saturation, occlusion, viewpoint changes, and blur deformations. All of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Sadaf Gulshad , Ivan Sosnovik , Arnold Smeulders

Survival Analysis (SA) models the time until an event occurs, with applications in fields like medicine, defense, finance, and aerospace. Recent research indicates that Neural Networks (NNs) can effectively capture complex data patterns in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-08 Michael Potter , Stefano Maxenti , Michael Everett

Neural networks have emerged as effective tools for solving ill-posed inverse problems. In many scientific applications, however, observational training data are insufficient, and learned inverse operators must instead be trained on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Sandra R. Babyale , Jodi Mead

We introduce Noise Injection Node Regularization (NINR), a method of injecting structured noise into Deep Neural Networks (DNN) during the training stage, resulting in an emergent regularizing effect. We present theoretical and empirical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Noam Levi , Itay M. Bloch , Marat Freytsis , Tomer Volansky

Neural networks are vulnerable to small adversarial perturbations. Existing literature largely focused on understanding and mitigating the vulnerability of learned models. In this paper, we demonstrate an intriguing phenomenon about the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Gavin Weiguang Ding , Kry Yik Chau Lui , Xiaomeng Jin , Luyu Wang , Ruitong Huang

Recent work has uncovered the interesting (and somewhat surprising) finding that training models to be invariant to adversarial perturbations requires substantially larger datasets than those required for standard classification. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Jonathan Uesato , Jean-Baptiste Alayrac , Po-Sen Huang , Robert Stanforth , Alhussein Fawzi , Pushmeet Kohli

Overparameterized neural networks can be highly accurate on average on an i.i.d. test set yet consistently fail on atypical groups of the data (e.g., by learning spurious correlations that hold on average but not in such groups).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Shiori Sagawa , Pang Wei Koh , Tatsunori B. Hashimoto , Percy Liang

The reinforcement learning (RL) problem is rife with sources of non-stationarity, making it a notoriously difficult problem domain for the application of neural networks. We identify a mechanism by which non-stationary prediction targets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Clare Lyle , Mark Rowland , Will Dabney

Adversarial training is an effective method to boost model robustness to malicious, adversarial attacks. However, such improvement in model robustness often leads to a significant sacrifice of standard performance on clean images. In many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Pengyue Hou , Ming Zhou , Jie Han , Petr Musilek , Xingyu Li

Despite the success of input transformation-based attacks on boosting adversarial transferability, the performance is unsatisfying due to the ignorance of the discrepancy across models. In this paper, we propose a simple but effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Donghua Wang , Wen Yao , Tingsong Jiang , Xiaohu Zheng , Junqi Wu , Xiaoqian Chen

Equivariance is a powerful inductive bias in neural networks, improving generalisation and physical consistency. Recently, however, non-equivariant models have regained attention, due to their better runtime performance and imperfect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Torben Berndt , Jan Stühmer

The notion of developing statistical methods in machine learning which are robust to adversarial perturbations in the underlying data has been the subject of increasing interest in recent years. A common feature of this work is that the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-02-28 Dimitris Bertsimas , Martin S. Copenhaver