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We address the problem of efficiently computing Wasserstein distances for multiple pairs of distributions drawn from a meta-distribution. To this end, we propose a fast estimation method based on regressing Wasserstein distance on sliced…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-04 Khai Nguyen , Hai Nguyen , Nhat Ho

Image attribution -- matching an image back to a trusted source -- is an emerging tool in the fight against online misinformation. Deep visual fingerprinting models have recently been explored for this purpose. However, they are not robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Maksym Andriushchenko , Xiaoyang Rebecca Li , Geoffrey Oxholm , Thomas Gittings , Tu Bui , Nicolas Flammarion , John Collomosse

Certified defenses such as randomized smoothing have shown promise towards building reliable machine learning systems against $\ell_p$-norm bounded attacks. However, existing methods are insufficient or unable to provably defend against…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Zhongkai Hao , Chengyang Ying , Yinpeng Dong , Hang Su , Jun Zhu , Jian Song

Developing reliable defenses against patch attacks on object detectors has attracted increasing interest. However, we identify that existing defense evaluations lack a unified and comprehensive framework, resulting in inconsistent and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Junhao Zheng , Jiahao Sun , Chenhao Lin , Zhengyu Zhao , Chen Ma , Chong Zhang , Cong Wang , Qian Wang , Chao Shen

In this paper, we present an adversarial unsupervised domain adaptation framework for object detection. Prior approaches utilize adversarial training based on cross entropy between the source and target domain distributions to learn a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Pengcheng Xu , Prudhvi Gurram , Gene Whipps , Rama Chellappa

Neural ranking models have achieved remarkable progress and are now widely deployed in real-world applications such as Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). However, like other neural architectures, they remain vulnerable to adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Jiawei Liu , Zhuo Chen , Rui Zhu , Miaokun Chen , Yuyang Gong , Wei Lu , Xiaofeng Wang

In this paper, a risk-aware motion control scheme is considered for mobile robots to avoid randomly moving obstacles when the true probability distribution of uncertainty is unknown. We propose a novel model predictive control (MPC) method…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Astghik Hakobyan , Insoon Yang

Real-world data is complex and often consists of objects that can be decomposed into multiple entities (e.g. images into pixels, graphs into interconnected nodes). Randomized smoothing is a powerful framework for making models provably…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Yan Scholten , Jan Schuchardt , Aleksandar Bojchevski , Stephan Günnemann

Randomness supports many critical functions in the field of machine learning (ML) including optimisation, data selection, privacy, and security. ML systems outsource the task of generating or harvesting randomness to the compiler, the cloud…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Pranav Dahiya , Ilia Shumailov , Ross Anderson

The availability and easy access to digital communication increase the risk of copyrighted material piracy. In order to detect illegal use or distribution of data, digital watermarking has been proposed as a suitable tool. It protects the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Bingyang Wen , Sergul Aydore

Sliced Wasserstein distances preserve properties of classic Wasserstein distances while being more scalable for computation and estimation in high dimensions. The goal of this work is to quantify this scalability from three key aspects: (i)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-18 Sloan Nietert , Ritwik Sadhu , Ziv Goldfeld , Kengo Kato

Multi-bit watermarking (MW) has been designed to enhance resistance against watermarking attacks, such as signal processing operations and geometric distortions. Various benchmark tools exist to assess this robustness through simulated…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Seung-Hun Nam , Jihyeon Kang , Daesik Kim , Namhyuk Ahn , Wonhyuk Ahn

Wasserstein metrics are increasingly being used as similarity scores for images treated as discrete measures on a grid, yet their behavior under noise remains poorly understood. In this work, we consider the sensitivity of the signed…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Erik Lager , Gilles Mordant , Amit Moscovich

Most researchers have tried to enhance the robustness of DNNs by revealing and repairing the vulnerability of DNNs with specialized adversarial examples. Parts of the attack examples have imperceptible perturbations restricted by Lp norm.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Yihao Huang , Liangru Sun , Qing Guo , Felix Juefei-Xu , Jiayi Zhu , Jincao Feng , Yang Liu , Geguang Pu

The quantization problem aims to find the best possible approximation of probability measures on ${\mathbb{R}}^d$ using finite, discrete measures. The Wasserstein distance is a typical choice to measure the quality of the approximation.…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-09-11 Rajmadan Lakshmanan , Alois Pichler

Deep learning-based visual perception models lack robustness when faced with camera motion perturbations in practice. The current certification process for assessing robustness is costly and time-consuming due to the extensive number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Hanjiang Hu , Zuxin Liu , Linyi Li , Jiacheng Zhu , Ding Zhao

This paper is a contribution to the reproducibility challenge in the field of machine learning, specifically addressing the issue of certifying the robustness of neural networks (NNs) against adversarial perturbations. The proposed Double…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Aryan Gupta , Sarthak Gupta , Abhay Kumar , Harsh Dugar

Randomized classifiers have been shown to provide a promising approach for achieving certified robustness against adversarial attacks in deep learning. However, most existing methods only leverage Gaussian smoothing noise and only work for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Dinghuai Zhang , Mao Ye , Chengyue Gong , Zhanxing Zhu , Qiang Liu

Digital watermarking enables protection against copyright infringement of images. Although existing methods embed watermarks imperceptibly and demonstrate robustness against attacks, they typically lack resilience against geometric…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Hannes Mareen , Lucas Antchougov , Glenn Van Wallendael , Peter Lambert

Adversarial patch attacks are among one of the most practical threat models against real-world computer vision systems. This paper studies certified and empirical defenses against patch attacks. We begin with a set of experiments showing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Ping-Yeh Chiang , Renkun Ni , Ahmed Abdelkader , Chen Zhu , Christoph Studer , Tom Goldstein