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Nonparametric regression models offer a way to understand and quantify relationships between variables without having to identify an appropriate family of possible regression functions. Although many estimation methods for these models have…

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We provide algorithms for regression with adversarial responses under large classes of non-i.i.d. instance sequences, on general separable metric spaces, with provably minimal assumptions. We also give characterizations of learnability in…

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Adversarial robustness of machine learning models has attracted considerable attention over recent years. Adversarial attacks undermine the reliability of and trust in machine learning models, but the construction of more robust models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Niklas Risse , Christina Göpfert , Jan Philip Göpfert

Adversarial training is a widely-applied approach to training deep neural networks to be robust against adversarial perturbation. However, although adversarial training has achieved empirical success in practice, it still remains unclear…

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Machine learning models are often susceptible to adversarial perturbations of their inputs. Even small perturbations can cause state-of-the-art classifiers with high "standard" accuracy to produce an incorrect prediction with high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Ludwig Schmidt , Shibani Santurkar , Dimitris Tsipras , Kunal Talwar , Aleksander Mądry

There are a number of hypotheses underlying the existence of adversarial examples for classification problems. These include the high-dimensionality of the data, high codimension in the ambient space of the data manifolds of interest, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Brian Bell , Michael Geyer , David Glickenstein , Keaton Hamm , Carlos Scheidegger , Amanda Fernandez , Juston Moore

Robustness of machine learning models is critical for security related applications, where real-world adversaries are uniquely focused on evading neural network based detectors. Prior work mainly focus on crafting adversarial examples (AEs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Ecenaz Erdemir , Jeffrey Bickford , Luca Melis , Sergul Aydore

Machine-learning models demand periodic updates to improve their average accuracy, exploiting novel architectures and additional data. However, a newly updated model may commit mistakes the previous model did not make. Such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Daniele Angioni , Luca Demetrio , Maura Pintor , Luca Oneto , Davide Anguita , Battista Biggio , Fabio Roli

Ideally, what confuses neural network should be confusing to humans. However, recent experiments have shown that small, imperceptible perturbations can change the network prediction. To address this gap in perception, we propose a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Alexander Matyasko , Lap-Pui Chau

Nearest neighbor has always been one of the most appealing non-parametric approaches in machine learning, pattern recognition, computer vision, etc. Previous empirical studies partly shows that nearest neighbor is resistant to noise, yet…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Wei Gao , Bin-Bin Yang , Zhi-Hua Zhou

Several recent works have shown that state-of-the-art classifiers are vulnerable to worst-case (i.e., adversarial) perturbations of the datapoints. On the other hand, it has been empirically observed that these same classifiers are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-09-02 Alhussein Fawzi , Seyed-Mohsen Moosavi-Dezfooli , Pascal Frossard

Cognitive diagnosis models have been popularly used in fields such as education, psychology, and social sciences. While parametric likelihood estimation is a prevailing method for fitting cognitive diagnosis models, nonparametric…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Chengyu Cui , Yanlong Liu , Gongjun Xu

Many modern methods for prediction leverage nearest neighbor search to find past training examples most similar to a test example, an idea that dates back in text to at least the 11th century and has stood the test of time. This monograph…

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The robustness of neural networks is challenged by adversarial examples that contain almost imperceptible perturbations to inputs, which mislead a classifier to incorrect outputs in high confidence. Limited by the extreme difficulty in…

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Thanks to their extensive capacity, over-parameterized neural networks exhibit superior predictive capabilities and generalization. However, having a large parameter space is considered one of the main suspects of the neural networks'…

In recent years there has been significant interest in the effect of different types of adversarial perturbations in data classification problems. Many of these models incorporate the adversarial power, which is an important parameter with…

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Most machine learning classifiers, including deep neural networks, are vulnerable to adversarial examples. Such inputs are typically generated by adding small but purposeful modifications that lead to incorrect outputs while imperceptible…

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Neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, i.e. inputs that are imperceptibly perturbed from natural data and yet incorrectly classified by the network. Adversarial training, a heuristic form of robust optimization that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Ruiqi Gao , Tianle Cai , Haochuan Li , Liwei Wang , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Jason D. Lee

In learning problems, the noise inherent to the task at hand hinders the possibility to infer without a certain degree of uncertainty. Quantifying this uncertainty, regardless of its wide use, assumes high relevance for security-sensitive…

Adversarial training is by far the most successful strategy for improving robustness of neural networks to adversarial attacks. Despite its success as a defense mechanism, adversarial training fails to generalize well to unperturbed test…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Yogesh Balaji , Tom Goldstein , Judy Hoffman