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In this paper, by proposing two new kinds of distributional uncertainty sets, we explore robustness of distortion risk measures against distributional uncertainty. To be precise, we first consider a distributional uncertainty set which is…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2025-08-15 Xiangyu Han , Yijun Hu , Ran Wang , Linxiao Wei

Inband full-duplex communication requires accurate modeling and cancellation of self-interference, specifically in the digital domain. Neural networks are presently candidate models for capturing nonlinearity of the self-interference path.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Gerald Enzner , Niklas Knaepper , Aleksej Chinaev

Large language models adapt to new tasks through in-context learning (ICL) without parameter updates. Current theoretical explanations for this capability assume test tasks are drawn from a distribution similar to that seen during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Di Zhang

Several recent papers have discussed utilizing Lipschitz constants to limit the susceptibility of neural networks to adversarial examples. We analyze recently proposed methods for computing the Lipschitz constant. We show that the Lipschitz…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Todd Huster , Cho-Yu Jason Chiang , Ritu Chadha

It is well known that the generative adversarial nets (GANs) are remarkably difficult to train. The recently proposed Wasserstein GAN (WGAN) creates principled research directions towards addressing these issues. But we found in practice…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Lijun Zhang , Yujin Zhang , Yongbin Gao

We propose a variational approach to approximate measures with measures uniformly distributed over a 1 dimentional set. The problem consists in minimizing a Wasserstein distance as a data term with a regularization given by the length of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-17 Antonin Chambolle , Vincent Duval , Joao Miguel Machado

Despite the efficacy on a variety of computer vision tasks, deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, limiting their applications in security-critical systems. Recent works have shown the possibility of generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-21 Ziang Yan , Yiwen Guo , Changshui Zhang

In this paper, we refine and generalize closed forms for worst-case law invariant convex risk measures with uncertainty sets based on: i) closed balls under $p$-norms and Wasserstein distance; and ii) moment constraints involving mean and…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2025-07-30 Marcelo Righi , Fernanda Müller

This paper targets the task with discrete and periodic class labels ($e.g.,$ pose/orientation estimation) in the context of deep learning. The commonly used cross-entropy or regression loss is not well matched to this problem as they ignore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Xiaofeng Liu , Yang Zou , Tong Che , Peng Ding , Ping Jia , Jane You , Kumar B. V. K

In this paper, we study the robustness of classical deep hedging strategies under distributional shifts by leveraging the concept of adversarial attacks. We first demonstrate that standard deep hedging models are highly vulnerable to small…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Guangyi He , Tobias Sutter , Lukas Gonon

We propose a test-time defense mechanism against adversarial attacks: imperceptible image perturbations that significantly alter the predictions of a model. Unlike existing methods that rely on feature filtering or smoothing, which can lead…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Dong Lao , Yuxiang Zhang , Haniyeh Ehsani Oskouie , Yangchao Wu , Alex Wong , Stefano Soatto

In federated learning, participating clients typically possess non-i.i.d. data, posing a significant challenge to generalization to unseen distributions. To address this, we propose a Wasserstein distributionally robust optimization scheme…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Tung-Anh Nguyen , Tuan Dung Nguyen , Long Tan Le , Canh T. Dinh , Nguyen H. Tran

The Wasserstein distance $\mathcal{W}_p$ is an important instance of an optimal transport cost. Its numerous mathematical properties as well as applications to various fields such as mathematical finance and statistics have been well…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-09 Jose Blanchet , Martin Larsson , Jonghwa Park , Johannes Wiesel

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

This paper proposes a distributionally robust approach to logistic regression. We use the Wasserstein distance to construct a ball in the space of probability distributions centered at the uniform distribution on the training samples. If…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-02 Soroosh Shafieezadeh-Abadeh , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani , Daniel Kuhn

In the burgeoning age of generative AI, watermarks act as identifiers of provenance and artificial content. We present WAVES (Watermark Analysis Via Enhanced Stress-testing), a benchmark for assessing image watermark robustness, overcoming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Bang An , Mucong Ding , Tahseen Rabbani , Aakriti Agrawal , Yuancheng Xu , Chenghao Deng , Sicheng Zhu , Abdirisak Mohamed , Yuxin Wen , Tom Goldstein , Furong Huang

Current image watermarking methods are vulnerable to advanced image editing techniques enabled by large-scale text-to-image models. These models can distort embedded watermarks during editing, posing significant challenges to copyright…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Shilin Lu , Zihan Zhou , Jiayou Lu , Yuanzhi Zhu , Adams Wai-Kin Kong

Watermarking is an operation of embedding an information into an image in a way that allows to identify ownership of the image despite applying some distortions on it. In this paper, we presented a novel end-to-end solution for embedding…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Marcin Plata , Piotr Syga

The safety and robustness of learning-based decision-making systems are under threats from adversarial examples, as imperceptible perturbations can mislead neural networks to completely different outputs. In this paper, we present an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Chao Tang , Yifei Fan , Anthony Yezzi

In this work, we introduce a novel framework for privately optimizing objectives that rely on Wasserstein distances between data-dependent empirical measures. Our main theoretical contribution is, based on an explicit formulation of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 David Rodríguez-Vítores , Clément Lalanne , Jean-Michel Loubes