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We aim to construct a class of learning algorithms that are of practical value to applied researchers in fields such as biostatistics, epidemiology and econometrics, where the need to learn from incompletely observed information is…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-02-09 Alicia Curth , Ahmed M. Alaa , Mihaela van der Schaar

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are found to be vulnerable to adversarial noise. They are typically misled by adversarial samples to make wrong predictions. To alleviate this negative effect, in this paper, we investigate the dependence between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Dawei Zhou , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao , Bo Han , Xiaoyu Wang , Yibing Zhan , Tongliang Liu

Quantum Federated Learning (QFL) merges privacy-preserving federation with quantum computing gains, yet its resilience to adversarial noise is unknown. We first show that QFL is as fragile as centralized quantum learning. We propose Robust…

Neural networks are proven to be remarkably successful for classification and diagnosis in medical applications. However, the ambiguity in the decision-making process and the interpretability of the learned features is a matter of concern.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Ashkan Khakzar , Shadi Albarqouni , Nassir Navab

Sensitivity to adversarial noise hinders deployment of machine learning algorithms in security-critical applications. Although many adversarial defenses have been proposed, robustness to adversarial noise remains an open problem. The most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Alex Serban , Erik Poll , Joost Visser

Despite breakthrough performance, modern learning models are known to be highly vulnerable to small adversarial perturbations in their inputs. While a wide variety of recent \emph{adversarial training} methods have been effective at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Adel Javanmard , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi , Hamed Hassani

We investigate the adversarial robustness of CNNs from the perspective of channel-wise activations. By comparing \textit{non-robust} (normally trained) and \textit{robustified} (adversarially trained) models, we observe that adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Hanshu Yan , Jingfeng Zhang , Gang Niu , Jiashi Feng , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Masashi Sugiyama

In this work, we focus on the use of influence functions to identify relevant training examples that one might hope "explain" the predictions of a machine learning model. One shortcoming of influence functions is that the training examples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Elnaz Barshan , Marc-Etienne Brunet , Gintare Karolina Dziugaite

Adversarial training has been proven to be an effective technique for improving the adversarial robustness of models. However, there seems to be an inherent trade-off between optimizing the model for accuracy and robustness. To this end, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Elahe Arani , Fahad Sarfraz , Bahram Zonooz

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

Inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL) learns an optimal policy, given some expert demonstrations, thus avoiding the need for the tedious process of specifying a suitable reward function. However, current methods are constrained by at least…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Pierre Le Pelletier de Woillemont , Rémi Labory , Vincent Corruble

In this paper we propose a new family of algorithms, ATENT, for training adversarially robust deep neural networks. We formulate a new loss function that is equipped with an additional entropic regularization. Our loss function considers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Gauri Jagatap , Ameya Joshi , Animesh Basak Chowdhury , Siddharth Garg , Chinmay Hegde

Transfer learning, in which a network is trained on one task and re-purposed on another, is often used to produce neural network classifiers when data is scarce or full-scale training is too costly. When the goal is to produce a model that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Ali Shafahi , Parsa Saadatpanah , Chen Zhu , Amin Ghiasi , Christoph Studer , David Jacobs , Tom Goldstein

Neural ranking models (NRMs) have shown great success in information retrieval (IR). But their predictions can easily be manipulated using adversarial examples, which are crafted by adding imperceptible perturbations to legitimate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Yu-An Liu , Ruqing Zhang , Mingkun Zhang , Wei Chen , Maarten de Rijke , Jiafeng Guo , Xueqi Cheng

Online reinforcement learning (RL) excels in complex, safety-critical domains but suffers from sample inefficiency, training instability, and limited interpretability. Data attribution provides a principled way to trace model behavior back…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Yuzheng Hu , Fan Wu , Haotian Ye , David Forsyth , James Zou , Nan Jiang , Jiaqi W. Ma , Han Zhao

We consider a problem of learning the reward and policy from expert examples under unknown dynamics. Our proposed method builds on the framework of generative adversarial networks and introduces the empowerment-regularized maximum-entropy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Ahmed H. Qureshi , Byron Boots , Michael C. Yip

We consider a model of robust learning in an adversarial environment. The learner gets uncorrupted training data with access to possible corruptions that may be affected by the adversary during testing. The learner's goal is to build a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Idan Attias , Aryeh Kontorovich , Yishay Mansour

Adversarial Training (AT) is one of the most effective methods for developing robust deep neural networks (DNNs). However, AT faces a trade-off problem between clean accuracy and adversarial robustness. In this work, we reveal a surprising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Yanyun Wang , Qingqing Ye , Li Liu , Zi Liang , Haibo Hu

One popular hypothesis of neural network generalization is that the flat local minima of loss surface in parameter space leads to good generalization. However, we demonstrate that loss surface in parameter space has no obvious relationship…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Fuxun Yu , Chenchen Liu , Yanzhi Wang , Liang Zhao , Xiang Chen

Intentionally crafted adversarial samples have effectively exploited weaknesses in deep neural networks. A standard method in adversarial robustness assumes a framework to defend against samples crafted by minimally perturbing a sample such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Anaelia Ovalle , Evan Czyzycki , Cho-Jui Hsieh