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Image classification systems recently made a giant leap with the advancement of deep neural networks. However, these systems require an excessive amount of labeled data to be adequately trained. Gathering a correctly annotated dataset is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Görkem Algan , Ilkay Ulusoy

Investigation of machine learning algorithms robust to changes between the training and test distributions is an active area of research. In this paper we explore a special type of dataset shift which we call class-dependent domain shift.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Tigran Galstyan , Hrant Khachatrian , Greg Ver Steeg , Aram Galstyan

It is becoming increasingly important to understand the vulnerability of machine learning models to adversarial attacks. In this paper we study the feasibility of robust learning from the perspective of computational learning theory,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Pascale Gourdeau , Varun Kanade , Marta Kwiatkowska , James Worrell

Recent advances in deep learning have relied on large, labelled datasets to train high-capacity models. However, collecting large datasets in a time- and cost-efficient manner often results in label noise. We present a method for learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Ahmet Iscen , Jack Valmadre , Anurag Arnab , Cordelia Schmid

We propose a novel framework to perform classification via deep learning in the presence of noisy annotations. When trained on noisy labels, deep neural networks have been observed to first fit the training data with clean labels during an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Sheng Liu , Jonathan Niles-Weed , Narges Razavian , Carlos Fernandez-Granda

Deep learning has achieved remarkable success in numerous domains with help from large amounts of big data. However, the quality of data labels is a concern because of the lack of high-quality labels in many real-world scenarios. As noisy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Hwanjun Song , Minseok Kim , Dongmin Park , Yooju Shin , Jae-Gil Lee

We introduce a new model of membership query (MQ) learning, where the learning algorithm is restricted to query points that are \emph{close} to random examples drawn from the underlying distribution. The learning model is intermediate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-04-19 Pranjal Awasthi , Vitaly Feldman , Varun Kanade

Neural networks are central to modern artificial intelligence, yet their training remains highly sensitive to data contamination. Standard neural classifiers are trained by minimizing the categorical cross-entropy loss, corresponding to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-19 Suryasis Jana , Abhik Ghosh

For classification tasks, deep neural networks are prone to overfitting in the presence of label noise. Although existing methods are able to alleviate this problem at low noise levels, they encounter significant performance reduction at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Jingyi Xu , Tony Q. S. Quek , Kai Fong Ernest Chong

Locating a target is key in many applications, namely in high-stakes real-world scenarios, like detecting humans or obstacles in vehicular networks. In scenarios where precise statistics of the measurement noise are unavailable,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-17 João Domingos , Cláudia Soares , João Xavier

We propose a sequential quadratic programming (SQP) algorithm for inequality constrained optimization that is robust to the presence of bounded noise in function and derivative evaluations. We cover the case where constraint evaluations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Figen Oztoprak , Richard Byrd

Foundation models (FMs) pretrained on large datasets have become fundamental for various downstream machine learning tasks, in particular in scenarios where obtaining perfectly labeled data is prohibitively expensive. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Ecem Bozkurt , Antonio Ortega

We study the fundamental problem of learning the parameters of a high-dimensional Gaussian in the presence of noise -- where an $\varepsilon$-fraction of our samples were chosen by an adversary. We give robust estimators that achieve…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Ilias Diakonikolas , Gautam Kamath , Daniel M. Kane , Jerry Li , Ankur Moitra , Alistair Stewart

We study the problem of learning adversarially robust halfspaces in the distribution-independent setting. In the realizable setting, we provide necessary and sufficient conditions on the adversarial perturbation sets under which halfspaces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Omar Montasser , Surbhi Goel , Ilias Diakonikolas , Nathan Srebro

Accurate noise modelling is important for training of deep learning reconstruction algorithms. While noise models are well known for traditional imaging techniques, the noise distribution of a novel sensor may be difficult to determine a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Felix Horger , Tobias Würfl , Vincent Christlein , Andreas Maier

This work introduces Bilinear Classes, a new structural framework, which permit generalization in reinforcement learning in a wide variety of settings through the use of function approximation. The framework incorporates nearly all existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Simon S. Du , Sham M. Kakade , Jason D. Lee , Shachar Lovett , Gaurav Mahajan , Wen Sun , Ruosong Wang

We study the problem of learning robust acoustic models in adverse environments, characterized by a significant mismatch between training and test conditions. This problem is of paramount importance for the deployment of speech recognition…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Dino Oglic , Zoran Cvetkovic , Peter Sollich , Steve Renals , Bin Yu

The problem of designing learners that provide guarantees that their predictions are provably correct is of increasing importance in machine learning. However, learning theoretic guarantees have only been considered in very specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Maria-Florina Balcan , Steve Hanneke , Rattana Pukdee , Dravyansh Sharma

For a given stable recurrent neural network (RNN) that is trained to perform a classification task using sequential inputs, we quantify explicit robustness bounds as a function of trainable weight matrices. The sequential inputs can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Guangyi Liu , Arash Amini , Martin Takac , Nader Motee

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) effectively trains reasoning models that rely on abundant perfect labels, but its vulnerability to unavoidable noisy labels due to expert scarcity remains critically underexplored. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Shenzhi Yang , Guangcheng Zhu , Bowen Song , Sharon Li , Haobo Wang , Xing Zheng , Yingfan Ma , Zhongqi Chen , Weiqiang Wang , Gang Chen