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Deep learning models are vulnerable to adversarial perturbations, raising important concerns for safety-critical deployment. Empirical defenses can achieve strong robustness in practice, but lack formal guarantees, motivating the need for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Konstantinos Emmanouilidis , Tianjiao Ding , Nghia Nguyen , Nicolas Loizou , René Vidal

Along with recent diffusion models, randomized smoothing has become one of a few tangible approaches that offers adversarial robustness to models at scale, e.g., those of large pre-trained models. Specifically, one can perform randomized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Jongheon Jeong , Jinwoo Shin

Federated learning has recently gained significant attention and popularity due to its effectiveness in training machine learning models on distributed data privately. However, as in the single-node supervised learning setup, models trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Motasem Alfarra , Juan C. Pérez , Egor Shulgin , Peter Richtárik , Bernard Ghanem

Tissue segmentation is the mainstay of pathological examination, whereas the manual delineation is unduly burdensome. To assist this time-consuming and subjective manual step, researchers have devised methods to automatically segment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-08 Yang Nan , Peng Tang , Guyue Zhang , Caihong Zeng , Zhihong Liu , Zhifan Gao , Heye Zhang , Guang Yang

Data noising is an effective technique for regularizing neural network models. While noising is widely adopted in application domains such as vision and speech, commonly used noising primitives have not been developed for discrete…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Ziang Xie , Sida I. Wang , Jiwei Li , Daniel Lévy , Aiming Nie , Dan Jurafsky , Andrew Y. Ng

We propose Adaptive Randomized Smoothing (ARS) to certify the predictions of our test-time adaptive models against adversarial examples. ARS extends the analysis of randomized smoothing using $f$-Differential Privacy to certify the adaptive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Saiyue Lyu , Shadab Shaikh , Frederick Shpilevskiy , Evan Shelhamer , Mathias Lécuyer

Randomized smoothing is a powerful tool for certifying robustness to adversarial perturbations, including poisoning attacks via randomized training and evasion attacks via randomized inference. Extending these guarantees to backdoor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Aman Saxena , Jan Schuchardt , Yan Scholten , Stephan Günnemann

Randomized smoothing has achieved state-of-the-art certified robustness against $l_2$-norm adversarial attacks. However, it is not wholly resolved on how to find the optimal base classifier for randomized smoothing. In this work, we employ…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Chizhou Liu , Yunzhen Feng , Ranran Wang , Bin Dong

Randomized methods of neural network learning suffer from a problem with the generation of random parameters as they are difficult to set optimally to obtain a good projection space. The standard method draws the parameters from a fixed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Grzegorz Dudek

Probabilistic smoothing is a standard tool for global optimization, but existing methods rely on Gaussian kernels and specific transforms, often resulting in strong hyperparameter sensitivity and limited robustness. We propose a general…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Kukyoung Jang , Taehyun Cho , Junrui Zhang , Ping Xu , Kyungjae Lee

Choosing appropriate hyperparameters plays a crucial role in the success of neural networks as hyper-parameters directly control the behavior and performance of the training algorithms. To obtain efficient tuning, Bayesian optimization…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-08 Jiazhao Zhang , Ying Hung , Chung-Ching Lin , Zicheng Liu

We propose new data-driven smooth tests for a parametric regression function. The smoothing parameter is selected through a new criterion that favors a large smoothing parameter under the null hypothesis. The resulting test is adaptive…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Emmanuel Guerre , Pascal Lavergne

The soft-argmax operation is widely adopted in neural network-based stereo matching methods to enable differentiable regression of disparity. However, network trained with soft-argmax is prone to being multimodal due to absence of explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Baiyu Pan , jichao jiao , Bowen Yao , Jianxin Pang , Jun Cheng

Randomized smoothing, a method to certify a classifier's decision on an input is invariant under adversarial noise, offers attractive advantages over other certification methods. It operates in a black-box and so certification is not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Jamie Hayes

Deep neural classifiers tend to rely on spurious correlations between spurious attributes of inputs and targets to make predictions, which could jeopardize their generalization capability. Training classifiers robust to spurious…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Guangtao Zheng , Wenqian Ye , Aidong Zhang

Randomized Smoothing (RS) is a promising method for obtaining robustness certificates by evaluating a base model under noise. In this work, we: (i) theoretically motivate why ensembles are a particularly suitable choice as base models for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Miklós Z. Horváth , Mark Niklas Müller , Marc Fischer , Martin Vechev

Randomized Smoothing (RS) is a promising technique for certified robustness, and recently in RS the ensemble of multiple Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has shown state-of-the-art performances due to its variance reduction effect over Gaussian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Kun Fang , Qinghua Tao , Yingwen Wu , Tao Li , Xiaolin Huang , Jie Yang

Randomized smoothing is a popular certified defense against adversarial attacks. In its essence, we need to solve a problem of statistical estimation which is usually very time-consuming since we need to perform numerous (usually $10^5$)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-01-22 Vaclav Voracek

Self-supervised representation learning is heavily dependent on data augmentations to specify the invariances encoded in representations. Previous work has shown that applying diverse data augmentations is crucial to downstream performance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Philip Andrew Mansfield , Arash Afkanpour , Warren Richard Morningstar , Karan Singhal

Gaussian processes constitute a very powerful and well-understood method for non-parametric regression and classification. In the classical framework, the training data consists of deterministic vector-valued inputs and the corresponding…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Maxim Dolgov , Uwe D. Hanebeck
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