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Current LLM alignment methods are readily broken through specifically crafted adversarial prompts. While crafting adversarial prompts using discrete optimization is highly effective, such attacks typically use more than 100,000 LLM calls.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Simon Geisler , Tom Wollschläger , M. H. I. Abdalla , Johannes Gasteiger , Stephan Günnemann

In this work, we explore the capabilities of multiplexed gradient descent (MGD), a scalable and efficient perturbative zeroth-order training method for estimating the gradient of a loss function in hardware and training it via stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Bakhrom G. Oripov , Andrew Dienstfrey , Adam N. McCaughan , Sonia M. Buckley

Noisy labels (NL) and adversarial examples both undermine trained models, but interestingly they have hitherto been studied independently. A recent adversarial training (AT) study showed that the number of projected gradient descent (PGD)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Jianing Zhu , Jingfeng Zhang , Bo Han , Tongliang Liu , Gang Niu , Hongxia Yang , Mohan Kankanhalli , Masashi Sugiyama

We present multiplexed gradient descent (MGD), a gradient descent framework designed to easily train analog or digital neural networks in hardware. MGD utilizes zero-order optimization techniques for online training of hardware neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Adam N. McCaughan , Bakhrom G. Oripov , Natesh Ganesh , Sae Woo Nam , Andrew Dienstfrey , Sonia M. Buckley

Deep learning models have achieved state-of-the-art performances in various domains, while they are vulnerable to the inputs with well-crafted but small perturbations, which are named after adversarial examples (AEs). Among many strategies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Huihui Gong

Adversarial noise introduces small perturbations in images, misleading deep learning models into misclassification and significantly impacting recognition accuracy. In this study, we analyzed the effects of Fast Gradient Sign Method (FGSM)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Manish Kansana , Keyan Alexander Rahimi , Elias Hossain , Iman Dehzangi , Noorbakhsh Amiri Golilarz

Machine learning is a powerful tool for building predictive models. However, it is vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Fast Gradient Sign Method (FGSM) attacks are a common type of adversarial attack that adds small perturbations to input…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Amir Hossein Khorasani , Ali Jahanian , Maryam Rastgarpour

While deep learning in the form of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) has caused a significant improvement in neural language modeling, the fact that they are extremely prone to overfitting is still a mainly unresolved issue. In this paper we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Sajad Movahedi , Azadeh Shakery

When training neural networks, it has been widely observed that a large step size is essential in stochastic gradient descent (SGD) for obtaining superior models. However, the effect of large step sizes on the success of SGD is not well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Amirkeivan Mohtashami , Martin Jaggi , Sebastian Stich

Continual learning seeks the human-like ability to accumulate new skills in machine intelligence. Its central challenge is catastrophic forgetting, whose underlying cause has not been fully understood for deep networks. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Ze Peng , Jian Zhang , Jintao Guo , Lei Qi , Yang Gao , Yinghuan Shi

Recent developments in the filed of Deep Learning have demonstrated that Deep Neural Networks(DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial examples. Specifically, in image classification, an adversarial example can fool the well trained deep neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Xunguang Wang , Ship Peng Xu , Eric Ke Wang

Understanding the training dynamics of deep neural networks is challenging due to their high-dimensional nature and intricate loss landscapes. Recent studies have revealed that, along the training trajectory, the gradient approximately…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Minhak Song , Kwangjun Ahn , Chulhee Yun

We consider the dynamics of gradient descent (GD) in overparameterized single hidden layer neural networks with a squared loss function. Recently, it has been shown that, under some conditions, the parameter values obtained using GD achieve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Siddhartha Satpathi , R Srikant

Neural network optimization remains one of the most consequential yet poorly understood challenges in modern AI research, where improvements in training algorithms can lead to enhanced feature learning in foundation models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Ansh Nagwekar

In adversarial machine learning, deep neural networks can fit the adversarial examples on the training dataset but have poor generalization ability on the test set. This phenomenon is called robust overfitting, and it can be observed when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Jiancong Xiao , Yanbo Fan , Ruoyu Sun , Jue Wang , Zhi-Quan Luo

Machine learning models fail to perform when facing out-of-distribution (OOD) domains, a challenging task known as domain generalization (DG). In this work, we develop a novel DG training strategy, we call PGrad, to learn a robust gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Zhe Wang , Jake Grigsby , Yanjun Qi

To mitigate the susceptibility of neural networks to adversarial attacks, adversarial training has emerged as a prevalent and effective defense strategy. Intrinsically, this countermeasure incurs a trade-off, as it sacrifices the model's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Hanyi Hu , Qiao Han , Kui Chen , Yao Yang

Adversarial training is an effective approach to make deep neural networks robust against adversarial attacks. Recently, different adversarial training defenses are proposed that not only maintain a high clean accuracy but also show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Muzammal Naseer , Salman Khan , Fatih Porikli , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Neural retrieval models have acquired significant effectiveness gains over the last few years compared to term-based methods. Nevertheless, those models may be brittle when faced to typos, distribution shifts or vulnerable to malicious…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Simon Lupart , Stéphane Clinchant

Transfer learning is often used to decrease the computational cost of model training, as fine-tuning a model allows a downstream task to leverage the features learned from the pre-training dataset and quickly adapt them to a new task. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Joshua C. Zhao , Saurabh Bagchi