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Imitation learning methods are used to infer a policy in a Markov decision process from a dataset of expert demonstrations by minimizing a divergence measure between the empirical state occupancy measures of the expert and the policy. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Ivan Ovinnikov , Joachim M. Buhmann

Adversarial training is an approach of increasing the robustness of models to adversarial attacks by including adversarial examples in the training set. One major challenge of producing adversarial examples is to contain sufficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Tianjin Huang , Vlado Menkovski , Yulong Pei , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Recent results in the ML community have revealed that learning algorithms used to compute the optimal strategy for the leader to commit to in a Stackelberg game, are susceptible to manipulation by the follower. Such a learning algorithm…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Georgios Birmpas , Jiarui Gan , Alexandros Hollender , Francisco J. Marmolejo-Cossío , Ninad Rajgopal , Alexandros A. Voudouris

We provide a general approach to reformulating any continuous-time stochastic Stackelberg differential game under closed-loop strategies as a single-level optimisation problem with target constraints. More precisely, we consider a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Camilo Hernández , Nicolás Hernández Santibáñez , Emma Hubert , Dylan Possamaï

Evaluating deep reinforcement learning (DRL) agents against targeted behavior attacks is critical for assessing their robustness. These attacks aim to manipulate the victim into specific behaviors that align with the attacker's objectives,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Fengshuo Bai , Runze Liu , Yali Du , Ying Wen , Yaodong Yang

We propose a new variant of the strategic classification problem: a principal reveals a classifier, and $n$ agents report their (possibly manipulated) features to be classified. Motivated by real-world applications, our model crucially…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Safwan Hossain , Evi Micha , Yiling Chen , Ariel Procaccia

Regularization plays a pivotal role in integrating prior information into inverse problems. While many deep learning methods have been proposed to solve inverse problems, determining where to apply regularization remains a crucial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-22 Ke Chen , Chunmei Wang , Haizhao Yang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are known to be prone to adversarial attacks, for which many remedies are proposed. While adversarial training (AT) is regarded as the most robust defense, it suffers from poor performance both on clean examples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Yilun Jin , Lixin Fan , Kam Woh Ng , Ce Ju , Qiang Yang

Adversarial training (AT) is a widely recognized defense mechanism to gain the robustness of deep neural networks against adversarial attacks. It is built on min-max optimization (MMO), where the minimizer (i.e., defender) seeks a robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Yihua Zhang , Guanhua Zhang , Prashant Khanduri , Mingyi Hong , Shiyu Chang , Sijia Liu

Regularization, whether explicit in terms of a penalty in the loss or implicit in the choice of algorithm, is a cornerstone of modern machine learning. Indeed, controlling the complexity of the model class is particularly important when…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-22 Matteo Vilucchio , Nikolaos Tsilivis , Bruno Loureiro , Julia Kempe

Current deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, where adversarial perturbations to the inputs can change or manipulate classification. To defend against such attacks, an effective and popular approach, known as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Gaoyuan Zhang , Songtao Lu , Yihua Zhang , Xiangyi Chen , Pin-Yu Chen , Quanfu Fan , Lee Martie , Lior Horesh , Mingyi Hong , Sijia Liu

Existing language agents often encounter difficulties in dynamic adversarial games due to poor strategic reasoning. To mitigate this limitation, a promising approach is to allow agents to learn from game interactions automatically, without…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Yikai Zhang , Ye Rong , Siyu Yuan , Jiangjie Chen , Jian Xie , Yanghua Xiao

Model robustness against adversarial examples of single perturbation type such as the $\ell_{p}$-norm has been widely studied, yet its generalization to more realistic scenarios involving multiple semantic perturbations and their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Lei Hsiung , Yun-Yun Tsai , Pin-Yu Chen , Tsung-Yi Ho

We consider the problem of OOD generalization, where the goal is to train a model that performs well on test distributions that are different from the training distribution. Deep learning models are known to be fragile to such shifts and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Anshul Nasery , Sravanti Addepalli , Praneeth Netrapalli , Prateek Jain

Strong Stackelberg equilibrium (SSE) is the standard solution concept of Stackelberg security games. As opposed to the weak Stackelberg equilibrium (WSE), the SSE assumes that the follower breaks ties in favor of the leader and this is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-12 Qingyu Guo , Jiarui Gan , Fei Fang , Long Tran-Thanh , Milind Tambe , Bo An

Deep learning models are vulnerable to adversarial examples, posing critical security challenges in real-world applications. While Adversarial Training (AT ) is a widely adopted defense mechanism to enhance robustness, it often incurs a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Jing Zou , Shungeng Zhang , Meikang Qiu , Chong Li

We propose local distributional smoothness (LDS), a new notion of smoothness for statistical model that can be used as a regularization term to promote the smoothness of the model distribution. We named the LDS based regularization as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-06-14 Takeru Miyato , Shin-ichi Maeda , Masanori Koyama , Ken Nakae , Shin Ishii

Research in adversarial learning follows a cat and mouse game between attackers and defenders where attacks are proposed, they are mitigated by new defenses, and subsequently new attacks are proposed that break earlier defenses, and so on.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Ambar Pal , René Vidal

Adversarial Imitation Learning (AIL) is a broad family of imitation learning methods designed to mimic expert behaviors from demonstrations. While AIL has shown state-of-the-art performance on imitation learning with only small number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Ruohan Wang , Carlo Ciliberto , Pierluigi Amadori , Yiannis Demiris

We focus on the problem of \emph{Answer-Level Fine-Tuning} (ALFT), where the goal is to optimize a language model based on the correctness or properties of its final answers, rather than the specific reasoning traces used to produce them.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Mehryar Mohri , Jon Schneider , Yifan Wu