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Deep learning methods have achieved great success in solving computer vision tasks, and they have been widely utilized in artificially intelligent systems for image processing, analysis, and understanding. However, deep neural networks have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Hanshu Yan

Large language models adapt to new tasks through in-context learning (ICL) without parameter updates. Current theoretical explanations for this capability assume test tasks are drawn from a distribution similar to that seen during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Di Zhang

This paper investigates the adversarial robustness of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) using Information Bottleneck (IB) objectives for task-oriented communication systems. We empirically demonstrate that while IB-based approaches provide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Alireza Furutanpey , Pantelis A. Frangoudis , Patrik Szabo , Schahram Dustdar

Metric learning aims to learn a distance metric such that semantically similar instances are pulled together while dissimilar instances are pushed away. Many existing methods consider maximizing or at least constraining a distance margin in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-17 Xiaochen Yang , Yiwen Guo , Mingzhi Dong , Jing-Hao Xue

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has advanced significantly in visual representation learning, yet comprehensive evaluations of its adversarial robustness remain limited. In this study, we evaluate the adversarial robustness of seven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Ömer Veysel Çağatan , Ömer Faruk Tal , M. Emre Gürsoy

Despite extraordinary progress, current machine learning systems have been shown to be brittle against adversarial examples: seemingly innocuous but carefully crafted perturbations of test examples that cause machine learning predictors to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Omar Montasser

Adversarial examples have appeared as a ubiquitous property of machine learning models where bounded adversarial perturbation could mislead the models to make arbitrarily incorrect predictions. Such examples provide a way to assess the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Zhuolin Yang , Zhaoxi Chen , Tiffany Cai , Xinyun Chen , Bo Li , Yuandong Tian

While great progress has been made at making neural networks effective across a wide range of visual tasks, most models are surprisingly vulnerable. This frailness takes the form of small, carefully chosen perturbations of their input,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Cecilia Summers , Michael J. Dinneen

Motivated by bridging the simulation to reality gap in the context of safety-critical systems, we consider learning adversarially robust stability certificates for unknown nonlinear dynamical systems. In line with approaches from robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Thomas T. C. K. Zhang , Stephen Tu , Nicholas M. Boffi , Jean-Jacques E. Slotine , Nikolai Matni

We explore methodologies to improve the robustness of generative adversarial imitation learning (GAIL) algorithms to observation noise. Towards this objective, we study the effect of local Lipschitzness of the discriminator and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Farzan Memarian , Abolfazl Hashemi , Scott Niekum , Ufuk Topcu

Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) has shown remarkable success in robotics with complex and heterogeneous dynamics. However, its vulnerability to unknown disturbances and adversarial attacks remains a significant challenge. In this paper, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Hanyang Hu , Xilun Zhang , Xubo Lyu , Mo Chen

Adversarial training is extensively utilized to improve the adversarial robustness of deep neural networks. Yet, mitigating the degradation of standard generalization performance in adversarial-trained models remains an open problem. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Xiangyu Yin , Wenjie Ruan

We study the problem of learning predictors that are robust to adversarial examples with respect to an unknown perturbation set, relying instead on interaction with an adversarial attacker or access to attack oracles, examining different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Omar Montasser , Steve Hanneke , Nathan Srebro

Model-agnostic meta-learning (MAML) has emerged as one of the most successful meta-learning techniques in few-shot learning. It enables us to learn a meta-initialization} of model parameters (that we call meta-model) to rapidly adapt to new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Ren Wang , Kaidi Xu , Sijia Liu , Pin-Yu Chen , Tsui-Wei Weng , Chuang Gan , Meng Wang

Deep Neural Networks are vulnerable to small perturbations that can drastically alter their predictions for perceptually unchanged inputs. The literature on adversarially robust Deep Learning attempts to either enhance the robustness of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Thomas Massena , Corentin Friedrich , Franck Mamalet , Mathieu Serrurier

Deep networks have achieved impressive results on a range of well-curated benchmark datasets. Surprisingly, their performance remains sensitive to perturbations that have little effect on human performance. In this work, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Jonas Ngnawe , Marianne Abemgnigni Njifon , Jonathan Heek , Yann Dauphin

Recent work has demonstrated that deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples---inputs that are almost indistinguishable from natural data and yet classified incorrectly by the network. In fact, some of the latest findings…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-06 Aleksander Madry , Aleksandar Makelov , Ludwig Schmidt , Dimitris Tsipras , Adrian Vladu

In this paper we study leveraging confidence information induced by adversarial training to reinforce adversarial robustness of a given adversarially trained model. A natural measure of confidence is $\|F({\bf x})\|_\infty$ (i.e. how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Xi Wu , Uyeong Jang , Jiefeng Chen , Lingjiao Chen , Somesh Jha

Neural Probabilistic Circuits (NPCs), a new class of concept bottleneck models, comprise an attribute recognition model and a probabilistic circuit for reasoning. By integrating the outputs from these two modules, NPCs produce compositional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Weixin Chen , Han Zhao

Deep models, while being extremely versatile and accurate, are vulnerable to adversarial attacks: slight perturbations that are imperceptible to humans can completely flip the prediction of deep models. Many attack and defense mechanisms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Kaiwen Wu , Yaoliang Yu