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We consider the problem of learning a graph from a finite set of noisy graph signal observations, the goal of which is to find a smooth representation of the graph signal. Such a problem is motivated by the desire to infer relational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Xiaolu Wang , Yuen-Man Pun , Anthony Man-Cho So

Certification of neural networks is an important and challenging problem that has been attracting the attention of the machine learning community since few years. In this paper, we focus on randomized smoothing (RS) which is considered as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Pol Labarbarie , Hatem Hajri , Marc Arnaudon

Deep learning-based malware detection systems are vulnerable to adversarial EXEmples - carefully-crafted malicious programs that evade detection with minimal perturbation. As such, the community is dedicating effort to develop mechanisms to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Daniel Gibert , Luca Demetrio , Giulio Zizzo , Quan Le , Jordi Planes , Battista Biggio

Deep learning interpretation is essential to explain the reasoning behind model predictions. Understanding the robustness of interpretation methods is important especially in sensitive domains such as medical applications since…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Alexander Levine , Sahil Singla , Soheil Feizi

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

In this paper, we consider a situation where a decision maker's (DM's) risk preference can be described by a spectral risk measure (SRM) but there is not a single SRM which can be used to represent the DM's preferences consistently.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-06 Manlan Li , Xiaojiao Tong , Huifu Xu

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has emerged as a popular unsupervised graph representation learning method. However, it has been shown that GCL is vulnerable to adversarial attacks on both the graph structure and node attributes. Although…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Minhua Lin , Teng Xiao , Enyan Dai , Xiang Zhang , Suhang Wang

Different types of training data have led to numerous schemes for supervised classification. Current learning techniques are tailored to one specific scheme and cannot handle general ensembles of training data. This paper presents a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-20 Santiago Mazuelas , Aritz Perez

Robustness is of central importance in machine learning and has given rise to the fields of domain generalization and invariant learning, which are concerned with improving performance on a test distribution distinct from but related to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Robert Adragna , Elliot Creager , David Madras , Richard Zemel

We propose Adaptive Diffusion Denoised Smoothing, a method for certifying the predictions of a vision model against adversarial examples, while adapting to the input. Our key insight is to reinterpret a guided denoising diffusion model as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Frederick Shpilevskiy , Saiyue Lyu , Krishnamurthy Dj Dvijotham , Mathias Lécuyer , Pierre-André Noël

Adversarial robustness of machine learning models is critical to ensuring reliable performance under data perturbations. Recent progress has been on point estimators, and this paper considers distributional predictors. First, using the link…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Mahalakshmi Sabanayagam , Russell Tsuchida , Cheng Soon Ong , Debarghya Ghoshdastidar

As deep learning models continue to advance and are increasingly utilized in real-world systems, the issue of robustness remains a major challenge. Existing certified training methods produce models that achieve high provable robustness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Zhakshylyk Nurlanov , Frank R. Schmidt , Florian Bernard

Recent work has shown that state-of-the-art classifiers are quite brittle, in the sense that a small adversarial change of an originally with high confidence correctly classified input leads to a wrong classification again with high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Matthias Hein , Maksym Andriushchenko

We study a methodology to tackle the NASA Langley Uncertainty Quantification Challenge problem, based on an integration of robust optimization, more specifically a recent line of research known as distributionally robust optimization, and…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-06-30 Yuanlu Bai , Zhiyuan Huang , Henry Lam

We propose an algorithm to enhance certified robustness of a deep model ensemble by optimally weighting each base model. Unlike previous works on using ensembles to empirically improve robustness, our algorithm is based on optimizing a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-01 Huan Zhang , Minhao Cheng , Cho-Jui Hsieh

While machine learning models have proven effective across various scenarios, it is widely acknowledged that many models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Recently, there have emerged numerous efforts in adversarial defense. Among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yiran Qiao , Yu Yin , Chen Chen , Jing Ma

We propose a scalable robust learning algorithm combining kernel smoothing and robust optimization. Our method is motivated by the convex analysis perspective of distributionally robust optimization based on probability metrics, such as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Jia-Jie Zhu , Christina Kouridi , Yassine Nemmour , Bernhard Schölkopf

Randomized Smoothing (RS) offers formal $\ell_2$ guarantees for arbitrary base classifiers but faces two key practical bottlenecks: (i) it often relies on noise-augmented training to achieve nontrivial certificates, which increases training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Miao Lin , MD Saifur Rahman Mazumder , Feng Yu , Daniel Takabi , Rui Ning

The literature has proposed various robust alternatives to empirical risk minimisation to address failure modes such as distribution shift, label noise and finite-sample degeneracies. Examples include distributionally robust optimization,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Jonas Hanselle , Valentin Margraf , Clemens Damke , Eyke Hüllermeier

Recent research has highlighted a critical issue known as ``robust fairness", where robust accuracy varies significantly across different classes, undermining the reliability of deep neural networks (DNNs). A common approach to address this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Gaojie Jin , Sihao Wu , Jiaxu Liu , Tianjin Huang , Ronghui Mu