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We consider the problem of binary classification with abstention in the relatively less studied \emph{bounded-rate} setting. We begin by obtaining a characterization of the Bayes optimal classifier for an arbitrary input-label distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Shubhanshu Shekhar , Mohammad Ghavamzadeh , Tara Javidi

We propose Rank & Sort (RS) Loss, a ranking-based loss function to train deep object detection and instance segmentation methods (i.e. visual detectors). RS Loss supervises the classifier, a sub-network of these methods, to rank each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Kemal Oksuz , Baris Can Cam , Emre Akbas , Sinan Kalkan

Complex autonomous control systems are subjected to sensor failures, cyber-attacks, sensor noise, communication channel failures, etc. that introduce errors in the measurements. The corrupted information, if used for making decisions, can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Abhishek Gupta , Zhaoyuan Yang

Large training datasets almost always contain examples with inaccurate or incorrect labels. Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) tend to overfit training label noise, resulting in poorer model performance in practice. To address this problem, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Chen Gong , Kong Bin , Eric J. Seibel , Xin Wang , Youbing Yin , Qi Song

A family of super deep networks, referred to as residual networks or ResNet, achieved record-beating performance in various visual tasks such as image recognition, object detection, and semantic segmentation. The ability to train very deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Xin Yu , Zhiding Yu , Srikumar Ramalingam

Currently, instance segmentation is attracting more and more attention in machine learning region. However, there exists some defects on the information propagation in previous Mask R-CNN and other network models. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Kuikun Liu , Jie Yang , Cai Sun , Haoyuan Chi

Recent work has developed methods for learning deep network classifiers that are provably robust to norm-bounded adversarial perturbation; however, these methods are currently only possible for relatively small feedforward networks. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Eric Wong , Frank R. Schmidt , Jan Hendrik Metzen , J. Zico Kolter

Selective prediction, where a model has the option to abstain from making a decision, is crucial for machine learning applications in which mistakes are costly. In this work, we focus on distributional regression and introduce a framework…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Ahmed Zaoui , Clément Dombry

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial examples, in which DNNs are misled to false outputs due to inputs containing imperceptible perturbations. Adversarial training, a reliable and effective method of defense, may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Zongyuan Zhang , Qingwen Bu , Tianyang Duan , Zheng Lin , Yuhao Qing , Zihan Fang , Heming Cui , Dong Huang

Decision making and learning in the presence of uncertainty has attracted significant attention in view of the increasing need to achieve robust and reliable operations. In the case where uncertainty stems from the presence of adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-25 André Bertolace , Konstatinos Gatsis , Kostas Margellos

This paper presents a storage-efficient learning model titled Recursive Binary Neural Networks for sensing devices having a limited amount of on-chip data storage such as < 100's kilo-Bytes. The main idea of the proposed model is to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Tianchan Guan , Xiaoyang Zeng , Mingoo Seok

Modern deep-learning systems are specialized to problem settings in which training occurs once and then never again, as opposed to continual-learning settings in which training occurs continually. If deep-learning systems are applied in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Shibhansh Dohare , J. Fernando Hernandez-Garcia , Parash Rahman , A. Rupam Mahmood , Richard S. Sutton

Progress in making neural networks more robust against adversarial attacks is mostly marginal, despite the great efforts of the research community. Moreover, the robustness evaluation is often imprecise, making it difficult to identify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Leo Schwinn , René Raab , An Nguyen , Dario Zanca , Bjoern Eskofier

Feedforward neural networks with random hidden nodes suffer from a problem with the generation of random weights and biases as these are difficult to set optimally to obtain a good projection space. Typically, random parameters are drawn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Grzegorz Dudek

Deep learning has outperformed other machine learning algorithms in a variety of tasks, and as a result, it is widely used. However, like other machine learning algorithms, deep learning, and convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Anabel Gómez-Ríos , Julián Luengo , Francisco Herrera

Automatic speech recognition systems often produce confident yet incorrect transcriptions under noisy or ambiguous conditions, which can be misleading for both users and downstream applications. Standard evaluation based on Word Error Rate…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Wenbin Huang , Yuhang Qiu , Bohan Li , Yiwei Guo , Jing Peng , Hankun Wang , Xie Chen , Kai Yu

Learning to reject provide a learning paradigm which allows for our models to abstain from making predictions. One way to learn the rejector is to learn an ideal marginal distribution (w.r.t. the input domain) - which characterizes a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-09 Alexander Soen

We address the problem of inverse reinforcement learning in Markov decision processes where the agent is risk-sensitive. In particular, we model risk-sensitivity in a reinforcement learning framework by making use of models of human…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Lillian J. Ratliff , Eric Mazumdar

In learning problems, the noise inherent to the task at hand hinders the possibility to infer without a certain degree of uncertainty. Quantifying this uncertainty, regardless of its wide use, assumes high relevance for security-sensitive…

We consider the problem of learning linear classifiers when both features and labels are binary. In addition, the features are noisy, i.e., they could be flipped with an unknown probability. In Sy-De attribute noise model, where all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Aditya Petety , Sandhya Tripathi , N Hemachandra