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Machine learning is a tool for building models that accurately represent input training data. When undesired biases concerning demographic groups are in the training data, well-trained models will reflect those biases. We present a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Brian Hu Zhang , Blake Lemoine , Margaret Mitchell

This paper describes a general, scalable, end-to-end framework that uses the generative adversarial network (GAN) objective to enable robust speech recognition. Encoders trained with the proposed approach enjoy improved invariance by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Anuroop Sriram , Heewoo Jun , Yashesh Gaur , Sanjeev Satheesh

Self-supervised speaker embeddings are widely used in speaker verification systems, but prior work has shown that they often encode sensitive demographic attributes, raising fairness and privacy concerns. This paper investigates the extent…

Recent developments in biosignal processing have enabled users to exploit their physiological status for manipulating devices in a reliable and safe manner. One major challenge of physiological sensing lies in the variability of biosignals…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Mo Han , Ozan Ozdenizci , Ye Wang , Toshiaki Koike-Akino , Deniz Erdogmus

Bias in machine learning models can lead to unfair decision making, and while it has been well-studied in the image and text domains, it remains underexplored in action recognition. Action recognition models often suffer from background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Joseph Fioresi , Ishan Rajendrakumar Dave , Mubarak Shah

Machine translation and other NLP systems often contain significant biases regarding sensitive attributes, such as gender or race, that worsen system performance and perpetuate harmful stereotypes. Recent preliminary research suggests that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Eve Fleisig , Christiane Fellbaum

In the past few years, it has been shown that deep learning systems are highly vulnerable under attacks with adversarial examples. Neural-network-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are no exception. Targeted and untargeted…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-07 Matías Pizarro , Dorothea Kolossa , Asja Fischer

Sound event detection systems are widely used in various applications such as surveillance and environmental monitoring where data is automatically collected, processed, and sent to a cloud for sound recognition. However, this process may…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Shayan Gharib , Minh Tran , Diep Luong , Konstantinos Drossos , Tuomas Virtanen

A series of deep learning approaches extract a large number of credibility features to detect fake news on the Internet. However, these extracted features still suffer from many irrelevant and noisy features that restrict severely the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Lianwei Wu , Yuan Rao , Ambreen Nazir , Haolin Jin

Dialogue systems play an increasingly important role in various aspects of our daily life. It is evident from recent research that dialogue systems trained on human conversation data are biased. In particular, they can produce responses…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Haochen Liu , Wentao Wang , Yiqi Wang , Hui Liu , Zitao Liu , Jiliang Tang

Meta-learning enables a model to learn from very limited data to undertake a new task. In this paper, we study the general meta-learning with adversarial samples. We present a meta-learning algorithm, ADML (ADversarial Meta-Learner), which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Chengxiang Yin , Jian Tang , Zhiyuan Xu , Yanzhi Wang

Massive datasets often contain redundancy that inflates computational costs without improving generalization. Existing data reduction methods are typically task-agnostic, discarding informative boundary samples and yielding suboptimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Jiacheng Lyu , Bihua Bao , Shiyun Yan

Traditional adversarial attacks concentrate on manipulating clean examples in the pixel space by adding adversarial perturbations. By contrast, semantic adversarial attacks focus on changing semantic attributes of clean examples, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Chenan Wang , Jinhao Duan , Chaowei Xiao , Edward Kim , Matthew Stamm , Kaidi Xu

In this paper, we present a method for adversarial decomposition of text representation. This method can be used to decompose a representation of an input sentence into several independent vectors, each of them responsible for a specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Alexey Romanov , Anna Rumshisky , Anna Rogers , David Donahue

We introduce a novel approach for sequence decoding, Discriminative Adversarial Search (DAS), which has the desirable properties of alleviating the effects of exposure bias without requiring external metrics. Inspired by Generative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Thomas Scialom , Paul-Alexis Dray , Sylvain Lamprier , Benjamin Piwowarski , Jacopo Staiano

Deep learning models have shown their vulnerability when dealing with adversarial attacks. Existing attacks almost perform on low-level instances, such as pixels and super-pixels, and rarely exploit semantic clues. For face recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Shuai Jia , Bangjie Yin , Taiping Yao , Shouhong Ding , Chunhua Shen , Xiaokang Yang , Chao Ma

This work presents a thorough review concerning recent studies and text generation advancements using Generative Adversarial Networks. The usage of adversarial learning for text generation is promising as it provides alternatives to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Gustavo Henrique de Rosa , João Paulo Papa

Scene-text spotting is a task that predicts a text area on natural scene images and recognizes its text characters simultaneously. It has attracted much attention in recent years due to its wide applications. Existing research has mainly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Masato Fujitake

Semantic segmentation is one of the most fundamental problems in computer vision with significant impact on a wide variety of applications. Adversarial learning is shown to be an effective approach for improving semantic segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Hadi Jamali-Rad , Attila Szabo

Adversarial examples are inputs to machine learning models designed by an adversary to cause an incorrect output. So far, adversarial examples have been studied most extensively in the image domain. In this domain, adversarial examples can…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-10 Yao Qin , Nicholas Carlini , Ian Goodfellow , Garrison Cottrell , Colin Raffel