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Although much progress has been made towards robust deep learning, a significant gap in robustness remains between real-world perturbations and more narrowly defined sets typically studied in adversarial defenses. In this paper, we aim to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Eric Wong , J. Zico Kolter

We present a minimax optimal learner for the problem of learning predictors robust to adversarial examples at test-time. Interestingly, we find that this requires new algorithmic ideas and approaches to adversarially robust learning. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Omar Montasser , Steve Hanneke , Nathan Srebro

Transductive learning is a supervised machine learning task in which, unlike in traditional inductive learning, the unlabelled data that require labelling are a finite set and are available at training time. Similarly to inductive learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Lorenzo Volpi , Alejandro Moreo , Fabrizio Sebastiani

We present an adaptive approach for robust learning from corrupted training sets. We identify corrupted and non-corrupted samples with latent Bernoulli variables and thus formulate the learning problem as maximization of the likelihood…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-17 Aleksandr Karakulev , Dave Zachariah , Prashant Singh

This paper proposes an attack-independent (non-adversarial training) technique for improving adversarial robustness of neural network models, with minimal loss of standard accuracy. We suggest creating a neighborhood around each training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Bronya Roni Chernyak , Bhiksha Raj , Tamir Hazan , Joseph Keshet

Data poisoning attacks, in which an adversary corrupts a training set with the goal of inducing specific desired mistakes, have raised substantial concern: even just the possibility of such an attack can make a user no longer trust the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Maria-Florina Balcan , Avrim Blum , Steve Hanneke , Dravyansh Sharma

Recently, there have been numerous studies on feature learning with neural networks, specifically on learning single- and multi-index models where the target is a function of a low-dimensional projection of the input. Prior works have shown…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-28 Alireza Mousavi-Hosseini , Adel Javanmard , Murat A. Erdogdu

Constraint-based learning reduces the burden of collecting labels by having users specify general properties of structured outputs, such as constraints imposed by physical laws. We propose a novel framework for simultaneously learning these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Hongyu Ren , Russell Stewart , Jiaming Song , Volodymyr Kuleshov , Stefano Ermon

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

The problem of designing learners that provide guarantees that their predictions are provably correct is of increasing importance in machine learning. However, learning theoretic guarantees have only been considered in very specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Maria-Florina Balcan , Steve Hanneke , Rattana Pukdee , Dravyansh Sharma

We study online learning in the adversarial injection model introduced by [Goel et al. 2017], where a stream of labeled examples is predominantly drawn i.i.d.\ from an unknown distribution $\mathcal{D}$, but may be interspersed with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Ezra Edelman , Surbhi Goel

Training machine learning models that are robust against adversarial inputs poses seemingly insurmountable challenges. To better understand adversarial robustness, we consider the underlying problem of learning robust representations. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Sicheng Zhu , Xiao Zhang , David Evans

Matching the performance of conditional Generative Adversarial Networks with little supervision is an important task, especially in venturing into new domains. We design a new training algorithm, which is robust to missing or ambiguous…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-11 Kiran Koshy Thekumparampil , Sewoong Oh , Ashish Khetan

Adversarial training is one of the most effective defenses against adversarial attacks, but it incurs a high computational cost. In this study, we present the first theoretical analysis suggesting that adversarially pretrained transformers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Soichiro Kumano , Hiroshi Kera , Toshihiko Yamasaki

We study the problem of reducing adversarially robust learning to standard PAC learning, i.e. the complexity of learning adversarially robust predictors using access to only a black-box non-robust learner. We give a reduction that can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Omar Montasser , Steve Hanneke , Nathan Srebro

We propose a method to learn deep ReLU-based classifiers that are provably robust against norm-bounded adversarial perturbations on the training data. For previously unseen examples, the approach is guaranteed to detect all adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Eric Wong , J. Zico Kolter

Adversarial training has emerged as an effective approach to train robust neural network models that are resistant to adversarial attacks, even in low-label regimes where labeled data is scarce. In this paper, we introduce a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Tian Ye , Rajgopal Kannan , Viktor Prasanna

Sensitivity to adversarial noise hinders deployment of machine learning algorithms in security-critical applications. Although many adversarial defenses have been proposed, robustness to adversarial noise remains an open problem. The most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Alex Serban , Erik Poll , Joost Visser

Complementary-label learning is a weakly supervised learning problem in which each training example is associated with one or multiple complementary labels indicating the classes to which it does not belong. Existing consistent approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Wei Wang , Takashi Ishida , Yu-Jie Zhang , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama

Despite strong performance in numerous applications, the fragility of deep learning to input perturbations has raised serious questions about its use in safety-critical domains. While adversarial training can mitigate this issue in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-01 Alexander Robey , Luiz F. O. Chamon , George J. Pappas , Hamed Hassani , Alejandro Ribeiro