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Currently the most popular method of providing robustness certificates is randomized smoothing where an input is smoothed via some probability distribution. We propose a novel approach to randomized smoothing over multiplicative parameters.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Nikita Muravev , Aleksandr Petiushko

Backdoor attack is a severe security threat to deep neural networks (DNNs). We envision that, like adversarial examples, there will be a cat-and-mouse game for backdoor attacks, i.e., new empirical defenses are developed to defend against…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Binghui Wang , Xiaoyu Cao , Jinyuan jia , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Recent studies have identified a critical challenge in deep neural networks (DNNs) known as ``robust fairness", where models exhibit significant disparities in robust accuracy across different classes. While prior work has attempted to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Gaojie Jin , Tianjin Huang , Ronghui Mu , Xiaowei Huang

The fragility of modern machine learning models has drawn a considerable amount of attention from both academia and the public. While immense interests were in either crafting adversarial attacks as a way to measure the robustness of neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Jeet Mohapatra , Ching-Yun Ko , Tsui-Wei , Weng , Sijia Liu , Pin-Yu Chen , Luca Daniel

Tree-based models are used in many high-stakes application domains such as finance and medicine, where robustness and interpretability are of utmost importance. Yet, methods for improving and certifying their robustness are severely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Miklós Z. Horváth , Mark Niklas Müller , Marc Fischer , Martin Vechev

Supervised classification methods often assume that evaluation data is drawn from the same distribution as training data and that all classes are present for training. However, real-world classifiers must handle inputs that are far from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Ryne Roady , Tyler L. Hayes , Christopher Kanan

Randomized classifiers have been shown to provide a promising approach for achieving certified robustness against adversarial attacks in deep learning. However, most existing methods only leverage Gaussian smoothing noise and only work for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Dinghuai Zhang , Mao Ye , Chengyue Gong , Zhanxing Zhu , Qiang Liu

Although large language models (LLMs) have achieved great success in vast real-world applications, their vulnerabilities towards noisy inputs have significantly limited their uses, especially in high-stake environments. In these contexts,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Zhen Zhang , Guanhua Zhang , Bairu Hou , Wenqi Fan , Qing Li , Sijia Liu , Yang Zhang , Shiyu Chang

Models for image segmentation, node classification and many other tasks map a single input to multiple labels. By perturbing this single shared input (e.g. the image) an adversary can manipulate several predictions (e.g. misclassify several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Jan Schuchardt , Tom Wollschläger , Aleksandar Bojchevski , Stephan Günnemann

As reinforcement learning (RL) has achieved great success and been even adopted in safety-critical domains such as autonomous vehicles, a range of empirical studies have been conducted to improve its robustness against adversarial attacks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Fan Wu , Linyi Li , Zijian Huang , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Ding Zhao , Bo Li

Training foundation models on extensive datasets and then finetuning them on specific tasks has emerged as the mainstream approach in artificial intelligence. However, the model robustness, which is a critical aspect for safety, is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Kai Qiu , Huishuai Zhang , Zhirong Wu , Stephen Lin

Randomized smoothing has established state-of-the-art provable robustness against $\ell_2$ norm adversarial attacks with high probability. However, the introduced Gaussian data augmentation causes a severe decrease in natural accuracy. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Ching-Chia Kao , Jhe-Bang Ko , Chun-Shien Lu

Randomized smoothing provides strong, model-agnostic robustness certificates, but existing guarantees are limited to single modalities, treating continuous and discrete inputs in isolation. This limitation becomes critical in multimodal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Blaise Delattre , Hengyu Wu , Paul Caillon , Wei Yang Bryan Lim , Yang Cao

Randomized smoothing (RS) is one of the prominent techniques to ensure the correctness of machine learning models, where point-wise robustness certificates can be derived analytically. While RS is well understood for classification, its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Emmanouil Seferis , Changshun Wu , Stefanos Kollias , Saddek Bensalem , Chih-Hong Cheng

Randomized smoothing is the state-of-the-art approach to construct image classifiers that are provably robust against additive adversarial perturbations of bounded magnitude. However, it is more complicated to construct reasonable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Dmitrii Korzh , Mikhail Pautov , Olga Tsymboi , Ivan Oseledets

Adversarial training is so far the most effective strategy in defending against adversarial examples. However, it suffers from high computational costs due to the iterative adversarial attacks in each training step. Recent studies show that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Jinghui Chen , Yu Cheng , Zhe Gan , Quanquan Gu , Jingjing Liu

Fairness and robustness are critical elements of Trustworthy AI that need to be addressed together. Fairness is about learning an unbiased model while robustness is about learning from corrupted data, and it is known that addressing only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Yuji Roh , Kangwook Lee , Steven Euijong Whang , Changho Suh

Recent work in imitation learning has shown that having an expert controller that is both suitably smooth and stable enables stronger guarantees on the performance of the learned controller. However, constructing such smoothed expert…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-02 Daniel Pfrommer , Swati Padmanabhan , Kwangjun Ahn , Jack Umenberger , Tobia Marcucci , Zakaria Mhammedi , Ali Jadbabaie

Deep neural networks tend to memorize noisy labels, severely degrading their generalization performance. Although Mixup has demonstrated effectiveness in improving generalization and robustness, existing Mixup-based methods typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Qiuhao Liu , Ling Li , Yao Lu , Qi Xuan , Zhaowei Zhu , Jiaheng Wei

Predictions of certifiably robust classifiers remain constant in a neighborhood of a point, making them resilient to test-time attacks with a guarantee. In this work, we present a previously unrecognized threat to robust machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Akshay Mehra , Bhavya Kailkhura , Pin-Yu Chen , Jihun Hamm