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Despite recent success of self-supervised based contrastive learning model for 3D point clouds representation, the adversarial robustness of such pre-trained models raised concerns. Adversarial contrastive learning (ACL) is considered an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Junxuan Huang , Yatong An , Lu cheng , Bai Chen , Junsong Yuan , Chunming Qiao

We study the problem of {\em properly} learning large margin halfspaces in the agnostic PAC model. In more detail, we study the complexity of properly learning $d$-dimensional halfspaces on the unit ball within misclassification error…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Pasin Manurangsi

The study of strategic or adversarial manipulation of testing data to fool a classifier has attracted much recent attention. Most previous works have focused on two extreme situations where any testing data point either is completely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Ravi Sundaram , Anil Vullikanti , Haifeng Xu , Fan Yao

We study binary classification algorithms for which the prediction on any point is not too sensitive to individual examples in the dataset. Specifically, we consider the notions of uniform stability (Bousquet and Elisseeff, 2001) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Yuval Dagan , Vitaly Feldman

A human's attention can intuitively adapt to corrupted areas of an image by recalling a similar uncorrupted image they have previously seen. This observation motivates us to improve the attention of adversarial images by considering their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Runqi Wang , Xiaoyue Duan , Baochang Zhang , Song Xue , Wentao Zhu , David Doermann , Guodong Guo

Adversarial examples are perturbed inputs designed to fool machine learning models. Adversarial training injects such examples into training data to increase robustness. To scale this technique to large datasets, perturbations are crafted…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-28 Florian Tramèr , Alexey Kurakin , Nicolas Papernot , Ian Goodfellow , Dan Boneh , Patrick McDaniel

Adversarial training (AT) and its variants have spearheaded progress in improving neural network robustness to adversarial perturbations and common corruptions in the last few years. Algorithm design of AT and its variants are focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Kaustubh Sridhar , Souradeep Dutta , Ramneet Kaur , James Weimer , Oleg Sokolsky , Insup Lee

Consider the task of learning a hypothesis class $\mathcal{H}$ in the presence of an adversary that can replace up to an $\eta$ fraction of the examples in the training set with arbitrary adversarial examples. The adversary aims to fail the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Steve Hanneke , Amin Karbasi , Mohammad Mahmoody , Idan Mehalel , Shay Moran

We consider PAC learning of probability distributions (a.k.a. density estimation), where we are given an i.i.d. sample generated from an unknown target distribution, and want to output a distribution that is close to the target in total…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Hassan Ashtiani , Shai Ben-David , Abbas Mehrabian

A fundamental problem in adversarial machine learning is to quantify how much training data is needed in the presence of evasion attacks. In this paper we address this issue within the framework of PAC learning, focusing on the class of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Pascale Gourdeau , Varun Kanade , Marta Kwiatkowska , James Worrell

We explore adversarial robustness in the setting in which it is acceptable for a classifier to abstain---that is, output no class---on adversarial examples. Adversarial examples are small perturbations of normal inputs to a classifier that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Cassidy Laidlaw , Soheil Feizi

Precision matrix estimation is a fundamental topic in multivariate statistics and modern machine learning. This paper proposes an adversarially perturbed precision matrix estimation framework, motivated by recent developments in adversarial…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-25 Yiling Xie

Understanding noise tolerance of machine learning algorithms is a central quest in learning theory. In this work, we study the problem of computationally efficient PAC learning of halfspaces in the presence of malicious noise, where an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Jie Shen

Despite the remarkable advances that have been made in continual learning, the adversarial vulnerability of such methods has not been fully discussed. We delve into the adversarial robustness of memory-based continual learning algorithms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Xiaoyue Mi , Fan Tang , Zonghan Yang , Danding Wang , Juan Cao , Peng Li , Yang Liu

Much of learning theory is concerned with the design and analysis of probably approximately correct (PAC) learners. The closely related transductive model of learning has recently seen more scrutiny, with its learners often used as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-31 Shaddin Dughmi , Yusuf Kalayci , Grayson York

In many learning theory problems, a central role is played by a hypothesis class: we might assume that the data is labeled according to a hypothesis in the class (usually referred to as the realizable setting), or we might evaluate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Lunjia Hu , Charlotte Peale

Learning distribution families over $\mathbb{R}^d$ is a fundamental problem in unsupervised learning and statistics. A central question in this setting is whether a given family of distributions possesses sufficient structure to be (at…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-10 Arefe Boushehrian , Amir Najafi

Adversarially robust learning aims to design algorithms that are robust to small adversarial perturbations on input variables. Beyond the existing studies on the predictive performance to adversarial samples, our goal is to understand…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-21 Yue Xing , Ruizhi Zhang , Guang Cheng

This work investigates adversarial training in the context of margin-based linear classifiers in the high-dimensional regime where the dimension $d$ and the number of data points $n$ diverge with a fixed ratio $\alpha = n / d$. We introduce…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-13 Kasimir Tanner , Matteo Vilucchio , Bruno Loureiro , Florent Krzakala

Recent work has shown that, when integrated with adversarial training, self-supervised pre-training can lead to state-of-the-art robustness In this work, we improve robustness-aware self-supervised pre-training by learning representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Ziyu Jiang , Tianlong Chen , Ting Chen , Zhangyang Wang