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In this paper, we study the adversarial robustness of subspace learning problems. Different from the assumptions made in existing work on robust subspace learning where data samples are contaminated by gross sparse outliers or small dense…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-22 Fuwei Li , Lifeng Lai , Shuguang Cui

We consider a model of robust learning in an adversarial environment. The learner gets uncorrupted training data with access to possible corruptions that may be affected by the adversary during testing. The learner's goal is to build a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Idan Attias , Aryeh Kontorovich , Yishay Mansour

We study the problem of sequential prediction in the stochastic setting with an adversary that is allowed to inject clean-label adversarial (or out-of-distribution) examples. Algorithms designed to handle purely stochastic data tend to fail…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Surbhi Goel , Steve Hanneke , Shay Moran , Abhishek Shetty

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

We study the robustness of machine learning approaches to adversarial perturbations, with a focus on supervised learning scenarios. We find that typical phase classifiers based on deep neural networks are extremely vulnerable to adversarial…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-01-26 Si Jiang , Sirui Lu , Dong-Ling Deng

We study the problem of multiclass PAC learning with bandit feedback in the realizable setting. In this framework, there is an unknown data distribution over an instance space $\mathcal{X}$ and a label space $\mathcal{Y}$, as in classical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-27 Steve Hanneke , Qinglin Meng , Shay Moran , Amirreza Shaeiri

An adversary can fool deep neural network object detectors by generating adversarial noises. Most of the existing works focus on learning local visible noises in an adversarial "patch" fashion. However, the 2D patch attached to a 3D object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Yexin Duan , Jialin Chen , Xingyu Zhou , Junhua Zou , Zhengyun He , Jin Zhang , Wu Zhang , Zhisong Pan

Adversarial training, in which a network is trained on both adversarial and clean examples, is one of the most trusted defense methods against adversarial attacks. However, there are three major practical difficulties in implementing and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Shixian Wen , Laurent Itti

Binary classification in the classic PAC model exhibits a curious phenomenon: Empirical Risk Minimization (ERM) learners are suboptimal in the realizable case yet optimal in the agnostic case. Roughly speaking, this owes itself to the fact…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Julian Asilis , Mikael Møller Høgsgaard , Grigoris Velegkas

It is becoming increasingly important to understand the vulnerability of machine learning models to adversarial attacks. In this paper we study the feasibility of robust learning from the perspective of computational learning theory,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Pascale Gourdeau , Varun Kanade , Marta Kwiatkowska , James Worrell

Metric learning aims to learn a distance metric such that semantically similar instances are pulled together while dissimilar instances are pushed away. Many existing methods consider maximizing or at least constraining a distance margin in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-17 Xiaochen Yang , Yiwen Guo , Mingzhi Dong , Jing-Hao Xue

We study the problem of PAC learning halfspaces in the reliable agnostic model of Kalai et al. (2012). The reliable PAC model captures learning scenarios where one type of error is costlier than the others. Our main positive result is a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Ilias Diakonikolas , Lisheng Ren , Nikos Zarifis

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

We study a sequential prediction problem in which an adversary is allowed to inject arbitrarily many adversarial instances in a stream of i.i.d. instances, but at each round, the learner may also abstain from making a prediction without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Jialin Yu , Moïse Blanchard

Adversarial attacks insert small, imperceptible perturbations to input samples that cause large, undesired changes to the output of deep learning models. Despite extensive research on generating adversarial attacks and building defense…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Vyas Raina , Mark Gales

We develop a framework using Hilbert spaces as a proxy to analyze PAC learning problems with structural properties. We consider a joint Hilbert space incorporating the relation between the true label and the predictor under a joint…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Mohsen Heidari , Wojciech Szpankowski

Despite the considerable success enjoyed by machine learning techniques in practice, numerous studies demonstrated that many approaches are vulnerable to attacks. An important class of such attacks involves adversaries changing features at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Liang Tong , Sixie Yu , Scott Alfeld , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

Adversarial learning can learn fairer and less biased models of language than standard methods. However, current adversarial techniques only partially mitigate model bias, added to which their training procedures are often unstable. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Xudong Han , Timothy Baldwin , Trevor Cohn

Intentionally crafted adversarial samples have effectively exploited weaknesses in deep neural networks. A standard method in adversarial robustness assumes a framework to defend against samples crafted by minimally perturbing a sample such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Anaelia Ovalle , Evan Czyzycki , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Adversarial training has become the primary method to defend against adversarial samples. However, it is hard to practically apply due to many shortcomings. One of the shortcomings of adversarial training is that it will reduce the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Zhishen Nie , Ying Lin , Sp Ren , Lan Zhang