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Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to small adversarial perturbations, which are tiny changes to the input data that appear insignificant but cause the model to produce drastically different outputs. Many defense methods require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Sedjro Salomon Hotegni , Sebastian Peitz

The study of provable adversarial robustness for deep neural networks (DNNs) has mainly focused on static supervised learning tasks such as image classification. However, DNNs have been used extensively in real-world adaptive tasks such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Aounon Kumar , Alexander Levine , Soheil Feizi

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

The effectiveness of supervised learning techniques has made them ubiquitous in research and practice. In high-dimensional settings, supervised learning commonly relies on dimensionality reduction to improve performance and identify the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-11 Chang Liu , Bo Li , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Alina Oprea

Classification models are very sensitive to data uncertainty, and finding robust classifiers that are less sensitive to data uncertainty has raised great interest in the machine learning literature. This paper aims to construct robust…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-01 Vali Asimit , Ioannis Kyriakou , Simone Santoni , Salvatore Scognamiglio , Rui Zhu

The success of minimax learning problems of generative adversarial networks (GANs) has been observed to depend on the minimax optimization algorithm used for their training. This dependence is commonly attributed to the convergence speed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Farzan Farnia , Asuman Ozdaglar

With the great capabilities of deep classifiers for radar data processing come the risks of learning dataset-specific features that do not generalize well. In this work, the robustness of two deep convolutional architectures, trained and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Mikolaj Czerkawski , Carmine Clemente , Craig Michie , Christos Tachtatzis

Randomized smoothing has shown promising certified robustness against adversaries in classification tasks. Despite such success with only zeroth-order access to base models, randomized smoothing has not been extended to a general form of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Aref Miri Rekavandi , Olga Ohrimenko , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein

Transformer architectures have achieved remarkable success in various domains. While efficient alternatives to Softmax Attention have been widely studied, the search for more expressive mechanisms grounded in theoretical insight-even at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Yifei Zuo , Yutong Yin , Zhichen Zeng , Ang Li , Banghua Zhu , Zhaoran Wang

For many queries in the Web retrieval setting there is an on-going ranking competition: authors manipulate their documents so as to promote them in rankings. Such competitions can have unwarranted effects not only in terms of retrieval…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Gregory Goren , Oren Kurland , Moshe Tennenholtz , Fiana Raiber

The susceptibility of modern machine learning classifiers to adversarial examples has motivated theoretical results suggesting that these might be unavoidable. However, these results can be too general to be applicable to natural data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Ambar Pal , Jeremias Sulam , René Vidal

Large language models (LLMs) have significantly improved various aspects of our daily lives. These models have impacted numerous domains, from healthcare to education, enhancing productivity, decision-making processes, and accessibility. As…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Zhao Song , Guangyi Xu , Junze Yin

Stability guarantees have emerged as a principled way to evaluate feature attributions, but existing certification methods rely on heavily smoothed classifiers and often produce conservative guarantees. To address these limitations, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Helen Jin , Anton Xue , Weiqiu You , Surbhi Goel , Eric Wong

It is well-known that deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown remarkable success in many fields. However, when adding an imperceptible magnitude perturbation on the model input, the model performance might get rapid decrease. To address this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Hao Yang , Min Wang , Zhengfei Yu , Yun Zhou

Deep networks are well-known to be fragile to adversarial attacks. We conduct an empirical analysis of deep representations under the state-of-the-art attack method called PGD, and find that the attack causes the internal representation to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Chengzhi Mao , Ziyuan Zhong , Junfeng Yang , Carl Vondrick , Baishakhi Ray

We show how to turn any classifier that classifies well under Gaussian noise into a new classifier that is certifiably robust to adversarial perturbations under the $\ell_2$ norm. This "randomized smoothing" technique has been proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Jeremy M Cohen , Elan Rosenfeld , J. Zico Kolter

When designing controllers for safety-critical systems, practitioners often face a challenging tradeoff between robustness and performance. While robust control methods provide rigorous guarantees on system stability under certain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Priya L. Donti , Melrose Roderick , Mahyar Fazlyab , J. Zico Kolter

The success of multimodal data fusion in deep learning appears to be attributed to the use of complementary in-formation between multiple input data. Compared to their predictive performance, relatively less attention has been devoted to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Youngjoon Yu , Hong Joo Lee , Byeong Cheon Kim , Jung Uk Kim , Yong Man Ro

Functional quadratic regression models postulate a polynomial relationship between a scalar response rather than a linear one. As in functional linear regression, vertical and specially high-leverage outliers may affect the classical…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-05-30 Graciela Boente , Daniela Parada

As multimodal learning finds applications in a wide variety of high-stakes societal tasks, investigating their robustness becomes important. Existing work has focused on understanding the robustness of vision-and-language models to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Gaurav Verma , Vishwa Vinay , Ryan A. Rossi , Srijan Kumar