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Memorization in large language models poses critical risks for privacy and fairness as these systems scale to billions of parameters. While previous studies established correlations between memorization and factors like token frequency and…

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Adversarial attack perturbs an image with an imperceptible noise, leading to incorrect model prediction. Recently, a few works showed inherent bias associated with such attack (robustness bias), where certain subgroups in a dataset (e.g.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Gaurav Kumar Nayak , Ruchit Rawal , Rohit Lal , Himanshu Patil , Anirban Chakraborty

As humans, we inherently perceive images based on their predominant features, and ignore noise embedded within lower bit planes. On the contrary, Deep Neural Networks are known to confidently misclassify images corrupted with meticulously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Sravanti Addepalli , Vivek B. S. , Arya Baburaj , Gaurang Sriramanan , R. Venkatesh Babu

Recent work has empirically shown that deep neural networks latch on to the Fourier statistics of training data and show increased sensitivity to Fourier-basis directions in the input. Understanding and modifying this Fourier-sensitivity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Kiran Krishnamachari , See-Kiong Ng , Chuan-Sheng Foo

Despite their ability to represent highly expressive functions, deep learning models seem to find simple solutions that generalize surprisingly well. Spectral bias -- the tendency of neural networks to prioritize learning low frequency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Sara Fridovich-Keil , Raphael Gontijo-Lopes , Rebecca Roelofs

Deep learning models for medical image segmentation and object detection are becoming increasingly available as clinical products. However, as details are rarely provided about the training data, models may unexpectedly fail when cases…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-01 Jack Highton , Quok Zong Chong , Samuel Finestone , Arian Beqiri , Julia A. Schnabel , Kanwal K. Bhatia

Deepfake detectors often struggle to generalize to novel forgery types due to biases learned from limited training data. In this paper, we identify a new type of model bias in the frequency domain, termed spectral bias, where detectors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Hossein Kashiani , Niloufar Alipour Talemi , Fatemeh Afghah

Machine-learning models demand periodic updates to improve their average accuracy, exploiting novel architectures and additional data. However, a newly updated model may commit mistakes the previous model did not make. Such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Daniele Angioni , Luca Demetrio , Maura Pintor , Luca Oneto , Davide Anguita , Battista Biggio , Fabio Roli

For many real-world applications, obtaining stable and robust statistical performance is more important than simply achieving state-of-the-art predictive test accuracy, and thus robustness of neural networks is an increasingly important…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-24 N. Benjamin Erichson , Soon Hoe Lim , Winnie Xu , Francisco Utrera , Ziang Cao , Michael W. Mahoney

This work tackles an intriguing and fundamental open challenge in representation learning: Given a well-trained deep learning model, can it be reprogrammed to enhance its robustness against adversarial or noisy input perturbations without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Zhichao Hou , MohamadAli Torkamani , Hamid Krim , Xiaorui Liu

Certified robustness guarantee gauges a model's robustness to test-time attacks and can assess the model's readiness for deployment in the real world. In this work, we critically examine how the adversarial robustness guarantees from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Jiachen Sun , Akshay Mehra , Bhavya Kailkhura , Pin-Yu Chen , Dan Hendrycks , Jihun Hamm , Z. Morley Mao

Deep learning based image segmentation methods have achieved great success, even having human-level accuracy in some applications. However, due to the black box nature of deep learning, the best method may fail in some situations. Thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Leixin Zhou , Wenxiang Deng , Xiaodong Wu

This chapter introduces and investigates some fundamental questions on the relationship between accuracy and robustness in both classical and quantum classification algorithms under noisy and adversarial conditions. We introduce and clarify…

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In practice it is often found that large over-parameterized neural networks generalize better than their smaller counterparts, an observation that appears to conflict with classical notions of function complexity, which typically favor…

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This paper presents a comprehensive evaluation of instance segmentation models with respect to real-world image corruptions as well as out-of-domain image collections, e.g. images captured by a different set-up than the training dataset.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yusuf Dalva , Hamza Pehlivan , Said Fahri Altindis , Aysegul Dundar

Neural networks have demonstrated significant accuracy across various domains, yet their vulnerability to subtle input alterations remains a persistent challenge. Conventional methods like data augmentation, while effective to some extent,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Shashank Kotyan , Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas

Ensuring the robustness of deep neural networks against adversarial attacks remains a fundamental challenge in computer vision. While adversarial training (AT) has emerged as a promising defense strategy, our analysis reveals a critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Kejia Zhang , Juanjuan Weng , Yuanzheng Cai , Zhiming Luo , Shaozi Li

To address the shortcomings of real-world datasets, robust learning algorithms have been designed to overcome arbitrary and indiscriminate data corruption. However, practical processes of gathering data may lead to patterns of data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Lunjia Hu , Charlotte Peale , Judy Hanwen Shen

Robustness of machine learning models to various adversarial and non-adversarial corruptions continues to be of interest. In this paper, we introduce the notion of the boundary thickness of a classifier, and we describe its connection with…

Despite the success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in many academic benchmarks for computer vision tasks, their application in the real-world is still facing fundamental challenges. One of these open problems is the inherent lack…

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