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In this work, we introduce a machine/deep learning methodology to solve parametric integrals. Besides classical machine learning approaches, we consider a differential learning framework that incorporates derivative information during…

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Differential testing offers a promising strategy to alleviate the test oracle problem by comparing the test results between alternative implementations. However, existing differential testing techniques for deep learning (DL) libraries are…

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This work proposes an algorithmic method to verify differential privacy for estimation mechanisms with performance guarantees. Differential privacy makes it hard to distinguish outputs of a mechanism produced by adjacent inputs. While…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-03 Yunhai Han , Sonia Martínez

Reliable and robust evaluation methods are a necessary first step towards developing machine learning models that are themselves robust and reliable. Unfortunately, current evaluation protocols typically used to assess classifiers fail to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Michael W. Spratling

The objective of many real-world tasks is complex and difficult to procedurally specify. This makes it necessary to use reward or imitation learning algorithms to infer a reward or policy directly from human data. Existing benchmarks for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Pedro Freire , Adam Gleave , Sam Toyer , Stuart Russell

Advanced manufacturing techniques have enabled the production of materials with state-of-the-art properties. In many cases however, the development of physics-based models of these techniques lags behind their use in the lab. This means…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Loc Truong , WoongJo Choi , Colby Wight , Lizzy Coda , Tegan Emerson , Keerti Kappagantula , Henry Kvinge

What advantage do \emph{sequential} procedures provide over batch algorithms for testing properties of unknown distributions? Focusing on the problem of testing whether two distributions $\mathcal{D}_1$ and $\mathcal{D}_2$ on $\{1,\dots,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Omar Fawzi , Nicolas Flammarion , Aurélien Garivier , Aadil Oufkir

We initiate the study of deep learning for the automated design of two-sided matching mechanisms. What is of most interest is to use machine learning to understand the possibility of new tradeoffs between strategy-proofness and stability.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Sai Srivatsa Ravindranath , Zhe Feng , Shira Li , Jonathan Ma , Scott D. Kominers , David C. Parkes

The widespread acceptance of differential privacy has led to the publication of many sophisticated algorithms for protecting privacy. However, due to the subtle nature of this privacy definition, many such algorithms have bugs that make…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Zeyu Ding , Yuxin Wang , Guanhong Wang , Danfeng Zhang , Daniel Kifer

Multi-label classification (MLC) is an important class of machine learning problems that come with a wide spectrum of applications, each demanding a possibly different evaluation criterion. When solving the MLC problems, we generally expect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Yao-Yuan Yang , Yi-An Lin , Hong-Min Chu , Hsuan-Tien Lin

Applying differential privacy at scale requires convenient ways to check that programs computing with sensitive data appropriately preserve privacy. We propose here a fully automated framework for {\em testing} differential privacy,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Hengchu Zhang , Edo Roth , Andreas Haeberlen , Benjamin C. Pierce , Aaron Roth

We review the use of differential privacy (DP) for privacy protection in machine learning (ML). We show that, driven by the aim of preserving the accuracy of the learned models, DP-based ML implementations are so loose that they do not…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Alberto Blanco-Justicia , David Sanchez , Josep Domingo-Ferrer , Krishnamurty Muralidhar

We introduce a novel kernel-based framework for learning differential equations and their solution maps that is efficient in data requirements, in terms of solution examples and amount of measurements from each example, and computational…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-07 Yasamin Jalalian , Juan Felipe Osorio Ramirez , Alexander Hsu , Bamdad Hosseini , Houman Owhadi

Fairness has been a critical issue that affects the adoption of deep learning models in real practice. To improve model fairness, many existing methods have been proposed and evaluated to be effective in their own contexts. However, there…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Junjie Yang , Jiajun Jiang , Zeyu Sun , Junjie Chen

Current trends in Machine Learning prefer explainability even when it comes at the cost of performance. Therefore, explainable AI methods are particularly important in the field of Fraud Detection. This work investigates the applicability…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2024-10-30 Boris Wolfson , Erman Acar

Deep learning object detectors often return false positives with very high confidence. Although they optimize generic detection performance, such as mean average precision (mAP), they are not designed for reliability. For a reliable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Siddharth Ancha , Junyu Nan , David Held

Evolutionary algorithms, such as Differential Evolution, excel in solving real-parameter optimization challenges. However, the effectiveness of a single algorithm varies across different problem instances, necessitating considerable efforts…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Hongshu Guo , Yining Ma , Zeyuan Ma , Jiacheng Chen , Xinglin Zhang , Zhiguang Cao , Jun Zhang , Yue-Jiao Gong

In recent years, privacy and security concerns in machine learning have promoted trusted federated learning to the forefront of research. Differential privacy has emerged as the de facto standard for privacy protection in federated learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Jie Fu , Yuan Hong , Xinpeng Ling , Leixia Wang , Xun Ran , Zhiyu Sun , Wendy Hui Wang , Zhili Chen , Yang Cao

Many machine learning applications are based on data collected from people, such as their tastes and behaviour as well as biological traits and genetic data. Regardless of how important the application might be, one has to make sure…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-11 Joonas Jälkö , Onur Dikmen , Antti Honkela

Differential privacy (DP) is a neat privacy definition that can co-exist with certain well-defined data uses in the context of interactive queries. However, DP is neither a silver bullet for all privacy problems nor a replacement for all…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Josep Domingo-Ferrer , David Sánchez , Alberto Blanco-Justicia