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Recently smoothing deep neural network based classifiers via isotropic Gaussian perturbation is shown to be an effective and scalable way to provide state-of-the-art probabilistic robustness guarantee against $\ell_2$ norm bounded…

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Due to numerous breakthroughs in real-world applications brought by machine intelligence, deep neural networks (DNNs) are widely employed in critical applications. However, predictions of DNNs are easily manipulated with imperceptible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Hongjun Wang , Yisen Wang

Adversarial attacks have rendered high security risks on modern deep learning systems. Adversarial training can significantly enhance the robustness of neural network models by suppressing the non-robust features. However, the models often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Yi Cai , Xuefei Ning , Huazhong Yang , Yu Wang

Backdoor attack is a severe security threat to deep neural networks (DNNs). We envision that, like adversarial examples, there will be a cat-and-mouse game for backdoor attacks, i.e., new empirical defenses are developed to defend against…

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Randomized classifiers have been shown to provide a promising approach for achieving certified robustness against adversarial attacks in deep learning. However, most existing methods only leverage Gaussian smoothing noise and only work for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Dinghuai Zhang , Mao Ye , Chengyue Gong , Zhanxing Zhu , Qiang Liu

Ensemble learning is a process by which multiple base learners are strategically generated and combined into one composite learner. There are two features that are essential to an ensemble's performance, the individual accuracies of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Wenjing Li , Randy C. Paffenroth , David Berthiaume

Randomness supports many critical functions in the field of machine learning (ML) including optimisation, data selection, privacy, and security. ML systems outsource the task of generating or harvesting randomness to the compiler, the cloud…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Pranav Dahiya , Ilia Shumailov , Ross Anderson

Machine learning models have demonstrated remarkable success across diverse domains but remain vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Empirical defense mechanisms often fail, as new attacks constantly emerge, rendering existing defenses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Anupriya Kumari , Devansh Bhardwaj , Sukrit Jindal

Randomized smoothing (RS) is an effective and scalable technique for constructing neural network classifiers that are certifiably robust to adversarial perturbations. Most RS works focus on training a good base model that boosts the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Chen Chen , Kezhi Kong , Peihong Yu , Juan Luque , Tom Goldstein , Furong Huang

Randomized Smoothing (RS), being one of few provable defenses, has been showing great effectiveness and scalability in terms of defending against $\ell_2$-norm adversarial perturbations. However, the cost of MC sampling needed in RS for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Huimin Zeng , Jiahao Su , Furong Huang

Training deep neural networks (DNNs) in the presence of noisy labels is an important and challenging task. Probabilistic modeling, which consists of a classifier and a transition matrix, depicts the transformation from true labels to noisy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Xianbin Lv , Dongxian Wu , Shu-Tao Xia

Ensembles of CNN models trained with different seeds (also known as Deep Ensembles) are known to achieve superior performance over a single copy of the CNN. Neural Ensemble Search (NES) can further boost performance by adding architectural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Ashwin Raaghav Narayanan , Arber Zela , Tonmoy Saikia , Thomas Brox , Frank Hutter

Randomized smoothing has recently attracted attentions in the field of adversarial robustness to provide provable robustness guarantees on smoothed neural network classifiers. However, existing works show that vanilla randomized smoothing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Linbo Liu , Trong Nghia Hoang , Lam M. Nguyen , Tsui-Wei Weng

Certified defenses such as randomized smoothing have shown promise towards building reliable machine learning systems against $\ell_p$-norm bounded attacks. However, existing methods are insufficient or unable to provably defend against…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Zhongkai Hao , Chengyang Ying , Yinpeng Dong , Hang Su , Jun Zhu , Jian Song

Randomized smoothing is the current state-of-the-art method for producing provably robust classifiers. While randomized smoothing typically yields robust $\ell_2$-ball certificates, recent research has generalized provable robustness to…

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The arguably most widely employed algorithm to train deep neural networks with Differential Privacy is DPSGD, which requires clipping and noising of per-sample gradients. This introduces a reduction in model utility compared to non-private…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Nicolas W. Remerscheid , Alexander Ziller , Daniel Rueckert , Georgios Kaissis

A recent technique of randomized smoothing has shown that the worst-case (adversarial) $\ell_2$-robustness can be transformed into the average-case Gaussian-robustness by "smoothing" a classifier, i.e., by considering the averaged…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Jongheon Jeong , Jinwoo Shin

Federated learning enables training machine learning models while preserving the privacy of participants. Surprisingly, there is no differentially private distributed method for smooth, non-convex optimization problems. The reason is that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Egor Shulgin , Sarit Khirirat , Peter Richtárik

As ML models are increasingly deployed in critical applications, robustness against adversarial perturbations is crucial. While numerous defenses have been proposed to counter such attacks, they typically assume that all adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Yuan Xin , Dingfan Chen , Michael Backes , Xiao Zhang

As the popularity of deep learning (DL) in the field of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) continues to rise, recent research has indicated that DL-based MRI reconstruction models might be excessively sensitive to minor input disturbances,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Shijun Liang , Van Hoang Minh Nguyen , Jinghan Jia , Ismail Alkhouri , Sijia Liu , Saiprasad Ravishankar