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In this paper, we tackle the problem of discovering new classes in unlabeled visual data given labeled data from disjoint classes. Existing methods typically first pre-train a model with labeled data, and then identify new classes in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Zhun Zhong , Linchao Zhu , Zhiming Luo , Shaozi Li , Yi Yang , Nicu Sebe

Adversarial attacks against Deep Neural Networks have been widely studied. One significant feature that makes such attacks particularly powerful is transferability, where the adversarial examples generated from one model can be effective…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Renzhi Wang , Tianwei Zhang , Xiaofei Xie , Lei Ma , Cong Tian , Felix Juefei-Xu , Yang Liu

In weakly supervised learning, unbiased risk estimator(URE) is a powerful tool for training classifiers when training and test data are drawn from different distributions. Nevertheless, UREs lead to overfitting in many problem settings when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Yu-Ting Chou , Gang Niu , Hsuan-Tien Lin , Masashi Sugiyama

The majority of existing Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) methods presumes source and target domain data to be simultaneously available during training. Such an assumption may not hold in practice, as source data is often inaccessible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Waqar Ahmed , Pietro Morerio , Vittorio Murino

Clustering attempts to partition data instances into several distinctive groups, while the similarities among data belonging to the common partition can be principally reserved. Furthermore, incomplete data frequently occurs in many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Miao Cheng , Xinge You

The pioneering method for unsupervised meta-learning, CACTUs, is a clustering-based approach with pseudo-labeling. This approach is model-agnostic and can be combined with supervised algorithms to learn from unlabeled data. However, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Xingping Dong , Jianbing Shen , Ling Shao

While clustering is ubiquitously used across science and industry, uncertainty in cluster assignments is rarely quantified with rigorous guarantees. We propose a novel conformal inference framework for clustering that returns confidence…

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Understanding and quantifying uncertainty in black box Neural Networks (NNs) is critical when deployed in real-world settings such as healthcare. Recent works using Bayesian and non-Bayesian methods have shown how a unified predictive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Utkarsh Sarawgi , Wazeer Zulfikar , Rishab Khincha , Pattie Maes

Unsupervised image clustering methods often introduce alternative objectives to indirectly train the model and are subject to faulty predictions and overconfident results. To overcome these challenges, the current research proposes an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Sungwon Park , Sungwon Han , Sundong Kim , Danu Kim , Sungkyu Park , Seunghoon Hong , Meeyoung Cha

Machine learning systems based on deep neural networks, being able to produce state-of-the-art results on various perception tasks, have gained mainstream adoption in many applications. However, they are shown to be vulnerable to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Bo Luo , Yannan Liu , Lingxiao Wei , Qiang Xu

We propose VIBE, a model-agnostic framework that trains classifiers resilient to backdoor attacks. The key concept behind our approach is to treat malicious inputs and corrupted labels from the training dataset as observed random variables,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Ivan Sabolić , Matej Grcić , Siniša Šegvić

The rapid growth of deep learning has brought about powerful models that can handle various tasks, like identifying images and understanding language. However, adversarial attacks, an unnoticed alteration, can deceive models, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Sampriti Soor , Alik Pramanick , Jothiprakash K , Arijit Sur

Unsupervised Deep Distance Metric Learning (UDML) aims to learn sample similarities in the embedding space from an unlabeled dataset. Traditional UDML methods usually use the triplet loss or pairwise loss which requires the mining of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Binh X. Nguyen , Binh D. Nguyen , Gustavo Carneiro , Erman Tjiputra , Quang D. Tran , Thanh-Toan Do

Most existing unsupervised person re-identification (Re-ID) methods use clustering to generate pseudo labels for model training. Unfortunately, clustering sometimes mixes different true identities together or splits the same identity into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Xinyu Zhang , Dongdong Li , Zhigang Wang , Jian Wang , Errui Ding , Javen Qinfeng Shi , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Jingdong Wang

Adversarial examples, characterized by imperceptible perturbations, pose significant threats to deep neural networks by misleading their predictions. A critical aspect of these examples is their transferability, allowing them to deceive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Yi Yu , Song Xia , Xun Lin , Chenqi Kong , Wenhan Yang , Shijian Lu , Yap-Peng Tan , Alex C. Kot

The rapid progress of text-to-image diffusion models raises significant concerns regarding the unauthorized reproduction of trademarked content. While prior work targets general concepts (e.g., styles, celebrities), it fails to address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Dawid Malarz , Filip Manjak , Maciej Zięba , Przemysław Spurek , Artur Kasymov

Visually similar characters, or homoglyphs, can be used to perform social engineering attacks or to evade spam and plagiarism detectors. It is thus important to understand the capabilities of an attacker to identify homoglyphs --…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Perry Deng , Cooper Linsky , Matthew Wright

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used for automated software development, making their ability to preserve secure coding practices critical. In practice, however, many security requirements are implicit or underspecified,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yue Li , Xiao Li , Hao Wu , Yue Zhang , Yechao Zhang , Yating Liu , Fengyuan Xu , Sheng Zhong

Graph anomaly detection has gained significant attention across various domains, particularly in critical applications like fraud detection in e-commerce platforms and insider threat detection in cybersecurity. Usually, these data are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Lecheng Zheng , John R. Birge , Haiyue Wu , Yifang Zhang , Jingrui He

Due to the increasing computational demand of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), companies and organizations have begun to outsource the training process. However, the externally trained DNNs can potentially be backdoor attacked. It is crucial to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Lu Pang , Tao Sun , Haibin Ling , Chao Chen