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The adversarial vulnerability of deep neural networks has attracted significant attention in machine learning. As causal reasoning has an instinct for modelling distribution change, it is essential to incorporate causality into analyzing…

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Adversarial Training (AT) is one of the most effective methods for developing robust deep neural networks (DNNs). However, AT faces a trade-off problem between clean accuracy and adversarial robustness. In this work, we reveal a surprising…

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Although deep learning has demonstrated astonishing performance in many applications, there are still concerns about its dependability. One desirable property of deep learning applications with societal impact is fairness (i.e.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Peixin Zhang , Jingyi Wang , Jun Sun , Xinyu Wang , Guoliang Dong , Xingen Wang , Ting Dai , Jin Song Dong

With growing awareness of societal impact of artificial intelligence, fairness has become an important aspect of machine learning algorithms. The issue is that human biases towards certain groups of population, defined by sensitive features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Andrija Petrović , Mladen Nikolić , Sandro Radovanović , Boris Delibašić , Miloš Jovanović

With the introduction of machine learning in high-stakes decision making, ensuring algorithmic fairness has become an increasingly important problem to solve. In response to this, many mathematical definitions of fairness have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Edward Small , Wei Shao , Zeliang Zhang , Peihan Liu , Jeffrey Chan , Kacper Sokol , Flora Salim

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are now commonly used in many domains. However, they are vulnerable to adversarial attacks: carefully crafted perturbations on data inputs that can fool a model into making incorrect predictions. Despite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Nilaksh Das , Haekyu Park , Zijie J. Wang , Fred Hohman , Robert Firstman , Emily Rogers , Duen Horng Chau

Robustness is essential for deep neural networks, especially in security-sensitive applications. To this end, randomized smoothing provides theoretical guarantees for certifying robustness against adversarial perturbations. Recently,…

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Robustness of deep neural networks (DNNs) to malicious perturbations is a hot topic in trustworthy AI. Existing techniques obtain robust models given fixed datasets, either by modifying model structures, or by optimizing the process of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Yiqi Zhong , Lei Wu , Xianming Liu , Junjun Jiang

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are a revolutionary force in the ongoing information revolution, and yet their intrinsic properties remain a mystery. In particular, it is widely known that DNNs are highly sensitive to noise, whether adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Netanel Raviv , Siddharth Jain , Pulakesh Upadhyaya , Jehoshua Bruck , Anxiao Jiang

Deep neural networks have proven remarkably effective at solving many classification problems, but have been criticized recently for two major weaknesses: the reasons behind their predictions are uninterpretable, and the predictions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Andrew Slavin Ross , Finale Doshi-Velez

Representation learning, i.e. the generation of representations useful for downstream applications, is a task of fundamental importance that underlies much of the success of deep neural networks (DNNs). Recently, robustness to adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Christian Cianfarani , Arjun Nitin Bhagoji , Vikash Sehwag , Ben Y. Zhao , Prateek Mittal , Haitao Zheng

In recent years, there has been significant attention given to the robustness assessment of neural networks. Robustness plays a critical role in ensuring reliable operation of artificial intelligence (AI) systems in complex and uncertain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Jie Wang , Jun Ai , Minyan Lu , Haoran Su , Dan Yu , Yutao Zhang , Junda Zhu , Jingyu Liu

Deep networks for computer vision are not reliable when they encounter adversarial examples. In this paper, we introduce a framework that uses the dense intrinsic constraints in natural images to robustify inference. By introducing…

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Given the rapid changes in telecommunication systems and their higher dependence on artificial intelligence, it is increasingly important to have models that can perform well under different, possibly adverse, conditions. Deep Neural…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-30 Javier Maroto , Gérôme Bovet , Pascal Frossard

The disparity in accuracy between classes in standard training is amplified during adversarial training, a phenomenon termed the robust fairness problem. Existing methodologies aimed to enhance robust fairness by sacrificing the model's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Hyungyu Lee , Saehyung Lee , Hyemi Jang , Junsung Park , Ho Bae , Sungroh Yoon

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have gained prominence in various applications, such as classification, recognition, and prediction, prompting increased scrutiny of their properties. A fundamental attribute of traditional DNNs is their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Roman Garaev , Bader Rasheed , Adil Khan

We introduce DeepCert, a tool-supported method for verifying the robustness of deep neural network (DNN) image classifiers to contextually relevant perturbations such as blur, haze, and changes in image contrast. While the robustness of DNN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Colin Paterson , Haoze Wu , John Grese , Radu Calinescu , Corina S. Pasareanu , Clark Barrett

Despite apparent human-level performances of deep neural networks (DNN), they behave fundamentally differently from humans. They easily change predictions when small corruptions such as blur and noise are applied on the input (lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Sanghyuk Chun , Seong Joon Oh , Sangdoo Yun , Dongyoon Han , Junsuk Choe , Youngjoon Yoo

Interpreting the inference-time behavior of deep neural networks remains a challenging problem. Existing approaches to counterfactual explanation typically ask: What is the closest alternative input that would alter the model's prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Brian Hyeongseok Kim , Jacqueline L. Mitchell , Chao Wang

The rapid growth of data in the recent years has led to the development of complex learning algorithms that are often used to make decisions in real world. While the positive impact of the algorithms has been tremendous, there is a need to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Ankit Kulshrestha , Ilya Safro