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As machine learning models, specifically neural networks, are becoming increasingly popular, there are concerns regarding their trustworthiness, specially in safety-critical applications, e.g. actions of an autonomous vehicle must be safe.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Kshitij Goyal , Sebastijan Dumancic , Hendrik Blockeel

With the growing burden of training deep learning models with large data sets, transfer-learning has been widely adopted in many emerging deep learning algorithms. Transformer models such as BERT are the main player in natural language…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Mujahid Al Rafi , Yuan Feng , Hyeran Jeon

Our ability to know when to trust the decisions made by machine learning systems has not kept up with the staggering improvements in their performance, limiting their applicability in high-stakes domains. We introduce Prover-Verifier Games…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Cem Anil , Guodong Zhang , Yuhuai Wu , Roger Grosse

We study the question of how well machine learning (ML) models trained on a certain data set provide privacy for the training data, or equivalently, whether it is possible to reverse-engineer the training data from a given ML model. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Stefan Rass , Sandra König , Jasmin Wachter , Manuel Egger , Manuel Hobisch

Past work has shown that large language models are susceptible to privacy attacks, where adversaries generate sequences from a trained model and detect which sequences are memorized from the training set. In this work, we show that the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Nikhil Kandpal , Eric Wallace , Colin Raffel

The PrePost (Pre- and Post-Deployment Verification Techniques) workshop aimed at bringing together researchers working in the field of computer-aided validation and verification to discuss the connections and interplay between pre- and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-05-27 Luca Aceto , Adrian Francalanza , Anna Ingolfsdottir

Deep learning has received much attention lately due to the impressive empirical performance achieved by training algorithms. Consequently, a need for a better theoretical understanding of these problems has become more evident in recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Daniel Bienstock , Gonzalo Muñoz , Sebastian Pokutta

Large language models are classically trained in stages: pretraining on raw text followed by post-training for instruction following and reasoning. However, this separation creates a fundamental limitation: many desirable behaviors such as…

Deep learning achieves remarkable performance on pattern recognition, but can be vulnerable to defects of some important properties such as robustness and security. This tutorial is based on a stream of research conducted since the summer…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Nicolas Berthier , Youcheng Sun , Wei Huang , Yanghao Zhang , Wenjie Ruan , Xiaowei Huang

Large-scale training datasets lie at the core of the recent success of neural machine translation (NMT) models. However, the complex patterns and potential noises in the large-scale data make training NMT models difficult. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Wenxiang Jiao , Xing Wang , Shilin He , Irwin King , Michael R. Lyu , Zhaopeng Tu

In this work, we study the computational complexity of determining whether a machine learning model that perfectly fits the training data will generalizes to unseen data. In particular, we study the power of a malicious agent whose goal is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Ankur Moitra , Elchanan Mossel , Colin Sandon

While larger neural models are pushing the boundaries of what deep learning can do, often more weights are needed to train models rather than to run inference for tasks. This paper seeks to understand this behavior using search spaces --…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Darko Stosic , Dusan Stosic

Federated learning of deep learning models for supervised tasks, e.g. image classification and segmentation, has found many applications: for example in human-in-the-loop tasks such as film post-production where it enables sharing of domain…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-22 Cangxiong Chen , Neill D. F. Campbell

We review state-of-the-art formal methods applied to the emerging field of the verification of machine learning systems. Formal methods can provide rigorous correctness guarantees on hardware and software systems. Thanks to the availability…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Caterina Urban , Antoine Miné

Large Language Models' knowledge of how to perform cyber-security attacks, create bioweapons, and manipulate humans poses risks of misuse. Previous work has proposed methods to unlearn this knowledge. Historically, it has been unclear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Aghyad Deeb , Fabien Roger

The unprecedented availability of training data fueled the rapid development of powerful neural networks in recent years. However, the need for such large amounts of data leads to potential threats such as poisoning attacks: adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Fabio De Gaspari , Dorjan Hitaj , Luigi V. Mancini

There are a number of diverging hypotheses about the neural text degeneration problem, i.e., generating repetitive and dull loops, which makes this problem both interesting and confusing. In this work, we aim to advance our understanding by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Huayang Li , Tian Lan , Zihao Fu , Deng Cai , Lemao Liu , Nigel Collier , Taro Watanabe , Yixuan Su

We introduce an exploratory study on Mutation Validation (MV), a model validation method using mutated training labels for supervised learning. MV mutates training data labels, retrains the model against the mutated data, then uses the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Jie M. Zhang , Mark Harman , Benjamin Guedj , Earl T. Barr , John Shawe-Taylor

Overfitting is a well-known issue in machine learning that occurs when a model struggles to generalize its predictions to new, unseen data beyond the scope of its training set. Traditional techniques to mitigate overfitting include early…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Flavio Giorgi , Fabiano Veglianti , Fabrizio Silvestri , Gabriele Tolomei

The value and copyright of training data are crucial in the artificial intelligence industry. Service platforms should protect data providers' legitimate rights and fairly reward them for their contributions. Shapley value, a potent tool…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Haifeng Sun , Yu Xiong , Runze Wu , Xinyu Cai , Changjie Fan , Lan Zhang , Xiang-Yang Li