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Stability guarantees have emerged as a principled way to evaluate feature attributions, but existing certification methods rely on heavily smoothed classifiers and often produce conservative guarantees. To address these limitations, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Helen Jin , Anton Xue , Weiqiu You , Surbhi Goel , Eric Wong

Feature attributions are a popular tool for explaining the behavior of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), but have recently been shown to be vulnerable to attacks that produce divergent explanations for nearby inputs. This lack of robustness is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Zifan Wang , Haofan Wang , Shakul Ramkumar , Matt Fredrikson , Piotr Mardziel , Anupam Datta

To explain predictions made by complex machine learning models, many feature attribution methods have been developed that assign importance scores to input features. Some recent work challenges the robustness of these methods by showing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Chris Lin , Ian Covert , Su-In Lee

Trustworthy machine learning necessitates meticulous regulation of model reliance on non-robust features. We propose a framework to delineate and regulate such features by attributing model predictions to the input. Within our approach,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Peiyu Yang , Naveed Akhtar , Mubarak Shah , Ajmal Mian

The study of provable adversarial robustness has mostly been limited to classification tasks and models with one-dimensional real-valued outputs. We extend the scope of certifiable robustness to problems with more general and structured…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Aounon Kumar , Tom Goldstein

Post-hoc feature attribution methods are widely deployed in safety-critical vision systems, yet their stability under realistic input perturbations remains poorly characterized. Existing metrics evaluate explanations primarily under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Kamalasankari Subramaniakuppusamy , Jugal Gajjar

Model attribution is a popular tool to explain the rationales behind model predictions. However, recent work suggests that the attributions are vulnerable to minute perturbations, which can be added to input samples to fool the attributions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Fan Wang , Adams Wai-Kin Kong

Randomized smoothing is a technique for providing provable robustness guarantees against adversarial attacks while making minimal assumptions about a classifier. This method relies on taking a majority vote of any base classifier over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Ambar Pal , Jeremias Sulam

As machine learning (ML) systems become pervasive, safeguarding their security is critical. However, recently it has been demonstrated that motivated adversaries are able to mislead ML systems by perturbing test data using semantic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Linyi Li , Maurice Weber , Xiaojun Xu , Luka Rimanic , Bhavya Kailkhura , Tao Xie , Ce Zhang , Bo Li

Randomized smoothing is considered to be the state-of-the-art provable defense against adversarial perturbations. However, it heavily exploits the fact that classifiers map input objects to class probabilities and do not focus on the ones…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Mikhail Pautov , Olesya Kuznetsova , Nurislam Tursynbek , Aleksandr Petiushko , Ivan Oseledets

This work proposes a mathematical approach that (re)defines a property of Machine Learning models named stability and determines sufficient conditions to validate it. Machine Learning models are represented as functions, and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Gabriel Pedroza

Stability selection (Meinshausen and Buhlmann, 2010) makes any feature selection method more stable by returning only those features that are consistently selected across many subsamples. We prove (in what is, to our knowledge, the first…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-01-04 Gregory Faletto , Jacob Bien

Estimation of structure, such as in variable selection, graphical modelling or cluster analysis is notoriously difficult, especially for high-dimensional data. We introduce stability selection. It is based on subsampling in combination with…

Methodology · Statistics 2009-05-16 Nicolai Meinshausen , Peter Buehlmann

Implicit models such as Deep Equilibrium Models (DEQs) have emerged as promising alternative approaches for building deep neural networks. Their certified robustness has gained increasing research attention due to security concerns.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Weizhi Gao , Zhichao Hou , Han Xu , Xiaorui Liu

Explainability models are now prevalent within machine learning to address the black-box nature of neural networks. The question now is which explainability model is most effective. Probabilistic Lipschitzness has demonstrated that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Lachlan Simpson , Kyle Millar , Adriel Cheng , Cheng-Chew Lim , Hong Gunn Chew

Post-hoc attribution methods aim to explain deep learning predictions by highlighting influential input pixels. However, these explanations are highly non-robust: small, imperceptible input perturbations can drastically alter the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Alaa Anani , Tobias Lorenz , Mario Fritz , Bernt Schiele

Nowadays we are witnessing a transformation of the business processes towards a more computation driven approach. The ever increasing usage of Machine Learning techniques is the clearest example of such trend. This sort of revolution is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Giorgio Visani , Enrico Bagli , Federico Chesani , Alessandro Poluzzi , Davide Capuzzo

Most scenes are illuminated by several light sources, where the traditional assumption of uniform illumination is invalid. This issue is ignored in most color constancy methods, primarily due to the complex spatial impact of multiple light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Umut Cem Entok , Firas Laakom , Farhad Pakdaman , Moncef Gabbouj

This paper discusses a general framework for smoothing parameter estimation for models with regular likelihoods constructed in terms of unknown smooth functions of covariates. Gaussian random effects and parametric terms may also be…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-05-10 Simon N. Wood , Natalya Pya , Benjamin Säfken

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
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