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ML models are typically trained using large datasets of high quality. However, training datasets often contain inconsistent or incomplete data. To tackle this issue, one solution is to develop algorithms that can check whether a prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Austen Z. Fan , Paraschos Koutris

With deep neural networks providing state-of-the-art machine learning models for numerous machine learning tasks, quantifying the robustness of these models has become an important area of research. However, most of the research literature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Tsui-Wei Weng , Pin-Yu Chen , Lam M. Nguyen , Mark S. Squillante , Ivan Oseledets , Luca Daniel

Patch adversarial attacks on images, in which the attacker can distort pixels within a region of bounded size, are an important threat model since they provide a quantitative model for physical adversarial attacks. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Alexander Levine , Soheil Feizi

We introduce Harmonic Robustness, a powerful and intuitive method to test the robustness of any machine-learning model either during training or in black-box real-time inference monitoring without ground-truth labels. It is based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Nicholas S. Kersting , Yi Li , Aman Mohanty , Oyindamola Obisesan , Raphael Okochu

Deep learning requires regularization mechanisms to reduce overfitting and improve generalization. We address this problem by a new regularization method based on distributional robust optimization. The key idea is to modify the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Aurora Cobo Aguilera , Antonio Artés-Rodríguez , Fernando Pérez-Cruz , Pablo Martínez Olmos

The robustness of neural networks against input perturbations with bounded magnitude represents a serious concern in the deployment of deep learning models in safety-critical systems. Recently, the scientific community has focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Bernd Prach , Fabio Brau , Giorgio Buttazzo , Christoph H. Lampert

Over the last decade, the development of deep image classification networks has mostly been driven by the search for the best performance in terms of classification accuracy on standardized benchmarks like ImageNet. More recently, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Kalun Ho , Franz-Josef Pfreundt , Janis Keuper , Margret Keuper

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

Certifying the robustness of a graph-based machine learning model poses a critical challenge for safety. Current robustness certificates for graph classifiers guarantee output invariance with respect to the total number of node pair flips…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Pierre Osselin , Henry Kenlay , Xiaowen Dong

The effectiveness of watermark algorithms in AI-generated text identification has garnered significant attention. Concurrently, an increasing number of watermark algorithms have been proposed to enhance the robustness against various…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Xianheng Feng , Jian Liu , Kui Ren , Chun Chen

Certified defenses against small-norm adversarial examples have received growing attention in recent years; though certified accuracies of state-of-the-art methods remain far below their non-robust counterparts, despite the fact that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Klas Leino

Randomized smoothing (RS) has been shown to be a fast, scalable technique for certifying the robustness of deep neural network classifiers. However, methods based on RS require augmenting data with large amounts of noise, which leads to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Ameya Joshi , Minh Pham , Minsu Cho , Leonid Boytsov , Filipe Condessa , J. Zico Kolter , Chinmay Hegde

Recent studies show that deep neural networks (DNN) are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which aim to mislead DNNs by adding perturbations with small magnitude. To defend against such attacks, both empirical and theoretical defense…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Zhuolin Yang , Linyi Li , Xiaojun Xu , Bhavya Kailkhura , Tao Xie , Bo Li

The robustness of classifiers has become a question of paramount importance in the past few years. Indeed, it has been shown that state-of-the-art deep learning architectures can easily be fooled with imperceptible changes to their inputs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Théo Giraudon , Vincent Gripon , Matthias Löwe , Franck Vermet

A machine learning model is traditionally considered robust if its prediction remains (almost) constant under input perturbations with small norm. However, real-world tasks like molecular property prediction or point cloud segmentation have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Jan Schuchardt , Yan Scholten , Stephan Günnemann

Datasets can be biased due to societal inequities, human biases, under-representation of minorities, etc. Our goal is to certify that models produced by a learning algorithm are pointwise-robust to potential dataset biases. This is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Anna P. Meyer , Aws Albarghouthi , Loris D'Antoni

Neural networks are often susceptible to minor perturbations in input that cause them to misclassify. A recent solution to this problem is the use of globally-robust neural networks, which employ a function to certify that the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-05-13 James Tobler , Hira Taqdees Syeda , Toby Murray

Deep learning models are vulnerable to adversarial perturbations, raising important concerns for safety-critical deployment. Empirical defenses can achieve strong robustness in practice, but lack formal guarantees, motivating the need for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Konstantinos Emmanouilidis , Tianjiao Ding , Nghia Nguyen , Nicolas Loizou , René Vidal

In this discussion paper, we survey recent research surrounding robustness of machine learning models. As learning algorithms become increasingly more popular in data-driven control systems, their robustness to data uncertainty must be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Brendon G. Anderson , Tanmay Gautam , Somayeh Sojoudi

State-of-the-art NLP models can often be fooled by human-unaware transformations such as synonymous word substitution. For security reasons, it is of critical importance to develop models with certified robustness that can provably…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Mao Ye , Chengyue Gong , Qiang Liu