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Progress in making neural networks more robust against adversarial attacks is mostly marginal, despite the great efforts of the research community. Moreover, the robustness evaluation is often imprecise, making it difficult to identify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Leo Schwinn , René Raab , An Nguyen , Dario Zanca , Bjoern Eskofier

Recent studies have shown that deep reinforcement learning agents are vulnerable to small adversarial perturbations on the agent's inputs, which raises concerns about deploying such agents in the real world. To address this issue, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Tuomas Oikarinen , Wang Zhang , Alexandre Megretski , Luca Daniel , Tsui-Wei Weng

Multi-view evidential learning aims to integrate information from multiple views to improve prediction performance and provide trustworthy uncertainty esitimation. Most previous methods assume that view-specific evidence learning is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Haishun Chen , Cai Xu , Jinlong Yu , Yilin Zhang , Ziyu Guan , Wei Zhao , Fangyuan Zhao , Xin Yang

Neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks -- small visually imperceptible crafted noise which when added to the input drastically changes the output. The most effective method of defending against these adversarial attacks is to…

Traditional (fickle) adversarial examples involve finding a small perturbation that does not change an input's true label but confuses the classifier into outputting a different prediction. Conversely, obstinate adversarial examples occur…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Hannah Chen , Yangfeng Ji , David Evans

Often, labeling large amount of data is challenging due to high labeling cost limiting the application domain of deep learning techniques. Active learning (AL) tackles this by querying the most informative samples to be annotated among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Kwanyoung Kim , Dongwon Park , Kwang In Kim , Se Young Chun

Decision making and learning in the presence of uncertainty has attracted significant attention in view of the increasing need to achieve robust and reliable operations. In the case where uncertainty stems from the presence of adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-25 André Bertolace , Konstatinos Gatsis , Kostas Margellos

Machine unlearning poses the challenge of ``how to eliminate the influence of specific data from a pretrained model'' in regard to privacy concerns. While prior research on approximated unlearning has demonstrated accuracy and efficiency in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Khoa Tran , Simon S. Woo

Robots have limited adaptation ability compared to humans and animals in the case of damage. However, robot damages are prevalent in real-world applications, especially for robots deployed in extreme environments. The fragility of robots…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Fan Yang , Chao Yang , Di Guo , Huaping Liu , Fuchun Sun

Adversarial Training (AT) has become arguably the state-of-the-art algorithm for extracting robust features. However, researchers recently notice that AT suffers from severe robust overfitting problems, particularly after learning rate (LR)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Yifei Wang , Liangchen Li , Jiansheng Yang , Zhouchen Lin , Yisen Wang

Deep neural networks are easily fooled by small perturbations known as adversarial attacks. Adversarial Training (AT) is a technique aimed at learning features robust to such attacks and is widely regarded as a very effective defense.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Theodoros Tsiligkaridis , Jay Roberts

Adversarial robustness is a critical challenge in deploying deep neural networks for real-world applications. While adversarial training is a widely recognized defense strategy, most existing studies focus on balanced datasets, overlooking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Wang YuHang , Junkang Guo , Aolei Liu , Kaihao Wang , Zaitong Wu , Zhenyu Liu , Wenfei Yin , Jian Liu

In this research, we focus on the usage of adversarial sampling to test for the fairness in the prediction of deep neural network model across different classes of image in a given dataset. While several framework had been proposed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Tosin Ige , William Marfo , Justin Tonkinson , Sikiru Adewale , Bolanle Hafiz Matti

Adversarial training (AT) is a widely recognized defense mechanism to gain the robustness of deep neural networks against adversarial attacks. It is built on min-max optimization (MMO), where the minimizer (i.e., defender) seeks a robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Yihua Zhang , Guanhua Zhang , Prashant Khanduri , Mingyi Hong , Shiyu Chang , Sijia Liu

Deep models, while being extremely versatile and accurate, are vulnerable to adversarial attacks: slight perturbations that are imperceptible to humans can completely flip the prediction of deep models. Many attack and defense mechanisms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Kaiwen Wu , Yaoliang Yu

Multi-agent systems are trained to maximize shared cost objectives, which typically reflect system-level efficiency. However, in the resource-constrained environments of mobility and transportation systems, efficiency may be achieved at the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Jasmine Jerry Aloor , Siddharth Nayak , Sydney Dolan , Hamsa Balakrishnan

Adversarial training provides a principled approach for training robust neural networks. From an optimization perspective, adversarial training is essentially solving a bilevel optimization problem. The leader problem is trying to learn a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Haoming Jiang , Zhehui Chen , Yuyang Shi , Bo Dai , Tuo Zhao

In this paper we propose a new family of algorithms, ATENT, for training adversarially robust deep neural networks. We formulate a new loss function that is equipped with an additional entropic regularization. Our loss function considers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Gauri Jagatap , Ameya Joshi , Animesh Basak Chowdhury , Siddharth Garg , Chinmay Hegde

To evaluate the robustness of non-classifier models, we propose probabilistic local equivalence, based on the notion of randomized smoothing, as a way to quantitatively evaluate the robustness of an arbitrary function. In addition, to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Jacob Bond , Andrew Lingg

Robustness to modeling errors and uncertainties remains a central challenge in reinforcement learning (RL). In this work, we address this challenge by leveraging diffusion models to train robust RL policies. Diffusion models have recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Daniele Foffano , Alessio Russo , Alexandre Proutiere