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Self-supervised learning (SSL), a paradigm harnessing unlabeled datasets to train robust encoders, has recently witnessed substantial success. These encoders serve as pivotal feature extractors for downstream tasks, demanding significant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Xiaobei Li , Changchun Yin , Liyue Zhu , Xiaogang Xu , Liming Fang , Run Wang , Chenhao Lin

Recent studies have shown that contrastive learning, like supervised learning, is highly vulnerable to backdoor attacks wherein malicious functions are injected into target models, only to be activated by specific triggers. However, thus…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Changjiang Li , Ren Pang , Bochuan Cao , Zhaohan Xi , Jinghui Chen , Shouling Ji , Ting Wang

Self-supervised learning (SSL) approaches have brought tremendous success across many tasks and domains. It has been argued that these successes can be attributed to a link between SSL and identifiable representation learning: Temporal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-03 Rodrigo González Laiz , Tobias Schmidt , Steffen Schneider

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for learning flexible speech representations from unlabeled data. By designing pretext tasks that exploit statistical regularities, SSL models can capture useful…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Yusuf Brima , Ulf Krumnack , Simone Pika , Gunther Heidemann

Self-supervised learning (SSL) is a growing torrent that has recently transformed machine learning and its many real world applications, by learning on massive amounts of unlabeled data via self-generated supervisory signals. Unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Leman Akoglu , Jaemin Yoo

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has witnessed remarkable progress, resulting in the emergence of numerous method variations. However, practitioners often encounter challenges when attempting to deploy these methods due to their subpar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Kai Gan , Tong Wei

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) is a valuable and robust training methodology for contemporary Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), enabling unsupervised pretraining on a 'pretext task' that does not require ground-truth labels/annotation. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Sotirios Konstantakos , Jorgen Cani , Ioannis Mademlis , Despina Ioanna Chalkiadaki , Yuki M. Asano , Efstratios Gavves , Georgios Th. Papadopoulos

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) is an effective paradigm for learning representations from unlabeled data, such as text, images, and videos. However, researchers have recently found that SSL is vulnerable to backdoor attacks. The attacker…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Shengsheng Qian , Dizhan Xue , Yifei Wang , Shengjie Zhang , Huaiwen Zhang , Changsheng Xu

Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) enhanced with Machine Learning (ML) have demonstrated the capacity to efficiently build a prototype of "normal" cyber behaviors in order to detect cyber threats' activity with greater accuracy than…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Vance Wong , John Emanuello

Safe reinforcement learning (Safe RL) aims to ensure policy performance while satisfying safety constraints. However, most existing Safe RL methods assume benign environments, making them vulnerable to adversarial perturbations commonly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Jialiang Fan , Shixiong Jiang , Mengyu Liu , Fanxin Kong

As ML models are increasingly deployed in critical applications, robustness against adversarial perturbations is crucial. While numerous defenses have been proposed to counter such attacks, they typically assume that all adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Yuan Xin , Dingfan Chen , Michael Backes , Xiao Zhang

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) is at the core of training modern large machine learning models, providing a scheme for learning powerful representations that can be used in a variety of downstream tasks. However, SSL strategies must be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-26 Philip Harris , Michael Kagan , Jeffrey Krupa , Benedikt Maier , Nathaniel Woodward

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) is a paradigm that leverages unlabeled data for model training. Empirical studies show that SSL can achieve promising performance in distribution shift scenarios, where the downstream and training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Xuyang Zhao , Tianqi Du , Yisen Wang , Jun Yao , Weiran Huang

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has recently shown tremendous potential to learn generic visual representations useful for many image analysis tasks. Despite their notable success, the existing SSL methods fail to generalize to downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Chetan L Srinidhi , Anne L Martel

Recent continual learning approaches have primarily focused on mitigating catastrophic forgetting. Nevertheless, two critical areas have remained relatively unexplored: 1) evaluating the robustness of proposed methods and 2) ensuring the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Hikmat Khan , Pir Masoom Shah , Syed Farhan Alam Zaidi , Saif ul Islam , Qasim Zia

Machine learning models are vulnerable to both security attacks (e.g., adversarial examples) and privacy attacks (e.g., private attribute inference). We take the first step to mitigate both the security and privacy attacks, and maintain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Binghui Zhang , Sayedeh Leila Noorbakhsh , Yun Dong , Yuan Hong , Binghui Wang

Adversarial training was introduced as a way to improve the robustness of deep learning models to adversarial attacks. This training method improves robustness against adversarial attacks, but increases the models vulnerability to privacy…

Multimodal contrastive learning has emerged as a powerful paradigm for building high-quality features using the complementary strengths of various data modalities. However, the open nature of such systems inadvertently increases the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Siyuan Liang , Kuanrong Liu , Jiajun Gong , Jiawei Liang , Yuan Xun , Ee-Chien Chang , Xiaochun Cao

Self-supervised learning (SSL) approaches have shown promising capabilities in learning the representation from unlabeled data. Amongst them, momentum-based frameworks have attracted significant attention. Despite being a great success,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Trung X. Pham , Axi Niu , Zhang Kang , Sultan Rizky Madjid , Ji Woo Hong , Daehyeok Kim , Joshua Tian Jin Tee , Chang D. Yoo

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) provides a powerful framework for leveraging unlabeled data when labels are limited or expensive to obtain. SSL algorithms based on deep neural networks have recently proven successful on standard benchmark…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Avital Oliver , Augustus Odena , Colin Raffel , Ekin D. Cubuk , Ian J. Goodfellow