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This paper studies the robustness of reinforcement learning algorithms to errors in the learning process. Specifically, we revisit the benchmark problem of discrete-time linear quadratic regulation (LQR) and study the long-standing open…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-16 Bo Pang , Zhong-Ping Jiang

We investigate robustness of deep feed-forward neural networks when input data are subject to random uncertainties. More specifically, we consider regularization of the network by its Lipschitz constant and emphasize its role. We highlight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Nicolas Couellan

Ensuring neural network robustness is essential for the safe and reliable operation of robotic learning systems, especially in perception and decision-making tasks within real-world environments. This paper investigates the robustness of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Abulikemu Abuduweili , Changliu Liu

In light of the burgeoning success of reinforcement learning (RL) in diverse real-world applications, considerable focus has been directed towards ensuring RL policies are robust to adversarial attacks during test time. Current approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Xiangyu Liu , Chenghao Deng , Yanchao Sun , Yongyuan Liang , Furong Huang

Empirical studies have widely demonstrated that neural networks are highly sensitive to small, adversarial perturbations of the input. The worst-case robustness against these so-called adversarial examples can be quantified by the Lipschitz…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-03 Paul Geuchen , Dominik Stöger , Thomas Telaar , Felix Voigtlaender

Recent research has revealed that high compression of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), e.g., massive pruning of the weight matrix of a DNN, leads to a severe drop in accuracy and susceptibility to adversarial attacks. Integration of network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Yangqi Feng , Shing-Ho J. Lin , Baoyuan Gao , Xian Wei

In a recent work, we proposed Reliable Policy Iteration (RPI), that restores policy iteration's monotonicity-of-value-estimates property to the function approximation setting. Here, we assess the robustness of RPI's empirical performance on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-16 S. R. Eshwar , Aniruddha Mukherjee , Kintan Saha , Krishna Agarwal , Gugan Thoppe , Aditya Gopalan , Gal Dalal

In this work we propose a graph-based learning framework to train models with provable robustness to adversarial perturbations. In contrast to regularization-based approaches, we formulate the adversarially robust learning problem as one of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Vishaal Krishnan , Abed AlRahman Al Makdah , Fabio Pasqualetti

Many of the challenges facing today's reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms, such as robustness, generalization, transfer, and computational efficiency are closely related to compression. Prior work has convincingly argued why minimizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Benjamin Eysenbach , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Sergey Levine

Despite significant advances, deep networks remain highly susceptible to adversarial attack. One fundamental challenge is that small input perturbations can often produce large movements in the network's final-layer feature space. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Maria-Florina Balcan , Avrim Blum , Dravyansh Sharma , Hongyang Zhang

Model-based Reinforcement Learning estimates the true environment through a world model in order to approximate the optimal policy. This family of algorithms usually benefits from better sample efficiency than their model-free counterparts.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Valentin Charvet , Bjørn Sand Jensen , Roderick Murray-Smith

Several recent papers have discussed utilizing Lipschitz constants to limit the susceptibility of neural networks to adversarial examples. We analyze recently proposed methods for computing the Lipschitz constant. We show that the Lipschitz…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Todd Huster , Cho-Yu Jason Chiang , Ritu Chadha

Reinforcement learning (RL) policies are prone to high-frequency oscillations, especially undesirable when deploying to hardware in the real-world. In this paper, we identify, categorize, and compare methods from the literature that aim to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Guilherme Christmann , Ying-Sheng Luo , Hanjaya Mandala , Wei-Chao Chen

High sensitivity of neural networks against malicious perturbations on inputs causes security concerns. To take a steady step towards robust classifiers, we aim to create neural network models provably defended from perturbations. Prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Yusuke Tsuzuku , Issei Sato , Masashi Sugiyama

Recent work has shown that state-of-the-art classifiers are quite brittle, in the sense that a small adversarial change of an originally with high confidence correctly classified input leads to a wrong classification again with high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Matthias Hein , Maksym Andriushchenko

When designing controllers for safety-critical systems, practitioners often face a challenging tradeoff between robustness and performance. While robust control methods provide rigorous guarantees on system stability under certain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Priya L. Donti , Melrose Roderick , Mahyar Fazlyab , J. Zico Kolter

As deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly deployed in sensitive applications, ensuring their security and robustness has become critical. A major threat to DNNs arises from adversarial attacks, where small input perturbations can lead…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Erh-Chung Chen , Pin-Yu Chen , I-Hsin Chung , Che-Rung Lee

Since the Lipschitz properties of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are widely considered to be related to adversarial robustness, we theoretically characterize the $\ell_1$ norm and $\ell_\infty$ norm of 2D multi-channel convolutional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Youwei Liang , Dong Huang

A policy is said to be robust if it maximizes the reward while considering a bad, or even adversarial, model. In this work we formalize two new criteria of robustness to action uncertainty. Specifically, we consider two scenarios in which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Chen Tessler , Yonathan Efroni , Shie Mannor

Modern engineering systems, such as autonomous vehicles, flexible robotics, and intelligent aerospace platforms, require controllers that are robust to uncertainties, adaptive to environmental changes, and safety-aware under real-time…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Patrick Kostelac , Xuerui Wang , Anahita Jamshidnejad