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We propose a principled framework that combines adversarial training and provable robustness verification for training certifiably robust neural networks. We formulate the training problem as a joint optimization problem with both empirical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Jiameng Fan , Wenchao Li

Diffusion models have been recently employed to improve certified robustness through the process of denoising. However, the theoretical understanding of why diffusion models are able to improve the certified robustness is still lacking,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Chaowei Xiao , Zhongzhu Chen , Kun Jin , Jiongxiao Wang , Weili Nie , Mingyan Liu , Anima Anandkumar , Bo Li , Dawn Song

Intentionally crafted adversarial samples have effectively exploited weaknesses in deep neural networks. A standard method in adversarial robustness assumes a framework to defend against samples crafted by minimally perturbing a sample such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Anaelia Ovalle , Evan Czyzycki , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Deep neural networks often suffer from poor generalization caused by complex and non-convex loss landscapes. One of the popular solutions is Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM), which smooths the loss landscape via minimizing the maximized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Peng Mi , Li Shen , Tianhe Ren , Yiyi Zhou , Xiaoshuai Sun , Rongrong Ji , Dacheng Tao

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are used in state-of-the-art models in domains such as speech recognition, machine translation, and language modelling. Sparsity is a technique to reduce compute and memory requirements of deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Sharan Narang , Eric Undersander , Gregory Diamos

As humans, we inherently perceive images based on their predominant features, and ignore noise embedded within lower bit planes. On the contrary, Deep Neural Networks are known to confidently misclassify images corrupted with meticulously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Sravanti Addepalli , Vivek B. S. , Arya Baburaj , Gaurang Sriramanan , R. Venkatesh Babu

Deep Neural Network (DNN) trained by the gradient descent method is known to be vulnerable to maliciously perturbed adversarial input, aka. adversarial attack. As one of the countermeasures against adversarial attack, increasing the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Adnan Siraj Rakin , Zhezhi He , Li Yang , Yanzhi Wang , Liqiang Wang , Deliang Fan

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

Recently, a new trend of exploring sparsity for accelerating neural network training has emerged, embracing the paradigm of training on the edge. This paper proposes a novel Memory-Economic Sparse Training (MEST) framework targeting for…

Sparsity in the structure of Neural Networks can lead to less energy consumption, less memory usage, faster computation times on convenient hardware, and automated machine learning. If sparsity gives rise to certain kinds of structure, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Julian Stier , Harshil Darji , Michael Granitzer

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

We propose a novel domain generalization technique, referred to as Randomized Adversarial Style Perturbation (RASP), which is motivated by the observation that the characteristics of each domain are captured by the feature statistics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Taehoon Kim , Bohyung Han

While neural networks have made significant strides in many AI tasks, they remain vulnerable to a range of noise types, including natural corruptions, adversarial noise, and low-resolution artifacts. Many existing approaches focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Zhiling Zhou , Zirui Liu , Chengming Xu , Yanwei Fu , Xinwei Sun

Spurious correlations are brittle associations between certain attributes of inputs and target variables, such as the correlation between an image background and an object class. Deep image classifiers often leverage them for predictions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Guangtao Zheng , Wenqian Ye , Aidong Zhang

Obtaining versions of deep neural networks that are both highly-accurate and highly-sparse is one of the main challenges in the area of model compression, and several high-performance pruning techniques have been investigated by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Denis Kuznedelev , Eldar Kurtic , Eugenia Iofinova , Elias Frantar , Alexandra Peste , Dan Alistarh

We study the model robustness against adversarial examples, referred to as small perturbed input data that may however fool many state-of-the-art deep learning models. Unlike previous research, we establish a novel theory addressing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Shufei Zhang , Kaizhu Huang , Zenglin Xu

Deep learning has powered recent successes of artificial intelligence (AI). However, the deep neural network, as the basic model of deep learning, has suffered from issues such as local traps and miscalibration. In this paper, we provide a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-03 Yan Sun , Wenjun Xiong , Faming Liang

Semi-structured sparsity provides a practical path to accelerate large language models (LLMs) with native hardware support, but post-training semi-structured pruning often suffers from substantial quality degradation due to strong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Liu Hanzuo , Chaofan Lin , Weixuan Sun , Yulong Wang , Key , Rayying , Mingyu Gao

Deep neural networks are incredibly vulnerable to crafted, human-imperceptible adversarial perturbations. Although adversarial training (AT) has proven to be an effective defense approach, we find that the AT-trained models heavily rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Binxiao Huang , Chaofan Tao , Rui Lin , Ngai Wong

Semisupervised methods inevitably invoke some assumption that links the marginal distribution of the features to the regression function of the label. Most commonly, the cluster or manifold assumptions are used which imply that the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-12-02 Martin Azizyan , Aarti Singh , Larry Wasserman