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Test-time defenses are used to improve the robustness of deep neural networks to adversarial examples during inference. However, existing methods either require an additional trained classifier to detect and correct the adversarial samples,…

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Whisper is a recent Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model displaying impressive robustness to both out-of-distribution inputs and random noise. In this work, we show that this robustness does not carry over to adversarial noise. We show…

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As the adoption of machine learning models increases, ensuring robust models against adversarial attacks is increasingly important. With unsupervised machine learning gaining more attention, ensuring it is robust against attacks is vital.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Mathias Lundteigen Mohus , Jinyue Li

The robust self-training (RST) framework has emerged as a prominent approach for semi-supervised adversarial training. To explore the possibility of tackling more complicated tasks with even lower labeling budgets, unlike prior approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Tsung-Han Wu , Hung-Ting Su , Shang-Tse Chen , Winston H. Hsu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art results in various pattern recognition tasks. However, they perform poorly on out-of-distribution adversarial examples i.e. inputs that are specifically crafted by an adversary to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Chirag Agarwal , Anh Nguyen , Dan Schonfeld

Neural networks can be significantly compressed by pruning, yielding sparse models with reduced storage and computational demands while preserving predictive performance. Model soups (Wortsman et al., 2022) enhance generalization and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Max Zimmer , Christoph Spiegel , Sebastian Pokutta

Adversarial training (AT) with projected gradient descent is the most popular method to improve model robustness under adversarial attacks. However, computational overheads become prohibitively large when AT is applied to large backbone…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Quanwei Wu , Jun Guo , Wei Wang , Yi Wang

Deep Learning has revolutionized machine learning and artificial intelligence, achieving superhuman performance in several standard benchmarks. It is well-known that deep learning models are inefficient to train; they learn by processing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Fartash Faghri

Despite the popularity of Model Compression and Multitask Learning, how to effectively compress a multitask model has been less thoroughly analyzed due to the challenging entanglement of tasks in the parameter space. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Xinglong Sun , Ali Hassani , Zhangyang Wang , Gao Huang , Humphrey Shi

Recent unified multi-modal encoders align a wide range of modalities into a shared representation space, enabling diverse cross-modal tasks. Despite their impressive capabilities, the robustness of these models under adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Chih-Ting Liao , Zhangquan Chen , Chunlei Meng , Tzu-Yu Huang , Xin Cao , Xu Zheng

We show that combining human prior knowledge with end-to-end learning can improve the robustness of deep neural networks by introducing a part-based model for object classification. We believe that the richer form of annotation helps guide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Chawin Sitawarin , Kornrapat Pongmala , Yizheng Chen , Nicholas Carlini , David Wagner

Despite the success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in many academic benchmarks for computer vision tasks, their application in the real-world is still facing fundamental challenges. One of these open problems is the inherent lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Julia Grabinski , Paul Gavrikov , Janis Keuper , Margret Keuper

In learning problems, the noise inherent to the task at hand hinders the possibility to infer without a certain degree of uncertainty. Quantifying this uncertainty, regardless of its wide use, assumes high relevance for security-sensitive…

Understanding and evaluating the robustness of neural networks under adversarial settings is a subject of growing interest. Attacks proposed in the literature usually work with models trained to minimize cross-entropy loss and output…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Sean Saito , Sujoy Roy

Exploiting sparsity enables hardware systems to run neural networks faster and more energy-efficiently. However, most prior sparsity-centric optimization techniques only accelerate the forward pass of neural networks and usually require an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Maohua Zhu , Jason Clemons , Jeff Pool , Minsoo Rhu , Stephen W. Keckler , Yuan Xie

Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) have shown promise in improving the interpretability of neural network activations, but can learn features that are not features of the input, limiting their effectiveness. We propose \textsc{Mutual Feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Luke Marks , Alasdair Paren , David Krueger , Fazl Barez

Deep networks have achieved impressive results on a range of well-curated benchmark datasets. Surprisingly, their performance remains sensitive to perturbations that have little effect on human performance. In this work, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Jonas Ngnawe , Marianne Abemgnigni Njifon , Jonathan Heek , Yann Dauphin

Sparsity is a well-studied technique for compressing deep neural networks (DNNs) without compromising performance. In deep reinforcement learning (DRL), neural networks with up to 5% of their original weights can still be trained with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Isam Vrce , Andreas Kassler , Gökçe Aydos

Adversarial examples have appeared as a ubiquitous property of machine learning models where bounded adversarial perturbation could mislead the models to make arbitrarily incorrect predictions. Such examples provide a way to assess the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Zhuolin Yang , Zhaoxi Chen , Tiffany Cai , Xinyun Chen , Bo Li , Yuandong Tian

It is generally perceived that Dynamic Sparse Training opens the door to a new era of scalability and efficiency for artificial neural networks at, perhaps, some costs in accuracy performance for the classification task. At the same time,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Boqian Wu , Qiao Xiao , Shunxin Wang , Nicola Strisciuglio , Mykola Pechenizkiy , Maurice van Keulen , Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Elena Mocanu