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State-of-the-art techniques for enhancing robustness of deep networks mostly rely on empirical risk minimization with suitable data augmentation. In this paper, we propose a complementary approach motivated by communication theory, aimed at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Bhagyashree Puranik , Ahmad Beirami , Yao Qin , Upamanyu Madhow

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are widely adopted in Web-related applications, serving as a core technique for learning from graph-structured data, such as text-attributed graphs. Yet in real-world scenarios, such graphs exhibit deficiencies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Zhaoyan Wang , Zheng Gao , Arogya Kharel , In-Young Ko

Neural networks are widespread due to their powerful performance. Yet, they degrade in the presence of noisy labels at training time. Inspired by the setting of learning with expert advice, where multiplicative weights (MW) updates were…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Noga Bar , Tomer Koren , Raja Giryes

In this paper we compare traditional machine learning and deep learning models trained on a malware dataset when subjected to adversarial attack based on label-flipping. Specifically, we investigate the robustness of Support Vector Machines…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Sarvagya Bhargava , Mark Stamp

Modern deep networks can be better generalized when trained with noisy samples and regularization techniques. Mixup and CutMix have been proven to be effective for data augmentation to help avoid overfitting. Previous Mixup-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Shuyang Sun , Jie-Neng Chen , Ruifei He , Alan Yuille , Philip Torr , Song Bai

Generalizing to out-of-distribution (OOD) data or unseen domain, termed OOD generalization, still lacks appropriate theoretical guarantees. Canonical OOD bounds focus on different distance measurements between source and target domains but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Yingtian Zou , Kenji Kawaguchi , Yingnan Liu , Jiashuo Liu , Mong-Li Lee , Wynne Hsu

Despite multiple efforts made towards robust machine learning (ML) models, their vulnerability to adversarial examples remains a challenging problem that calls for rethinking the defense strategy. In this paper, we take a step back and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Abderrahmen Amich , Birhanu Eshete

State-of-the-art NLP models can often be fooled by adversaries that apply seemingly innocuous label-preserving transformations (e.g., paraphrasing) to input text. The number of possible transformations scales exponentially with text length,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Robin Jia , Aditi Raghunathan , Kerem Göksel , Percy Liang

The number of credit card fraud has been growing as technology grows and people can take advantage of it. Therefore, it is very important to implement a robust and effective method to detect such frauds. The machine learning algorithms are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Sairamvinay Vijayaraghavan , Terry Guan , Jason , Song

We demonstrate, theoretically and empirically, that adversarial robustness can significantly benefit from semisupervised learning. Theoretically, we revisit the simple Gaussian model of Schmidt et al. that shows a sample complexity gap…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-01-14 Yair Carmon , Aditi Raghunathan , Ludwig Schmidt , Percy Liang , John C. Duchi

Deep learning techniques are often criticized to heavily depend on a large quantity of labeled data. This problem is even more challenging in medical image analysis where the annotator expertise is often scarce. We propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Florian Dubost , Gerda Bortsova , Hieab Adams , M. Arfan Ikram , Wiro Niessen , Meike Vernooij , Marleen de Bruijne

Robustness against adversarial attack in neural networks is an important research topic in the machine learning community. We observe one major source of vulnerability of neural nets is from overparameterized fully-connected layers. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Bingyuan Liu , Christopher Malon , Lingzhou Xue , Erik Kruus

Noisy labels are an unavoidable consequence of labeling processes and detecting them is an important step towards preventing performance degradations in Convolutional Neural Networks. Discarding noisy labels avoids a harmful memorization,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Diego Ortego , Eric Arazo , Paul Albert , Noel E. O'Connor , Kevin McGuinness

Soft augmentation regularizes the supervised learning process of image classifiers by reducing label confidence of a training sample based on the magnitude of random-crop augmentation applied to it. This paper extends this adaptive label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Georg Siedel , Ekagra Gupta , Weijia Shao , Silvia Vock , Andrey Morozov

Learning with Noisy Labels (LNL) has attracted significant attention from the research community. Many recent LNL methods rely on the assumption that clean samples tend to have "small loss". However, this assumption always fails to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-17 MingCai Chen , Yu Zhao , Bing He , Zongbo Han , Bingzhe Wu , Jianhua Yao

Adversarial training has shown its ability in producing models that are robust to perturbations on the input data, but usually at the expense of decrease in the standard accuracy. To mitigate this issue, it is commonly believed that more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Yifei Min , Lin Chen , Amin Karbasi

Data augmentation is often used to enlarge datasets with synthetic samples generated in accordance with the underlying data distribution. To enable a wider range of augmentations, we explore negative data augmentation strategies (NDA)that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Abhishek Sinha , Kumar Ayush , Jiaming Song , Burak Uzkent , Hongxia Jin , Stefano Ermon

Imperfect labels are ubiquitous in real-world datasets. Several recent successful methods for training deep neural networks (DNNs) robust to label noise have used two primary techniques: filtering samples based on loss during a warm-up…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Kento Nishi , Yi Ding , Alex Rich , Tobias Höllerer

Detecting out-of-distribution (OOD) inputs is critical for safely deploying deep learning models in the real world. Existing approaches for detecting OOD examples work well when evaluated on benign in-distribution and OOD samples. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Jiefeng Chen , Yixuan Li , Xi Wu , Yingyu Liang , Somesh Jha

Data augmentation forms the cornerstone of many modern machine learning training pipelines; yet, the mechanisms by which it works are not clearly understood. Much of the research on data augmentation (DA) has focused on improving existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Damien A. Dablain , Nitesh V. Chawla