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Artificial neural networks can learn complex, salient data features to achieve a given task. On the opposite end of the spectrum, mathematically grounded methods such as topological data analysis allow users to design analysis pipelines…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Mattia G. Bergomi , Massimo Ferri , Alessandro Mella , Pietro Vertechi

The robustness of neural networks against input perturbations with bounded magnitude represents a serious concern in the deployment of deep learning models in safety-critical systems. Recently, the scientific community has focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Bernd Prach , Fabio Brau , Giorgio Buttazzo , Christoph H. Lampert

It is well-known that classifiers are vulnerable to adversarial perturbations. To defend against adversarial perturbations, various certified robustness results have been derived. However, existing certified robustnesses are limited to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Jinyuan Jia , Xiaoyu Cao , Binghui Wang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Recent studies on the adversarial vulnerability of neural networks have shown that models trained to be more robust to adversarial attacks exhibit more interpretable saliency maps than their non-robust counterparts. We aim to quantify this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-13 Christian Etmann , Sebastian Lunz , Peter Maass , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

We consider a neural network architecture designed to solve inverse problems where the degradation operator is linear and known. This architecture is constructed by unrolling a forward-backward algorithm derived from the minimization of an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Emilie Chouzenoux , Cecile Della Valle , Jean-Christophe Pesquet

Many modern datasets don't fit neatly into $n \times p$ matrices, but most techniques for measuring statistical stability expect rectangular data. We study methods for stability assessment on non-rectangular data, using statistical learning…

Computation · Statistics 2021-02-23 Kris Sankaran

To improve the robustness of deep classifiers against adversarial perturbations, many approaches have been proposed, such as designing new architectures with better robustness properties (e.g., Lipschitz-capped networks), or modifying the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Mahyar Fazlyab , Taha Entesari , Aniket Roy , Rama Chellappa

Iterative algorithms solve problems by taking steps until a solution is reached. Models in the form of Deep Thinking (DT) networks have been demonstrated to learn iterative algorithms in a way that can scale to different sized problems at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Jay Bear , Adam Prügel-Bennett , Jonathon Hare

We introduce Harmonic Robustness, a powerful and intuitive method to test the robustness of any machine-learning model either during training or in black-box real-time inference monitoring without ground-truth labels. It is based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Nicholas S. Kersting , Yi Li , Aman Mohanty , Oyindamola Obisesan , Raphael Okochu

The Lipschitz constant of neural networks has been established as a key quantity to enforce the robustness to adversarial examples. In this paper, we tackle the problem of building $1$-Lipschitz Neural Networks. By studying Residual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Laurent Meunier , Blaise Delattre , Alexandre Araujo , Alexandre Allauzen

In this paper we discuss the stability properties of convolutional neural networks. Convolutional neural networks are widely used in machine learning. In classification they are mainly used as feature extractors. Ideally, we expect similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-01-20 Radu Balan , Maneesh Singh , Dongmian Zou

Topological methods for data analysis present opportunities for enforcing certain invariances of broad interest in computer vision, including view-point in activity analysis, articulation in shape analysis, and measurement invariance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Anirudh Som , Kowshik Thopalli , Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy , Vinay Venkataraman , Ankita Shukla , Pavan Turaga

We address the problem of verifying neural networks against geometric transformations of the input image, including rotation, scaling, shearing, and translation. The proposed method computes provably sound piecewise linear constraints for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Ben Batten , Yang Zheng , Alessandro De Palma , Panagiotis Kouvaros , Alessio Lomuscio

Over the last decade, the development of deep image classification networks has mostly been driven by the search for the best performance in terms of classification accuracy on standardized benchmarks like ImageNet. More recently, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Kalun Ho , Franz-Josef Pfreundt , Janis Keuper , Margret Keuper

In recent years, nonlinear dynamic system identification using artificial neural networks has garnered attention due to its broad potential applications across science and engineering. However, purely data-driven approaches often struggle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Fabian J. Roth , Dominik K. Klein , Maximilian Kannapinn , Jan Peters , Oliver Weeger

Persistent homology has become an important tool for extracting geometric and topological features from data, whose multi-scale features are summarized in a persistence diagram. From a statistical perspective, however, persistence diagrams…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-07 Siddharth Vishwanath , Kenji Fukumizu , Satoshi Kuriki , Bharath Sriperumbudur

Persistent homology analysis provides means to capture the connectivity structure of data sets in various dimensions. On the mathematical level, by defining a metric between the objects that persistence attaches to data sets, we can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Henri Riihimäki , José Licón-Saláiz

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

We consider a neural network architecture with randomized features, a sign-splitter, followed by rectified linear units (ReLU). We prove that our architecture exhibits robustness to the input perturbation: the output feature of the neural…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-14 Arun Venkitaraman , Alireza M. Javid , Saikat Chatterjee

In this work we study input gradient regularization of deep neural networks, and demonstrate that such regularization leads to generalization proofs and improved adversarial robustness. The proof of generalization does not overcome the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Chris Finlay , Jeff Calder , Bilal Abbasi , Adam Oberman