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With the widespread use of machine learning, concerns over its security and reliability have become prevalent. As such, many have developed defenses to harden neural networks against adversarial examples, imperceptibly perturbed inputs that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Pratik Vaishnavi , Kevin Eykholt , Amir Rahmati

We propose a general approach to evaluating the performance of robust estimators based on adversarial losses under misspecified models. We first show that adversarial risk is equivalent to the risk induced by a distributional adversarial…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-06 Changyu Liu , Yuling Jiao , Junhui Wang , Jian Huang

The paper deals with the non-parametric estimation in the regression with the multiplicative noise. Using the local polynomial fitting and the bayesian approach, we construct the minimax on isotropic H\"older class estimator. Next applying…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-07-24 M. Chichignoud

We present a new active learning algorithm based on nonparametric estimators of the regression function. Our investigation provides probabilistic bounds for the rates of convergence of the generalization error achievable by proposed method…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-11-03 Stanislav Minsker

Adversarial examples are malicious inputs designed to fool machine learning models. They often transfer from one model to another, allowing attackers to mount black box attacks without knowledge of the target model's parameters. Adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Alexey Kurakin , Ian Goodfellow , Samy Bengio

Convex and penalized robust regression methods often suffer from a persistent bias induced by large outliers, limiting their effectiveness in adversarial or heavy-tailed settings. In this work, we study a smooth redescending non-convex…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Ilyes Hammouda , Mohamed Ndaoud , Abd-Krim Seghouane

We consider the estimation of quadratic functionals in a Gaussian sequence model where the eigenvalues are supposed to be unknown and accessible through noisy observations only. Imposing smoothness assumptions both on the signal and the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-16 Martin Kroll

In this paper, we present a novel nonlinear programming-based approach to fine-tune pre-trained neural networks to improve robustness against adversarial attacks while maintaining high accuracy on clean data. Our method introduces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Shudian Zhao , Jan Kronqvist

Although deep neural networks have shown promising performances on various tasks, even achieving human-level performance on some, they are shown to be susceptible to incorrect predictions even with imperceptibly small perturbations to an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Byunggill Joe , Sung Ju Hwang , Insik Shin

Adversarial examples are inevitable on the road of pervasive applications of deep neural networks (DNN). Imperceptible perturbations applied on natural samples can lead DNN-based classifiers to output wrong prediction with fair confidence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Tao Bai , Jinqi Luo , Jun Zhao

In this paper, we establish minimax optimal rates of convergence for prediction in a semi-functional linear model that consists of a functional component and a less smooth nonparametric component. Our results reveal that the smoother…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-01 Keli Guo , Jun Fan , Lixing Zhu

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA), which leverages the insight that model updates typically reside in a low-dimensional space, has significantly improved the training efficiency of Large Language Models (LLMs) by updating neural network layers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Han Liu , Shanghao Shi , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Chongjie Zhang , Ning Zhang

Adversarial learning has been attracting more and more attention thanks to the fast development of machine learning and artificial intelligence. However, due to the complicated structure of most machine learning models, the mechanism of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Yutong Zheng , Qingna Li

We show the sup-norm convergence of deep neural network estimators with a novel adversarial training scheme. For the nonparametric regression problem, it has been shown that an estimator using deep neural networks can achieve better…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-11 Masaaki Imaizumi

Minimax optimization plays a key role in adversarial training of machine learning algorithms, such as learning generative models, domain adaptation, privacy preservation, and robust learning. In this paper, we demonstrate the failure of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Jihun Hamm , Yung-Kyun Noh

Adversarial training (i.e., training on adversarially perturbed input data) is a well-studied method for making neural networks robust to potential adversarial attacks during inference. However, the improved robustness does not come for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Mathias Lechner , Alexander Amini , Daniela Rus , Thomas A. Henzinger

Adversarial machine learning concerns situations in which learners face attacks from active adversaries. Such scenarios arise in applications such as spam email filtering, malware detection and fake image generation, where security methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 David Benfield , Stefano Coniglio , Phan Tu Vuong , Alain Zemkoho

The AutoAttack (AA) has been the most reliable method to evaluate adversarial robustness when considerable computational resources are available. However, the high computational cost (e.g., 100 times more than that of the project gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Ruize Gao , Jiongxiao Wang , Kaiwen Zhou , Feng Liu , Binghui Xie , Gang Niu , Bo Han , James Cheng

Deep reinforcement learning models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks that can decrease a victim's cumulative expected reward by manipulating the victim's observations. Despite the efficiency of previous optimization-based methods for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 You Qiaoben , Chengyang Ying , Xinning Zhou , Hang Su , Jun Zhu , Bo Zhang

Precision matrix estimation is a fundamental topic in multivariate statistics and modern machine learning. This paper proposes an adversarially perturbed precision matrix estimation framework, motivated by recent developments in adversarial…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-25 Yiling Xie