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Sharing parameters in multi-agent deep reinforcement learning has played an essential role in allowing algorithms to scale to a large number of agents. Parameter sharing between agents significantly decreases the number of trainable…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Filippos Christianos , Georgios Papoudakis , Arrasy Rahman , Stefano V. Albrecht

Despite recent advances in video action recognition achieving strong performance on existing benchmarks, these models often lack robustness when faced with natural distribution shifts between training and test data. We propose two novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Kiyoon Kim , Shreyank N Gowda , Panagiotis Eustratiadis , Antreas Antoniou , Robert B Fisher

Current neural-network-based classifiers are susceptible to adversarial examples. The most empirically successful approach to defending against such adversarial examples is adversarial training, which incorporates a strong self-attack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Bai Li , Shiqi Wang , Suman Jana , Lawrence Carin

Tuning hyperparameters is a crucial but arduous part of the machine learning pipeline. Hyperparameter optimization is even more challenging in federated learning, where models are learned over a distributed network of heterogeneous devices;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Mikhail Khodak , Renbo Tu , Tian Li , Liam Li , Maria-Florina Balcan , Virginia Smith , Ameet Talwalkar

Training neural networks for neuromorphic deployment is non-trivial. There have been a variety of approaches proposed to adapt back-propagation or back-propagation-like algorithms appropriate for training. Considering that these networks…

Horizontal Federated Learning (HFL) is particularly vulnerable to backdoor attacks as adversaries can easily manipulate both the training data and processes to execute sophisticated attacks. In this work, we study the impact of training…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Simon Lachnit , Ghassan Karame

Machine-learning models are known to be vulnerable to evasion attacks that perturb model inputs to induce misclassifications. In this work, we identify real-world scenarios where the true threat cannot be assessed accurately by existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Weiran Lin , Keane Lucas , Neo Eyal , Lujo Bauer , Michael K. Reiter , Mahmood Sharif

This paper studies fast adaptive beamforming optimization for the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio balancing problem in a multiuser multiple-input single-output downlink system. Existing deep learning based approaches to predict…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Yi Yuan , Gan Zheng , Kai-Kit Wong , Björn Ottersten , Zhi-Quan Luo

Pretrained models from self-supervision are prevalently used in fine-tuning downstream tasks faster or for better accuracy. However, gaining robustness from pretraining is left unexplored. We introduce adversarial training into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Tianlong Chen , Sijia Liu , Shiyu Chang , Yu Cheng , Lisa Amini , Zhangyang Wang

Many existing transfer learning methods rely on leveraging information from source data that closely resembles the target data. However, this approach often overlooks valuable knowledge that may be present in different yet potentially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Xin Xiong , Zijian Guo , Tianxi Cai

Adversarial Training (AT), which adversarially perturb the input samples during training, has been acknowledged as one of the most effective defenses against adversarial attacks, yet suffers from inevitably decreased clean accuracy. Instead…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Yihao Zhang , Hangzhou He , Jingyu Zhu , Huanran Chen , Yifei Wang , Zeming Wei

Adversarial training suffers from robust overfitting, a phenomenon where the robust test accuracy starts to decrease during training. In this paper, we focus on both heuristics-driven and data-driven augmentations as a means to reduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Sylvestre-Alvise Rebuffi , Sven Gowal , Dan A. Calian , Florian Stimberg , Olivia Wiles , Timothy Mann

Defenses against adversarial examples, such as adversarial training, are typically tailored to a single perturbation type (e.g., small $\ell_\infty$-noise). For other perturbations, these defenses offer no guarantees and, at times, even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Florian Tramèr , Dan Boneh

Deep neural networks are susceptible to adversarially crafted, small and imperceptible changes in the natural inputs. The most effective defense mechanism against these examples is adversarial training which constructs adversarial examples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Muhammad Awais , Fengwei Zhou , Chuanlong Xie , Jiawei Li , Sung-Ho Bae , Zhenguo Li

A recent trend in deep learning algorithms has been towards training large scale models, having high parameter count and trained on big dataset. However, robustness of such large scale models towards real-world settings is still a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Nishant Jain , Harkirat Behl , Yogesh Singh Rawat , Vibhav Vineet

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 increasing size of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) poses a pressing need for model compression, particularly when employed on resource constrained devices. Concurrently, the susceptibility of DNNs to adversarial attacks presents another…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Brijesh Vora , Kartik Patwari , Syed Mahbub Hafiz , Zubair Shafiq , Chen-Nee Chuah

The rapid increase in the volume of data increased the size and complexity of the deep learning models. These models are now more resource-intensive and time-consuming for training than ever. This paper presents a quantum transfer learning…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Sounak Bhowmik , Himanshu Thapliyal

Adversarial examples for neural network image classifiers are known to be transferable: examples optimized to be misclassified by a source classifier are often misclassified as well by classifiers with different architectures. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Jacob M. Springer , Melanie Mitchell , Garrett T. Kenyon

Transfer learning allows practitioners to recognize and apply knowledge learned in previous tasks (source task) to new tasks or new domains (target task), which share some commonality. The two important factors impacting the performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Michael Bernico , Yuntao Li , Dingchao Zhang