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Deep Learning, particularly Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), has been successful in computer vision tasks and medical image analysis. However, modern CNNs can be overconfident, making them difficult to deploy in real-world scenarios.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Somenath Kuiry , Alaka Das , Mita Nasipuri , Nibaran Das

Label Smoothing (LS) improves model generalization through penalizing models from generating overconfident output distributions. For each training sample the LS strategy smooths the one-hot encoded training signal by distributing its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Hongyu Guo

The fragility of modern machine learning models has drawn a considerable amount of attention from both academia and the public. While immense interests were in either crafting adversarial attacks as a way to measure the robustness of neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Jeet Mohapatra , Ching-Yun Ko , Tsui-Wei , Weng , Sijia Liu , Pin-Yu Chen , Luca Daniel

Real-world data is complex and often consists of objects that can be decomposed into multiple entities (e.g. images into pixels, graphs into interconnected nodes). Randomized smoothing is a powerful framework for making models provably…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Yan Scholten , Jan Schuchardt , Aleksandar Bojchevski , Stephan Günnemann

Designing robust algorithms capable of training accurate neural networks on uncurated datasets from the web has been the subject of much research as it reduces the need for time consuming human labor. The focus of many previous research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Paul Albert , Eric Arazo , Tarun Krishna , Noel E. O'Connor , Kevin McGuinness

Training foundation models on extensive datasets and then finetuning them on specific tasks has emerged as the mainstream approach in artificial intelligence. However, the model robustness, which is a critical aspect for safety, is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Kai Qiu , Huishuai Zhang , Zhirong Wu , Stephen Lin

Label smoothing (LS) is an arising learning paradigm that uses the positively weighted average of both the hard training labels and uniformly distributed soft labels. It was shown that LS serves as a regularizer for training data with hard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Jiaheng Wei , Hangyu Liu , Tongliang Liu , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama , Yang Liu

Modern deep learning models exhibit strong capabilities across diverse applications, yet remain vulnerable to malicious inputs that induce erroneous predictions via feature-space distortion. To address this vulnerability, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Song Xia , Meiwen Ding , Chenqi Kong , Wenhan Yang , Xudong Jiang

Randomized classifiers have been shown to provide a promising approach for achieving certified robustness against adversarial attacks in deep learning. However, most existing methods only leverage Gaussian smoothing noise and only work for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Dinghuai Zhang , Mao Ye , Chengyue Gong , Zhanxing Zhu , Qiang Liu

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has achieved remarkable success in safety-critical areas, but it can be weakened by adversarial attacks. Recent studies have introduced "smoothed policies" in order to enhance its robustness. Yet, it is still…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Ronghui Mu , Leandro Soriano Marcolino , Tianle Zhang , Yanghao Zhang , Xiaowei Huang , Wenjie Ruan

Randomized smoothing provides strong, model-agnostic robustness certificates, but existing guarantees are limited to single modalities, treating continuous and discrete inputs in isolation. This limitation becomes critical in multimodal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Blaise Delattre , Hengyu Wu , Paul Caillon , Wei Yang Bryan Lim , Yang Cao

Watermarking is a commonly used strategy to protect creators' rights to digital images, videos and audio. Recently, watermarking methods have been extended to deep learning models -- in principle, the watermark should be preserved when an…

Most of the recent literature on image Super-Resolution (SR) can be classified into two main approaches. The first one involves learning a corruption model tailored to a specific dataset, aiming to mimic the noise and corruption in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-27 Zakariya Chaouai , Mohamed Tamaazousti

Certified defense using randomized smoothing is a popular technique to provide robustness guarantees for deep neural networks against l2 adversarial attacks. Existing works use this technique to provably secure a pretrained non-robust model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Gaurav Kumar Nayak , Ruchit Rawal , Anirban Chakraborty

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where an attacker manipulates a small portion of the training data to implant hidden backdoors into the model. The compromised model behaves normally on clean samples but…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Ting Qiao , Yingjia Wang , Xing Liu , Sixing Wu , Jianbin Li , Yiming Li

This paper presents preliminary work on a novel connection between certified robustness in machine learning and the modeling of 3D objects. We highlight an intriguing link between the Maximal Certified Radius (MCR) of a classifier…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Gabriel Pérez S , Juan C. Pérez , Motasem Alfarra , Jesús Zarzar , Sara Rojas , Bernard Ghanem , Pablo Arbeláez

Large Language Models (LLMs) remain vulnerable to adaptive jailbreaks that easily bypass empirical defenses like GCG. We propose a framework for certifiable robustness that shifts safety guarantees from single-pass inference to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zehua Cheng , Jianwei Yang , Wei Dai , Jiahao Sun

Methods to certify the robustness of neural networks in the presence of input uncertainty are vital in safety-critical settings. Most certification methods in the literature are designed for adversarial or worst-case inputs, but researchers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Brendon G. Anderson , Somayeh Sojoudi

Randomized smoothing is currently considered the state-of-the-art method to obtain certifiably robust classifiers. Despite its remarkable performance, the method is associated with various serious problems such as "certified accuracy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Peter Súkeník , Aleksei Kuvshinov , Stephan Günnemann

We study Label Smoothing (LS), a widely used regularization technique, in the context of neural learning to rank (L2R) models. LS combines the ground-truth labels with a uniform distribution, encouraging the model to be less confident in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Gustavo Penha , Claudia Hauff