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With the exponential growth of data and its crucial impact on our lives and decision-making, the integrity of data has become a significant concern. Malicious data poisoning attacks, where false values are injected into the data, can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Yue Fu , Qingqing Ye , Rong Du , Haibo Hu

Large language models trained with reinforcement learning (RL) for mathematical reasoning face a fundamental challenge: on problems the model cannot solve at all - "cliff" prompts - the RL gradient vanishes entirely, preventing any learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Ken Ding

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are known vulnerable to adversarial attacks. That is, adversarial examples, obtained by adding delicately crafted distortions onto original legal inputs, can mislead a DNN to classify them as any target labels.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Siyue Wang , Xiao Wang , Pu Zhao , Wujie Wen , David Kaeli , Peter Chin , Xue Lin

Following the recent adoption of deep neural networks (DNN) accross a wide range of applications, adversarial attacks against these models have proven to be an indisputable threat. Adversarial samples are crafted with a deliberate intention…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Valentina Zantedeschi , Maria-Irina Nicolae , Ambrish Rawat

On-policy reinforcement learning has become the dominant paradigm for reasoning alignment in large language models, yet its sparse, outcome-level rewards make token-level credit assignment notoriously difficult. On-Policy Distillation (OPD)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Binbin Zheng , Xing Ma , Yiheng Liang , Jingqing Ruan , Xiaoliang Fu , Kepeng Lin , Benchang Zhu , Ke Zeng , Xunliang Cai

Generalization Performance of Deep Learning models trained using Empirical Risk Minimization can be improved significantly by using Data Augmentation strategies such as simple transformations, or using Mixed Samples. We attempt to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Deepan Das , Haley Massa , Abhimanyu Kulkarni , Theodoros Rekatsinas

We propose a conceptually simple and lightweight framework for improving the robustness of vision models through the combination of knowledge distillation and data augmentation. We address the conjecture that larger models do not make for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Andy Zhou , Jindong Wang , Yu-Xiong Wang , Haohan Wang

This paper proposes an ensemble learning model that is resistant to adversarial attacks. To build resilience, we introduced a training process where each member learns a radically distinct latent space. Member models are added one at a time…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-08 Ali Mirzaeian , Jana Kosecka , Houman Homayoun , Tinoosh Mohsenin , Avesta Sasan

Adversarial examples are important for understanding the behavior of neural models, and can improve their robustness through adversarial training. Recent work in natural language processing generated adversarial examples by assuming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Yotam Gil , Yoav Chai , Or Gorodissky , Jonathan Berant

Dataset distillation (DD) enhances training efficiency and reduces bandwidth by condensing large datasets into smaller synthetic ones. It enables models to achieve performance comparable to those trained on the raw full dataset and has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Ziyuan Yang , Ming Yan , Yi Zhang , Joey Tianyi Zhou

Distilling robust reasoning capabilities from large language models (LLMs) into smaller, computationally efficient student models remains an unresolved challenge. Despite recent advances, distilled models frequently suffer from superficial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Zhen Tan , Chengshuai Zhao , Song Wang , Jundong Li , Tianlong Chen , Huan Liu

Consistency distillation is a prevalent way for accelerating diffusion models adopted in consistency (trajectory) models, in which a student model is trained to traverse backward on the probability flow (PF) ordinary differential equation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Kaiwen Zheng , Guande He , Jianfei Chen , Fan Bao , Jun Zhu

Unlike existing knowledge distillation methods focus on the baseline settings, where the teacher models and training strategies are not that strong and competing as state-of-the-art approaches, this paper presents a method dubbed DIST to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Tao Huang , Shan You , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Chang Xu

Knowledge distillation (KD) has been shown to be highly effective in guiding a student model with a larger teacher model and achieving practical benefits in improving the computational and memory efficiency for large language models (LLMs).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Chen Jia

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are stealthy attacks that threaten the security and privacy of sensitive information. Interactions of APTs with victim system introduce information flows that are recorded in the system logs. Dynamic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Dinuka Sahabandu , Shana Moothedath , Joey Allen , Linda Bushnell , Wenke Lee , Radha Poovendran

Dataset distillation is the technique of synthesizing smaller condensed datasets from large original datasets while retaining necessary information to persist the effect. In this paper, we approach the dataset distillation problem from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Mingyang Chen , Bo Huang , Junda Lu , Bing Li , Yi Wang , Minhao Cheng , Wei Wang

It is important to develop mathematically tractable models than can interpret knowledge extracted from the data and provide reasonable predictions. In this paper, we present a Linear Distillation Learning, a simple remedy to improve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Arip Asadulaev , Igor Kuznetsov , Andrey Filchenkov

Dataset distillation synthesizes compact datasets that enable models to achieve performance comparable to training on the original large-scale datasets. However, existing distillation methods overlook the robustness of the model, resulting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Wei Lai , Tianyu Ding , ren dongdong , Lei Wang , Jing Huo , Yang Gao , Wenbin Li

Adversarial training is the most promising method for learning robust models against adversarial examples. A recent study has shown that knowledge distillation between the same architectures is effective in improving the performance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Tomokatsu Takahashi , Masanori Yamada , Yuuki Yamanaka , Tomoya Yamashita

Adversarial distillation (AD) is a knowledge distillation technique that facilitates the transfer of robustness from teacher deep neural network (DNN) models to lightweight target (student) DNN models, enabling the target models to perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Zhenyu Liu , Huizhi Liang , Xinrun Li , Vaclav Snasel , Varun Ojha