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Quantum machine learning uses principles from quantum mechanics to process data, offering potential advances in speed and performance. However, previous work has shown that these models are susceptible to attacks that manipulate input data…

A globally robust deep neural network resists perturbations on all meaningful inputs. Current robustness certification methods emphasize local robustness, struggling to scale and generalize. This paper presents a systematic and efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-03 You Li , Guannan Zhao , Shuyu Kong , Yunqi He , Hai Zhou

Uncertainty estimation in machine learning has traditionally focused on the prediction stage, aiming to quantify confidence in model outputs while treating learned representations as deterministic and reliable by default. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-20 Yiyao Yang

State-of-the-art NLP models can often be fooled by human-unaware transformations such as synonymous word substitution. For security reasons, it is of critical importance to develop models with certified robustness that can provably…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Mao Ye , Chengyue Gong , Qiang Liu

Backdoor attacks poison the training data, causing the model to behave normally on clean inputs but predict attacker-chosen labels when trigger patterns are embedded into the input samples. Defending against such attacks is highly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Wei Guo , Maura Pintor , Ambra Demontis , Battista Biggio

While additional training data improves the robustness of deep neural networks against adversarial examples, it presents the challenge of curating a large number of specific real-world samples. We circumvent this challenge by using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Vikash Sehwag , Saeed Mahloujifar , Tinashe Handina , Sihui Dai , Chong Xiang , Mung Chiang , Prateek Mittal

This paper proposes a new algorithmic framework, predictor-verifier training, to train neural networks that are verifiable, i.e., networks that provably satisfy some desired input-output properties. The key idea is to simultaneously train…

The rise of foundation models fine-tuned on human feedback from potentially untrusted users has increased the risk of adversarial data poisoning, necessitating the study of robustness of learning algorithms against such attacks. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Avinandan Bose , Laurent Lessard , Maryam Fazel , Krishnamurthy Dj Dvijotham

We propose a novel class of deep stochastic predictors for classifying metric data on graphs within the PAC-Bayes risk certification paradigm. Classifiers are realized as linearly parametrized deep assignment flows with random initial…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-21 Bastian Boll , Alexander Zeilmann , Stefania Petra , Christoph Schnörr

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

Recent work has shown that state-of-the-art classifiers are quite brittle, in the sense that a small adversarial change of an originally with high confidence correctly classified input leads to a wrong classification again with high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Matthias Hein , Maksym Andriushchenko

Deep-learning-based methods for different applications have been shown vulnerable to adversarial examples. These examples make deployment of such models in safety-critical tasks questionable. Use of deep neural networks as inverse problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Ankit Raj , Yoram Bresler , Bo Li

Federated learning is a learning method for training models over multiple participants without directly sharing their raw data, and it has been expected to be a privacy protection method for training data. In contrast, attack methods have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Rei Aso , Sayaka Shiota , Hitoshi Kiya

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 input uncertainty, but researchers…

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

Patch robustness certification is an emerging kind of defense technique against adversarial patch attacks with provable guarantees. There are two research lines: certified recovery and certified detection. They aim to label malicious…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Qilin Zhou , Zhengyuan Wei , Haipeng Wang , Bo Jiang , W. K. Chan

Certified robustness guarantee gauges a model's robustness to test-time attacks and can assess the model's readiness for deployment in the real world. In this work, we critically examine how the adversarial robustness guarantees from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Jiachen Sun , Akshay Mehra , Bhavya Kailkhura , Pin-Yu Chen , Dan Hendrycks , Jihun Hamm , Z. Morley Mao

Language-empowered foundation models (LeFMs), such as CLIP and GraphCLIP, have transformed multimodal learning by aligning visual (or graph) features with textual representations, enabling powerful downstream capabilities like few-shot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Yuni Lai , Xiaoyu Xue , Linghui Shen , Yulun Wu , Gaolei Li , Song Guo , Kai Zhou , Bin Xiao

Certified robustness circumvents the fragility of defences against adversarial attacks, by endowing model predictions with guarantees of class invariance for attacks up to a calculated size. While there is value in these certifications, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Andrew C. Cullen , Paul Montague , Shijie Liu , Sarah M. Erfani , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein

To obtain, deterministic guarantees of adversarial robustness, specialized training methods are used. We propose, SABR, a novel such certified training method, based on the key insight that propagating interval bounds for a small but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Mark Niklas Müller , Franziska Eckert , Marc Fischer , Martin Vechev

Advances in computer vision and machine learning enable robots to perceive their surroundings in powerful new ways, but these perception modules have well-known fragilities. We consider the problem of synthesizing a safe controller that is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Dawei Sun , Negin Musavi , Geir Dullerud , Sanjay Shakkottai , Sayan Mitra