New method improves graph representations against adversarial attacks.
problem Adversarial robustness in graph contrastive learning.
method Adversarial and edge insertion transformations.
result Promising results in preliminary experiments.
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ACL improves robustness with unlabeled data, and we analyze its generalization using Rademacher complexity.
problem Improving robustness of deep networks against adversarial attacks using unlabeled data.
method We analyze the generalization performance of Adversarial Contrastive Learning (ACL) using Rademacher complexity.
result The average adversarial risk of the downstream tasks can be upper bounded by the adversarial unsupervised risk of the upstream task.
Paper proposes a method to train robust neural networks without labeled data.
problem Training robust neural networks without class labels.
method Adversarial contrastive learning framework using unlabeled data.
result Robust Contrastive Learning (RoCL) achieves comparable robust accuracy to supervised methods and significantly improved robustness.
A new method transfers adversarial robustness from teacher to student using feature distillation.
problem Adversarial robustness transfer across different models and tasks.
method Guided Adversarial Contrastive Distillation (GACD) with contrastive learning and sample reweighted estimation.
result GACD effectively transfers adversarial robustness from teacher to student, achieving comparable or better results.
Unified model explains AT's generative ability.
problem Understanding the generative ability of AT.
method Contrastive Energy-based Models (CEM).
result Improved sample quality in supervised and unsupervised learning.
Which Contrast Does Matter? Towards a Deep Understanding of MR Contrast using Collaborative GANeess.IV
Thanks to the recent success of generative adversarial network (GAN) for image synthesis, there are many exciting GAN approaches that successfully synthesize MR image contrast from other images with different contrasts. These approaches are potentially important for image imputation problems, where complete set of data…
Paper proposes a new method for learning compact representations of sequential data.
problem Learning compact representations of sequential data capturing spatio-temporal cues.
method Contrastive representation learning via adversarial optimal transport on the Grassmann manifold.
result Empirical results show competitive performance in human action recognition.
CD learning is shown to be an adversarial game for fitting models.
problem Difficulty in understanding the convergence properties of CD learning.
method Presented an alternative derivation of CD without approximation, showing it as a time-reversal adversarial game.
result CD is an adversarial learning procedure where a discriminator tries to classify time-reversed Markov chains.
Contrastive learning outperforms autoencoders and GANs in feature recovery and downstream tasks.
problem Theoretical understanding of contrastive learning's superiority in feature learning.
method Theoretical analysis of contrastive learning in linear representation settings.
result Contrastive learning outperforms autoencoders and GANs for feature recovery and in-domain downstream tasks.
FairACE improves fairness in GNNs by balancing node performance across degree groups.
problem Degree biases in GNNs lead to unequal prediction performance among nodes with varying degrees.
method Integrates asymmetric contrastive learning with adversarial training to balance performance between high-degree and low-degree nodes.
result Significantly improves degree fairness metrics while maintaining competitive accuracy.
Contrastive examples improve fairness in face recognition by balancing minority and majority groups.
problem Face recognition algorithms favor majority groups in training data.
method Create contrastive examples by swapping group memberships in the training dataset.
result Contrastive examples improve fairness metrics like equalized odds.
BN helps learn fragile features, which can improve adversarial robustness.
problem The role of batch normalization in adversarial training and its impact on robustness.
method Investigated the expressiveness of BN in learning robust features compared to random features.
result Adversarially fine-tuning BN layers can result in non-trivial adversarial robustness.
This paper improves adversarial robustness of deep learning models.
problem Vulnerability of machine learning models to adversarial perturbations.
method Analyzes adversarial training for linear regression and neural networks, incorporating L1 penalty.
result Incorporating L1 penalty leads to consistent adversarially robust estimation in high-dimensional settings.
New method learns robustly with less data, bridging theory and practice.
problem Adversarial robust learning with metric perturbation.
method Tolerant adversarial PAC-learning with perturb-and-smooth approach and compression-based algorithm.
result First PAC-type guarantees for popular adversarial learning techniques.
Generative adversarial networks reconstruct MRI images without full data.
problem Lack of fully-sampled ground truth data for supervised MRI reconstruction.
method Generative adversarial networks for unsupervised MRI reconstruction.
result Reconstructed images show more anatomical structure than conventional methods.
Study compares adversarial regularization to sole supervision in machine learning.
problem Understanding when adversarial regularization outperforms sole supervision.
method Examines vanishing gradient, iteration complexity, gradient flow, and convergence in both paradigms.
result Adversarial regularization accelerates gradient descent and improves generalization.
Non-convex SGD learns halfspaces with adversarial label noise efficiently.
problem Agnostically learning halfspaces in adversarial label noise settings.
method Non-convex SGD optimization for halfspace learning.
result Non-convex SGD achieves misclassification error close to optimal with adversarial noise.
SANS uses graph structure to find meaningful negatives for entity and relation embeddings.
problem Finding hard negatives for entity and relation embeddings in knowledge graphs.
method Structure Aware Negative Sampling (SANS) that selects negatives from a node's k-hop neighborhood.
result SANS finds semantically meaningful negatives and is competitive with state-of-the-art approaches.
Theoretical study shows adversarial training improves robustness in deep learning models.
problem Ensuring robustness in pre-trained deep learning models.
method Theoretical analysis of adversarial training and feature purification in two-layer neural networks.
result Adversarial training leads to feature purification, making models more robust to attacks.
Study shows dataset properties impact adversarial machine learning robustness.
problem Vulnerability of DNNs to adversarial attacks.
method Examined five datasets, analyzed input size and contrast effects.
result Input size and contrast significantly influence adversarial success.
This paper studies adversarial examples in NIDS, revealing their vulnerability.
problem Vulnerability of machine learning-based NIDS to adversarial examples.
method Used evolutionary computation and deep learning to generate adversarial examples.
result Adversarial examples cause high misclassification rates in various machine learning models.
Paper analyzes robustness of non-Lipschitz networks, proving powerful adversarial attacks but offering solutions.
problem Adversarial attacks on deep networks, especially non-Lipschitz networks.
method Developed an attack model that abstracts the challenge of adversarial robustness, proving the power of such attacks and offering solutions.
result Proves powerful adversarial attacks on non-Lipschitz networks but offers solutions with abstention.
Adversarial training, in which a network is trained on both adversarial and clean examples, is one of the most trusted defense methods against adversarial attacks. However, there are three major practical difficulties in implementing and deploying this method - expensive in terms of extra memory and computation costs; …
Unified framework improves cross-corpus EEG emotion recognition by aligning prototypes and refining decision boundaries.
problem Cross-corpus EEG emotion recognition suffers from performance degradation due to physiological variability and device inconsistencies.
method Prototype-driven Adversarial Alignment (PAA) framework with three configurations: local, contrastive, and boundary-aware.
result State-of-the-art performance improvements across four cross-corpus evaluation protocols.
New method controls bias in training data for fair outcomes.
problem Ensuring equal treatment between different groups in machine learning.
method Contrastive information estimation to control mutual information between representations and protected attributes.
result Our method provides strong theoretical guarantees on the parity of any downstream algorithm.
Deep Learning is a promising approach to either automate or simplify several tasks in the healthcare domain. In this work, we introduce SegAN-CAT, an approach to brain tumor segmentation in Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI), based on Adversarial Networks. In particular, we extend SegAN, successfully applied to the same t…
Traditional classification algorithms assume that training and test data come from similar distributions. This assumption is violated in adversarial settings, where malicious actors modify instances to evade detection. A number of custom methods have been developed for both adversarial evasion attacks and robust learni…
Study robust regression learning under adversarial attacks.
problem Understanding which function classes are learnable in the presence of adversarial attacks.
method Introduced a novel agnostic sample compression scheme and used fat-shattering dimension to construct adversarially robust sample compression schemes.
result Finite fat-shattering dimension classes are learnable in both realizable and agnostic settings.
Adversarial examples are inputs to machine learning models designed by an adversary to cause an incorrect output. So far, adversarial examples have been studied most extensively in the image domain. In this domain, adversarial examples can be constructed by imperceptibly modifying images to cause misclassification, and…
Graph neural network (GNN), as a powerful representation learning model on graph data, attracts much attention across various disciplines. However, recent studies show that GNN is vulnerable to adversarial attacks. How to make GNN more robust? What are the key vulnerabilities in GNN? How to address the vulnerabilities …
AMIGo uses adversarial intrinsic goals to teach RL agents new skills.
problem Learning in sparse reward environments.
method Adversarial intrinsic goals to generate a curriculum for a student policy.
result AMIGo enables agents to learn new skills without extrinsic rewards.
Adversarial attacks and the development of (deep) neural networks robust against them are currently two widely researched topics. The robustness of Learning Vector Quantization (LVQ) models against adversarial attacks has however not yet been studied to the same extent. We therefore present an extensive evaluation of t…
Improved GANs mitigate forgetting and collapse issues.
problem Catastrophic forgetting and mode collapse in GANs.
method Contrastive learning and mutual information maximization.
result Significantly stabilizes GAN training and improves performance.
We present an efficient algorithm for maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) of exponential family models, with a general parametrization of the energy function that includes neural networks. We exploit the primal-dual view of the MLE with a kinetics augmented model to obtain an estimate associated with an adversarial dua…
BOBYQA optimizes deep networks with fewer queries than other methods.
problem Generating adversarial examples with fewer queries than non-model-based methods.
method Model-based derivative-free optimisation algorithm (BOBYQA).
result BOBYQA achieves state-of-the-art results with fewer queries than other methods.
New method improves model robustness against adversarial attacks.
problem Adversarial attacks can deceive models trained with transfer learning.
method Noisy feature distillation method for random initialization.
result Models trained with random initialization are more robust to attacks.
Contrastive Code Representation Learning improves code summarization and type inference.
problem Code representations are sensitive to edits, hindering downstream semantic understanding tasks.
method ContraCode: a contrastive pre-training task that learns code functionality.
result Contrastive pre-training improves code summarization and type inference accuracy.
New method creates powerful, transferable adversarial attacks for deep learning networks.
problem Vulnerability of deep learning networks to adversarial attacks.
method Developed a method to generate strong, transferable adversarial attacks.
result Demonstrated that the proposed method can easily transfer strong adversarial attacks between different models.
Self-supervised method improves biosignal models with limited labeled data and subjects.
problem Limited labeled data and subjects in biosignals datasets.
method Contrastive learning with subject-aware loss and data augmentation.
result Self-supervised embeddings yield competitive results compared to supervised methods.
Survey of self-supervised learning methods in computer vision, NLP, and graph learning.
problem Manual labeling and vulnerability to attacks in supervised learning.
method Generative, contrastive, and generative-contrastive approaches.
result Self-supervised learning achieves high performance in representation learning.
This paper studies a training method to jointly estimate an energy-based model and a flow-based model, in which the two models are iteratively updated based on a shared adversarial value function. This joint training method has the following traits. (1) The update of the energy-based model is based on noise contrastive…
New findings show optimal noise in contrastive learning is not the same as data distribution.
problem The optimal noise distribution in contrastive learning is not the same as the data distribution.
method Empirical and theoretical analysis of contrastive learning methods.
result Deviation from the assumption of equal noise and data distribution leads to better statistical estimators.
Adversarial training is a technique for training robust machine learning models. To encourage robustness, it iteratively computes adversarial examples for the model, and then re-trains on these examples via some update rule. This work analyzes the performance of adversarial training on linearly separable data, and prov…
Machine learning models are generally vulnerable to adversarial examples, which is in contrast to the robustness of humans. In this paper, we try to leverage one of the mechanisms in human recognition and propose a bio-inspired classification framework in which model inference is conditioned on label hypothesis. We pro…
Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have given us a great tool to fit implicit generative models to data. Implicit distributions are ones we can sample from easily, and take derivatives of samples with respect to model parameters. These models are highly expressive and we argue they can prove just as useful for vari…
Adversarial training achieves optimal test error for shallow networks.
problem Achieving optimal adversarial test error for general data distributions.
method Applying new Rademacher complexity bounds and properties of optimal adversarial predictors.
result Adversarial training can achieve optimal adversarial test error for general data distributions.
Defense against adversarial attacks by manipulating feature thickness.
problem Vulnerability of machine learning models to adversarial attacks.
method Feature Manipulation (FM)-Defense using a combo-variational autoencoder.
result Detection and purification of adversarial examples with high accuracy.
This paper introduces a cross adversarial source separation (CASS) framework via autoencoder, a new model that aims at separating an input signal consisting of a mixture of multiple components into individual components defined via adversarial learning and autoencoder fitting. CASS unifies popular generative networks l…