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48 results for Developmental Vulnerabilities

Preschool attendance correlates with lower developmental vulnerabilities in Queensland, Australia.

problem Understanding the relationship between preschool attendance and developmental vulnerabilities in different regions.
method Data Analysis and Machine Learning to identify clusters of socio-demographic variables.
result Identified three clusters with varying socio-demographic variables affecting the relationship between preschool attendance and developmental vulnerabilities.

We compare the acquisition of knowledge in humans and machines. Research from the field of developmental psychology indicates, that human-employed hypothesis are initially guided by simple rules, before evolving into more complex theories. This observation is shared across many tasks and domains. We investigate whether…

2019-02-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Robots learn actions and language through curiosity-driven self-exploration.

problem Efficient development of actions and language in infants and robots.
method Curiosity-driven self-exploration using Q-learning to amortize active inference.
result Curiosity-driven exploration enables faster learning and compositional generalization.

A new framework ensures model safety by retaining old model capabilities while improving new tasks.

problem Catastrophic forgetting in continual learning systems.
method Retention-centric framework with data-dependent constraints and an efficient constrained optimization algorithm.
result The method ensures that new models retain important capabilities of old models while improving new tasks.

Despite the remarkable performance of deep neural networks on various computer vision tasks, they are known to be susceptible to adversarial perturbations, which makes it challenging to deploy them in real-world safety-critical applications. In this paper, we conjecture that the leading cause of adversarial vulnerabili…

2019-08-12abs ↗pdf ↗

A membership inference attack (MIA) against a machine-learning model enables an attacker to determine whether a given data record was part of the model's training data or not. In this paper, we provide an in-depth study of the phenomenon of disparate vulnerability against MIAs: unequal success rate of MIAs against diff…

2019-06-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Innovation is among the key factors driving a country's economic and social growth. But what are the factors that make a country innovative? How do they differ across different parts of the world and different stages of development? In this work done in collaboration with the World Economic Forum (WEF), we analyze the …

2016-06-15abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper uses distance correlation for brain connectivity and a novel multi-task learning model for age prediction.

problem Estimating age-related gender differences in brain functional connectivity.
method Estimates functional connectivity using distance correlation and proposes a non-convex multi-task learning model.
result The proposed non-convex multi-task learning model outperforms other models in age prediction and gender-specific connectivity.

The study explores how brain development can inspire efficient deep learning models.

problem Efficient and robust optimization procedures for deep learning.
method Inspiration from biological neural development to improve deep learning models.
result Biological neural development can inspire efficient and robust optimization procedures.

New risk measures assess cryptocurrency market vulnerabilities during financial distress.

problem Capturing systemic risk in cryptocurrency markets during financial distress.
method Introducing Vulnerability Conditional Risk Measures (VCoES) and related measures.
result Validated theoretical insights and demonstrated practical relevance in cryptocurrency market.

BiLiNGAM model reveals brain emotion circuit development in adolescents.

problem Understanding brain emotion circuit development during adolescence.
method Bayesian incorporated linear non-Gaussian acyclic model (BiLiNGAM) for multiple DAGs estimation.
result BiLiNGAM reveals unique developmental hub structures and group-specific patterns in emotion-related intra- and inter-modular connectivity.

NESS improves neighbor embedding for smooth cell-state transitions in single-cell data.

problem Challenges in extracting smooth, low-dimensional representations from noisy single-cell data.
method Builds on PCS framework to develop NESS, a stable machine learning approach.
result NESS consistently yields useful biological insights across diverse single-cell datasets.

Study on measuring vulnerability of neural network parameters via corruption.

problem Understanding the robustness and generalization of deep neural networks.
method Proposes an indicator to measure parameter robustness via parameter corruption and provides a gradient-based estimation.
result Demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed indicator and training method in improving parameter robustness and accuracy.

Study reveals how high-dimensional models are vulnerable to consistent adversarial attacks.

problem Understanding the vulnerability of high-dimensional linear classifiers to adversarial attacks.
method Introducing a new error metric to quantify model vulnerability, and rigorously characterizing these metrics in asymptotic settings.
result As models become more overparameterized, their vulnerability to label-preserving perturbations increases.

Thousands of security vulnerabilities are discovered in production software each year, either reported publicly to the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database or discovered internally in proprietary code. Vulnerabilities often manifest themselves in subtle ways that are not obvious to code reviewers or the develo…

2018-02-14abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper analyzes how much data points can be altered to change their rank in nearest neighbor searches.

problem Vulnerability of nearest neighbor search in high-dimensional data.
method Statistical analysis of perturbation needed to change neighbor rank.
result Derived statistical distribution of perturbation needed to modify neighbor rank.

New method certifies joint adversarial robustness of model ensembles.

problem Ensuring robustness of model ensembles against adversarial attacks.
method Proposes a novel technique to certify joint robustness, building on prior work on single-model robustness certification.
result Demonstrates the effectiveness of certifying joint robustness of ensembles, improving understanding of ensemble defenses.

Network models have been popular for modeling and representing complex relationships and dependencies between observed variables. When data comes from a dynamic stochastic process, a single static network model cannot adequately capture transient dependencies, such as, gene regulatory dependencies throughout a developm…

2009-07-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Language model benchmarks often misrepresent true understanding, revealing vulnerabilities in evaluation methods.

problem Language model benchmarks fail to accurately reflect true language understanding and adaptability.
method Systematic analysis of NLP evaluation frameworks, identifying vulnerabilities in static benchmarks, human evaluation protocols, and LLM-as-judge frameworks.
result Current evaluation methods are unreliable and need improvement to accurately assess LLM performance.

DVERGE diversifies adversarial vulnerabilities to enhance robust ensemble models.

problem Diverse adversarial vulnerabilities for robust ensemble models.
method Isolates and diversifies adversarial vulnerabilities through distillation and training.
result Achieves higher robustness against transfer attacks compared to previous methods.

New method defends RL agents from poisoning attacks without MDP knowledge.

problem Poisoning attacks on RL systems can cause learning failures.
method Generic poisoning framework for online RL, Vulnerability-Aware Adversarial Critic Poison (VA2C-P).
result Successfully prevents RL agents from learning good policies or converging to target policies.

Improved security of smart contracts by classifying them into four categories.

problem Detecting and classifying vulnerabilities in smart contracts efficiently.
method Used AWD-LSTM for multi-class classification, addressing class imbalance.
result Achieved a weighted average Fbeta score of 90.0%.

Developmental Robotics offers a new approach to numerous AI features that are often taken as granted. Traditionally, perception is supposed to be an inherent capacity of the agent. Moreover, it largely relies on models built by the system's designer. A new approach is to consider perception as an experimentally acquire…

2018-10-03abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper extensively evaluates the vulnerability of capsule networks to different adversarial attacks. Recent work suggests that these architectures are more robust towards adversarial attacks than other neural networks. However, our experiments show that capsule networks can be fooled as easily as convolutional neur…

2019-06-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Designing models that are robust to small adversarial perturbations of their inputs has proven remarkably difficult. In this work we show that the reverse problem---making models more vulnerable---is surprisingly easy. After presenting some proofs of concept on MNIST, we introduce a generic tilting attack that injects …

2018-06-19abs ↗pdf ↗

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 …

2019-05-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Study reveals how neural network smoothness affects their vulnerability to adversarial attacks.

problem Understanding adversarial vulnerability in deep learning networks.
method Analysis of manifold smoothness and generalization capability of deep neural networks trained with local errors.
result High generalization accuracy requires a fast power-law decay of eigen-spectrum of hidden representations.

Boosting algorithms predict financial vulnerability of farmers in Chile and Tunisia.

problem Predict financial vulnerability of farmers in Chile and Tunisia using environmental data.
method Interpretable boosting algorithms based on ridge-regularized generalized linear models.
result Interaction effects improve predictive power only when included in two-step boosting.

Study bounds for prices of European and American options with optional termination.

problem Bounding prices of options with potential termination.
method Duality results linking upper prices of vulnerable options to American options with constrained exercise times.
result Linking upper prices of vulnerable options to American options and game options.

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are found to be vulnerable against adversarial examples, which are carefully crafted inputs with a small magnitude of perturbation aiming to induce arbitrarily incorrect predictions. Recent studies show that adversarial examples can pose a threat to real-world security-critical applications:…

2019-07-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Study identifies key parameters and input dimensions making LLMs and VLMs brittle.

problem Vulnerability of large language and vision-language models to perturbations.
method Proposed FI measure based on information geometry to quantify sensitivity.
result Small subset of high FI parameters significantly contribute to brittleness.

This research investigates the Statistical Machine Translation approaches to translate speech in real time automatically. Such systems can be used in a pipeline with speech recognition and synthesis software in order to produce a real-time voice communication system between foreigners. We obtained three main data sets …

2015-09-30abs ↗pdf ↗