Course on arithmetic lattices at EPFL.
problem Understanding arithmetic lattices.
method Introductory course on arithmetic lattices.
result Introduction to arithmetic lattices.
CBMs improve interpretability in RUL prediction for aircraft engines.
problem Lack of interpretability in deep learning models for asset prognostics.
method Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) for RUL prediction.
result CBMs achieve comparable or superior performance to black-box models while being more interpretable.
New optimization method combines gradient clipping and non-Euclidean smoothness.
problem Improving optimization in non-Euclidean spaces for machine learning.
method Hybrid of steepest descent and conditional gradient, incorporating weight decay.
result Achieves optimal convergence rate and demonstrates effectiveness in deep learning.
Charmer improves character-level adversarial attacks for language models.
problem Efficiency and effectiveness of character-level adversarial attacks for language models.
method Query-based adversarial attack method that maintains semantic similarity.
result Charmer achieves high attack success rate and similar adversarial examples.
BOiLS optimizes circuit quality using Bayesian optimization.
problem Optimizing circuits with complex search spaces.
method Adapting Bayesian optimization to logic synthesis, using Gaussian process kernels and trust-region constrained acquisitions.
result Demonstrated superior performance in sample efficiency and QoR values.
This paper improves SAM by reformulating it as a bilevel optimization problem.
problem Improving Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM) for better performance.
method Reformulate SAM as a bilevel optimization problem using a 0-1 loss surrogate.
result BiSAM consistently results in improved performance compared to SAM and its variants.
SAMPa speeds up SAM by parallelizing its computations.
problem Improving neural network generalization through SAM.
method Parallelizing the two gradient computations in SAM.
result Achieves a twofold speedup of SAM.
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…
GenIE extracts structured text with fewer errors and more entities.
problem Closed information extraction with errors and limited entities.
method End-to-end autoregressive generation with bi-level constraints.
result State-of-the-art performance on closed information extraction.
RINS-T solves time series inverse problems robustly without pretraining.
problem Recovering original signals from corrupted time series data.
method Implicit neural solvers with robust optimization techniques.
result RINS-T achieves high recovery performance without pretraining.
TAROT improves data selection for complex multimodal distributions.
problem Suboptimal data selection in multimodal distributions.
method TAROT uses optimal transport theory to select data, addressing greedy heuristics' limitations.
result TAROT outperforms state-of-the-art methods across various deep learning tasks.
Efficient regularization mitigates catastrophic overfitting in single-step adversarial training.
problem Catastrophic overfitting in single-step adversarial training.
method ELLE regularization term to enforce local linearity of the loss function.
result Our regularization term effectively mitigates catastrophic overfitting without the drawbacks of previous methods.
Adversarial training improves robustness against common corruptions.
problem Improving robustness of models against common corruptions.
method Adversarial training with ℓp perturbation and learned perceptual similarity. result Our approach leads to state-of-the-art performance on common corruptions.
Large SGD step sizes lead to sparse feature learning in neural networks.
problem Sparse feature learning in neural networks with large step sizes.
method Empirical observations and theoretical analysis of SGD dynamics.
result Large step sizes induce implicit regularization leading to sparse predictors.
New method prevents adversarial training failure in deep networks.
problem Adversarial training failure in deep networks.
method GradAlign method to prevent catastrophic overfitting.
result GradAlign prevents adversarial training failure in deep networks.
Recursive causal discovery reduces errors and complexity in causal graph learning.
problem Challenges in causal discovery from limited data and computational complexity.
method Removable variables for recursive causal discovery, reducing problem size and CI tests.
result Worst-case performances nearly match lower bound, with state-of-the-art efficiency.
Simple adaptive attacks can jailbreak state-of-the-art safety-aligned language models.
problem Vulnerability of safety-aligned language models to simple adaptive attacks.
method Designing adversarial prompt templates, random search on suffixes, and transfer/prefilling attacks.
result 100% attack success rate on various models including GPT-4, Vicuna, Mistral, and Claude.