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48 results for Interval Propagation

Recent breakthroughs in defenses against adversarial examples, like adversarial training, make the neural networks robust against various classes of attackers (e.g., first-order gradient-based attacks). However, it is an open question whether the adversarially trained networks are truly robust under unknown attacks. In…

2019-06-05abs ↗pdf ↗

IBP-R improves verified adversarial robustness with simple, effective interval bound propagation.

problem Improving verifiability of adversarially trained networks.
method Coupling adversarial attacks with interval bound propagation for minimized verification gap.
result State-of-the-art verified robustness-accuracy trade-offs for small perturbations on CIFAR-10.

Unified neural network framework for context-aware Gaussian overbounds in uncertainty propagation.

problem Uncertainty quantification in safety-critical settings requires conservative bounds, but existing methods often fail to compose and are overly conservative.
method Proposes a learning framework that trains neural networks to produce context-aware Gaussian overbounds with provable conservatism.
result The method yields tighter bounds while maintaining conservatism on the enforced grid and in experiments.

Training Deep Neural Networks that are robust to norm bounded adversarial attacks remains an elusive problem. While exact and inexact verification-based methods are generally too expensive to train large networks, it was demonstrated that bounded input intervals can be inexpensively propagated from a layer to another t…

2019-05-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Training neural networks to be certifiably robust is critical to ensure their safety against adversarial attacks. However, it is currently very difficult to train a neural network that is both accurate and certifiably robust. In this work we take a step towards addressing this challenge. We prove that for every continu…

2019-09-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Bayesian inference engines improve density estimation accuracy and scalability.

problem Constructing accurate and scalable probability density functions.
method Bayesian inference engines (no-U-turn sampling and expectation propagation) with binning strategy.
result Density estimates have excellent comparative performance and scale well to large sample sizes.

This paper improves conformal prediction for robust interval estimation under distribution shifts.

problem Robustness of conformal prediction under distribution shifts.
method Modeling distribution shifts using Levy-Prokhorov (LP) ambiguity sets, which capture both local and global perturbations.
result Constructs robust conformal prediction intervals that remain valid under distribution shifts.

This work provides uncertainty intervals for semantic latent variables in disentangled latent spaces.

problem Challenges in providing meaningful uncertainty quantification for semantic information in disentangled latent spaces.
method Uses quantile regression to output heuristic uncertainty intervals, calibrates these intervals to contain true latent values, and propagates them through the generator.
result Reliably communicates semantically meaningful, principled, and instance-adaptive uncertainty in image super-resolution and image completion.

Two-step conformal prediction method for adaptive bounding box uncertainties in multi-object detection.

problem Quantifying predictive uncertainty for multi-object detection in safety-critical applications.
method Developed a two-step conformal prediction approach to propagate uncertainty in predicted class labels into bounding box uncertainties, ensuring coverage for incorrectly classified objects.
result Desired coverage levels are satisfied with practically tight predictive uncertainty intervals on real-world datasets.

Paper aims to ensure reliable detection of out-of-distribution data with certifiable worst-case guarantees.

problem Deep neural networks are overconfident with OOD inputs, posing safety risks.
method Enforces low confidence and bounds in an ll_\infty-ball around OOD points using interval bound propagation (IBP).
result Certifiable worst-case guarantees for OOD detection are possible without significant loss in accuracy.

Paper proposes faster certified robust training methods with short warmup.

problem Certified robust training methods require long warmup schedules, making training costly.
method Proposes three improvements: new weight initialization, BN, and regularization.
result Achieves 65.03% verified error on CIFAR-10 and 82.36% on TinyImageNet with short warmup.

CASCADE improves uncertainty communication in Parkinson's disease medication management.

problem Uncertainty in clinical decision-making for Parkinson's disease patients.
method CASCADE uses a novel conformal prediction framework to adaptively scale prediction intervals based on classification uncertainty.
result CASCADE produces more efficient and robust prediction intervals for Parkinson's disease patients.

Bayesian methods improve group testing for identifying infected patients.

problem Identifying infected patients from group testing results with false positives.
method Bayesian inference and belief propagation algorithm, combined with expectation-maximization method.
result True-positive rate improved by considering credible intervals.

We consider a mean curvature flow in a cone, that is, a hypersurface in a cone which moves toward the opening with normal velocity equaling to the mean curvature, and the contact angle between the hypersurface and the cone boundary being ε\varepsilon-periodic in its position. First, by constructing a family of self-si…

2019-07-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Algorithm constructs prediction sets with PAC guarantees in label shift settings.

problem Reliable uncertainty quantification in the face of distribution shift.
method Estimates predicted probabilities and confusion matrix, then propagates uncertainty through Gaussian elimination to compute confidence intervals and construct prediction sets.
result Satisfies PAC guarantees and produces smaller, more informative prediction sets.

Accelerates DNN robustness verification with target labels.

problem Improving the robustness of deep neural networks against adversarial attacks.
method Guiding robustness verification with target labels, reducing search space and using symbolic interval propagation and linear relaxation.
result Significantly improves DNN verification speed by 36X, especially when perturbation distance is reasonable.

Robustness verification that aims to formally certify the prediction behavior of neural networks has become an important tool for understanding model behavior and obtaining safety guarantees. However, previous methods can usually only handle neural networks with relatively simple architectures. In this paper, we consid…

2020-02-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes a stratified sampling method for high-dimensional models using neural active manifolds.

problem Uncertainty propagation in computationally expensive models with many inputs.
method Neural active manifolds for nonlinear dimensionality reduction, followed by stratification in the reduced space.
result Effective variance reduction in high-dimensional models using stratified sampling.

It was recently shown that neural ordinary differential equation models cannot solve fundamental and seemingly straightforward tasks even with high-capacity vector field representations. This paper introduces two other fundamental tasks to the set that baseline methods cannot solve, and proposes mixtures of stochastic …

2019-05-23abs ↗pdf ↗

New method certifies neural network function space norms from point evaluations.

problem Certifying neural network function space norms from point evaluations alone.
method Combining interval arithmetic enclosures, adaptive marking/refinement, and quadrature-based aggregation.
result Certified computation of LpL^p, W1,pW^{1,p}, and W2,pW^{2,p} norms.

Spiking neuronal networks are usually simulated with three main simulation schemes: the classical time-driven and event-driven schemes, and the more recent hybrid scheme. All three schemes evolve the state of a neuron through a series of checkpoints: equally spaced in the first scheme and determined neuron-wise by spik…

2017-06-18abs ↗pdf ↗

A susceptibility propagation that is constructed by combining a belief propagation and a linear response method is used for approximate computation for Markov random fields. Herein, we formulate a new, improved susceptibility propagation by using the concept of a diagonal matching method that is based on mean-field app…

2017-12-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Variational inference is a powerful concept that underlies many iterative approximation algorithms; expectation propagation, mean-field methods and belief propagations were all central themes at the school that can be perceived from this unifying framework. The lectures of Manfred Opper introduce the archetypal example…

2014-09-22abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper proposes an alternating back-propagation algorithm for learning the generator network model. The model is a non-linear generalization of factor analysis. In this model, the mapping from the continuous latent factors to the observed signal is parametrized by a convolutional neural network. The alternating bac…

2016-06-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Unified model combines feature and label propagation for semi-supervised classification.

problem Combining feature and label propagation for effective semi-supervised classification.
method Unified Message Passing Model (UniMP) using Graph Transformer and masked label prediction.
result Obtains new state-of-the-art results in Open Graph Benchmark (OGB).

Having a regression model, we are interested in finding two-sided intervals that are guaranteed to contain at least a desired proportion of the conditional distribution of the response variable given a specific combination of predictors. We name such intervals predictive intervals. This work presents a new method to fi…

2014-02-24abs ↗pdf ↗