The area of Handwritten Signature Verification has been broadly researched in the last decades, but remains an open research problem. In offline (static) signature verification, the dynamic information of the signature writing process is lost, and it is difficult to design good feature extractors that can distinguish g…
Improved OSV with active transfer learning for Persian signatures.
problem Challenges in OSV with skilled forgeries and limited labeled data.
method Active transfer learning using pre-trained CNN and SVM for active learning.
result Near 13% improvement over random selection and 1% over state-of-the-art.
Deep transfer learning from Persian handwriting improves offline signature verification.
problem Challenges in offline signature verification, especially with skilled forgeries and limited training data.
method Transfer learning approach from Persian handwriting to multi-language OSV, using Residual CNNs for feature learning and SVMs for verification.
result Significant improvement in Equal Error Rate (EER) on UT-Sig dataset (9.80% EER), surpassing state-of-the-art methods.
The area of Handwritten Signature Verification has been broadly researched in the last decades, but remains an open research problem. The objective of signature verification systems is to discriminate if a given signature is genuine (produced by the claimed individual), or a forgery (produced by an impostor). This has …
Study improves offline signature verification by combining multiple loss functions in CNNs.
problem Challenges in offline signature verification, especially forgeries.
method Examined and integrated cross entropy, Cauchy-Schwarz divergence, and hinge loss into a dynamic multi-loss function.
result Substantial improvements in EERs for writer-dependent OSV protocols.
Automatic Offline Handwritten Signature Verification has been researched over the last few decades from several perspectives, using insights from graphology, computer vision, signal processing, among others. In spite of the advancements on the field, building classifiers that can separate between genuine signatures and…
Research on Offline Handwritten Signature Verification explored a large variety of handcrafted feature extractors, ranging from graphology, texture descriptors to interest points. In spite of advancements in the last decades, performance of such systems is still far from optimal when we test the systems against skilled…
Methods for learning feature representations for Offline Handwritten Signature Verification have been successfully proposed in recent literature, using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks to learn representations from signature pixels. Such methods reported large performance improvements compared to handcrafted feature …
The use of features extracted using a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) combined with a writer-dependent (WD) SVM classifier resulted in significant improvement in performance of handwritten signature verification (HSV) when compared to the previous state-of-the-art methods. In this work it is investigated whethe…
Improved neural network verification using Lagrangian decomposition and parallel algorithms.
problem Formally proving input-output properties of neural networks efficiently.
method Novel bounding and branching algorithms based on Lagrangian Decomposition and activation-based heuristics.
result Significant reduction in verification times, up to 50x faster on adversarial robustness properties.
Signature kernel scoring rule improves weather forecasting by capturing temporal and spatial dependencies.
problem Lack of suitable scoring rules for probabilistic weather forecasting.
method Reframe weather variables as continuous paths using iterated integrals (signature kernels) to capture temporal and spatial dependencies.
result Signature kernel scoring rule outperforms conventional methods in weather forecasting, especially for long-term forecasts.
The model uses signatures to accurately calibrate SPX and VIX options without jumps or rough volatility.
problem Joint calibration of SPX and VIX options without jumps or rough volatility.
method The approach uses a stochastic volatility model with signatures of polynomial diffusions to price and calibrate SPX and VIX options.
result Highly accurate calibration results for SPX and VIX options without adding jumps or rough volatility.
Formalizes weak and strong verification for LLMs, controlling errors without assumptions.
problem Balancing cost and reliability in reasoning with LLMs.
method Formalizes weak-strong verification policies, introduces metrics, develops online algorithm.
result Optimal policies admit a two-threshold structure, and calibration and sharpness govern value of weak verifiers.
EEG signals enhance speaker verification system robustness.
problem Improving speaker verification in noisy environments.
method Used end-to-end deep learning model with EEG and speech features.
result EEG signals improve speaker verification robustness, especially in noisy conditions.
Develops first robustness verification for complex Transformers.
problem Certify prediction behavior of Transformers with complex self-attention layers.
method Resolves challenges of cross-nonlinearity and cross-position dependency in Transformers.
result Certified robustness bounds are significantly tighter than Interval Bound Propagation.
Paper develops PAC verification for hypothesis classes and statistical algorithms.
problem Verifying machine learning models interactively.
method Develops interactive proof for PAC verification, proves lower bounds, and introduces a generalization.
result Improved protocol for verifying unions of intervals and statistical query algorithms.
Hypothesis testing is an important problem with applications in target localization, clinical trials etc. Many active hypothesis testing strategies operate in two phases: an exploration phase and a verification phase. In the exploration phase, selection of experiments is such that a moderate level of confidence on the …
We explore the concept of co-design in the context of neural network verification. Specifically, we aim to train deep neural networks that not only are robust to adversarial perturbations but also whose robustness can be verified more easily. To this end, we identify two properties of network models - weight sparsity a…
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.
New methods combat data poisoning attacks in bandit algorithms using limited verification.
problem Data poisoning attacks on bandit algorithms, especially in the UCB and ETC types.
method Verification-based mechanisms to restore optimal regret with limited verifications.
result A simple modified ETC type bandit algorithm can restore optimal regret with O(logT) verifications. Improved speaker verification with condition-aware backend.
problem Speaker verification calibration issues under unknown conditions.
method Discriminative PLDA model with joint training and condition integration.
result Out-of-the-box excellent calibration performance.
New algorithm speeds up robustness verification for tree-based models.
problem Formal robustness verification of tree-based models, especially ensembles.
method Reformulated as max-clique problem on a multi-partite graph with bounded boxicity; developed efficient multi-level verification algorithm.
result Tight lower bounds on robustness of decision tree ensembles, hundreds of times faster than previous approach.
Improves neural network verification by merging abstract domains and Lagrangian methods.
problem Prove provable bounds for neural network outputs given input ranges.
method Uses zonotopes within a Lagrangian decomposition to verify deep neural networks.
result Yields bounds that improve upon existing techniques in both time and tightness.
This paper explores formal verification for autonomous systems, identifying limitations and proposing improvements.
problem Ensuring safety of autonomous systems like self-driving cars and drones.
method Formal verification techniques based on formal methods, analyzing three assumptions and their limitations.
result Preliminary work to improve the strength of evidence provided by formal verification.
Paper develops a model for verifying facts in tables without pre-retrieved evidence.
problem Verification of factual claims in structured data, especially in open-domain settings.
method Joint reranking-and-verification model that fuses evidence documents.
result Model achieves comparable performance to closed-domain state-of-the-art on TabFact dataset.
New neural network boosts authorship verification on social media.
problem Challenges in verifying authorship of short, diverse social media messages.
method Proposes a new neural network topology for similarity learning.
result Significantly improved performance on author verification tasks.
End-to-end speaker verification framework reduces text dependency.
problem Improving text-independent speaker verification.
method Jointly trains SE and ASR networks with triplet loss and adversarial gradient.
result Lower equal error rate and better text-independency compared to other approaches.
Efficiently verifies neural networks by handling neuron splits, improving speed and accuracy.
problem Handling neuron split constraints in incomplete neural network verification.
method β-CROWN, which optimizes parameters β to encode neuron splits and uses them in bound propagation.
result β-CROWN significantly speeds up verification while maintaining high accuracy.
Semantify-NN verifies neural network robustness against semantic perturbations.
problem Verifying robustness of neural networks against semantic adversarial attacks.
method Inserting semantic perturbation layers (SP-layers) into neural networks to verify robustness.
result Semantify-NN significantly improves robustness verification performance over ℓp-norm-based methods. Researchers find floating point errors can mislead neural network verifiers.
problem Floating point arithmetic inaccuracies mislead neural network verifiers.
method Efficiently searches inputs and constructs neural network architectures to exploit verification errors.
result Floating point errors can systematically mislead neural network verifiers.
This study extends verifiable learning to boosted tree ensembles, enabling efficient security verification.
problem Efficiently verifying the robustness of boosted tree ensembles against norm-based attackers.
method Formal verification of robustness for large-spread boosted tree ensembles, considering L∞-norm and pseudo-polynomial time for Lp-norm verification. result Polynomial time verification for L∞-norm attackers, NP-hard for other norms, and pseudo-polynomial time for Lp-norm verification. Accelerating Speculative Diffusions via Block Verification
problem Adapting speculative decoding for continuous diffusion models
method Introducing a novel speculative sampling mechanism for diffusion models
result Improves acceptance rate and speeds up inference
Paper tackles offline meta-reinforcement learning with a new algorithm.
problem Performing reinforcement learning on limited data from a new task.
method Meta-Actor Critic with Advantage Weighting (MACAW) algorithm.
result Achieves notable gains over prior methods on offline meta-RL benchmarks.
This paper tackles robustness of ensemble stumps and trees under general ℓ_p norm perturbations.
problem The vulnerability of ensemble stumps and trees to small input perturbations under the ℓ_∞ norm.
method Developed dynamic programming algorithms for robustness verification and certified defense under general ℓ_p norm perturbations.
result First certified defense method for ensemble stumps and trees under ℓ_p norm perturbations.
A new method for verifying deep learning architectures on FPGAs is proposed.
problem Design-time verification of deep learning architectures on FPGAs.
method 2-Level 3-Way (2L-3W) hardware-software co-verification methodology.
result Layer-by-layer similarity scores of 99% accuracy for successful mappings.
Adversarial ASV improves speaker verification robustness.
problem Mismatches in training, enrollment, and test conditions degrade deep speaker embeddings.
method Adversarial multi-task training to learn condition-invariant embeddings.
result 8.8% and 14.5% relative EER improvements for known and unknown conditions.
Algorithm balances online and offline data for linear bandits.
problem Online learning with an offline dataset in linear bandits.
method Proposes a linear bandit algorithm that uses offline data early and increasingly favors exploration as the horizon grows.
result Establishes regret bounds showing competitive performance with both purely online and offline solutions.
Algorithm learns from offline data to improve performance in target environment.
problem Learning from offline data in a target environment with unknown shifts.
method Adaptive algorithm that uses offline data to improve performance when informative.
result Algorithm provably improves performance over purely online learning when offline data are informative.
New algorithms improve neural network verification by exploiting piecewise linear structure.
problem Efficiently verify the correctness of neural networks, especially those with high-dimensional inputs.
method Branch-and-Bound (BaB) framework applied to Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MIP) formulation.
result Significant performance improvements and new branching strategies for neural networks.
A neural network learns to improve verification of neural networks.
problem Efficient verification of neural networks for safety-critical applications.
method A graph neural network (GNN) learns to imitate strong branching heuristics for effective branching in the Branch and Bound (BaB) formulation.
result Reduces the number of branches and verification time by roughly 50% compared to hand-designed strategies.
Paper proposes a new method for robust speaker verification.
problem Improving robustness in speaker verification systems.
method Combines soft VAD and self-adaptive VAD with DNN-based VAD.
result Significant improvement in verification performance in real-world environments.
GPUPoly verifies large neural networks robustly on GPUs.
problem Proving robustness of deep neural networks is crucial but challenging.
method Custom polyhedra algorithms on GPUs.
result GPUPoly can verify 1M neuron networks in 34.5 ms.
New spoofing strategies show PoL verification is more vulnerable than previously thought.
problem Vulnerability of Proof-of-Learning verification mechanisms.
method Developed new spoofing strategies that can be reproduced across different configurations and are more cost-effective.
result Current PoL verification is not robust to adversaries and requires further understanding of optimization in deep learning.
NeuroDiff improves neural network equivalence verification with fine-grained approximations.
problem Verifying the equivalence of compressed neural networks.
method Symbolic and fine-grained approximation technique for differential verification.
result NeuroDiff achieves up to 1000X speedup and 5X accuracy improvement.
Algorithm reduces online regret by leveraging offline data in linear bandits.
problem Online regret minimization in linear bandits with offline data.
method OOPE algorithm using extended D-optimal design.
result Substantial reduction in online regret compared to prior work.
New method selects best offline RL policies from logged data.
problem Hyperparameter selection challenges offline RL.
method Offline hyperparameter selection for RL algorithms.
result Reliable ranking and selection of policies across hyperparameters.
Novel approach using Lagrangian Decomposition for neural network verification.
problem Computing tight bounds on neural network outputs.
method Lagrangian Decomposition, efficient supergradient ascent, proximal algorithm.
result Proves tighter bounds than previous dual algorithms.
Paper improves speaker verification with federated learning and differential privacy.
problem Improving speaker verification accuracy using private data.
method Combining federated learning and differential privacy to train an auxiliary model that predicts vocal characteristics.
result 6% relative improvement in equal error rate over a baseline system.