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48 results for adversarial validation

Adversarial validation detects concept drift in user targeting systems.

problem Concept drift in user targeting automation systems deteriorates model performance over time.
method Adversarial validation approach to detect and adapt to concept drift.
result Adversarial validation effectively addresses concept drift in user targeting systems.

OpenAlpha validates decentralized capital strategies using game theory and market aggregation.

problem Decentralized capital management's lack of trust-minimised, adaptive deployment.
method Game-theoretic validation, adversarial auditing, market-based belief aggregation.
result Confidence scores from validation phases inform capital allocation rules.

CANs improve GANs by enforcing structured constraints during training.

problem Generating valid structured objects like molecules and game maps from examples alone.
method Constrained Adversarial Networks (CANs) embed constraints into the model during training, penalizing invalid structures.
result CANs efficiently generate high-quality and novel valid structures.

Study robustness of split conformal prediction under adversarial attacks.

problem Ensuring distribution-free coverage guarantees in CP under adversarial conditions.
method Theoretical analysis and extensive experiments on split conformal prediction robustness.
result Prediction coverage varies with calibration-time attack strength, enabling control over coverage under adversarial tests.

RILA learns HQMMs robustly against adversarial corruption.

problem Robustness of HQMM learning algorithms under adversarial perturbations.
method Adversarially Corrupted HQMM (AC-HQMM) and Robust Iterative Learning Algorithm (RILA).
result RILA outperforms existing algorithms in convergence stability, corruption resilience, and physical validity.

A Bayesian framework models adversarial uncertainty for robust machine learning.

problem Vulnerability of machine learning models to adversarial attacks.
method Formal Bayesian framework that models adversarial uncertainty through a stochastic channel, articulating probabilistic assumptions.
result Explicitly modeling adversarial uncertainty leads to improved robustification strategies.

We analyze the adversarial examples problem in terms of a model's fault tolerance with respect to its input. Whereas previous work focuses on arbitrarily strict threat models, i.e., εε-perturbations, we consider arbitrary valid inputs and propose an information-based characteristic for evaluating tolerance to diverse …

2018-11-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Analyzes adversarial training's impact on loss landscape, proposing PAS to improve model performance.

problem Challenges in optimizing models under adversarial training due to loss landscape properties.
method Analytical studies of adversarial loss functions, numerical analyses, PAS strategy.
result Adversarial training impairs optimization, but PAS strategy improves model performance.

New framework ensures valid uncertainty estimates for any data stream changes.

problem Challenges of distribution shifts and adversarial actors in real-world data streams.
method Leveraging Blackwell approachability from game theory, the framework guarantees calibrated uncertainties for any compact space.
result Improves calibration and decision-making for energy systems.

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 develops robust Bayesian models for linear regression under adversarial perturbations.

problem Ensuring reliable machine learning models under data perturbations.
method Formulates adversarial Bregman divergence loss, computes adversarial perturbation, introduces adversarially robust posteriors, derives generalization certificates.
result Derives first rigorous generalization certificates for adversarially robust Bayesian linear regression.

Adversarial training can lead to overfitting without compromising robustness.

problem Explaining benign overfitting in adversarially robust linear classification.
method Theoretical analysis and numerical experiments on adversarial training.
result Adversarially trained linear classifiers can achieve near-optimal risks despite overfitting noisy data.

New method constrains CNN filter frequencies to improve robustness.

problem CNN bias towards low frequency components, leading to poor performance in scenario transformations.
method Frequency domain regularization by constraining filter spectra, training valid frequency range end-to-end.
result Demonstrated effectiveness in defending adversarial perturbations, reducing generalization gap, and improving transfer learning.

ADT improves model robustness by learning adversarial distributions.

problem Ineffective robustness against unseen attacks due to specific attack algorithms.
method Formulates adversarial distributional training as a minimax optimization problem, learning adversarial distributions and training robust models.
result Empirical validation of ADT's effectiveness compared to state-of-the-art methods.

Convolutional neural networks have been used to achieve a string of successes during recent years, but their lack of interpretability remains a serious issue. Adversarial examples are designed to deliberately fool neural networks into making any desired incorrect classification, potentially with very high certainty. Se…

2019-02-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Adversarial training can lead to unfair accuracy disparities between different groups.

problem Adversarial training algorithms introduce unfair accuracy disparities between different groups of data.
method Propose a Fair-Robust-Learning (FRL) framework to mitigate unfairness in adversarial defenses.
result Empirical and theoretical validation of FRL's effectiveness in mitigating unfairness.

Feature Squeezing is a recently proposed defense method which reduces the search space available to an adversary by coalescing samples that correspond to many different feature vectors in the original space into a single sample. It has been shown that feature squeezing defenses can be combined in a joint detection fram…

2018-03-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes a new training algorithm for zero-sum games to avoid convergence issues.

problem Gradient-based training leads to weak convergence and cyclic dynamics in zero-sum architectures.
method Follow the perturbed leader algorithm with neural mediating agent.
result Guarantees convergence to mixed Nash equilibrium without cyclic behaviors.

Adaptive networks improve model robustness through conditional normalization.

problem Limited robustness of adversarial-trained networks due to network capacity and training samples.
method Proposes a conditional normalization module to adapt networks during adversarial training.
result Adaptive networks outperform both clean validation accuracy and robustness compared to non-adaptive counterparts.

The paper analyzes how generated data improves adversarial training in high-dimensional regression.

problem Improving adversarial training in high-dimensional regression.
method Theoretical analysis of a two-stage training approach with generated data and pseudo-labels.
result Two-stage adversarial training achieves better performance than ridgeless training in high-dimensional linear regression.

An intriguing property of deep neural networks is their inherent vulnerability to adversarial inputs, which significantly hinders their application in security-critical domains. Most existing detection methods attempt to use carefully engineered patterns to distinguish adversarial inputs from their genuine counterparts…

2017-12-02abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

Many machine learning models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks; for example, adding adversarial perturbations that are imperceptible to humans can often make machine learning models produce wrong predictions with high confidence. Moreover, although we may obtain robust models on the training dataset via adversarial…

2018-10-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper generates diverse, readable adversarial texts from scratch.

problem Text classification models are easily fooled by adversarial examples.
method Trained a conditional variational autoencoder (VAE) with adversarial loss and utilized GANs to generate consistent adversarial texts.
result Successfully generates adversarial texts with higher success rate and acceptable quality.

Randomized classifiers outperform deterministic ones in robustness against adversarial attacks.

problem Ensuring optimal robustness against all adversarial attacks.
method Game-theoretic approach, focusing on the non-existence of Nash equilibrium in deterministic classifiers and demonstrating the superiority of randomized classifiers.
result Randomized classifiers can outperform deterministic ones in robustness against adversarial attacks.

We study nonzero-sum hypothesis testing games that arise in the context of adversarial classification, in both the Bayesian as well as the Neyman-Pearson frameworks. We first show that these games admit mixed strategy Nash equilibria, and then we examine some interesting concentration phenomena of these equilibria. Our…

2019-09-28abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper evaluates machine learning cyber defenses using log data against adversarial attacks.

problem Evaluating the robustness of machine learning cyber defenses against adversarial attacks.
method Developed a testing framework using deep reinforcement learning and adversarial natural language processing.
result Higher dropout levels increase robustness, with 90% dropout probability showing the highest robustness.

DALI improves inference for GANs by matching prior and conditional distributions.

problem Effective inference for generative adversarial models (GANs).
method Explicitly matches prior and conditional distributions in data and code spaces, constraining dependency structure.
result Significantly improves reconstruction and generation compared to other GAN inference models.

Adaptive framework generates challenging adversarial scenarios for autonomous vehicles.

problem Lack of efficient and adaptable evaluation methods for autonomous vehicles.
method Adaptive evaluation framework using ensemble models and nonparametric Bayesian clustering.
result Adversarial scenarios significantly degrade tested autonomous vehicles' performance.

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 ↗