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48 results for certified algorithms

We propose an algorithm to enhance certified robustness of a deep model ensemble by optimally weighting each base model. Unlike previous works on using ensembles to empirically improve robustness, our algorithm is based on optimizing a guaranteed robustness certificate of neural networks. Our proposed ensemble framewor…

2019-10-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Certified algorithms optimize functions with varying costs, providing error bounds.

problem Optimizing functions with varying evaluation costs and error bounds.
method Formalized as a min-max game, proposed certified MFDOO algorithm with cost complexity bound.
result Proposed certified MFDOO algorithm has near-optimal cost complexity for Lipschitz functions.

New framework solves low-rank optimization problems to certifiable optimality.

problem Low-rank optimization problems with certifiable solutions.
method Mixed-Projection Conic Optimization framework using symmetric projection matrices and outer-approximation algorithms.
result Solves low-rank problems to certifiable optimality, outperforming existing methods.

Paper certifies intersection of minimum-volume confidence sets for multinomial outcomes.

problem Certifying intersection of minimum-volume confidence sets for multinomial outcomes.
method Exploits likelihood ordering to induce halfspace constraints, enabling adaptive geometric partitioning and computable bounds on p-values.
result Efficient and provably sound algorithm for certifying intersection, disjointness, or indeterminate result.

Paper improves neural network robustness certification with tighter radii estimates.

problem Certifying neural networks' robustness against adversarial attacks.
method Advanced algorithms for discrete and continuous domains, optimizing sample size, standard deviation, and temperature.
result Significant improvement in certified test-set accuracy with tighter certified radii bounds.

Certified training improves robustness against adversarial attacks.

problem Certified training's gap with empirical robustness limits its practical utility.
method Combining adversarial attacks with network over-approximations.
result Certified training can prevent catastrophic overfitting and bridge the gap to multi-step baselines.

Efficient local Lipschitz bounds improve neural network robustness.

problem Certifying robustness of neural networks is challenging and often leads to over-regularization.
method Proposes an efficient trainable local Lipschitz upper bound by considering activation functions and weight matrices.
result Consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods in clean and certified accuracy on various datasets.

Paper improves robustness certification by integrating ML and logical reasoning.

problem Limited robustness certification under perturbation radius.
method Integrates statistical ML models with logical reasoning using Markov logic networks.
result First certified robustness bound for MLN derived and experimentally validated.

This paper certifies cluster assignments from sum-of-norms clustering algorithms.

problem Certifying the correct cluster assignments from approximate solutions of sum-of-norms clustering.
method Presented a clustering test that identifies and certifies the correct cluster assignment from an approximate solution.
result The correct cluster assignment is guaranteed to be certified by a primal-dual path following algorithm after sufficient iterations.

This paper provides a comprehensive benchmark and taxonomy for certifiably robust DNN defenses.

problem Certifiably robust defenses against adversarial attacks for deep neural networks.
method Taxonomy and benchmark of certifiably robust approaches.
result First comprehensive benchmark of certifiably robust approaches on different datasets.

Automates perturbation analysis for neural networks, enabling certified robustness on complex architectures.

problem Limited applicability of existing perturbation analysis methods to complex neural network architectures.
method Developed an automatic framework to generalize LiRPA algorithms to any neural network structure, enabling loss fusion and state-of-the-art certified defense results.
result Demonstrated LiRPA based certified defense on Tiny ImageNet and Downscaled ImageNet.

New method certifies regression robustness without data distribution assumptions.

problem Certifying robustness of regression models against poisoning attacks.
method Reduces certified regression to certified classification using median decision function.
result Proposes six new provably-robust regression models.

This work improves deep reinforcement learning robustness to adversarial state uncertainty.

problem Robustness of deep reinforcement learning to adversarial state uncertainty.
method Certified adversarial robustness techniques are applied to deep reinforcement learning algorithms to compute guaranteed lower bounds on state-action values.
result The approach increases robustness to noise and adversaries in pedestrian collision avoidance and classic control tasks.

The paper certifies neural network-based control barrier functions efficiently.

problem Certifying neural network-based barrier functions for safety in autonomous systems.
method Combines NN reachability and hyperplane arrangement enumeration for efficient certification.
result Soundly finds regions where neural networks are certified as barrier functions.

New method makes machine learning models robust to label flipping attacks.

problem Machine learning models are vulnerable to label flipping attacks.
method Randomized smoothing over arbitrary functions to build certifiably robust classifiers.
result Linear classifiers are robust to label flipping attacks with deterministic bounds.

SingleProp speeds up robust neural network training with minimal certification.

problem Efficiently defending neural networks against adversarial attacks with certified guarantees.
method SingleProp regularizer that requires only one forward pass per training iteration.
result Comparable certified accuracy to state-of-the-art defenses, but significantly faster training.

Proves subgaussian distributions are SoS-certifiably subgaussian, enabling efficient algorithms for various statistical tasks.

problem Efficiently learning from subgaussian distributions in high dimensions.
method Universal constant CC and polynomial sum of squares (SoS) approach.
result Proves subgaussian distributions are SoS-certifiably subgaussian.

This work improves robustness guarantees for neural networks using low rank representations.

problem Certified robustness to adversarial perturbations in neural networks.
method Low rank representations to provide improved robustness guarantees.
result Improved robustness guarantees for \ell_\infty perturbations using natural low rank representations.

Cer-Eval saves LLM evaluation costs while maintaining accuracy.

problem Challenges in evaluating large language models due to large dataset requirements.
method Adapts to different evaluation objectives, uses test sample complexity, and develops a partition-based algorithm.
result Cer-Eval can save 20-40% test points with comparable accuracy and 95% confidence guarantee.

BagCert efficiently certifies robustness against adversarial patches on image classifiers.

problem Adversarial patches pose a threat to autonomous systems' perception component.
method BagCert combines model architecture and certification procedure for efficient inference.
result BagCert certifies 10,000 examples in 43 seconds on a single GPU, achieving 86% clean and 60% certified accuracy against 5x5 patches.

SAFER method certifies robustness to word substitutions without model structure.

problem Certified robustness against synonymous word substitutions in NLP models.
method Randomized smoothing with stochastic ensemble of randomized inputs.
result Significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods for certified robustness.

New techniques extend certified unlearning to deep neural networks.

problem Applying certified unlearning to deep neural networks (DNNs) is challenging due to their nonconvex nature.
method Developed simple techniques and an efficient computation method for nonconvex objectives, considering nonconvergence training and sequential unlearning.
result Demonstrated the efficacy of the method on real-world datasets, showing advantages of certified unlearning in DNNs.

This work improves certifiably robust models by distilling knowledge from adversarially robust teachers.

problem Certifiably robust models suffer from poor standard performance.
method Knowledge distillation from adversarially robust teachers to improve standard performance.
result Distillation from adversarially robust teachers consistently improves certified training performance.

The Piyavskii-Shubert algorithm is analyzed for global optimization of Lipschitz functions.

problem Maximizing a non-concave Lipschitz function over a compact domain.
method Sequential function evaluations using a bandit-optimization approach.
result New bounds on the number of evaluations needed for optimization accuracy.

Improves safety region certification for smoothed classifiers without changing smoothing scheme.

problem Certified safety regions for smoothed classifiers are often small compared to optimal.
method Generalizes certified radius calculation as nested optimization problem, uses 0th-1st order information, and designs efficient estimators.
result Certified safety regions are significantly larger than current methods, achieving significant improvements on various metrics.

This paper proposes a framework for certifying neural network defenses against data poisoning attacks.

problem Vulnerability of neural networks to data poisoning attacks.
method Random selection based defenses that average predictions on sub-datasets sampled from the training set.
result The certified radius of bagging derived by the framework is tighter than previous work.

AdvImmune improves certifiable robustness of GNNs against adversarial attacks.

problem Vulnerability of graph neural networks to adversarial attacks.
method Proposes AdvImmune, an algorithm that optimizes with meta-gradient to improve certifiable robustness.
result Remarkably improves the ratio of robust nodes by 12%, 42%, 65% with an affordable immune budget of only 5% edges.

New approach removes data influence in high dimensions with single step.

problem Efficiently removing data influence in high-dimensional settings with strong convexity and smoothness assumptions.
method Introduces ε-Gaussian certifiability and analyzes Newton method performance.
result Single Newton step followed by Gaussian noise achieves privacy and accuracy.

Improved defense against data poisoning attacks by aggregating smaller subsets.

problem Mitigating the impact of poisoned data on model robustness.
method Finite Aggregation method that combines duplicates of smaller disjoint subsets for training.
result Consistent improvement in certified robustness bounds, up to 4.77% on GTSRB.

We show how to turn any classifier that classifies well under Gaussian noise into a new classifier that is certifiably robust to adversarial perturbations under the 2\ell_2 norm. This "randomized smoothing" technique has been proposed recently in the literature, but existing guarantees are loose. We prove a tight robu…

2019-02-08abs ↗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 ↗

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.

Improved training boosts certified robustness of L-infinity distance nets.

problem Certified robustness of L-infinity distance nets is not as strong as conventional networks.
method Improved training process combining scaled cross-entropy and clipped hinge loss with a decaying mixing coefficient.
result Certified accuracy of L-infinity distance nets improved from 33.30% to 40.06% on CIFAR-10.