Improved deep neural network generalization through noise resilience.
problem Understanding and predicting generalization error of deep neural networks.
method Noise resilience measures to predict generalization error.
result Secured 5th position in the PGDL competition at NeurIPS 2020.
New algorithm trains binary-activation, multi-level RNNs for noise-resilient, ADC-/DAC-free PIM inference.
problem Training noise-resilient, ADC-/DAC-free neural networks.
method Binary activations and multi-level weights for eNVM-based processing-in-memory circuits.
result Higher accuracy and noise resilience for recurrent networks compared to existing methods.
We provide a methodology, resilient feature engineering, for creating adversarially resilient classifiers. According to existing work, adversarial attacks identify weakly correlated or non-predictive features learned by the classifier during training and design the adversarial noise to utilize these features. Therefore…
Noise-resilient optimization on noisy quantum computers.
problem Noise's impact on hybrid quantum-classical optimization.
method Iterative quantum circuit with noise consideration, using Quantum Fisher Information bound.
result Algorithm robustness against different noise strengths.
Noise-resilient method improves Hurst exponent estimation accuracy in noisy data.
problem Noise degrades accuracy of Hurst exponent estimation methods.
method Noise-Controlled ALPHEE (NC-ALPHEE) using wavelet multi-scale analysis and neural network combination.
result NC-ALPHEE consistently outperforms existing techniques in noisy conditions.
TensorHyper-VQC improves VQC scalability and robustness.
problem Scalability and noise sensitivity in VQC.
method Tensor-train-guided hypernetwork framework.
result TensorHyper-VQC achieves superior performance and robust noise tolerance.
New framework boosts neural network performance and resilience.
problem Susceptibility of compact neural network implementations to system disturbances.
method Realistic crossbar simulations and Mosaics framework to re-use synaptic connections.
result Compact neural networks are noise-immune and perform well under disturbances.
This work reveals symmetries in quantum circuits and develops a noise-aware optimization method.
problem Understanding and optimizing the cost landscape of parametrized quantum circuits.
method Analytical proof of symmetries and their resilience to noise, followed by the development of SYMH optimization method.
result Symmetries in PQCs lead to degeneracy in the cost landscape and can be exploited to improve optimization under noise.
New framework for resilient bi-criteria optimization under noisy feedback.
problem Bi-criteria combinatorial optimization with noisy function evaluations.
method Introducing (α,β,δ,extttN)-resilience and developing a black-box framework. result Achieves sublinear regret and constraint violation for bi-criteria bandit problems.
Boosting is known to be sensitive to label noise. We studied two approaches to improve AdaBoost's robustness against labelling errors. One is to employ a label-noise robust classifier as a base learner, while the other is to modify the AdaBoost algorithm to be more robust. Empirical evaluation shows that a committee of…
A methodology for resilience analysis of Capsule Networks under approximation errors.
problem Resilience of Capsule Networks under approximation errors.
method Modeling and analyzing approximation errors in Capsule Networks' inference.
result Capsule Networks are more resilient to errors during dynamic routing than other stages.
This paper defines resilience in knowledge graph embeddings and surveys existing works.
problem Challenges in knowledge graph embedding models, including noise, missing information, distribution shift, and adversarial attacks.
method Unified definition of resilience, formalization in the context of knowledge graphs, systematic survey of existing works.
result Most existing works focus on robustness, leaving other aspects of resilience unexplored.
This study proposes hidden state curiosity to enhance RL models' resilience against noise.
problem Curiosity traps in RL models distract agents from discovering novel experiences.
method Proposed hidden state curiosity based on the Free Energy Principle to reward agents for KL divergence between predictive priors and posteriors.
result Agents with hidden state curiosity are more resilient against curiosity traps compared to those with prediction error curiosity.
Quantum machine learning faces 'laziness' and 'barren plateaus', but noise can mitigate the latter.
problem Quantum machine learning's loss function landscape issues.
method Theoretical analysis of quantum variational circuits, neural tangent kernels, and noise effects.
result Noise can mitigate barren plateaus in quantum machine learning.
Study enhances classifier robustness against noisy labels.
problem Impact of label noise on model performance in real-world scenarios.
method Integrates adversarial machine learning and importance reweighting techniques with CNN.
result Improved model resilience against noisy data.
Paper presents robust boosting methods for label noise.
problem Boosting methods degrade in noisy environments.
method Robust Minimax Boosting (RMBoost) with theoretical guarantees.
result RMBoost provides strong classification accuracy and robustness.
Paper introduces a new index to measure financial and workplace resilience of firms.
problem Corporate resilience and its types in turbulent markets.
method Quantitative analysis of earnings expectations and implied discount rates.
result Evidence of workplace resilience amplification by financial status in the COVID-19 era.
Measures financial resilience using BSDEs and their properties.
problem Measuring financial resilience in dynamic risk environments.
method Developed stochastic calculus for BSDEs with jumps, revealing resilience rate as expectation of generator.
result Resilience rate can be represented as expectation of BSDE generator, revealing properties of dynamic risk measures.
The intrinsic error tolerance of neural network (NN) makes approximate computing a promising technique to improve the energy efficiency of NN inference. Conventional approximate computing focuses on balancing the efficiency-accuracy trade-off for existing pre-trained networks, which can lead to suboptimal solutions. In…
Adversarial examples have been shown to exist for a variety of deep learning architectures. Deep reinforcement learning has shown promising results on training agent policies directly on raw inputs such as image pixels. In this paper we present a novel study into adversarial attacks on deep reinforcement learning polic…
Algorithm learns decision trees from noisy data.
problem Learning stochastic decision trees from corrupted samples.
method Quasipolynomial-time algorithm for adversarial noise.
result Returns a hypothesis with error within 2η+ε of optimal. Python tool assesses European agricultural production resilience.
problem Estimating resilience of European agricultural production systems.
method Python software to compute annual production resilience indicator.
result Demonstrates resilience of European agricultural production.
This paper measures financial market resilience in China and identifies key uncertainties.
problem Measuring financial market resilience in China.
method Quantitative analysis of total financial market and sub-markets, Diebold-Yilmaz connectedness approach.
result Financial market resilience in China is event-driven and influenced by geopolitical risks, economic and trade policy uncertainty, and U.S.-China tensions.
The resilience of low-degree Rademacher chaos is studied, providing probabilistic lower bounds.
problem Understanding how much a Rademacher chaos can withstand adversarial sign-flips without significant probability changes.
method Probabilistic lower-bound guarantees for the resilience of Rademacher chaos of arbitrary degree.
result Probabilistic lower-bound guarantees for the resilience of Rademacher chaos of arbitrary degree, especially meaningful for constant degree.
FQ-Conv quantizes CNNs for efficient inference with low-precision weights and activations.
problem Reducing precision in DNNs leads to reduced accuracy.
method Fully quantized convolutional neural networks (FQ-Conv) using novel quantization and training techniques.
result Ternary-weight CNNs perform nearly as well as full-precision networks.
New model shows negative resilience can improve trading efficiency.
problem Optimal trade execution in limit order books with negative resilience.
method Stochastic order book model with negative resilience.
result Negative resilience can lead to more efficient trading.
Proposes resilience metrics for large blackout costs with logarithmic resilience.
problem Large variations in blackout costs make estimating risk impractical.
method Uses mean of log of large blackout costs, tail slope index, and frequency.
result Solves problems of heavy tail and large variations in blackout costs.
Ensemble techniques are powerful approaches that combine several weak learners to build a stronger one. As a meta learning framework, ensemble techniques can easily be applied to many machine learning techniques. In this paper we propose a neural network extended with an ensemble loss function for text classification. …
Deep neural networks (DNNs) provide high image classification accuracy, but experience significant performance degradation when perturbation from various sources are present in the input. The lack of resilience to input perturbations makes DNN less reliable for systems interacting with physical world such as autonomous…
Stocks of more resilient firms outperformed during the pandemic, reflecting disaster risk.
problem The impact of social distancing on firms' operations and stock performance.
method Cross-sectional analysis of firms' resilience and stock performance, controlling for risk factors.
result Stocks of more resilient firms are expected to yield significantly lower returns than less resilient ones, reflecting disaster risk.
Financial markets can be seen as complex systems that are constantly evolving and sensitive to external disturbance, such as systemic risks and economic instabilities. Analysis of resilient market performance, therefore, becomes useful for investors. From a systems perspective, this paper proposes a novel function-base…
ResiliNet improves distributed neural network inference resilience.
problem Physical node failures in distributed neural networks cause performance drops.
method Skip hyperconnection and failout technique.
result ResiliNet provides inference resiliency for distributed neural networks.
Byrd-SAGA reduces variance to robustify SGD against Byzantine attacks.
problem Learning over networks with malicious Byzantine attacks.
method Byrd-SAGA uses geometric median for robust aggregation of corrected stochastic gradients.
result Byrd-SAGA achieves provably linear convergence to optimal solution in the presence of Byzantine workers.
SGLBO optimizes quantum circuits with fewer measurements, improving accuracy and noise resilience.
problem Efficiently optimizing parameterized quantum circuits with reduced measurement shots and noise.
method Developed SGLBO combining SGD and BO, with adaptive measurement-shot strategy and suffix averaging.
result Significantly reduces measurement-shot cost while improving accuracy and noise resilience.
New method quantifies resilience of electric distribution systems from historical data.
problem Large blackouts caused by extreme winds have significant costs and impacts.
method Formulate large event risk from utility outage data, quantify resilience improvements through investments.
result Investments in wind hardening and faster restoration can reduce the probability of large cost events.
The ability of overparameterized deep networks to generalize well has been linked to the fact that stochastic gradient descent (SGD) finds solutions that lie in flat, wide minima in the training loss -- minima where the output of the network is resilient to small random noise added to its parameters. So far this observ…
Study finds stock and crypto markets tend to be robust, not antifragile.
problem Understanding the resilience of financial markets to noise and disorder.
method Defined and tested a measure of antifragility for complex systems, analyzed stock and crypto market returns.
result Top performers in stock and crypto markets are robust, not antifragile.
Paper tackles Byzantine resilience in distributed multi-task learning.
problem Resilience of distributed algorithms in the presence of Byzantine agents.
method Online weight assignment rule based on accumulated loss and filtering.
result Aggregation with proposed weight assignment rule improves expected regret.
This paper uses robust optimization to analyze supply chain resilience.
problem Supply chain resilience analysis of multi-modal logistics networks.
method Robust optimization with budget-of-uncertainty.
result Interactive effects of network size, disruption scale, and degree on resilience.
Asynchronous distributed machine learning solutions have proven very effective so far, but always assuming perfectly functioning workers. In practice, some of the workers can however exhibit Byzantine behavior, caused by hardware failures, software bugs, corrupt data, or even malicious attacks. We introduce \emph{Karda…
TSLANet improves time series models by capturing long-term and short-term interactions.
problem Noise sensitivity, computational efficiency, and overfitting in Transformer-based models for time series data.
method Adaptive Spectral Block and Interactive Convolution Block for robust feature representation and noise mitigation.
result TSLANet outperforms state-of-the-art models in various time series tasks.
CyBeR-0 optimizes federated learning with Byzantine resilience and reduced communication costs.
problem Byzantine attacks and communication inefficiency in federated learning.
method Transformed robust aggregation for zero-order optimization under client heterogeneity.
result CyBeR-0 achieves stable performance with minimal communication costs and reduced memory usage.
Firms' collaboration networks can decline but remain resilient.
problem Resilience of firms' collaboration networks during decline.
method Analysis of 21,500 R&D collaborations over 25 years, simulating drop-out cascades.
result Firms' collaboration networks can adapt to mitigate decline and recover.
Automated design of resilient, efficient DNNs for hardware.
problem Designing reliable and efficient DNNs for hardware.
method Evolutionary optimization technique for DNN architecture design.
result Strong correlation between predicted and actual error resilience.
This paper investigates the resilience and robustness of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) policies to adversarial perturbations in the state space. We first present an approach for the disentanglement of vulnerabilities caused by representation learning of DRL agents from those that stem from the sensitivity of the DR…
We present a large-scale study of commonality in liquidity and resilience across assets in an ultra high-frequency (millisecond-timestamped) Limit Order Book (LOB) dataset from a pan-European electronic equity trading facility. We first show that extant work in quantifying liquidity commonality through the degree of ex…
Study reveals clusters of resilient and vulnerable Spanish agri-food firms post-Ukraine-Russia war.
problem Financial resilience of agri-food companies in Spain during the Ukraine-Russia conflict.
method Cluster analysis using centred log-ratios for compositional data of financial ratios.
result Increase in resilient firms by 2023, highlighting sectoral adaptation to economic challenges.
Mitigates faults in DNNs by clipping activation values, improving their resilience.
problem Fault tolerance of DNNs in safety-critical applications.
method Clipping activation functions to reduce impact of faulty weights.
result Significant improvement in classification accuracy (68.92%) for fault mitigation.