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Study improves image classifier robustness to random p-norm corruptions.
Analyzes biased random walks and corrupted intervals in adversarial settings.
Paper introduces robust deep learning method for handling random data corruption.
New algorithm optimizes noisy, potentially corrupted functions.
New method tackles tensor regression with robust Kaczmarz approach.
New spectral algorithm estimates random graph parameters robustly against corrupted nodes.
New findings on -NN algorithm's robustness under random data corruption.
Conventional sampling techniques fall short of drawing descriptive sketches of the data when the data is grossly corrupted as such corruptions break the low rank structure required for them to perform satisfactorily. In this paper, we present new sampling algorithms which can locate the informative columns in presence …
Improved SGD for robust linear and ReLU regression with adversarial corruptions.
Subsampling methods have been recently proposed to speed up least squares estimation in large scale settings. However, these algorithms are typically not robust to outliers or corruptions in the observed covariates. The concept of influence that was developed for regression diagnostics can be used to detect such corrup…
The paper addresses uncertainties in spectral clustering of corrupted data.
Study on measuring vulnerability of neural network parameters via corruption.
Study linear regression with missing or corrupted data, showing error bounds.
Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents require the specification of a reward signal for learning behaviours. However, introduction of corrupt or stochastic rewards can yield high variance in learning. Such corruption may be a direct result of goal misspecification, randomness in the reward signal, or correlation of the rew…
The paper proposes a method to detect and filter noisy or mislabeled data using pointwise mutual information.
We study a data model in which the data matrix D can be expressed as D = L + S + C, where L is a low rank matrix, S an element-wise sparse matrix and C a matrix whose non-zero columns are outlying data points. To date, robust PCA algorithms have solely considered models with either S or C, but not both. As such, existi…
Efficient algorithm detects communities in noisy graphs with robustness.
We consider the robust phase retrieval problem of recovering the unknown signal from the magnitude-only measurements, where the measurements can be contaminated by both sparse arbitrary corruption and bounded random noise. We propose a new nonconvex algorithm for robust phase retrieval, namely Robust Wirtinger Flow to …
Robust Lasso-Zero handles missing covariates and sparse corruptions.
Achieving robustness to distributional shift is a longstanding and challenging goal of computer vision. Data augmentation is a commonly used approach for improving robustness, however robustness gains are typically not uniform across corruption types. Indeed increasing performance in the presence of random noise is oft…
We study the problem of robust linear regression with response variable corruptions. We consider the oblivious adversary model, where the adversary corrupts a fraction of the responses in complete ignorance of the data. We provide a nearly linear time estimator which consistently estimates the true regression vector, e…
Efficiently estimates linear models robust to corrupted data.
Develops a comprehensive theory of corruption in supervised learning.
We provide a novel -- and to the best of our knowledge, the first -- algorithm for high dimensional sparse regression with constant fraction of corruptions in explanatory and/or response variables. Our algorithm recovers the true sparse parameters with sub-linear sample complexity, in the presence of a constant fractio…
Efficiently recovers data corrupted by adversarial noise in structured settings.
Gradient descent solves rank-one matrix estimation problem with detailed time evolution analysis.
This paper conducts a rigorous analysis for provable estimation of multidimensional arrays, in particular third-order tensors, from a random subset of its corrupted entries. Our study rests heavily on a recently proposed tensor algebraic framework in which we can obtain tensor singular value decomposition (t-SVD) that …
A low rank matrix X has been contaminated by uniformly distributed noise, missing values, outliers and corrupt entries. Reconstruction of X from the singular values and singular vectors of the contaminated matrix Y is a key problem in machine learning, computer vision and data science. In this paper we show that common…
New algorithm robust to label corruptions in active learning.
This paper examines a general class of noisy matrix completion tasks where the goal is to estimate a matrix from observations obtained at a subset of its entries, each of which is subject to random noise or corruption. Our specific focus is on settings where the matrix to be estimated is well-approximated by a product …
Study finds corruption negatively impacts firm performance.
This review covers recent results concerning the estimation of large covariance matrices using tools from Random Matrix Theory (RMT). We introduce several RMT methods and analytical techniques, such as the Replica formalism and Free Probability, with an emphasis on the Marchenko-Pastur equation that provides informatio…
Unified framework for corruption-robust linear bandits with optimal gap-dependent misspecification bounds.
We report quantitative relations between corruption level and economic factors, such as country wealth and foreign investment per capita, which are characterized by a power law spanning multiple scales of wealth and investments per capita. These relations hold for diverse countries, and also remain stable over differen…
Improved covariate shift handling with node-based Bayesian neural networks.
CUTS removes corruption from models without clean data, improving utility and security.
Study robust estimation under varying corruption probabilities in data.
Binary classification improves with a small fraction of corrupted labels.
Study cooperative bandit learning with imperfect communication, achieving near-optimal performance.
High-dimensional data often lie in low-dimensional subspaces corresponding to different classes they belong to. Finding sparse representations of data points in a dictionary built using the collection of data helps to uncover low-dimensional subspaces and address problems such as clustering, classification, subset sele…
We study the problem of corrupted sensing, a generalization of compressed sensing in which one aims to recover a signal from a collection of corrupted or unreliable measurements. While an arbitrary signal cannot be recovered in the face of arbitrary corruption, tractable recovery is possible when both signal and corrup…
New algorithm reduces linear contextual bandit regret with adversarial corruption.
We extend the model of stochastic bandits with adversarial corruption (Lykouriset al., 2018) to the stochastic linear optimization problem (Dani et al., 2008). Our algorithm is agnostic to the amount of corruption chosen by the adaptive adversary. The regret of the algorithm only increases linearly in the amount of cor…
Robust algorithm optimizes corrupted Gaussian process bandits.
This paper considers the recovery of a low-rank matrix from an observed version that simultaneously contains both (a) erasures: most entries are not observed, and (b) errors: values at a constant fraction of (unknown) locations are arbitrarily corrupted. We provide a new unified performance guarantee on when the natura…
Picket guards against corrupted data in machine learning models.
We use methods from network science to analyze corruption risk in a large administrative dataset of over 4 million public procurement contracts from European Union member states covering the years 2008-2016. By mapping procurement markets as bipartite networks of issuers and winners of contracts we can visualize and de…
Gradient descent amplifies random features in neural networks to useful ones.