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Robust risk minimisation has several advantages: it has been studied with regards to improving the generalisation properties of models and robustness to adversarial perturbation. We bound the distributionally robust risk for a model class rich enough to include deep neural networks by a regularised empirical risk invol…
DeepMPM uses MPM to make deep neural networks more robust against adversarial attacks.
problem Vulnerability of deep neural networks to adversarial attacks.
method Applying MPM to deep neural networks in an end-to-end fashion to minimize an upper bound of misclassification probabilities considering global class information.
result DeepMPM achieves comparable classification performance with CNN but is more robust against adversarial attacks.
SOAR improves deep networks' robustness against adversarial examples.
problem Improving deep neural networks' robustness against adversarial examples.
method Formulated adversarial robustness problem under robust optimization framework, approximated loss function using second-order Taylor series expansion.
result SOAR significantly improves robustness of networks against adversarial perturbations.
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.
Autonomous vehicles are highly complex systems, required to function reliably in a wide variety of situations. Manually crafting software controllers for these vehicles is difficult, but there has been some success in using deep neural networks generated using machine-learning. However, deep neural networks are opaque …
Understanding deep neural networks is a major research objective with notable experimental and theoretical attention in recent years. The practical success of excessively large networks underscores the need for better theoretical analyses and justifications. In this paper we focus on layer-wise functional structure and…
In spite of achieving revolutionary successes in machine learning, deep convolutional neural networks have been recently found to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks and difficult to generalize to novel test images with reasonably large geometric transformations. Inspired by a recent neuroscience discovery revealing t…
Due to the rapid growth of machine learning tools and specifically deep networks in various computer vision and image processing areas, application of Convolutional Neural Networks for watermarking have recently emerged. In this paper, we propose a deep end-to-end diffusion watermarking framework (ReDMark) which can be…
In this work we study input gradient regularization of deep neural networks, and demonstrate that such regularization leads to generalization proofs and improved adversarial robustness. The proof of generalization does not overcome the curse of dimensionality, but it is independent of the number of layers in the networ…
This paper improves loss functions for deep learning with noisy labels.
problem Training deep neural networks with noisy labels.
method The paper introduces a normalization technique to make any loss function robust to noisy labels and proposes a framework called Active Passive Loss (APL) to combine robust loss functions.
result The proposed APL framework consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods, especially under high noise rates.
Deep neural networks have achieved impressive performance in many applications but their large number of parameters lead to significant computational and storage overheads. Several recent works attempt to mitigate these overheads by designing compact networks using pruning of connections. However, we observe that most …
Deep neural networks have been widely deployed in various machine learning tasks. However, recent works have demonstrated that they are vulnerable to adversarial examples: carefully crafted small perturbations to cause misclassification by the network. In this work, we propose a novel defense mechanism called Boundary …
Spiking neural networks perform similarly to deep networks on occluded images.
problem Robust object recognition in partially occluded images.
method Developed a two-layer spiking neural network trained on natural scenes with a biologically plausible learning rule, compared to deep convolutional networks.
result Spiking neural networks achieve good accuracy and robustness on stepwise pixel erasement tasks.
Deep networks have achieved impressive results across a variety of important tasks. However a known weakness is a failure to perform well when evaluated on data which differ from the training distribution, even if these differences are very small, as is the case with adversarial examples. We propose Fortified Networks,…