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48 results for robust generative models

Robust Bayesian models are appealing alternatives to standard models, providing protection from data that contains outliers or other departures from the model assumptions. Historically, robust models were mostly developed on a case-by-case basis; examples include robust linear regression, robust mixture models, and bur…

2015-10-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Exact generalization guarantees for robust models using Wasserstein distance are established.

problem Capturing data uncertainty and distribution shifts in machine learning models.
method Establishes exact generalization guarantees for robust models based on the Wasserstein distance, covering various cases and transport costs.
result Exact generalization guarantees are provided for a wide range of cases, including deep learning objectives with nonsmooth activations.

Obtaining deep networks that are robust against adversarial examples and generalize well is an open problem. A recent hypothesis even states that both robust and accurate models are impossible, i.e., adversarial robustness and generalization are conflicting goals. In an effort to clarify the relationship between robust…

2018-12-03abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper connects three machine learning methods to reduce generalization errors.

problem Reducing generalization errors in machine learning models.
method Distributionally robust optimization, Bayesian methods, and regularization.
result Machine learning models can be characterized using distributional uncertainty and robustness measures.

Paper proves robust estimators' generalization guarantees without dimensionality issues.

problem Generalization guarantees for Wasserstein distributionally robust models.
method Analyzes and extends existing guarantees to broader classes of models and regularized versions.
result Generalization guarantees hold without dimensionality issues and cover distribution shifts.

This work proves intrinsic robustness bounds for natural image distributions.

problem Understanding the robustness of natural image distributions against adversarial attacks.
method Assumes natural image distributions are captured by conditional generative models and proves robustness bounds for classifiers.
result Shows a large gap between theoretical robustness limits and current state-of-the-art adversarial robustness.

Flow-based generative models leverage invertible generator functions to fit a distribution to the training data using maximum likelihood. Despite their use in several application domains, robustness of these models to adversarial attacks has hardly been explored. In this paper, we study adversarial robustness of flow-b…

2019-11-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Generative models improve adversarial robustness by adding synthetic data.

problem Improving robustness in machine learning models trained on limited data.
method Using synthetic data generated from a large dataset to augment the original training set.
result Generative models can significantly reduce the robust-accuracy gap compared to models trained with additional real data.

Paper explores tradeoff between standard and robust accuracy for latent models.

problem Tradeoff between standard accuracy and robust accuracy in adversarial training.
method Revisits adversarial training for latent models, considering Gaussian mixture and generalized linear models.
result Low-dimensional manifold structure mitigates the tradeoff between standard and robust accuracy.

Study on robustness in linear regression models, focusing on adversarial perturbations.

problem Understanding and improving robustness in linear regression models to adversarial perturbations.
method Developed a two-stage adversarial learning framework that incorporates model structure information.
result Proved the consistency and developed the Bahadur representation of the adversarially robust estimator.

Mixup improves model robustness and generalization by convexly combining examples.

problem Improving model robustness and generalization.
method Using Mixup augmentation in training, which involves convex combinations of pairs of examples and their labels.
result Mixup training helps models exhibit robustness to adversarial attacks and reduces overfitting.

Overparametrized models are vulnerable to adversarial perturbations, affecting robust generalization.

problem Understanding how overparametrization impacts robustness in adversarial training.
method Analyzing random features regression models with a precise asymptotic formula.
result High overparametrization can hurt robust generalization in adversarially trained models.

This paper analyzes statistical properties of the Robust Satisficing model.

problem Lack of statistical theory for the Robust Satisficing model.
method Comprehensive analysis of statistical properties, including confidence intervals and generalization error bounds.
result Established two-sided confidence intervals and finite-sample generalization error bounds for the RS optimizer.

Robustness of deep learning models is a property that has recently gained increasing attention. We explore a notion of robustness for generative adversarial models that is pertinent to their internal interactive structure, and show that, perhaps surprisingly, the GAN in its original form is not robust. Our notion of ro…

2018-02-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper introduces a robust generative model using weighted conjugate feature duality.

problem Training generative models can be affected by contamination, leading to noisy data.
method Introduces weighted conjugate feature duality in the framework of Restricted Kernel Machines (RKMs) to fine-tune the latent space.
result The weighted RKM is capable of generating clean images when training data is contaminated.

Robust learning method combines kernel smoothing and robust optimization.

problem Certifying robustness against distribution shifts in machine learning models.
method Adapting integral operator using supremal convolution for robustness, leveraging optimal transport.
result The method provides theoretical guarantees for certified robustness and competitive performance.

DVERGE diversifies adversarial vulnerabilities to enhance robust ensemble models.

problem Diverse adversarial vulnerabilities for robust ensemble models.
method Isolates and diversifies adversarial vulnerabilities through distillation and training.
result Achieves higher robustness against transfer attacks compared to previous methods.

A central challenge of adversarial learning is to interpret the resulting hardened model. In this contribution, we ask how robust generalization can be visually discerned and whether a concise view of the interactions between a hardened decision map and input samples is possible. We first provide a means of visually co…

2018-05-09abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

A new algorithm improves offline reinforcement learning robustness.

problem Finding optimal policies in perturbed environments from offline data.
method Doubly Pessimistic Model-based Policy Optimization (P^2MPO) framework.
result Proves sample efficiency with robust partial coverage data.

This work proposes robust reinforcement learning methods using both offline and online data.

problem Designing robust policies against parameter uncertainties in high-dimensional systems.
method Proposes RPQ for model-free learning with historical data and HyTQ for hybrid learning with both historical and online data.
result Unified analysis and theoretical guarantees for robust optimal policies in high-dimensional systems.

More training data can hurt the generalization of adversarially robust models.

problem The challenge of balancing adversarial robustness and generalization in machine learning models.
method Investigation of three regimes based on adversary strength and empirical studies on various models.
result More training data can hurt the generalization of adversarially robust models in different regimes.

More data can widen the gap between robust and standard models against adversarial attacks.

problem The gap between adversarially robust and standard machine learning models' generalization error increases with more data.
method Theoretical analysis of Gaussian and Bernoulli models under \ell_\infty attacks, and experiments on linear regression models.
result Additional data can increase the generalization gap between adversarially robust and standard models.

New research shows flat minima in robust loss landscapes correlate with good adversarial robustness.

problem Adversarial training leads to robust overfitting, poor robust generalization.
method Average- and worst-case metrics to measure flatness in robust loss landscapes.
result Flatness in robust loss landscapes correlates with good adversarial robustness.

GeFs use deep generative models to enhance prediction robustness and uncertainty.

problem Lack of principled methods to manipulate uncertainty in decision trees and random forests.
method Exploits Generative Forests (GeFs), a deep probabilistic model that extends Random Forests to represent full joint distributions.
result GeFs are uncertainty-aware classifiers capable of measuring robustness and detecting out-of-distribution samples.

Develops robust learning methods for datasets with sub-populations.

problem Robust performance and generalization to unseen testing populations in datasets with sub-populations.
method Min-max-regret (MMR) formulation for distribution-free robust hierarchical model.
result Empirical MMR enjoys regret guarantees on training and unseen testing populations.

Class-conditional generative models hold promise to overcome the shortcomings of their discriminative counterparts. They are a natural choice to solve discriminative tasks in a robust manner as they jointly optimize for predictive performance and accurate modeling of the input distribution. In this work, we investigate…

2019-06-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes a meta-learning method for robust portfolio optimization.

problem Optimizing a robust portfolio ensemble with diverse sub-portfolios.
method Uses a deep generative model with convolutional, LSTM, and dense layers to generate diverse sub-portfolios.
result The ensemble portfolio is robust and generalizes well, balancing performance and diversity.

A method to learn robust policies for environments with model mismatches.

problem Training agents in high-stakes scenarios with mismatched training and real environments.
method Formalizes the perturbation as a zero-sum game to find Nash Equilibrium, which corresponds to the robust policy.
result Our algorithm can find a near-optimal robust policy with high probability using polynomial samples.

Proposes model-based robust deep learning to handle natural variation in data.

problem Deep learning's fragility to natural variation in data.
method Develops model-based robust training algorithms using deep generative models to learn natural variation.
result Deep neural networks trained with model-based algorithms outperform standard and norm-bounded robust algorithms.

New method removes oracle and reduces memory usage for robust MDPs.

problem Applying robust MDPs in practice due to model estimation and oracle requirements.
method Transformed robust MDPs into an alternative form allowing stochastic gradient methods and model-free approach.
result Sample-efficient algorithm with lower storage requirement and no oracle.

Adaptive optimal transport priors improve few-shot learning robustness.

problem Limited supervision and distribution shifts in few-shot learning.
method Prototype-Guided Distributionally Robust Optimization (PG-DRO) framework.
result PG-DRO achieves stronger robust generalization in few-shot scenarios.

DRDA robustly adapts models across domains with mismatched distributions.

problem Vulnerability of DA methods to noise and inability to generalize to unseen samples.
method DRDA uses distributionally robust optimization (DRO) with MMD metric to learn robust decision functions.
result DRDA outperforms existing robust learning approaches in experiments.

The paper tackles robust domain generalization by accounting for unobserved confounders.

problem Learning robust, generalizable models from multiple datasets in the presence of unobserved confounders.
method Defines a new invariance property for causal solutions, connects it to distributionally robust optimization, and incorporates regularization to encourage partial equality of error derivatives.
result Demonstrates the empirical effectiveness of the approach on healthcare data from various modalities.

Paper explains why robust generalization is hard in deep learning models.

problem Difficulty in achieving robust generalization despite good training accuracy.
method Theoretical analysis of expressive power for deep neural networks.
result Expressive power of neural networks affects robust generalization.

An emerging problem in trustworthy machine learning is to train models that produce robust interpretations for their predictions. We take a step towards solving this problem through the lens of axiomatic attribution of neural networks. Our theory is grounded in the recent work, Integrated Gradients (IG), in axiomatical…

2019-05-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Recently, interpretable models called self-explaining models (SEMs) have been proposed with the goal of providing interpretability robustness. We evaluate the interpretability robustness of SEMs and show that explanations provided by SEMs as currently proposed are not robust to adversarial inputs. Specifically, we succ…

2019-05-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Robust reinforcement learning aims to produce policies that have strong guarantees even in the face of environments/transition models whose parameters have strong uncertainty. Existing work uses value-based methods and the usual primitive action setting. In this paper, we propose robust methods for learning temporally …

2018-02-09abs ↗pdf ↗