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Tricks adversarial attacks to target specific classes, improving classifier accuracy.

problem Recent adversarial defense approaches have failed to protect classifiers from untargeted attacks.
method Target Training defense tricks untargeted attacks into targeted attacks on designated classes, then derives the real class.
result 86.2% accuracy for CW-L2 (confidence=0) in CIFAR10, outperforming unsecured classifiers.

The primary objective of domain adaptation methods is to transfer knowledge from a source domain to a target domain that has similar but different data distributions. Thus, in order to correctly classify the unlabeled target domain samples, the standard approach is to learn a common representation for both source and t…

2018-11-17abs ↗pdf ↗

In domain adaptation, classifiers with information from a source domain adapt to generalize to a target domain. However, an adaptive classifier can perform worse than a non-adaptive classifier due to invalid assumptions, increased sensitivity to estimation errors or model misspecification. Our goal is to develop a doma…

2017-06-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes MDDA for multi-source domain adaptation.

problem Performance decay in deep neural networks due to domain shift between labeled and unlabeled data.
method Multi-source distilling domain adaptation (MDDA) network considering multiple source distributions and target similarities.
result Significantly outperforms state-of-the-art approaches on public DA benchmarks.

Clarinet uses complementary labels to train classifiers with less source data.

problem Training classifiers with true-label data from source domain is costly.
method Proposes CLARINET to train classifiers with complementary-label source data and unlabeled target data.
result CLARINET significantly outperforms baselines in unsupervised domain adaptation.

In practice, the data distribution at test time often differs, to a smaller or larger extent, from that of the original training data. Consequentially, the so-called source classifier, trained on the available labelled data, deteriorates on the test, or target, data. Domain adaptive classifiers aim to combat this probl…

2018-06-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes a new method to improve target annotation in ATR.

problem Challenges in annotating automatic target recognition due to lack of labeled data.
method Hybrid contrastive learning and cycle-consistency-based transductive transfer learning (C3TTL) framework.
result Significantly lower Fréchet Inception Distance (FID) score and improved performance in annotating civilian and military vehicles, as well as ship targets.

CCAC calibrates DNN classifiers on OOD datasets by separating mis-classified samples.

problem Calibrating DNN classifiers on out-of-distribution datasets is challenging.
method CCAC introduces an auxiliary class to map DNN output to calibrated confidence, separating mis-classified from correctly classified samples.
result CCAC consistently outperforms prior methods on various DNN models, datasets, and applications.

Algorithm identifies and transfers unstable features to create robust classifiers.

problem Developing unbiased classifiers from input-label pairs alone.
method Contrast different data environments in source tasks to encode unstable features, then cluster target task data and minimize worst-case risk.
result Our method maintains robustness across synthetic and real-world environments.

New approach improves domain adaptation by enforcing cluster assumption in target domain.

problem Lack of robustness in target classifier due to violation of cluster assumption.
method Enforces cluster assumption in target domain (Target Consistency) paired with Class-Level InVariance.
result Significant improvement in image classification and segmentation benchmarks.

A new method trains deep neural networks for open set domain adaptation without negative open set difference.

problem Training deep neural networks for open set domain adaptation without negative open set difference.
method Proposes a new upper bound of target-domain risk, including source-domain risk, ε-open set difference (ΔεΔ_ε), distributional discrepancy, and constant. Uses gradient descent for source-domain risk and ΔεΔ_ε, and adversarial training for distributional discrepancy. Trains DNNs via minimizing the new upper bound.
result Shows state-of-the-art performance on benchmark datasets.

TaCo prevents non-linear classifiers from detecting sensitive attributes.

problem Ensuring fairness in NLP models by preventing sensitive attribute detection.
method Targeted Concept Erasure (TaCo) removes sensitive information from final latent representations, even against non-linear classifiers.
result TaCo outperforms state-of-the-art methods in reducing sensitive attribute prediction accuracy while preserving overall task performance.

A new method for reinforcement learning that adapts to different domains using auxiliary classifiers.

problem Training reinforcement learning agents to perform well in different domains with varying dynamics.
method Learning auxiliary classifiers to distinguish source-domain from target-domain transitions and modifying the reward function accordingly.
result The approach improves transfer performance in reinforcement learning tasks with varying dynamics.

In this paper, we propose a simple model referred as Contradistinguisher (CTDR) for unsupervised domain adaptation whose objective is to jointly learn to contradistinguish on unlabeled target domain in a fully unsupervised manner along with prior knowledge acquired by supervised learning on an entirely different domain…

2019-09-08abs ↗pdf ↗

A novel minimax classifier tackles imbalanced datasets with few minority samples.

problem Imbalanced datasets with limited minority samples.
method Proposes a novel minimax learning algorithm with two steps: minimization and maximization.
result The algorithm improves model performance compared to existing methods.

Recent research has repeatedly shown that machine learning techniques can be applied to either whole files or file fragments to classify them for analysis. We build upon these techniques to show that for samples of un-labeled compiled computer object code, one can apply the same type of analysis to classify important a…

2018-05-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes novel losses for fine-grained categorical domain adaptation.

problem Fine-grained alignment of categories across domains in unsupervised domain adaptation.
method Joint category-domain classifier with adversarial training losses for both domain and category levels, and vicinal domain adaptation.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance on benchmark datasets.

We give another definition of two-dimensional extended homotopy field theories (E-HFTs) with aspherical targets and classify them. When the target of E-HFT is chosen to be a K(G,1)K(G,1)-space, we classify E-HFTs taking values in the symmetric monoidal bicategory of algebras, bimodules, and bimodule maps by certain Frobeni…

2019-09-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Domain adaptation has become a prominent problem setting in machine learning and related fields. This review asks the question: how can a classifier learn from a source domain and generalize to a target domain? We present a categorization of approaches, divided into, what we refer to as, sample-based, feature-based and…

2019-01-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Indirect attacks can fool graph classifiers even with poisoned neighbors.

problem How to evaluate and defend graph convolutional neural networks against indirect adversarial attacks.
method Proposed a method to generate adversarial perturbations on a single node far from the target.
result 99% attack success rate within two-hops from the target in two datasets.

This paper analyzes the difficulty of unsupervised domain adaptation using information theory.

problem The challenge of unsupervised domain adaptation under covariate shift.
method Formulates the problem using a distribution π in the ground-truth triples (p, q, f), defines optimal learner performance, and introduces PTLU for quantifying difficulty.
result Characterizes the optimal learner and introduces PTLU as a measure of UDA difficulty.

Improved conformal prediction for better conditional coverage of classifier predictions.

problem Achieving exact conditional coverage in finite samples for prediction sets.
method Developed a variant of conformal prediction targeting coverage conditional on confidence and trust score.
result Empirically improved conditional coverage properties compared to standard conformal prediction.

New framework optimizes label shift adaptation using aligned distribution mixture.

problem Label shift where source and target label distributions differ.
method Aligned Distribution Mixture (ADM) framework, incorporating insights from generalization theory.
result The ADM framework improves four typical label shift methods and introduces a one-step approach.

EAST aligns neural network classifiers with user-defined evaluation metrics.

problem Mismatch between neural network training and evaluation metrics leads to suboptimal performance.
method EAST uses dynamic thresholding, soft-set confusion matrix, and annealing to align neural network predictions with target evaluation metrics.
result EAST improves alignment between training objectives and evaluation metrics, outperforming existing methods.

Classification is the task of predicting the class labels of objects based on the observation of their features. In contrast, quantification has been defined as the task of determining the prevalences of the different sorts of class labels in a target dataset. The simplest approach to quantification is Classify & Count…

2016-02-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Contradistinguisher learns to distinguish target domain without aligning source and target domains.

problem Difficulty in aligning source and target domains for domain adaptation.
method Direct approach to unsupervised domain adaptation that learns contrastive features and improves classification performance.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance on Office-31 and VisDA-2017 datasets.

We propose Regularized Learning under Label shifts (RLLS), a principled and a practical domain-adaptation algorithm to correct for shifts in the label distribution between a source and a target domain. We first estimate importance weights using labeled source data and unlabeled target data, and then train a classifier …

2019-03-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Malware detection is a popular application of Machine Learning for Information Security (ML-Sec), in which an ML classifier is trained to predict whether a given file is malware or benignware. Parameters of this classifier are typically optimized such that outputs from the model over a set of input samples most closely…

2019-03-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (DA) is used to automatize the task of labeling data: an unlabeled dataset (target) is annotated using a labeled dataset (source) from a related domain. We cast domain adaptation as the problem of finding stable labels for target examples. A new definition of label stability is proposed, …

2017-06-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Domain adaptation is the supervised learning setting in which the training and test data are sampled from different distributions: training data is sampled from a source domain, whilst test data is sampled from a target domain. This paper proposes and studies an approach, called feature-level domain adaptation (FLDA), …

2015-12-15abs ↗pdf ↗