Native Robustness
Native robustness in machine learning focuses on developing models inherently resistant to various forms of input perturbations, including adversarial attacks and noisy data, without relying solely on post-hoc defenses. Current research emphasizes techniques like ensemble methods, reprogramming existing models, and modifying training procedures (e.g., using different learning rates for specific model layers or incorporating regularization methods) to improve robustness across diverse model architectures, including convolutional neural networks, vision transformers, and large language models. This field is crucial for deploying reliable AI systems in safety-critical applications, such as healthcare and autonomous driving, where model resilience to unexpected inputs is paramount.
Papers
No Regrets: Investigating and Improving Regret Approximations for Curriculum Discovery
Alexander Rutherford, Michael Beukman, Timon Willi, Bruno Lacerda, Nick Hawes, Jakob Foerster
CoopASD: Cooperative Machine Anomalous Sound Detection with Privacy Concerns
Anbai Jiang, Yuchen Shi, Pingyi Fan, Wei-Qiang Zhang, Jia Liu
MEDSAGE: Enhancing Robustness of Medical Dialogue Summarization to ASR Errors with LLM-generated Synthetic Dialogues
Kuluhan Binici, Abhinav Ramesh Kashyap, Viktor Schlegel, Andy T. Liu, Vijay Prakash Dwivedi, Thanh-Tung Nguyen, Xiaoxue Gao, Nancy F. Chen, Stefan Winkler
GenFormer -- Generated Images are All You Need to Improve Robustness of Transformers on Small Datasets
Sven Oehri, Nikolas Ebert, Ahmed Abdullah, Didier Stricker, Oliver Wasenmüller
On the Robustness of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks: An Adversarial Perspective
Tal Alter, Raz Lapid, Moshe Sipper
Enhancing Robustness of Human Detection Algorithms in Maritime SAR through Augmented Aerial Images to Simulate Weather Conditions
Miguel Tjia, Artem Kim, Elaine Wynette Wijaya, Hanna Tefara, Kevin Zhu
Exploring Robustness of Visual State Space model against Backdoor Attacks
Cheng-Yi Lee, Cheng-Chang Tsai, Chia-Mu Yu, Chun-Shien Lu
The Vizier Gaussian Process Bandit Algorithm
Xingyou Song, Qiuyi Zhang, Chansoo Lee, Emily Fertig, Tzu-Kuo Huang, Lior Belenki, Greg Kochanski, Setareh Ariafar, Srinivas Vasudevan, Sagi Perel, Daniel Golovin
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Decentralized Multi-Robot Control: A DQN Approach to Robustness and Information Integration
Bin Wu, C Steve Suh