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Shortcut Mitigation via Spurious-Positive Samples
May 13, 2026Phuong Quynh Le, Jörg Schlötterer, Sari Sadiya +2Neural Network Robustness Spurious Correlation Robustness
University of Marburg · Goethe University Frankfurt
Certified Robustness under Heterogeneous Perturbations via Hybrid Randomized Smoothing
May 13, 2026Blaise Delattre, Hengyu Wu, Paul Caillon +2Multimodal Robustness Randomized Smoothing
Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, Institute of Science Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · PSL University, Paris, France · College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Hierarchical End-to-End Taylor Bounds for Complete Neural Network Verification
May 11, 2026Taha Entesari, Mahyar FazlyabNeural Network Verification Neural Network Robustness
Johns Hopkins University
Synthetic Pre-Pre-Training Improves Language Model Robustness to Noisy Pre-Training Data
May 11, 2026Xu Guo, Runyu Peng, Jian Tong +4Language Model Pretraining Synthetic Data Pretraining
Shanghai AI Laboratory · Fudan University · Shanghai Innovation Institute
FragileFlow: Spectral Control of Correct-but-Fragile Predictions for Foundation Model Robustness
May 9, 2026Zhuoyun Li, Boxuan Wang, Jinwei Hu +2VLM Robustness Spectral Regularization
School of Computer Science and Informatics, University of Liverpool, UK
Latent Personality Alignment: Improving Harmlessness Without Mentioning Harms
May 8, 2026Linh Le, David Williams-King, Mohamed Amine Merzouk +2Adversarial Training Neural Network Robustness
McGill University · Mila – Quebec AI Institute · ERA +1
Streaming Adversarial Robustness in Fuzzy ARTMAP: Mechanism-Aligned Evaluation, Progressive Training, and Interpretable Diagnostics
May 7, 2026Shane Cairns, Leonardo Enzo Brito da Silva, Sasha Petrenko +2Adversarial Training Neural Network Robustness
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, USA · Instituto Metrópole Digital, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN 59078-900, Brazil · Kummer Institute Center for Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems (KICAIAS), Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, USA
Normalized Architectures are Natively 4-Bit
May 7, 2026Maxim Fishman, Brian Chmiel, Ron Banner +2LLM Quantization Neural Representation Geometry
∧NVIDIA · ◦Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Technion, Haifa, Israel
Dissociating spatial frequency reliance from adversarial robustness advantages in neurally guided deep convolutional neural networks
May 6, 2026Zhenan Shao, Tianyu Ren, Chengxiao Wang +2Neural Network Robustness Adversarial Robustness
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · The Beckman Institute, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University +2
Normalization Equivariance for Arbitrary Backbones, with Application to Image Denoising
May 5, 2026Youssef Saied, François FleuretImage Corruption Robustness Neural Network Robustness
Department of Computer Science, University of Geneva, Switzerland · Meta FAIR.
Where Do Prompt Perturbations Break Generation? A Segment-Level View of Robustness in LoRA-Tuned Language Models
May 2, 2026Zhuoyun Li, Boxuan Wang, Jinwei Hu +6Neural Network Robustness Noise Robustness
School of Computer Science and Informatics, University of Liverpool, UK
Certified vs. Empirical Adversarial Robust-ness via Hybrid Convolutions with Attention Stochasticity
May 2, 2026Joy Dhar, Song Xia, Manish Kumar Pandey +5Randomized Smoothing Neural Network Robustness
1Indian Institute of Technology Ropar · 2Nanyang Technological University · 3RoentGen Health +5
Parameter-Efficient Architectural Modifications for Translation-Invariant CNNs
Apr 30, 2026Nuria Alabau-Bosque, Jorge Vila-Tomas, Paula Dauden-Oliver +2Neural Network Robustness Convolutional Neural Networks
Image Processing Lab, Universitat de València, Carrer del Catedr´atic Jos´e Beltr´an Martinez, Paterna, 46980, Spain.
Dynamic Adversarial Fine-Tuning Reorganizes Refusal Geometry
Apr 29, 2026Wenhao Lan, Shan Li, Xinhua Lai +4Adversarial Training Language Model Safety Evaluation
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Inner Mongolia, China · Tsinghua University, Beijing, China +1
Robust Alignment: Harmonizing Clean Accuracy and Adversarial Robustness in Adversarial Training
Apr 29, 2026Yanyun Wang, Qingqing Ye, Li Liu +2Adversarial Training Neural Network Robustness
1HK PolyU · 2HKUST (GZ) · 2HKUST (GZ
Adversarial Robustness of NTK Neural Networks
Apr 28, 2026Yuxuan HouNeural Network Robustness Adversarial Robustness
1Qiuzhen College, Tsinghua University
Laplace-Bridged Randomized Smoothing for Fast Certified Robustness
Apr 27, 2026Miao Lin, MD Saifur Rahman Mazumder, Feng Yu +2Randomized Smoothing Neural Network Robustness
Department of Computer Science, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA · Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, USA · School of Cybersecurity, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA
Certified geometric robustness -- Super-DeepG
Apr 27, 2026Noémie Cohen, Mélanie Ducoffe, Christophe Gabreau +2Neural Network Verification Neural Network Robustness
Airbus CR\&T · Airbus · French Aerospace Lab, ONERA
Robust Deepfake Detection, NTIRE 2026 Challenge: Report
Apr 27, 2026Benedikt Hopf, Radu Timofte, Chenfan Qu +54Image Corruption Robustness Neural Network Robustness
Useful nonrobust features are ubiquitous in biomedical images
Apr 24, 2026Coenraad Mouton, Randle Rabe, Niklas C. Koser +4Healthcare Neural Network Robustness
Section Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology and Neuroradiology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel University · Faculty of Engineering, North-West University, South Africa
ROSA: Robust and Energy-Efficient Microring-Based Optical Neural Networks via Optical Shift-and-Add and Layer-Wise Hybrid Mapping
Apr 24, 2026Huifan Zhang, Yun Hu, Caizhi Sheng +2Energy-Efficient ML Neural Network Robustness
ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China
Supervised Learning Has a Necessary Geometric Blind Spot: Theory, Consequences, and Minimal Repair
Apr 23, 2026Vishal RajputAdversarial Training Representation Geometry
1KU Leuven, Belgium.
Trust-SSL: Additive-Residual Selective Invariance for Robust Aerial Self-Supervised Learning
Apr 23, 2026Wadii Boulila, Adel Ammar, Bilel Benjdira +1Contrastive Learning Image Corruption Robustness
Robotics and Internet-of-Things Laboratory, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh 11586, Saudi Arabia
Benign Overfitting in Adversarial Training for Vision Transformers
Apr 21, 2026Jiaming Zhang, Meng Ding, Shaopeng Fu +2Adversarial Training Neural Network Generalization
Division of CEMSE, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology · School of Statistics, Renmin University of China · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo +1
CCAR: Intrinsic Robustness as an Emergent Geometric Property
Apr 18, 2026Akash Samanta, Manish Pratap Singh, Debasis ChaudhuriDisentangled Representation Learning Representation Learning
Techno India University, Salt Lake, Kolkata, India · DRDO Young Scientist Laboratory - CT, Chennai, India
Stochasticity in Tokenisation Improves Robustness
Apr 17, 2026Sophie Steger, Rui Li, Sofiane Ennadir +4Adversarial Attacks on LLMs Neural Network Robustness
Institute of Signal Processing and Speech Communication, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria · ELLIS Institute Finland & Aalto University, Espoo, Finland · King AI Labs, Microsoft Gaming +2
Robustness of Vision Foundation Models to Common Perturbations
Apr 16, 2026Hongbin Liu, Zhengyuan Jiang, Cheng Hong +1Image Corruption Robustness Vision Foundation Models
Duke University · Ant Group
Where Does Robustness Live? Neuron-Guided Adaptation for Retrieval-Augmented Language Models
Apr 2, 2026Jae O Lee, Jaemin Kim, Sumyeong Ahn +1Retrieval-Augmented Generation Fine-Tuning
1Hanyang University · 2KENTECH
Fast Preemptive Robustification: High-Frequency Response Anti-Aligns Shared Vulnerability
Mar 26, 2026Jiaming Liang, Chi-Man PunNeural Network Robustness Adversarial Robustness
University of Macau, Macau, China
From Arithmetic to Logic: The Resilience of Logic and Lookup-Based Neural Networks Under Parameter Bit-Flips
Mar 24, 2026Alan T. L. Bacellar, Sathvik Chemudupati, Shashank Nag +4Neural Network Robustness Neural Network Quantization
The University of Texas at Austin · Federal University of Rio de Janeiro · Instituto de Telecomunicações, Porto, Portugal

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Shortcut Mitigation via Spurious-Positive Samples

Phuong Quynh Le, Jörg Schlötterer, Sari Sadiya, Gemma Roig+1

University of Marburg · Goethe University Frankfurt

Neural Network Robustness Spurious Correlation Robustness Shortcut Learning

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Shortcut mitigation strategies commonly rely on training data annotations, group-balanced held-out data or the presence of all groups, i.e., all combinations of (spurious) attributes and classes, in the training data. However, these requirements are rarely met in practice. We instead propose a method for targeted model analysis to identify a small set of instances in which the model relies on spurious attributes. Using that set and following ``this feature should not be used for prediction'' reasoning, we identify highly relevant neurons in an intermediate layer and regularize their impact. This ensures that models learn to depend on informative features rather than being right for the wrong reasons, thereby improving robustness without requiring additional balanced held-out data or annotations.

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