Understanding CNN fragility when learning with imbalanced data

D Dablain, KN Jacobson, C Bellinger, M Roberts… - Machine Learning, 2024 - Springer
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved impressive results on imbalanced
image data, but they still have difficulty generalizing to minority classes and their decisions …

On the difficulty of membership inference attacks

S Rezaei, X Liu - Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Recent studies propose membership inference (MI) attacks on deep models, where the goal
is to infer if a sample has been used in the training process. Despite their apparent success …

Latent imitator: Generating natural individual discriminatory instances for black-box fairness testing

Y Xiao, A Liu, T Li, X Liu - Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGSOFT …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Machine learning (ML) systems have achieved remarkable performance across a wide area
of applications. However, they frequently exhibit unfair behaviors in sensitive application …

Mind the Boundary: Coreset Selection via Reconstructing the Decision Boundary

S Yang, Z Cao, S Guo, R Zhang, P Luo… - … on Machine Learning, 2024 - openreview.net
Existing paradigms of pushing the state of the art require exponentially more training data in
many fields. Coreset selection seeks to mitigate this growing demand by identifying the most …

Learning from teacher's failure: A reflective learning paradigm for knowledge distillation

K Xu, L Wang, J Xin, S Li, B Yin - IEEE Transactions on Circuits …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Knowledge Distillation transfers knowledge learned by a teacher network to a student
network. A common mode of knowledge transfer is directly using the teacher network's …

Hypothesis perturbation for active learning

SJ Cho, G Kim, CD Yoo - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper introduces a computationally efficient Query-by-Committee (QBC) algorithm
specifically designed for deep active learning. This approach leverages the concept of …

ROBY: Evaluating the adversarial robustness of a deep model by its decision boundaries

H Jin, J Chen, H Zheng, Z Wang, J Xiao, S Yu… - Information Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
With the successful applications of DNNs in many real-world tasks, model's robustness has
raised public concern. Recently the robustness of deep models is often evaluated by …

Understanding deep learning via decision boundary

S Lei, F He, Y Yuan, D Tao - IEEE Transactions on Neural …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article discovers that the neural network (NN) with lower decision boundary (DB)
variability has better generalizability. Two new notions, algorithm DB variability and-data DB …

[HTML][HTML] Interpretability as Approximation: Understanding Black-Box Models by Decision Boundary

H Dong, B Liu, D Ye, G Liu - Electronics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Currently, interpretability methods focus more on less objective human-understandable
semantics. To objectify and standardize interpretability research, in this study, we provide …

Querying Easily Flip-flopped Samples for Deep Active Learning

SJ Cho, G Kim, J Lee, J Shin, CD Yoo - arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.09787, 2024 - arxiv.org
Active learning is a machine learning paradigm that aims to improve the performance of a
model by strategically selecting and querying unlabeled data. One effective selection …