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most citedProtein Folding Neural Networks Are Not Robust

12 citations · 25 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.LG2022

A Differentiable Approach to Combinatorial Optimization using Dataless Neural Networks

Ismail R. Alkhouri, George K. Atia, Alvaro Velasquez

The success of machine learning solutions for reasoning about discrete structures has brought attention to its adoption within combinatorial optimization algorithms. Such approache…

q-bio.BM2021★ 12 cited

Protein Folding Neural Networks Are Not Robust

Sumit Kumar Jha, Arvind Ramanathan, Rickard Ewetz +2

Deep neural networks such as AlphaFold and RoseTTAFold predict remarkably accurate structures of proteins compared to other algorithmic approaches. It is known that biologically sm…

cs.CV2021

Pulmonary Disease Classification Using Globally Correlated Maximum Likelihood: an Auxiliary Attention mechanism for Convolutional Neural Networks

Edward Verenich, Tobias Martin, Alvaro Velasquez +2

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) are now being widely used for classifying and detecting pulmonary abnormalities in chest radiographs. Two complementary generalization propertie…

cs.LG2021

BOSS: Bidirectional One-Shot Synthesis of Adversarial Examples

Ismail R. Alkhouri, Alvaro Velasquez, George K. Atia

The design of additive imperceptible perturbations to the inputs of deep classifiers to maximize their misclassification rates is a central focus of adversarial machine learning. A…

eess.SY2021

Controller Synthesis for Omega-Regular and Steady-State Specifications

Alvaro Velasquez, Ismail Alkhouri, Andre Beckus +2

Given a Markov decision process (MDP) and a linear-time (-regular or LTL) specification, the controller synthesis problem aims to compute the optimal policy that satisfies the s…

cs.AI2020★ 4 cited

Steady-State Planning in Expected Reward Multichain MDPs

George K. Atia, Andre Beckus, Ismail Alkhouri +1

The planning domain has experienced increased interest in the formal synthesis of decision-making policies. This formal synthesis typically entails finding a policy which satisfies…

cs.NE2020★ 1 cited

Domain Wall Leaky Integrate-and-Fire Neurons with Shape-Based Configurable Activation Functions

Wesley H. Brigner, Naimul Hassan, Xuan Hu +7

Complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) devices display volatile characteristics, and are not well suited for analog applications such as neuromorphic computing. Spintronic…

cs.LG2020★ 1 cited

An Extension of Fano's Inequality for Characterizing Model Susceptibility to Membership Inference Attacks

Sumit Kumar Jha, Susmit Jha, Rickard Ewetz +4

Deep neural networks have been shown to be vulnerable to membership inference attacks wherein the attacker aims to detect whether specific input data were used to train the model.…

cs.CV2020

Improving Explainability of Image Classification in Scenarios with Class Overlap: Application to COVID-19 and Pneumonia

Edward Verenich, Alvaro Velasquez, Nazar Khan +1

Trust in predictions made by machine learning models is increased if the model generalizes well on previously unseen samples and when inference is accompanied by cogent explanation…

cs.NE2020★ 2 cited

Unsupervised Competitive Hardware Learning Rule for Spintronic Clustering Architecture

Alvaro Velasquez, Christopher H. Bennett, Naimul Hassan +5

We propose a hardware learning rule for unsupervised clustering within a novel spintronic computing architecture. The proposed approach leverages the three-terminal structure of do…

cs.NE2020

Plasticity-Enhanced Domain-Wall MTJ Neural Networks for Energy-Efficient Online Learning

Christopher H. Bennett, T. Patrick Xiao, Can Cui +6

Machine learning implements backpropagation via abundant training samples. We demonstrate a multi-stage learning system realized by a promising non-volatile memory device, the doma…

cs.CV2020★ 5 cited

The Utility of Feature Reuse: Transfer Learning in Data-Starved Regimes

Rashik Shadman, M. G. Sarwar Murshed, Edward Verenich +2

The use of transfer learning with deep neural networks has increasingly become widespread for deploying well-tested computer vision systems to newer domains, especially those with…

cs.DC2020

FlexServe: Deployment of PyTorch Models as Flexible REST Endpoints

Edward Verenich, Alvaro Velasquez, M. G. Sarwar Murshed +1

The integration of artificial intelligence capabilities into modern software systems is increasingly being simplified through the use of cloud-based machine learning services and r…