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most citedGuided Adversarial Attack for Evaluating and Enhancing Adversarial Defenses

22 citations · 44 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.LG2025

Robust Reward Modeling via Causal Rubrics

Pragya Srivastava, Harman Singh, Rahul Madhavan +9

Reward models (RMs) are fundamental to aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) via human feedback, yet they often suffer from reward hacking. They tend to latch on to superficial or…

cs.CL2024

Does Safety Training of LLMs Generalize to Semantically Related Natural Prompts?

Sravanti Addepalli, Yerram Varun, Arun Suggala +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) are known to be susceptible to crafted adversarial attacks or jailbreaks that lead to the generation of objectionable content despite being aligned to…

cs.CL2024

Time-Reversal Provides Unsupervised Feedback to LLMs

Yerram Varun, Rahul Madhavan, Sravanti Addepalli +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) are typically trained to predict in the forward direction of time. However, recent works have shown that prompting these models to look back and critiq…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

ProFeAT: Projected Feature Adversarial Training for Self-Supervised Learning of Robust Representations

Sravanti Addepalli, Priyam Dey, R. Venkatesh Babu

The need for abundant labelled data in supervised Adversarial Training (AT) has prompted the use of Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) techniques with AT. However, the direct applicati…

cs.CV2023★ 3 cited

Leveraging Vision-Language Models for Improving Domain Generalization in Image Classification

Sravanti Addepalli, Ashish Ramayee Asokan, Lakshay Sharma +1

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as CLIP are trained on large amounts of image-text pairs, resulting in remarkable generalization across several data distributions. However, in s…

cs.LG2023

Boosting Adversarial Robustness using Feature Level Stochastic Smoothing

Sravanti Addepalli, Samyak Jain, Gaurang Sriramanan +1

Advances in adversarial defenses have led to a significant improvement in the robustness of Deep Neural Networks. However, the robust accuracy of present state-ofthe-art defenses i…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Certified Adversarial Robustness Within Multiple Perturbation Bounds

Soumalya Nandi, Sravanti Addepalli, Harsh Rangwani +1

Randomized smoothing (RS) is a well known certified defense against adversarial attacks, which creates a smoothed classifier by predicting the most likely class under random noise…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

DART: Diversify-Aggregate-Repeat Training Improves Generalization of Neural Networks

Samyak Jain, Sravanti Addepalli, Pawan Sahu +2

Generalization of neural networks is crucial for deploying them safely in the real world. Common training strategies to improve generalization involve the use of data augmentations…

cs.LG2022★ 11 cited

Efficient and Effective Augmentation Strategy for Adversarial Training

Sravanti Addepalli, Samyak Jain, R. Venkatesh Babu

Adversarial training of Deep Neural Networks is known to be significantly more data-hungry when compared to standard training. Furthermore, complex data augmentations such as AutoA…

cs.CV2022★ 2 cited

Towards Efficient and Effective Self-Supervised Learning of Visual Representations

Sravanti Addepalli, Kaushal Bhogale, Priyam Dey +1

Self-supervision has emerged as a propitious method for visual representation learning after the recent paradigm shift from handcrafted pretext tasks to instance-similarity based a…

cs.LG2022

Scaling Adversarial Training to Large Perturbation Bounds

Sravanti Addepalli, Samyak Jain, Gaurang Sriramanan +1

The vulnerability of Deep Neural Networks to Adversarial Attacks has fuelled research towards building robust models. While most Adversarial Training algorithms aim at defending at…

cs.LG2022

Learning an Invertible Output Mapping Can Mitigate Simplicity Bias in Neural Networks

Sravanti Addepalli, Anshul Nasery, R. Venkatesh Babu +2

Deep Neural Networks are known to be brittle to even minor distribution shifts compared to the training distribution. While one line of work has demonstrated that Simplicity Bias (…

cs.LG2022

DAFT: Distilling Adversarially Fine-tuned Models for Better OOD Generalization

Anshul Nasery, Sravanti Addepalli, Praneeth Netrapalli +1

We consider the problem of OOD generalization, where the goal is to train a model that performs well on test distributions that are different from the training distribution. Deep l…

cs.CR2022★ 2 cited

Towards Data-Free Model Stealing in a Hard Label Setting

Sunandini Sanyal, Sravanti Addepalli, R. Venkatesh Babu

Machine learning models deployed as a service (MLaaS) are susceptible to model stealing attacks, where an adversary attempts to steal the model within a restricted access framework…

cs.CV2020★ 22 cited

Guided Adversarial Attack for Evaluating and Enhancing Adversarial Defenses

Gaurang Sriramanan, Sravanti Addepalli, Arya Baburaj +1

Advances in the development of adversarial attacks have been fundamental to the progress of adversarial defense research. Efficient and effective attacks are crucial for reliable e…

cs.CV2020

Saliency-driven Class Impressions for Feature Visualization of Deep Neural Networks

Sravanti Addepalli, Dipesh Tamboli, R. Venkatesh Babu +1

In this paper, we propose a data-free method of extracting Impressions of each class from the classifier's memory. The Deep Learning regime empowers classifiers to extract distinct…

cs.CV2020

Towards Achieving Adversarial Robustness by Enforcing Feature Consistency Across Bit Planes

Sravanti Addepalli, Vivek B. S., Arya Baburaj +2

As humans, we inherently perceive images based on their predominant features, and ignore noise embedded within lower bit planes. On the contrary, Deep Neural Networks are known to…

cs.LG2019★ 1 cited

DeGAN : Data-Enriching GAN for Retrieving Representative Samples from a Trained Classifier

Sravanti Addepalli, Gaurav Kumar Nayak, Anirban Chakraborty +1

In this era of digital information explosion, an abundance of data from numerous modalities is being generated as well as archived everyday. However, most problems associated with…