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most citedBlack-Box Optimization Revisited: Improving Algorithm Selection Wizards through Massive Benchmarking

40 citations · 159 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

On the Role of Randomization in Adversarially Robust Classification

Lucas Gnecco-Heredia, Yann Chevaleyre, Benjamin Negrevergne +2

Deep neural networks are known to be vulnerable to small adversarial perturbations in test data. To defend against adversarial attacks, probabilistic classifiers have been proposed…

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

Towards Consistency in Adversarial Classification

Laurent Meunier, Raphaël Ettedgui, Rafael Pinot +2

In this paper, we study the problem of consistency in the context of adversarial examples. Specifically, we tackle the following question: can surrogate losses still be used as a p…

stat.ML2021★ 1 cited

An Asymptotic Test for Conditional Independence using Analytic Kernel Embeddings

Meyer Scetbon, Laurent Meunier, Yaniv Romano

We propose a new conditional dependence measure and a statistical test for conditional independence. The measure is based on the difference between analytic kernel embeddings of tw…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

A Dynamical System Perspective for Lipschitz Neural Networks

Laurent Meunier, Blaise Delattre, Alexandre Araujo +1

The Lipschitz constant of neural networks has been established as a key quantity to enforce the robustness to adversarial examples. In this paper, we tackle the problem of building…

math.OC2021

Asymptotic convergence rates for averaging strategies

Laurent Meunier, Iskander Legheraba, Yann Chevaleyre +1

Parallel black box optimization consists in estimating the optimum of a function using parallel evaluations of . Averaging the best individuals among the evaluations…

cs.CV2021★ 1 cited

ROPUST: Improving Robustness through Fine-tuning with Photonic Processors and Synthetic Gradients

Alessandro Cappelli, Julien Launay, Laurent Meunier +2

Robustness to adversarial attacks is typically obtained through expensive adversarial training with Projected Gradient Descent. Here we introduce ROPUST, a remarkably simple and ef…

cs.LG2021

On the robustness of randomized classifiers to adversarial examples

Rafael Pinot, Laurent Meunier, Florian Yger +3

This paper investigates the theory of robustness against adversarial attacks. We focus on randomized classifiers (\emph{i.e.} classifiers that output random variables) and provide…

cs.GT2021★ 2 cited

Mixed Nash Equilibria in the Adversarial Examples Game

Laurent Meunier, Meyer Scetbon, Rafael Pinot +2

This paper tackles the problem of adversarial examples from a game theoretic point of view. We study the open question of the existence of mixed Nash equilibria in the zero-sum gam…

cs.CV2021★ 9 cited

Adversarial Robustness by Design through Analog Computing and Synthetic Gradients

Alessandro Cappelli, Ruben Ohana, Julien Launay +3

We propose a new defense mechanism against adversarial attacks inspired by an optical co-processor, providing robustness without compromising natural accuracy in both white-box and…

cs.LG2020

Advocating for Multiple Defense Strategies against Adversarial Examples

Alexandre Araujo, Laurent Meunier, Rafael Pinot +1

It has been empirically observed that defense mechanisms designed to protect neural networks against adversarial examples offer poor performance against adve…

cs.LG2020★ 40 cited

Black-Box Optimization Revisited: Improving Algorithm Selection Wizards through Massive Benchmarking

Laurent Meunier, Herilalaina Rakotoarison, Pak Kan Wong +5

Existing studies in black-box optimization for machine learning suffer from low generalizability, caused by a typically selective choice of problem instances used for training and…

stat.ML2020★ 2 cited

Equitable and Optimal Transport with Multiple Agents

Meyer Scetbon, Laurent Meunier, Jamal Atif +1

We introduce an extension of the Optimal Transport problem when multiple costs are involved. Considering each cost as an agent, we aim to share equally between agents the work of t…

cs.NE2020

Variance Reduction for Better Sampling in Continuous Domains

Laurent Meunier, Carola Doerr, Jeremy Rapin +1

Design of experiments, random search, initialization of population-based methods, or sampling inside an epoch of an evolutionary algorithm use a sample drawn according to some prob…

cs.NE2020

On averaging the best samples in evolutionary computation

Laurent Meunier, Yann Chevaleyre, Jeremy Rapin +2

Choosing the right selection rate is a long standing issue in evolutionary computation. In the continuous unconstrained case, we prove mathematically that a single parent lea…

cs.LG2020★ 18 cited

Adversarial Attacks on Linear Contextual Bandits

Evrard Garcelon, Baptiste Roziere, Laurent Meunier +4

Contextual bandit algorithms are applied in a wide range of domains, from advertising to recommender systems, from clinical trials to education. In many of these domains, malicious…

cs.LG2019★ 20 cited

Yet another but more efficient black-box adversarial attack: tiling and evolution strategies

Laurent Meunier, Jamal Atif, Olivier Teytaud

We introduce a new black-box attack achieving state of the art performances. Our approach is based on a new objective function, borrowing ideas from -white box attacks…

cs.LG2019★ 25 cited

Robust Neural Networks using Randomized Adversarial Training

Alexandre Araujo, Laurent Meunier, Rafael Pinot +1

This paper tackles the problem of defending a neural network against adversarial attacks crafted with different norms (in particular and bounded adversarial…

cs.LG2019★ 35 cited

Theoretical evidence for adversarial robustness through randomization

Rafael Pinot, Laurent Meunier, Alexandre Araujo +4

This paper investigates the theory of robustness against adversarial attacks. It focuses on the family of randomization techniques that consist in injecting noise in the network at…