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most citedMineRL Diamond 2021 Competition: Overview, Results, and Lessons Learned

6 citations · 23 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.CV2026

Dithering Defense: Adversarial Robustness of Vision Foundation Models via Multi-Level Floyd-Steinberg Dithering

Yury Belousov, Brian Pulfer, Vitaliy Kinakh +1

Vision foundation models are widely used as frozen backbones across many downstream tasks, making them a single point of failure under adversarial attack. We study multi-level Floy…

cs.LG2025

Beyond Classification: Evaluating Diffusion Denoised Smoothing for Security-Utility Trade off

Yury Belousov, Brian Pulfer, Vitaliy Kinakh +1

While foundation models demonstrate impressive performance across various tasks, they remain vulnerable to adversarial inputs. Current research explores various approaches to enhan…

cs.LG2025★ 4 cited

Robustness Tokens: Towards Adversarial Robustness of Transformers

Brian Pulfer, Yury Belousov, Slava Voloshynovskiy

Recently, large pre-trained foundation models have become widely adopted by machine learning practitioners for a multitude of tasks. Given that such models are publicly available,…

cs.CV2025

Task-Agnostic Attacks Against Vision Foundation Models

Brian Pulfer, Yury Belousov, Vitaliy Kinakh +2

The study of security in machine learning mainly focuses on downstream task-specific attacks, where the adversarial example is obtained by optimizing a loss function specific to th…

cs.CV2024

Semi-Supervised Fine-Tuning of Vision Foundation Models with Content-Style Decomposition

Mariia Drozdova, Vitaliy Kinakh, Yury Belousov +2

In this paper, we present a semi-supervised fine-tuning approach designed to improve the performance of pre-trained foundation models on downstream tasks with limited labeled data.…

cs.CV2024

Evaluation of Security of ML-based Watermarking: Copy and Removal Attacks

Vitaliy Kinakh, Brian Pulfer, Yury Belousov +3

The vast amounts of digital content captured from the real world or AI-generated media necessitate methods for copyright protection, traceability, or data provenance verification.…

cs.LG2023★ 5 cited

TURBO: The Swiss Knife of Auto-Encoders

Guillaume Quétant, Yury Belousov, Vitaliy Kinakh +1

We present a novel information-theoretic framework, termed as TURBO, designed to systematically analyse and generalise auto-encoding methods. We start by examining the principles o…

cs.CV2023

Stochastic Digital Twin for Copy Detection Patterns

Yury Belousov, Olga Taran, Vitaliy Kinakh +1

Copy detection patterns (CDP) present an efficient technique for product protection against counterfeiting. However, the complexity of studying CDP production variability often res…

cs.CV2022

Mathematical model of printing-imaging channel for blind detection of fake copy detection patterns

Joakim Tutt, Olga Taran, Roman Chaban +4

Nowadays, copy detection patterns (CDP) appear as a very promising anti-counterfeiting technology for physical object protection. However, the advent of deep learning as a powerful…

cs.CV2022★ 3 cited

Solving the Weather4cast Challenge via Visual Transformers for 3D Images

Yury Belousov, Sergey Polezhaev, Brian Pulfer

Accurately forecasting the weather is an important task, as many real-world processes and decisions depend on future meteorological conditions. The NeurIPS 2022 challenge entitled…

cs.CV2022

Digital twins of physical printing-imaging channel

Yury Belousov, Brian Pulfer, Roman Chaban +4

In this paper, we address the problem of modeling a printing-imaging channel built on a machine learning approach a.k.a. digital twin for anti-counterfeiting applications based on…

cs.CR2022

Printing variability of copy detection patterns

Roman Chaban, Olga Taran, Joakim Tutt +4

Copy detection pattern (CDP) is a novel solution for products' protection against counterfeiting, which gains its popularity in recent years. CDP attracts the anti-counterfeiting i…

cs.CV2022

Anomaly localization for copy detection patterns through print estimations

Brian Pulfer, Yury Belousov, Joakim Tutt +4

Copy detection patterns (CDP) are recent technologies for protecting products from counterfeiting. However, in contrast to traditional copy fakes, deep learning-based fakes have sh…

cs.CR2022

Authentication of Copy Detection Patterns under Machine Learning Attacks: A Supervised Approach

Brian Pulfer, Roman Chaban, Yury Belousov +4

Copy detection patterns (CDP) are an attractive technology that allows manufacturers to defend their products against counterfeiting. The main assumption behind the protection mech…

cs.LG2022★ 6 cited

MineRL Diamond 2021 Competition: Overview, Results, and Lessons Learned

Anssi Kanervisto, Stephanie Milani, Karolis Ramanauskas +19

Reinforcement learning competitions advance the field by providing appropriate scope and support to develop solutions toward a specific problem. To promote the development of more…

cs.LG2020★ 5 cited

Solving Black-Box Optimization Challenge via Learning Search Space Partition for Local Bayesian Optimization

Mikita Sazanovich, Anastasiya Nikolskaya, Yury Belousov +1

Black-box optimization is one of the vital tasks in machine learning, since it approximates real-world conditions, in that we do not always know all the properties of a given syste…