We present a data poisoning attack -- Phantom Transfer -- with the property that, even if you know precisely how the poison was placed into an otherwise benign dataset, you cannot filter it out. We achieve this by modifying subliminal learning to work in real-world contexts and demonstrate that the attack works regardl...
Andrew Draganov, Tolga H. Dur, Anandmayi Bhongade et al.· 0 citations
Transitioning Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) from offline to online streaming video understanding is essential for continuous perception. However, existing methods lack flexible adaptivity, leading to irreversible detail loss and context fragmentation. To resolve this, we propose FreshMem, a Frequency-Space H...
Kangcong Li, Peng Ye, Lin Zhang et al.· 0 citations
Preference-based reinforcement learning (PBRL) offers a promising alternative to explicit reward engineering by learning from pairwise trajectory comparisons. However, real-world preference data often comes from heterogeneous annotators with varying reliability; some accurate, some noisy, and some systematically advers...
Seyed Amir Hosseini, Maryam Abdolali, Amirhosein Tavakkoli et al.· 0 citations
Data contamination can invalidate benchmark evaluation when a model benefits from memorized evaluation content rather than genuine generalization. Yet contamination is difficult to audit when the exposed content differs in language from the evaluation benchmark. We study this failure mode by deliberately exposing four...
SHAP explanations are widely used in high-stakes settings to justify decisions, yet they can differ substantially across repeated runs, even when the model, the input instance, and the prediction are held fixed. Prior work has documented disagreement between explanation methods; we show that substantial disagreement ar...
Hyunseung Hwang, Seungeun Lee, Lucas Rosenblatt et al.· 0 citations
MRI sequence synthesis aims to recover missing image contrast while preserving patient-specific anatomy. The choice of generation mechanism affects both optimization and the way source information reaches the synthesized image. In this study, we propose SRUG, a supervised standalone fusion-driven generator that learns...
Xihe Qiu, Yang Dai, Xiaoyu Tan et al.· 0 citations
Colonoscopic Polyp Re-Identification (ReID) aims to match the same polyp across a large gallery of images captured from different viewpoints and with different cameras, playing a critical role in computer-aided diagnosis for the prevention and treatment of colorectal cancer. However, the coarse granularity of high-leve...
Suncheng Xiang, Xiaoyang Wang, Junjie Jiang et al.· 0 citations
Reliable estimation of feature contributions in machine learning models is essential for transparency, algorithmic fairness, and regulatory compliance. While permutation feature importance is widely used, classical implementations rely on repeated Monte Carlo shuffling, introducing significant computational overhead an...
Score-based diffusion models have emerged as a powerful class of generative methods, with successful applications across diverse domains. Despite their empirical success, their mathematical foundations remain only partially understood, particularly regarding the stability and consistency of the stochastic and partial d...
Decision trees are widely used in high-stakes fields like finance and healthcare due to their interpretability. This work introduces an efficient, scalable method for generating synthetic pre-training data to enable meta-learning of decision trees. Our approach samples near-optimal decision trees synthetically, creatin...
Kyaw Hpone Myint, Zhe Wu, Alexandre G. R. Day et al.· 0 citations
Current large language models excel at broad, general-purpose tasks, but consistently underperform when exposed to highly specialized domains that require deep cultural, linguistic, and subject-matter expertise. In particular, traditional medical systems such as Ayurveda embody centuries of nuanced textual and clinical...
Sravan Gorugantu, Mohd Nauman, Vijay Devane et al.· 0 citations
Machine learning models are increasingly deployed as software components that must evolve as requirements change. When specific training records or features must no longer influence a deployed model, machine unlearning aims to remove that influence without retraining from scratch. Because unlearning is often approximat...