no code implementations • 8 Aug 2024 • Aeree Cho, Grace C. Kim, Alexander Karpekov, Alec Helbling, Zijie J. Wang, Seongmin Lee, Benjamin Hoover, Duen Horng Chau
Transformers have revolutionized machine learning, yet their inner workings remain opaque to many.
1 code implementation • 2 Jul 2024 • Zijie J. Wang, Duen Horng Chau
To address the pressing need for client-side dense retrieval, we introduce MeMemo, the first open-source JavaScript toolkit that adapts the state-of-the-art approximate nearest neighbor search technique HNSW to browser environments.
no code implementations • 27 May 2024 • Shengyun Peng, Pin-Yu Chen, Matthew Hull, Duen Horng Chau
Safety alignment is the key to guiding the behaviors of large language models (LLMs) that are in line with human preferences and restrict harmful behaviors at inference time, but recent studies show that it can be easily compromised by finetuning with only a few adversarially designed training examples.
2 code implementations • 1 Apr 2024 • Seongmin Lee, Zijie J. Wang, Aishwarya Chakravarthy, Alec Helbling, Shengyun Peng, Mansi Phute, Duen Horng Chau, Minsuk Kahng
Our library offers a new way to quickly attribute an LLM's text generation to training data points to inspect model behaviors, enhance its trustworthiness, and compare model-generated text with user-provided text.
1 code implementation • 7 Mar 2024 • Shengyun Peng, Aishwarya Chakravarthy, Seongmin Lee, XiaoJing Wang, Rajarajeswari Balasubramaniyan, Duen Horng Chau
We present UniTable, a training framework that unifies both the training paradigm and training objective of TR.
1 code implementation • 23 Feb 2024 • Shengyun Peng, Seongmin Lee, XiaoJing Wang, Rajarajeswari Balasubramaniyan, Duen Horng Chau
We discover that the performance gap between the linear projection transformer and the hybrid CNN-transformer can be mitigated by SSP of the visual encoder in the TSR model.
no code implementations • 2 Feb 2024 • Justin Blalock, David Munechika, Harsha Karanth, Alec Helbling, Pratham Mehta, Seongmin Lee, Duen Horng Chau
The growing digital landscape of fashion e-commerce calls for interactive and user-friendly interfaces for virtually trying on clothes.
1 code implementation • 25 Jan 2024 • Zijie J. Wang, Aishwarya Chakravarthy, David Munechika, Duen Horng Chau
To investigate social prompt engineering, we introduce Wordflow, an open-source and social text editor that enables everyday users to easily create, run, share, and discover LLM prompts.
2 code implementations • 9 Nov 2023 • Shengyun Peng, Seongmin Lee, XiaoJing Wang, Rajarajeswari Balasubramaniyan, Duen Horng Chau
This allows it to "see" an appropriate portion of the table and "store" the complex table structure within sufficient context length for the subsequent transformer.
Ranked #4 on Table Recognition on PubTabNet
1 code implementation • 18 Oct 2023 • Matthew Hull, Zijie J. Wang, Duen Horng Chau
Generating these adversarial objects in the digital space has been extensively studied, however successfully transferring these attacks from the digital realm to the physical realm has proven challenging when controlling for real-world environmental factors.
no code implementations • 10 Oct 2023 • Alec Helbling, Evan Montoya, Duen Horng Chau
We build upon the recent BLIP-Diffusion model, which can generate images of single objects specified by reference images.
no code implementations • 28 Sep 2023 • Benjamin Hoover, Hendrik Strobelt, Dmitry Krotov, Judy Hoffman, Zsolt Kira, Duen Horng Chau
The generative process of Diffusion Models (DMs) has recently set state-of-the-art on many AI generation benchmarks.
1 code implementation • 30 Aug 2023 • Shengyun Peng, Weilin Xu, Cory Cornelius, Matthew Hull, Kevin Li, Rahul Duggal, Mansi Phute, Jason Martin, Duen Horng Chau
Our research aims to unify existing works' diverging opinions on how architectural components affect the adversarial robustness of CNNs.
1 code implementation • 14 Aug 2023 • Mansi Phute, Alec Helbling, Matthew Hull, Shengyun Peng, Sebastian Szyller, Cory Cornelius, Duen Horng Chau
We test LLM Self Defense on GPT 3. 5 and Llama 2, two of the current most prominent LLMs against various types of attacks, such as forcefully inducing affirmative responses to prompts and prompt engineering attacks.
1 code implementation • 29 Jun 2023 • Alec Helbling, Duen Horng Chau
A user can take a preexisting neural network architecture and easily write a specification for an animation in ManimML, which will then automatically compose animations for different components of the system into a final animation of the entire neural network.
4 code implementations • 15 Jun 2023 • Zijie J. Wang, Fred Hohman, Duen Horng Chau
Machine learning models often learn latent embedding representations that capture the domain semantics of their training data.
2 code implementations • 4 May 2023 • Zijie J. Wang, David Munechika, Seongmin Lee, Duen Horng Chau
Through this study, we identify key design implications and trade-offs, such as leveraging multimodal data in notebooks as well as balancing the degree of visualization-notebook integration.
1 code implementation • 4 May 2023 • Seongmin Lee, Benjamin Hoover, Hendrik Strobelt, Zijie J. Wang, Shengyun Peng, Austin Wright, Kevin Li, Haekyu Park, Haoyang Yang, Duen Horng Chau
Diffusion Explainer tightly integrates a visual overview of Stable Diffusion's complex structure with explanations of the underlying operations.
2 code implementations • 16 Mar 2023 • Zijie J. Wang, Duen Horng Chau
As machine learning (ML) is increasingly integrated into our everyday Web experience, there is a call for transparent and explainable web-based ML.
1 code implementation • 27 Feb 2023 • Zijie J. Wang, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Rich Caruana, Duen Horng Chau
Machine learning (ML) recourse techniques are increasingly used in high-stakes domains, providing end users with actions to alter ML predictions, but they assume ML developers understand what input variables can be changed.
4 code implementations • NeurIPS 2023 • Benjamin Hoover, Yuchen Liang, Bao Pham, Rameswar Panda, Hendrik Strobelt, Duen Horng Chau, Mohammed J. Zaki, Dmitry Krotov
Our work combines aspects of three promising paradigms in machine learning, namely, attention mechanism, energy-based models, and associative memory.
no code implementations • 14 Feb 2023 • Austin P. Wright, Peter Nemere, Adrian Galvin, Duen Horng Chau, Scott Davidoff
While anomaly detection stands among the most important and valuable problems across many scientific domains, anomaly detection research often focuses on AI methods that can lack the nuance and interpretability so critical to conducting scientific inquiry.
1 code implementation • 8 Jan 2023 • Shengyun Peng, Weilin Xu, Cory Cornelius, Kevin Li, Rahul Duggal, Duen Horng Chau, Jason Martin
Adversarial Training is the most effective approach for improving the robustness of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs).
2 code implementations • 26 Oct 2022 • Zijie J. Wang, Evan Montoya, David Munechika, Haoyang Yang, Benjamin Hoover, Duen Horng Chau
With recent advancements in diffusion models, users can generate high-quality images by writing text prompts in natural language.
1 code implementation • 22 Oct 2022 • Zhiyan Zhou, Kevin Li, Haekyu Park, Megan Dass, Austin Wright, Nilaksh Das, Duen Horng Chau
We present our ongoing work NeuroMapper, an in-browser visualization tool that helps machine learning (ML) developers interpret the evolution of a model during training, providing a new way to monitor the training process and visually discover reasons for suboptimal training.
no code implementations • 30 Sep 2022 • Rahul Duggal, Shengyun Peng, Hao Zhou, Duen Horng Chau
In this paper, we propose a new and complementary direction for improving performance on long tailed datasets - optimizing the backbone architecture through neural architecture search (NAS).
3 code implementations • 19 Sep 2022 • Zijie J. Wang, Chudi Zhong, Rui Xin, Takuya Takagi, Zhi Chen, Duen Horng Chau, Cynthia Rudin, Margo Seltzer
Given thousands of equally accurate machine learning (ML) models, how can users choose among them?
2 code implementations • 30 Jun 2022 • Zijie J. Wang, Alex Kale, Harsha Nori, Peter Stella, Mark E. Nunnally, Duen Horng Chau, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Rich Caruana
Machine learning (ML) interpretability techniques can reveal undesirable patterns in data that models exploit to make predictions--potentially causing harms once deployed.
no code implementations • 25 Jun 2022 • David Munechika, Zijie J. Wang, Jack Reidy, Josh Rubin, Krishna Gade, Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Duen Horng Chau
Recent research has developed algorithms for effectively identifying intersectional bias in the form of interpretable, underperforming subsets (or slices) of the data.
1 code implementation • CVPR 2022 • Seongmin Lee, Zijie J. Wang, Judy Hoffman, Duen Horng Chau
CNN image classifiers are widely used, thanks to their efficiency and accuracy.
no code implementations • 5 Apr 2022 • Nilaksh Das, Duen Horng Chau
In this work, we investigate the impact of performing such multi-task learning on the adversarial robustness of ASR models in the speech domain.
1 code implementation • 2 Apr 2022 • Nilaksh Das, Sheng-Yun Peng, Duen Horng Chau
Person tracking using computer vision techniques has wide ranging applications such as autonomous driving, home security and sports analytics.
no code implementations • 30 Mar 2022 • Haekyu Park, Seongmin Lee, Benjamin Hoover, Austin P. Wright, Omar Shaikh, Rahul Duggal, Nilaksh Das, Kevin Li, Judy Hoffman, Duen Horng Chau
We present ConceptEvo, a unified interpretation framework for deep neural networks (DNNs) that reveals the inception and evolution of learned concepts during training.
1 code implementation • 6 Dec 2021 • Zijie J. Wang, Alex Kale, Harsha Nori, Peter Stella, Mark Nunnally, Duen Horng Chau, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Rich Caruana
Recent strides in interpretable machine learning (ML) research reveal that models exploit undesirable patterns in the data to make predictions, which potentially causes harms in deployment.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS Workshop AI4Scien 2021 • Dan Lahav, Jon Saad Falcon, Bailey Kuehl, Sophie Johnson, Sravanthi Parasa, Noam Shomron, Duen Horng Chau, Diyi Yang, Eric Horvitz, Daniel S. Weld, Tom Hope
To address this problem, we present a novel task of extraction and search of scientific challenges and directions, to facilitate rapid knowledge discovery.
1 code implementation • 29 Aug 2021 • Haekyu Park, Nilaksh Das, Rahul Duggal, Austin P. Wright, Omar Shaikh, Fred Hohman, Duen Horng Chau
Through a large-scale human evaluation, we demonstrate that our technique discovers neuron groups that represent coherent, human-meaningful concepts.
no code implementations • 15 Jun 2021 • Austin P Wright, Caleb Ziems, Haekyu Park, Jon Saad-Falcon, Duen Horng Chau, Diyi Yang, Maria Tomprou
As job markets worldwide have become more competitive and applicant selection criteria have become more opaque, and different (and sometimes contradictory) information and advice is available for job seekers wishing to progress in their careers, it has never been more difficult to determine which factors in a r\'esum\'e most effectively help career progression.
2 code implementations • 30 Mar 2021 • Omar Shaikh, Jon Saad-Falcon, Austin P Wright, Nilaksh Das, Scott Freitas, Omar Isaac Asensio, Duen Horng Chau
The advent of larger machine learning (ML) models have improved state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance in various modeling tasks, ranging from computer vision to natural language.
1 code implementation • ACL 2021 • Zijie J. Wang, Robert Turko, Duen Horng Chau
Why do large pre-trained transformer-based models perform so well across a wide variety of NLP tasks?
no code implementations • 10 Mar 2021 • Nilaksh Das, Sravan Bodapati, Monica Sunkara, Sundararajan Srinivasan, Duen Horng Chau
Training deep neural networks for automatic speech recognition (ASR) requires large amounts of transcribed speech.
no code implementations • 8 Feb 2021 • Austin P Wright, Omar Shaikh, Haekyu Park, Will Epperson, Muhammed Ahmed, Stephane Pinel, Duen Horng Chau, Diyi Yang
With the widespread use of toxic language online, platforms are increasingly using automated systems that leverage advances in natural language processing to automatically flag and remove toxic comments.
1 code implementation • 31 Jan 2021 • Scott Freitas, Rahul Duggal, Duen Horng Chau
Computer vision is playing an increasingly important role in automated malware detection with the rise of the image-based binary representation.
no code implementations • 26 Jan 2021 • Haekyu Park, Zijie J. Wang, Nilaksh Das, Anindya S. Paul, Pruthvi Perumalla, Zhiyan Zhou, Duen Horng Chau
Skeleton-based human action recognition technologies are increasingly used in video based applications, such as home robotics, healthcare on aging population, and surveillance.
2 code implementations • 16 Nov 2020 • Scott Freitas, Yuxiao Dong, Joshua Neil, Duen Horng Chau
With the rapid emergence of graph representation learning, the construction of new large-scale datasets is necessary to distinguish model capabilities and accurately assess the strengths and weaknesses of each technique.
no code implementations • 22 Oct 2020 • Austin P. Wright, Zijie J. Wang, Haekyu Park, Grace Guo, Fabian Sperrle, Mennatallah El-Assady, Alex Endert, Daniel Keim, Duen Horng Chau
We have then used this framework to compare each of the surveyed companies to find differences in areas of emphasis.
Human-Computer Interaction
1 code implementation • Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2020 • Omar Shaikh, Jiaao Chen, Jon Saad-Falcon, Duen Horng Chau, Diyi Yang
We find that specific (orderings of) strategies interact uniquely with a request's content to impact success rate, and thus the persuasiveness of a request.
no code implementations • 14 Sep 2020 • Fabian Sperrle, Mennatallah El-Assady, Grace Guo, Duen Horng Chau, Alex Endert, Daniel Keim
This paper systematically derives design dimensions for the structured evaluation of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) approaches.
1 code implementation • 5 Sep 2020 • Nilaksh Das, Haekyu Park, Zijie J. Wang, Fred Hohman, Robert Firstman, Emily Rogers, Duen Horng Chau
Deep neural networks (DNNs) are now commonly used in many domains.
1 code implementation • 31 Aug 2020 • Jon Saad-Falcon, Omar Shaikh, Zijie J. Wang, Austin P. Wright, Sasha Richardson, Duen Horng Chau
Discovering research expertise at universities can be a difficult task.
no code implementations • 22 Jun 2020 • Rahul Duggal, Scott Freitas, Sunny Dhamnani, Duen Horng Chau, Jimeng Sun
The natural world often follows a long-tailed data distribution where only a few classes account for most of the examples.
Ranked #40 on Long-tail Learning on CIFAR-10-LT (ρ=10)
1 code implementation • 10 Jun 2020 • Jon Saad-Falcon, Omar Shaikh, Zijie J. Wang, Austin P. Wright, Sasha Richardson, Duen Horng Chau
Discovering research expertise at institutions can be a difficult task.
1 code implementation • 10 Jun 2020 • Scott Freitas, Diyi Yang, Srijan Kumar, Hanghang Tong, Duen Horng Chau
By democratizing the tools required to study network robustness, our goal is to assist researchers and practitioners in analyzing their own networks; and facilitate the development of new research in the field.
5 code implementations • 30 Apr 2020 • Zijie J. Wang, Robert Turko, Omar Shaikh, Haekyu Park, Nilaksh Das, Fred Hohman, Minsuk Kahng, Duen Horng Chau
Deep learning's great success motivates many practitioners and students to learn about this exciting technology.
2 code implementations • 21 Feb 2020 • Scott Freitas, Shang-Tse Chen, Zijie J. Wang, Duen Horng Chau
UnMask detects such attacks and defends the model by rectifying the misclassification, re-classifying the image based on its robust features.
1 code implementation • 29 Jan 2020 • Rahul Duggal, Scott Freitas, Cao Xiao, Duen Horng Chau, Jimeng Sun
By deploying these models to an Android application on a smartphone, we quantitatively observe that REST allows models to achieve up to 17x energy reduction and 9x faster inference.
no code implementations • 21 Jan 2020 • Nilaksh Das, Haekyu Park, Zijie J. Wang, Fred Hohman, Robert Firstman, Emily Rogers, Duen Horng Chau
Deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly powering high-stakes applications such as autonomous cars and healthcare; however, DNNs are often treated as "black boxes" in such applications.
no code implementations • 7 Jan 2020 • Zijie J. Wang, Robert Turko, Omar Shaikh, Haekyu Park, Nilaksh Das, Fred Hohman, Minsuk Kahng, Duen Horng Chau
The success of deep learning solving previously-thought hard problems has inspired many non-experts to learn and understand this exciting technology.
no code implementations • 7 Jan 2020 • Austin P. Wright, Omar Shaikh, Haekyu Park, Will Epperson, Muhammed Ahmed, Stephane Pinel, Diyi Yang, Duen Horng Chau
As toxic language becomes nearly pervasive online, there has been increasing interest in leveraging the advancements in natural language processing (NLP), from very large transformer models to automatically detecting and removing toxic comments.
no code implementations • 20 Aug 2019 • Xiangyun Lei, Fred Hohman, Duen Horng Chau, Andrew J. Medford
In recent years, machine learning (ML) has gained significant popularity in the field of chemical informatics and electronic structure theory.
no code implementations • 2 Jun 2019 • Haekyu Park, Fred Hohman, Duen Horng Chau
As deep neural networks are increasingly used in solving high-stake problems, there is a pressing need to understand their internal decision mechanisms.
3 code implementations • 18 Apr 2019 • Cory Cornelius, Shang-Tse Chen, Jason Martin, Duen Horng Chau
In this talk we describe our content-preserving attack on object detectors, ShapeShifter, and demonstrate how to evaluate this threat in realistic scenarios.
1 code implementation • 10 Apr 2019 • Ángel Alexander Cabrera, Will Epperson, Fred Hohman, Minsuk Kahng, Jamie Morgenstern, Duen Horng Chau
We present FairVis, a mixed-initiative visual analytics system that integrates a novel subgroup discovery technique for users to audit the fairness of machine learning models.
3 code implementations • 4 Apr 2019 • Fred Hohman, Haekyu Park, Caleb Robinson, Duen Horng Chau
Deep learning is increasingly used in decision-making tasks.
1 code implementation • 11 Mar 2019 • Nilaksh Das, Sanya Chaba, Renzhi Wu, Sakshi Gandhi, Duen Horng Chau, Xu Chu
We build the GOGGLES system that implements affinity coding for labeling image datasets by designing a novel set of reusable affinity functions for images, and propose a novel hierarchical generative model for class inference using a small development set.
no code implementations • 1 Feb 2019 • Cory Cornelius, Nilaksh Das, Shang-Tse Chen, Li Chen, Michael E. Kounavis, Duen Horng Chau
To evaluate the robustness of the defense against an adaptive attacker, we consider the targeted-attack success rate of the Projected Gradient Descent (PGD) attack, which is a strong gradient-based adversarial attack proposed in adversarial machine learning research.
1 code implementation • 5 Sep 2018 • Minsuk Kahng, Nikhil Thorat, Duen Horng Chau, Fernanda Viégas, Martin Wattenberg
Recent success in deep learning has generated immense interest among practitioners and students, inspiring many to learn about this new technology.
1 code implementation • 14 Jun 2018 • Ángel Alexander Cabrera, Fred Hohman, Jason Lin, Duen Horng Chau
We present an interactive system enabling users to manipulate images to explore the robustness and sensitivity of deep learning image classifiers.
no code implementations • 30 May 2018 • Nilaksh Das, Madhuri Shanbhogue, Shang-Tse Chen, Li Chen, Michael E. Kounavis, Duen Horng Chau
Adversarial machine learning research has recently demonstrated the feasibility to confuse automatic speech recognition (ASR) models by introducing acoustically imperceptible perturbations to audio samples.
3 code implementations • 16 Apr 2018 • Shang-Tse Chen, Cory Cornelius, Jason Martin, Duen Horng Chau
Given the ability to directly manipulate image pixels in the digital input space, an adversary can easily generate imperceptible perturbations to fool a Deep Neural Network (DNN) image classifier, as demonstrated in prior work.
3 code implementations • 19 Feb 2018 • Nilaksh Das, Madhuri Shanbhogue, Shang-Tse Chen, Fred Hohman, Siwei Li, Li Chen, Michael E. Kounavis, Duen Horng Chau
The rapidly growing body of research in adversarial machine learning has demonstrated that deep neural networks (DNNs) are highly vulnerable to adversarially generated images.
no code implementations • 21 Jan 2018 • Fred Hohman, Minsuk Kahng, Robert Pienta, Duen Horng Chau
We present a survey of the role of visual analytics in deep learning research, which highlights its short yet impactful history and thoroughly summarizes the state-of-the-art using a human-centered interrogative framework, focusing on the Five W's and How (Why, Who, What, How, When, and Where).
no code implementations • 8 May 2017 • Nilaksh Das, Madhuri Shanbhogue, Shang-Tse Chen, Fred Hohman, Li Chen, Michael E. Kounavis, Duen Horng Chau
Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved great success in solving a variety of machine learning (ML) problems, especially in the domain of image recognition.
no code implementations • 6 Apr 2017 • Minsuk Kahng, Pierre Y. Andrews, Aditya Kalro, Duen Horng Chau
While deep learning models have achieved state-of-the-art accuracies for many prediction tasks, understanding these models remains a challenge.
no code implementations • 11 Apr 2016 • Dezhi Fang, Duen Horng Chau
To process data that do not fit in RAM, conventional wisdom would suggest using distributed approaches.
no code implementations • 21 Jun 2015 • Shang-Tse Chen, Maria-Florina Balcan, Duen Horng Chau
We consider the problem of learning from distributed data in the agnostic setting, i. e., in the presence of arbitrary forms of noise.