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<div class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class=""><b class="">Bo Li</b></span></div>
<div class=""><b class="">Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science</b></div>
<div class=""><b class="">University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign</b></div>
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<div class=""><b class="">Wednesday, January 18th</b></div>
<div class=""><b class="">3:00pm - 4:00pm </b></div>
<div class=""><b class="">In Person: John Crerar Library</b></div>
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<div class=""><a href="https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/j/91636415129?pwd=T1RRYUNXTWtyN0JUWUZFWmcwY3lydz09" class="">https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/j/91636415129?pwd=T1RRYUNXTWtyN0JUWUZFWmcwY3lydz09</a></div>
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<div class="">Meeting ID: 916 3641 5129</div>
<div class="">Passcode: 675319</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">Title: Certifiably Robust Learning via Knowledge-Enabled Logical Reasoning </b></div>
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<div class=""><b class="">Abstract:</b></div>
<div class="">As intelligent systems become pervasive, safeguarding their trustworthiness is critical. Standard machine learning (ML) approached often assume that the training and test data follow similar distributions, without taking into account the possibility
of adversaries manipulating either distribution or natural distribution shifts. This can lead to severe trustworthiness issues in ML. For instance, our past works has shown that motivated adversaries can circumvent anomaly detection or other machine learning
models at test-time through evasion attacks, or inject well-crafted malicious instances into training data to induce errors through poisoning attacks. In this talk, I will provide a brief overview of my research on trustworthy machine learning including robustness,
privacy, generalization, and their underlying interconnections, with a focus on robustness. If particular, I will first discusss the current state of the art in certifiably robust defenses based on purely data-driven learning approaches and their limitations.
I will then present out certifiably <i class="">robust learning via knowledge-enabled logical reasoning</i> approach, including a thorough analysis of it properties. I will demonstrate that it is possible to 1) certify the robustness of this end-to-end approach,
which significantly improves the SOTA certified robustness, 2) prove this approach is more robust that a single ML model under mild conditions, 3) make it scalable for a variety of downstream tasks, and this approach is agnostic to the tasks, data, and attacks
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<div class=""><b class="">Bio:</b></div>
<div class=""><a href="https://aisecure.github.io" class="">Dr. Bo Li</a> is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the recipient of the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award Alfred
P. Sloan Research Fellowship, AI’s 10 to Watch, NSF CAREER Award, MIT Technology Review TR-35 Award, Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research, C.W. Gear Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, Intel Rising Star award, Symantec Research Labs Fellowship, Rising Star
Award, Research Awards from Tech companies such as Amazon, Facebook, Intel, IBM, and eBay, and best paper awards at several top machine learning and security conferences. Her research focuses on both theoretical and practical aspects of trustworthy machine
learning, which is at the intersections of machine learning, security, privacy, and game theory. She has designed several scalable frameworks for trustworthy machine learning and privacy-preserving data publishing systems. Her work has been featured by major
publications and media outlets such as Nature, Wired, Fortune, and New York Times. </div>
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Executive Assistant to Michael J. Franklin, Chairman<br class="">
Department of Computer Science<br class="">
The University of Chicago<br class="">
5730 S Ellis Ave-217 Chicago, IL 60637<br class="">
P: 773-834-8977<br class="">
<a href="mailto:hsantos@uchicago.edu" class="">hsantos@uchicago.edu</a></div>
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