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Neural networks with low-precision weights and activations offer compelling
 efficiency advantages over their full-precision equivalents. The two most
 frequently discussed benefits of quantization are reduced memory consumption,
 and a faster forward pass when implemented with efficient bitwise
 operations. We propose a third benefit of very low-precision neural networks:
 improved robustness against some adversarial attacks, and in the worst case,
 performance that is on par with full-precision models. We focus on the very
 low-precision case where weights and activations are both quantized to $\pm$1,
 and note that stochastically quantizing weights in just one layer can sharply
 reduce the impact of iterative attacks. We observe that non-scaled binary neural
 networks exhibit a similar effect to the original \emph{defensive distillation}
 procedure that led to \emph{gradient masking}, and a false notion of security.
 We address this by conducting both black-box and white-box experiments with
 binary models that do not artificially mask gradients.
We conduct adversarial attacks against binarized neural networks and show that we reduce the impact of the strongest attacks, while maintaining comparable accuracy in a black-box setting

Knowledge Bases (KBs) are becoming increasingly large, sparse and probabilistic. These KBs are typically used to perform query inferences and rule mining. But their efficacy is only as high as their completeness. Efficiently utilizing incomplete KBs remains a major challenge as the current KB completion techniques either do not take into account the inherent uncertainty associated with each KB tuple or do not scale to large KBs.

 Probabilistic rule learning not only considers the probability of every KB tuple but also tackles the problem of KB completion in an explainable way. For any given probabilistic KB, it learns probabilistic first-order rules from its relations to identify interesting patterns. But, the current probabilistic rule learning techniques perform grounding to do probabilistic inference for evaluation of candidate rules. It does not scale well to large KBs as the time complexity of inference using grounding is exponential over the size of the KB. In this paper, we present SafeLearner -- a scalable solution to probabilistic KB completion that performs probabilistic rule learning using lifted probabilistic inference -- as faster approach instead of grounding. 

 We compared SafeLearner to the state-of-the-art probabilistic rule learner ProbFOIL+ and to its deterministic contemporary AMIE+ on standard probabilistic KBs of NELL (Never-Ending Language Learner) and Yago. Our results demonstrate that SafeLearner scales as good as AMIE+ when learning simple rules and is also significantly faster than ProbFOIL+.
Probabilistic Rule Learning system using Lifted Inference

Despite advances in deep learning, artificial neural networks do not learn the same way as humans do. Today, neural networks can learn multiple tasks when trained on them jointly, but cannot maintain performance on learnt tasks when tasks are presented one at a time -- this phenomenon called catastrophic forgetting is a fundamental challenge to overcome before neural networks can learn continually from incoming data. In this work, we derive inspiration from human memory to develop an architecture capable of learning continuously from sequentially incoming tasks, while averting catastrophic forgetting. Specifically, our model consists of a dual memory architecture to emulate the complementary learning systems (hippocampus and the neocortex) in the human brain and maintains a consolidated long-term memory via generative replay of past experiences. We (i) substantiate our claim that replay should be generative, (ii) show the benefits of generative replay and dual memory via experiments, and (iii) demonstrate improved performance retention even for small models with low capacity. Our architecture displays many important characteristics of the human memory and provides insights on the connection between sleep and learning in humans.

A dual memory architecture inspired from human brain to learn sequentially incoming tasks, while averting catastrophic forgetting.