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Alberto Caron
dblp:274/2818
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2ranked-venue papers
0as first author
2since 2021 · last 2026
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 2 · 2 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
2 papers |
Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning · 72% Trustworthy machine learning · 28% | |
| Network and information security
1 paper |
Security and privacy of machine learning · 100% |
Topics — the 7 heaviest of 7, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning › neural network security
backdoor vulnerability |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Beyond Training-time Poisoning: Component-level and Post-training Backdoors in Deep Reinforcement Learning · AAAI 2026 |
Security and privacy of machine learning › adversarial attack
backdoor attack |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Beyond Training-time Poisoning: Component-level and Post-training Backdoors in Deep Reinforcement Learning · AAAI 2026 |
Security and privacy of machine learning › adversarial attack › backdoor attack
reinforcement learning backdoor |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Beyond Training-time Poisoning: Component-level and Post-training Backdoors in Deep Reinforcement Learning · AAAI 2026 |
Machine learning › Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning › monte carlo methods › markov chain monte carlo
adaptive MCMC |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | Structure Learning with Adaptive Random Neighborhood Informed MCMC · NeurIPS 2023 |
Machine learning › Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning › structured models › graphical models › structure learning
bayesian network structure learning |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | Structure Learning with Adaptive Random Neighborhood Informed MCMC · NeurIPS 2023 |
Machine learning › Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning › causal inference › causal discovery
directed acyclic graph learning |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | Structure Learning with Adaptive Random Neighborhood Informed MCMC · NeurIPS 2023 |
Machine learning › Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning › monte carlo methods
markov chain monte carlo |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | Structure Learning with Adaptive Random Neighborhood Informed MCMC · NeurIPS 2023 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
TrojanentRL · 2.0InfrectroRL · 2.0bayesian inference · 0.7MCMC · 0.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Beyond Training-time Poisoning: Component-level and Post-training Backdoors in Deep Reinforcement LearningabstractDeep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) systems are increasingly used in safety-critical applications, yet their security remains severely underexplored. This work investigates backdoor attacks, which implant hidden triggers that cause malicious actions only when specific inputs appear in the observation space. Existing DRL backdoor research focuses solely on training-time attacks requiring full adversarial access to the training pipeline. In contrast, we reveal critical vulnerabilities across the DRL supply chain where backdoors can be embedded with significantly reduced adversarial privileges. We introduce two novel attacks: (1) TrojanentRL, which exploits component-level flaws to implant a persistent backdoor that survives full model retraining; and (2) InfrectroRL, a post-training backdoor attack which requires no access to training, validation, or test data. Empirical and analytical evaluations across six Atari environments show our attacks rival state-of-the-art training-time backdoor attacks while operating under much stricter adversarial constraints. We also demonstrate that InfrectroRL further evades two leading DRL backdoor defenses. These findings challenge the current research focus and highlight the urgent need for robust defenses. Sanyam Vyas, Alberto Caron, Chris Hicks, Pete Burnap, Vasilios Mavroudis |
AAAI | 2 |
| 2023 | Structure Learning with Adaptive Random Neighborhood Informed MCMCabstractIn this paper, we introduce a novel MCMC sampler, PARNI-DAG, for a fully-Bayesian approach to the problem of structure learning under observational data. Under the assumption of causal sufficiency, the algorithm allows for approximate sampling directly from the posterior distribution on Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs). PARNI-DAG performs efficient sampling of DAGs via locally informed, adaptive random neighborhood proposal that results in better mixing properties. In addition, to ensure better scalability with the number of nodes, we couple PARNI-DAG with a pre-tuning procedure of the sampler's parameters that exploits a skeleton graph derived through some constraint-based or scoring-based algorithms. Thanks to these novel features, PARNI-DAG quickly converges to high-probability regions and is less likely to get stuck in local modes in the presence of high correlation between nodes in high-dimensional settings. After introducing the technical novelties in PARNI-DAG, we empirically demonstrate its mixing efficiency and accuracy in learning DAG structures on a variety of experiments. Xitong Liang, Alberto Caron, Samuel Livingstone, Jim E. Griffin |
NeurIPS | 2 |