Publications

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Preprints

Neither Adversarial Training Nor Purification: Emergent Adversarial Robustness from Oscillatory Predictive Learning

Mohammed-Yassine Habibi, Klea Ziu, Martin Takáč, Makoto Yamada

arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.08683, 2026

Oscillatory Predictive Learning (OPL) combines Artificial Kuramoto Oscillatory Neurons with predictive self-supervised pretraining (X-PhiNet): adversarial robustness emerges from architectural and representation-learning inductive biases, without adversarial training or test-time purification.

  • Adversarial robustness
  • Self-supervised learning
  • Oscillatory neurons

Conference & Workshop Papers

Neuroscience-Inspired Encoding and Learning: A Path to Robust Representation Learning

Mohammed-Yassine Habibi, Klea Ziu, Makoto Yamada

WiML Workshop @ NeurIPS 2025, 2025

Combining Artificial Kuramoto Oscillatory Neurons (AKOrN) with PhiNet, a hippocampus-inspired non-contrastive self-supervised method, to obtain encoders that are more robust to adversarial perturbations — without adversarial training.

  • Adversarial robustness
  • Self-supervised learning
  • Neuroscience-inspired