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Adversarial training is an effective method to boost model robustness to malicious, adversarial attacks. However, such improvement in model robustness often leads to a significant sacrifice of standard performance on clean images. In many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Pengyue Hou , Ming Zhou , Jie Han , Petr Musilek , Xingyu Li

In this paper we aim to explore the general robustness of neural network classifiers by utilizing adversarial as well as natural perturbations. Different from previous works which mainly focus on studying the robustness of neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Sadaf Gulshad , Jan Hendrik Metzen , Arnold Smeulders

Adversarial training, which is to enhance robustness against adversarial attacks, has received much attention because it is easy to generate human-imperceptible perturbations of data to deceive a given deep neural network. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-02 Dongyoon Yang , Insung Kong , Yongdai Kim

Adversarial training is among the most effective techniques to improve the robustness of models against adversarial perturbations. However, the full effect of this approach on models is not well understood. For example, while adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Mohammad Mehrabi , Adel Javanmard , Ryan A. Rossi , Anup Rao , Tung Mai

Despite strong performance in numerous applications, the fragility of deep learning to input perturbations has raised serious questions about its use in safety-critical domains. While adversarial training can mitigate this issue in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-01 Alexander Robey , Luiz F. O. Chamon , George J. Pappas , Hamed Hassani , Alejandro Ribeiro

Performance-critical machine learning models should be robust to input perturbations not seen during training. Adversarial training is a method for improving a model's robustness to some perturbations by including them in the training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Angus Galloway , Thomas Tanay , Graham W. Taylor

Obtaining deep networks that are robust against adversarial examples and generalize well is an open problem. A recent hypothesis even states that both robust and accurate models are impossible, i.e., adversarial robustness and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 David Stutz , Matthias Hein , Bernt Schiele

Adversarial robustness refers to a model's ability to resist perturbation of inputs, while distribution robustness evaluates the performance of the model under data shifts. Although both aim to ensure reliable performance, prior work has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Yipei Wang , Zhaoying Pan , Xiaoqian Wang

Adversarial training is a widely-applied approach to training deep neural networks to be robust against adversarial perturbation. However, although adversarial training has achieved empirical success in practice, it still remains unclear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Binghui Li , Yuanzhi Li

Multiple intriguing problems are hovering in adversarial training, including robust overfitting, robustness overestimation, and robustness-accuracy trade-off. These problems pose great challenges to both reliable evaluation and practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Chengyu Dong , Liyuan Liu , Jingbo Shang

In adversarial machine learning, there was a common belief that robustness and accuracy hurt each other. The belief was challenged by recent studies where we can maintain the robustness and improve the accuracy. However, the other…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Jingfeng Zhang , Jianing Zhu , Gang Niu , Bo Han , Masashi Sugiyama , Mohan Kankanhalli

Adversarial training is one of the most effective approaches defending against adversarial examples for deep learning models. Unlike other defense strategies, adversarial training aims to promote the robustness of models intrinsically.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Tao Bai , Jinqi Luo , Jun Zhao , Bihan Wen , Qian Wang

He et al. (2018) have called into question the utility of pre-training by showing that training from scratch can often yield similar performance to pre-training. We show that although pre-training may not improve performance on traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Dan Hendrycks , Kimin Lee , Mantas Mazeika

We demonstrate that the choice of optimizer, neural network architecture, and regularizer significantly affect the adversarial robustness of linear neural networks, providing guarantees without the need for adversarial training. To this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Fartash Faghri , Sven Gowal , Cristina Vasconcelos , David J. Fleet , Fabian Pedregosa , Nicolas Le Roux

Previous studies on robustness have argued that there is a tradeoff between accuracy and adversarial accuracy. The tradeoff can be inevitable even when we neglect generalization. We argue that the tradeoff is inherent to the commonly used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Hyeongji Kim , Pekka Parviainen , Ketil Malde

Adversarial training (AT) is an effective technique for enhancing adversarial robustness, but it usually comes at the cost of a decline in generalization ability. Recent studies have attempted to use clean training to assist adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 MingWei Zhou , Xiaobing Pei

Modern machine learning and deep learning models are shown to be vulnerable when testing data are slightly perturbed. Existing theoretical studies of adversarial training algorithms mostly focus on either adversarial training losses or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-07 Yue Xing , Qifan Song , Guang Cheng

Despite the rapid progress of neural networks, they remain highly vulnerable to adversarial examples, for which adversarial training (AT) is currently the most effective defense. While AT has been extensively studied, its practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Yisen Wang , Yichuan Mo , Hongjun Wang , Junyi Li , Zhouchen Lin

Adversarial training has proven to be effective in hardening networks against adversarial examples. However, the gained robustness is limited by network capacity and number of training samples. Consequently, to build more robust models, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Zheng Xu , Ali Shafahi , Tom Goldstein

Despite extraordinary progress, current machine learning systems have been shown to be brittle against adversarial examples: seemingly innocuous but carefully crafted perturbations of test examples that cause machine learning predictors to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Omar Montasser