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Benefiting from large-scale pre-training, we have witnessed significant performance boost on the popular Visual Question Answering (VQA) task. Despite rapid progress, it remains unclear whether these state-of-the-art (SOTA) models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Linjie Li , Jie Lei , Zhe Gan , Jingjing Liu

Adversarial training is one of the most effective methods for enhancing model robustness. Recent approaches incorporate adversarial distillation in adversarial training architectures. However, we notice two scenarios of defense methods that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Zhenyu Liu , Haoran Duan , Huizhi Liang , Yang Long , Vaclav Snasel , Guiseppe Nicosia , Rajiv Ranjan , Varun Ojha

As deep learning applications, especially programs of computer vision, are increasingly deployed in our lives, we have to think more urgently about the security of these applications.One effective way to improve the security of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Xiao Tan , Jingbo Gao , Ruolin Li

Thanks to their extensive capacity, over-parameterized neural networks exhibit superior predictive capabilities and generalization. However, having a large parameter space is considered one of the main suspects of the neural networks'…

Adversarial training is by far the most successful strategy for improving robustness of neural networks to adversarial attacks. Despite its success as a defense mechanism, adversarial training fails to generalize well to unperturbed test…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Yogesh Balaji , Tom Goldstein , Judy Hoffman

In this paper we study leveraging confidence information induced by adversarial training to reinforce adversarial robustness of a given adversarially trained model. A natural measure of confidence is $\|F({\bf x})\|_\infty$ (i.e. how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Xi Wu , Uyeong Jang , Jiefeng Chen , Lingjiao Chen , Somesh Jha

Adversarial Training (AT) has been found to substantially improve the robustness of deep learning classifiers against adversarial attacks. AT involves obtaining robustness by including adversarial examples in training a classifier. Most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Olukorede Fakorede , Ashutosh Kumar Nirala , Modeste Atsague , Jin Tian

Recent works have shown that the input domain of any machine learning classifier is bound to contain adversarial examples. Thus we can no longer hope to immune classifiers against adversarial examples and instead can only aim to achieve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Gil Fidel , Ron Bitton , Ziv Katzir , Asaf Shabtai

Adversarial robustness measures the susceptibility of a classifier to imperceptible perturbations made to the inputs at test time. In this work we highlight the benefits of natural low rank representations that often exist for real data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Pranjal Awasthi , Himanshu Jain , Ankit Singh Rawat , Aravindan Vijayaraghavan

Deep neural networks are highly vulnerable to adversarial examples, i.e.,small perturbations that can significantly degrade model performance. While adversarial training has become the primary defense strategy, most studies focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Lilin Zhang , Yimo Guo , Yue Li , Jiancheng Shi , Xianggen Liu

Nowadays, pretrained models are increasingly used as general-purpose backbones and adapted at test-time to downstream environments where target data are scarce and unlabeled. While this paradigm has proven effective for improving clean…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Stefano Bianchettin , Giulio Rossolini , Giorgio Buttazzo

Given the widespread use of deep learning models in safety-critical applications, ensuring that the decisions of such models are robust against adversarial exploitation is of fundamental importance. In this thesis, we discuss recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Alexander Robey

In programming, learning code representations has a variety of applications, including code classification, code search, comment generation, bug prediction, and so on. Various representations of code in terms of tokens, syntax trees,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Nghi D. Q. Bui , Yijun Yu

It is well known that deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which are implemented by adding crafted perturbations onto benign examples. Min-max robust optimization based adversarial training can provide a notion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Shaokai Ye , Kaidi Xu , Sijia Liu , Jan-Henrik Lambrechts , Huan Zhang , Aojun Zhou , Kaisheng Ma , Yanzhi Wang , Xue Lin

Adversarial training and its variants have become de facto standards for learning robust deep neural networks. In this paper, we explore the landscape around adversarial training in a bid to uncover its limits. We systematically study the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-31 Sven Gowal , Chongli Qin , Jonathan Uesato , Timothy Mann , Pushmeet Kohli

Given the apparent difficulty of learning models that are robust to adversarial perturbations, we propose tackling the simpler problem of developing adversarially robust features. Specifically, given a dataset and metric of interest, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Shivam Garg , Vatsal Sharan , Brian Hu Zhang , Gregory Valiant

Although adversarial training is known to be effective against adversarial examples, training dynamics are not well understood. In this study, we present the first theoretical analysis of adversarial training in random deep neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Soichiro Kumano , Hiroshi Kera , Toshihiko Yamasaki

Deep learning has achieved great success in computer vision, but remains vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Adversarial training is the leading defense designed to improve model robustness. However, its effect on the transferability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Mohamed Awad , Mahmoud Akrm , Walid Gomaa

Recent breakthroughs in the field of deep learning have led to advancements in a broad spectrum of tasks in computer vision, audio processing, natural language processing and other areas. In most instances where these tasks are deployed in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Daanish Ali Khan , Linhong Li , Ninghao Sha , Zhuoran Liu , Abelino Jimenez , Bhiksha Raj , Rita Singh

Neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks: adding well-crafted, imperceptible perturbations to their input can modify their output. Adversarial training is one of the most effective approaches to training robust models against…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Hadi M. Dolatabadi , Sarah Erfani , Christopher Leckie