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Designing powerful adversarial attacks is of paramount importance for the evaluation of $\ell_p$-bounded adversarial defenses. Projected Gradient Descent (PGD) is one of the most effective and conceptually simple algorithms to generate such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Nikolaos Antoniou , Efthymios Georgiou , Alexandros Potamianos

Efficient and effective attacks are crucial for reliable evaluation of defenses, and also for developing robust models. Projected Gradient Descent (PGD) attack has been demonstrated to be one of the most successful adversarial attacks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Mengting Xu , Tao Zhang , Zhongnian Li , Daoqiang Zhang

In many real-world applications of Machine Learning it is of paramount importance not only to provide accurate predictions, but also to ensure certain levels of robustness. Adversarial Training is a training procedure aiming at providing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Matteo Terzi , Gian Antonio Susto , Pratik Chaudhari

Recent advances show that deep neural networks are not robust to deliberately crafted adversarial examples which many are generated by adding human imperceptible perturbation to clear input. Consider $l_2$ norms attacks, Project Gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Fanyou Wu , Rado Gazo , Eva Haviarova , Bedrich Benes

To enable learning on edge devices with fast convergence and low memory, we present a novel backpropagation-free optimization algorithm dubbed Target Projection Stochastic Gradient Descent (tpSGD). tpSGD generalizes direct random target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Michael Lomnitz , Zachary Daniels , David Zhang , Michael Piacentino

Current LLM alignment methods are readily broken through specifically crafted adversarial prompts. While crafting adversarial prompts using discrete optimization is highly effective, such attacks typically use more than 100,000 LLM calls.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Simon Geisler , Tom Wollschläger , M. H. I. Abdalla , Johannes Gasteiger , Stephan Günnemann

Adversarial attacks, particularly the Fast Gradient Sign Method (FGSM) and Projected Gradient Descent (PGD) pose significant threats to the robustness of deep learning models in image classification. This paper explores and refines defense…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Hetvi Waghela , Jaydip Sen , Sneha Rakshit

Transferability, the ability of adversarial examples crafted for one model to deceive other models, is crucial for black-box attacks. Despite advancements in attack methods for semantic segmentation, transferability remains limited,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Eun-Sol Park , MiSo Park , Seung Park , Yong-Goo Shin

Evading adversarial example detection defenses requires finding adversarial examples that must simultaneously (a) be misclassified by the model and (b) be detected as non-adversarial. We find that existing attacks that attempt to satisfy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Oliver Bryniarski , Nabeel Hingun , Pedro Pachuca , Vincent Wang , Nicholas Carlini

In this paper we analyze the behaviour of the stochastic gradient descent (SGD), a widely used method in supervised learning for optimizing neural network weights via a minimization of non-convex loss functions. Since the pioneering work of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Davide Barbieri , Matteo Bonforte , Peio Ibarrondo

Deep learning models have shown impressive performance across a spectrum of computer vision applications including medical diagnosis and autonomous driving. One of the major concerns that these models face is their susceptibility to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Vivek B. S. , R. Venkatesh Babu

The vulnerability of deep neural networks to small and even imperceptible perturbations has become a central topic in deep learning research. Although several sophisticated defense mechanisms have been introduced, most were later shown to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Leo Schwinn , An Nguyen , René Raab , Dario Zanca , Bjoern Eskofier , Daniel Tenbrinck , Martin Burger

Generating adversarial examples at scale is a core primitive for robustness evaluation, adversarial training, and red-teaming, yet even "fast" attacks such as FGSM remain throughput-limited by the cost of a backward pass. We introduce a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Kamil Ciosek , Aleksandr V. Petrov , Nicolò Felicioni , Konstantina Palla

Adversarial training has shown promise in building robust models against adversarial examples. A major drawback of adversarial training is the computational overhead introduced by the generation of adversarial examples. To overcome this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Xiaojun Jia , Jianshu Li , Jindong Gu , Yang Bai , Xiaochun Cao

Adversarial examples are a key method to exploit deep neural networks. Using gradient information, such examples can be generated in an efficient way without altering the victim model. Recent frequency domain transformation has further…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Zhibo Jin , Jiayu Zhang , Zhiyu Zhu , Xinyi Wang , Yiyun Huang , Huaming Chen

Gradient-based attacks are important methods for evaluating model robustness. However, since the proposal of APGD, it has been difficult for such methods to achieve significant breakthroughs. To achieve such an effect, we first analyze the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Xinlei Liu , Tao Hu , Jichao Xie , Peng Yi , Hailong Ma , Baolin Li

The paradigm of Differentially Private SGD~(DP-SGD) can provide a theoretical guarantee for training data in both centralized and federated settings. However, the utility degradation caused by DP-SGD limits its wide application in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Haichao Sha , Ruixuan Liu , Yixuan Liu , Hong Chen

State-of-the-art adversarial attacks on neural networks use expensive iterative methods and numerous random restarts from different initial points. Iterative FGSM-based methods without restarts trade off performance for computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Ping-Yeh Chiang , Jonas Geiping , Micah Goldblum , Tom Goldstein , Renkun Ni , Steven Reich , Ali Shafahi

Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) has proven to be remarkably effective in optimizing deep neural networks that employ ever-larger numbers of parameters. Yet, improving the efficiency of large-scale optimization remains a vital and highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Frithjof Gressmann , Zach Eaton-Rosen , Carlo Luschi

Despite the wide use of machine learning in adversarial settings including computer security, recent studies have demonstrated vulnerabilities to evasion attacks---carefully crafted adversarial samples that closely resemble legitimate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-05-26 Yi Han , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein