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Although fast adversarial training provides an efficient approach for building robust networks, it may suffer from a serious problem known as catastrophic overfitting (CO), where multi-step robust accuracy suddenly collapses to zero. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Zhengbao He , Tao Li , Sizhe Chen , Xiaolin Huang

While adversarial training methods have significantly improved the robustness of deep neural networks against norm-bounded adversarial perturbations, the generalization gap between their performance on training and test data is considerably…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Xiwei Cheng , Kexin Fu , Farzan Farnia

Adversarial Training (AT) is one of the most effective methods to train robust Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). However, AT creates an inherent trade-off between clean accuracy and adversarial robustness, which is commonly attributed to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yanyun Wang , Li Liu

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

It has been suggested that adversarial examples cause deep learning models to make incorrect predictions with high confidence. In this work, we take the opposite stance: an overly confident model is more likely to be vulnerable to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Angus Galloway , Graham W. Taylor , Medhat Moussa

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

In recent years, it has been found that neural networks can be easily fooled by adversarial examples, which is a potential safety hazard in some safety-critical applications. Many researchers have proposed various method to make neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Shuangtao Li , Yuanke Chen , Yanlin Peng , Lin Bai

Deep neural networks are susceptible to adversarial attacks, which can compromise their performance and accuracy. Adversarial Training (AT) has emerged as a popular approach for protecting neural networks against such attacks. However, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Vijaya Raghavan T Ramkumar , Bahram Zonooz , Elahe Arani

While adversarial training can improve robust accuracy (against an adversary), it sometimes hurts standard accuracy (when there is no adversary). Previous work has studied this tradeoff between standard and robust accuracy, but only in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Aditi Raghunathan , Sang Michael Xie , Fanny Yang , John C. Duchi , Percy Liang

Robustness is a key requirement for widespread deployment of machine learning algorithms, and has received much attention in both statistics and computer science. We study a natural model of robustness for high-dimensional statistical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Pranjal Awasthi , Xue Chen , Aravindan Vijayaraghavan

High cost of training time caused by multi-step adversarial example generation is a major challenge in adversarial training. Previous methods try to reduce the computational burden of adversarial training using single-step adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Lehui Xie , Yaopeng Wang , Jia-Li Yin , Ximeng Liu

Adversarial training for neural networks has been in the limelight in recent years. The advancement in neural network architectures over the last decade has led to significant improvement in their performance. It sparked an interest in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Abhijith Sharma , Apurva Narayan

Adversarial training (i.e., training on adversarially perturbed input data) is a well-studied method for making neural networks robust to potential adversarial attacks during inference. However, the improved robustness does not come for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Mathias Lechner , Alexander Amini , Daniela Rus , Thomas A. Henzinger

Convolutional neural networks are currently the state-of-the-art algorithms for many remote sensing applications such as semantic segmentation or object detection. However, these algorithms are extremely sensitive to over-fitting, domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Adrien Chan-Hon-Tong , Gaston Lenczner , Aurelien Plyer

State-of-the-art classifiers have been shown to be largely vulnerable to adversarial perturbations. One of the most effective strategies to improve robustness is adversarial training. In this paper, we investigate the effect of adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Seyed-Mohsen Moosavi-Dezfooli , Alhussein Fawzi , Jonathan Uesato , Pascal Frossard

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

In this paper, we uniquely study the adversarial robustness of deep neural networks (NN) for classification tasks against that of optimal classifiers. We look at the smallest magnitude of possible additive perturbations that can change a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Jingchao Gao , Ziqing Lu , Raghu Mudumbai , Xiaodong Wu , Jirong Yi , Myung Cho , Catherine Xu , Hui Xie , Weiyu Xu

Machine-learning models demand periodic updates to improve their average accuracy, exploiting novel architectures and additional data. However, a newly updated model may commit mistakes the previous model did not make. Such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Daniele Angioni , Luca Demetrio , Maura Pintor , Luca Oneto , Davide Anguita , Battista Biggio , Fabio Roli

While deep learning in the form of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) has caused a significant improvement in neural language modeling, the fact that they are extremely prone to overfitting is still a mainly unresolved issue. In this paper we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Sajad Movahedi , Azadeh Shakery

Model robustness against adversarial examples of single perturbation type such as the $\ell_{p}$-norm has been widely studied, yet its generalization to more realistic scenarios involving multiple semantic perturbations and their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Lei Hsiung , Yun-Yun Tsai , Pin-Yu Chen , Tsung-Yi Ho