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Over recent years, devising classification algorithms that are robust to adversarial perturbations has emerged as a challenging problem. In particular, deep neural nets (DNNs) seem to be susceptible to small imperceptible changes over test…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Sanjam Garg , Somesh Jha , Saeed Mahloujifar , Mohammad Mahmoody

This tutorial aims to introduce the fundamentals of adversarial robustness of deep learning, presenting a well-structured review of up-to-date techniques to assess the vulnerability of various types of deep learning models to adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Wenjie Ruan , Xinping Yi , Xiaowei Huang

Deep neural networks are capable of training fast and generalizing well within many domains. Despite their promising performance, deep networks have shown sensitivities to perturbations of their inputs (e.g., adversarial examples) and their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Justin Goodwin , Olivia Brown , Victoria Helus

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

Machine learning models are now widely deployed in real-world applications. However, the existence of adversarial examples has been long considered a real threat to such models. While numerous defenses aiming to improve the robustness have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Sahar Abdelnabi , Mario Fritz

The vulnerability of deep neural networks (DNNs) to adversarial examples has attracted great attention in the machine learning community. The problem is related to non-flatness and non-smoothness of normally obtained loss landscapes.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Qizhang Li , Yiwen Guo , Wangmeng Zuo , Hao Chen

Adversarial learning and the robustness of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are topics of widespread interest in the machine learning community, as documented by the number of adversarial attacks and defenses designed for these purposes. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Tran Gia Bao Ngo , Zulfikar Alom , Federico Errica , Murat Kantarcioglu , Cuneyt Gurcan Akcora

Adversarial training has been demonstrated to be one of the most effective remedies for defending adversarial examples, yet it often suffers from the huge robustness generalization gap on unseen testing adversaries, deemed as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Aishan Liu , Shiyu Tang , Siyuan Liang , Ruihao Gong , Boxi Wu , Xianglong Liu , Dacheng Tao

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved beyond human-level accuracy in the image classification task and are widely deployed in real-world environments. However, CNNs show vulnerability to adversarial perturbations that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Desheng Wang , Weidong Jin , Yunpu Wu , Aamir Khan

Adversarial training has proven to be a highly effective method for improving the robustness of deep neural networks against adversarial attacks. Nonetheless, it has been observed to exhibit a limitation in terms of robust fairness,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Hongxin Zhi , Hongtao Yu , Shaome Li , Xiuming Zhao , Yiteng Wu

Adversarial attacks have been shown to be highly effective at degrading the performance of deep neural networks (DNNs). The most prominent defense is adversarial training, a method for learning a robust model. Nevertheless, adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Uriya Pesso , Koby Bibas , Meir Feder

Adversarial examples reveal critical vulnerabilities in deep neural networks by exploiting their sensitivity to imperceptible input perturbations. While adversarial training remains the predominant defense strategy, it often incurs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Longwei Wang , Ifrat Ikhtear Uddin , KC Santosh , Chaowei Zhang , Xiao Qin , Yang Zhou

Deep learning models continue to advance in accuracy, yet they remain vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which often lead to the misclassification of adversarial examples. Adversarial training is used to mitigate this problem by increasing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Leo Hyun Park , Jaeuk Kim , Myung Gyo Oh , Jaewoo Park , Taekyoung Kwon

Deep Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) can easily be fooled by subtle, imperceptible changes to the input images. To address this vulnerability, adversarial training creates perturbation patterns and includes them in the training set to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Muzammal Naseer , Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Fatih Porikli

Adversarial examples pose a unique challenge for deep learning systems. Despite recent advances in both attacks and defenses, there is still a lack of clarity and consensus in the community about the true nature and underlying properties of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Shishira R Maiya , Max Ehrlich , Vatsal Agarwal , Ser-Nam Lim , Tom Goldstein , Abhinav Shrivastava

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

Transfer learning is a widely-used paradigm in deep learning, where models pre-trained on standard datasets can be efficiently adapted to downstream tasks. Typically, better pre-trained models yield better transfer results, suggesting that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Hadi Salman , Andrew Ilyas , Logan Engstrom , Ashish Kapoor , Aleksander Madry

The disparity in accuracy between classes in standard training is amplified during adversarial training, a phenomenon termed the robust fairness problem. Existing methodologies aimed to enhance robust fairness by sacrificing the model's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Hyungyu Lee , Saehyung Lee , Hyemi Jang , Junsung Park , Ho Bae , Sungroh Yoon

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

Adversarial Training (AT) is one of the most effective methods for developing robust deep neural networks (DNNs). However, AT faces a trade-off problem between clean accuracy and adversarial robustness. In this work, we reveal a surprising…

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