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Adversarial learning methods are a promising approach to training robust deep networks, and can generate complex samples across diverse domains. They also can improve recognition despite the presence of domain shift or dataset bias: several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-20 Eric Tzeng , Judy Hoffman , Kate Saenko , Trevor Darrell

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have recently achieved great success in many tasks, which encourages DNNs to be widely used as a machine learning service in model sharing scenarios. However, attackers can easily generate adversarial examples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Xiaowei Zhou , Ivor W. Tsang , Jie Yin

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 training, especially projected gradient descent (PGD), has proven to be a successful approach for improving robustness against adversarial attacks. After adversarial training, gradients of models with respect to their inputs…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-04-21 Ricardo Bigolin Lanfredi , Joyce D. Schroeder , Tolga Tasdizen

In this paper, we study fast training of adversarially robust models. From the analyses of the state-of-the-art defense method, i.e., the multi-step adversarial training, we hypothesize that the gradient magnitude links to the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Jianyu Wang , Haichao Zhang

To mitigate the susceptibility of neural networks to adversarial attacks, adversarial training has emerged as a prevalent and effective defense strategy. Intrinsically, this countermeasure incurs a trade-off, as it sacrifices the model's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Hanyi Hu , Qiao Han , Kui Chen , Yao Yang

Adversarial training (AT) is a prominent technique employed by deep learning models to defend against adversarial attacks, and to some extent, enhance model robustness. However, there are three main drawbacks of the existing AT-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 X. Peng , D. Zhou , G. Sun , J. Shi , L. Wu

Adversarial training has proven effective in improving the robustness of deep neural networks against adversarial attacks. However, this enhanced robustness often comes at the cost of a substantial drop in accuracy on clean data. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Bongsoo Yi , Rongjie Lai , Yao Li

The majority of methods for crafting adversarial attacks have focused on scenes with a single dominant object (e.g., images from ImageNet). On the other hand, natural scenes include multiple dominant objects that are semantically related.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Abhishek Aich , Calvin-Khang Ta , Akash Gupta , Chengyu Song , Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy , M. Salman Asif , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

Robust training methods against perturbations to the input data have received great attention in the machine learning literature. A standard approach in this direction is adversarial training which learns a model using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Farzan Farnia , Amirali Aghazadeh , James Zou , David Tse

Despite the empirical success in various domains, it has been revealed that deep neural networks are vulnerable to maliciously perturbed input data that much degrade their performance. This is known as adversarial attacks. To counter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Nanyang Ye , Qianxiao Li , Xiao-Yun Zhou , Zhanxing Zhu

Many adversarial defense methods have been proposed to enhance the adversarial robustness of natural language processing models. However, most of them introduce additional pre-set linguistic knowledge and assume that the synonym candidates…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Yichen Yang , Xin Liu , Kun He

Projected Gradient Descent (PGD) is a strong and widely used first-order adversarial attack, yet its computational cost scales poorly, as all training samples undergo identical iterative inner-loop optimization despite contributing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Youran Ye , Dejin Wang , Ajinkya Bhandare

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) learn the distribution of observed samples through a zero-sum game between two machine players, a generator and a discriminator. While GANs achieve great success in learning the complex distribution of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Farzan Farnia , William Wang , Subhro Das , Ali Jadbabaie

Adversarial training based on the minimax formulation is necessary for obtaining adversarial robustness of trained models. However, it is conservative or even pessimistic so that it sometimes hurts the natural generalization. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Jingfeng Zhang , Xilie Xu , Bo Han , Gang Niu , Lizhen Cui , Masashi Sugiyama , Mohan Kankanhalli

Machine learning-based cybersecurity systems are highly vulnerable to adversarial attacks, while Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) act as both powerful attack enablers and promising defenses. This survey systematically reviews…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Tharcisse Ndayipfukamiye , Jianguo Ding , Doreen Sebastian Sarwatt , Adamu Gaston Philipo , Huansheng Ning

The existence of adversarial examples brings huge concern for people to apply Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) in safety-critical tasks. However, how to generate adversarial examples with categorical data is an important problem but lack of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Han Xu , Pengfei He , Jie Ren , Yuxuan Wan , Zitao Liu , Hui Liu , Jiliang Tang

Adversarial training is an effective but time-consuming way to train robust deep neural networks that can withstand strong adversarial attacks. As a response to its inefficiency, we propose Dynamic Efficient Adversarial Training (DEAT),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Fu Wang , Yanghao Zhang , Yanbin Zheng , Wenjie Ruan

The utilization of large foundational models has a dilemma: while fine-tuning downstream tasks from them holds promise for making use of the well-generalized knowledge in practical applications, their open accessibility also poses threats…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Song Xia , Wenhan Yang , Yi Yu , Xun Lin , Henghui Ding , Ling-Yu Duan , Xudong Jiang

Adversarial training (AT) is a widely recognized defense mechanism to gain the robustness of deep neural networks against adversarial attacks. It is built on min-max optimization (MMO), where the minimizer (i.e., defender) seeks a robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Yihua Zhang , Guanhua Zhang , Prashant Khanduri , Mingyi Hong , Shiyu Chang , Sijia Liu