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Adversarial Training (AT) is proposed to alleviate the adversarial vulnerability of machine learning models by extracting only robust features from the input, which, however, inevitably leads to severe accuracy reduction as it discards the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-06 Yifei Wang , Dan Peng , Furui Liu , Zhenguo Li , Zhitang Chen , Jiansheng Yang

We introduce a feature scattering-based adversarial training approach for improving model robustness against adversarial attacks. Conventional adversarial training approaches leverage a supervised scheme (either targeted or non-targeted) in…

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Adversarial patch attacks are among one of the most practical threat models against real-world computer vision systems. This paper studies certified and empirical defenses against patch attacks. We begin with a set of experiments showing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Ping-Yeh Chiang , Renkun Ni , Ahmed Abdelkader , Chen Zhu , Christoph Studer , Tom Goldstein

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

Despite modifying only a small localized input region, adversarial patches can drastically change the prediction of computer vision models. However, prior methods either cannot perform satisfactorily under targeted attack scenarios or fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Subrat Kishore Dutta , Xiao Zhang

Adversarial training and its many variants substantially improve deep network robustness, yet at the cost of compromising standard accuracy. Moreover, the training process is heavy and hence it becomes impractical to thoroughly explore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Haotao Wang , Tianlong Chen , Shupeng Gui , Ting-Kuei Hu , Ji Liu , Zhangyang Wang

Adversarial training (AT) has been considered one of the most effective methods for making deep neural networks robust against adversarial attacks, while the training mechanisms and dynamics of AT remain open research problems. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Zeming Wei , Yiwen Guo , Yisen Wang

Adversarial training (AT) is one of the most effective strategies for promoting model robustness. However, recent benchmarks show that most of the proposed improvements on AT are less effective than simply early stopping the training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Tianyu Pang , Xiao Yang , Yinpeng Dong , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Adversarial Training (AT) is a key defense against Machine Learning evasion attacks, but its effectiveness for real-world malware detection remains poorly understood. This uncertainty stems from a critical disconnect in prior research:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Hamid Bostani , Jacopo Cortellazzi , Daniel Arp , Fabio Pierazzi , Veelasha Moonsamy , Lorenzo Cavallaro

The forecast of electrical loads is essential for the planning and operation of the power system. Recently, advances in deep learning have enabled more accurate forecasts. However, deep neural networks are prone to adversarial attacks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Wangkun Xu , Fei Teng

Higher-order adversarial attacks can directly be considered the result of a cat-and-mouse game -- an elaborate action involving constant pursuit, near captures, and repeated escapes. This idiom describes the enduring circular training of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Jens Bayer , Stefan Becker , David Münch , Michael Arens , Jürgen Beyerer

Meta-learning model can quickly adapt to new tasks using few-shot labeled data. However, despite achieving good generalization on few-shot classification tasks, it is still challenging to improve the adversarial robustness of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Fan Liu , Shuyu Zhao , Xuelong Dai , Bin Xiao

Advancements in reinforcement learning (RL) have been remarkable in recent years. However, the limitations of traditional training methods have become increasingly evident, particularly in meta-RL settings where agents face new, unseen…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Ramnath Kumar , Tristan Deleu , Yoshua Bengio

We provide a comprehensive overview of adversarial machine learning focusing on two application domains, i.e., cybersecurity and computer vision. Research in adversarial machine learning addresses a significant threat to the wide…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Bowei Xi

In safety-critical applications such as medical imaging and autonomous driving, where decisions have profound implications for patient health and road safety, it is imperative to maintain both high adversarial robustness to protect against…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Ziquan Liu , Yufei Cui , Yan Yan , Yi Xu , Xiangyang Ji , Xue Liu , Antoni B. Chan

Injecting adversarial examples during training, known as adversarial training, can improve robustness against one-step attacks, but not for unknown iterative attacks. To address this challenge, we first show iteratively generated…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-20 Taesik Na , Jong Hwan Ko , Saibal Mukhopadhyay

Although attention mechanisms have become fundamental components of deep learning models, they are vulnerable to perturbations, which may degrade the prediction performance and model interpretability. Adversarial training (AT) for attention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Shunsuke Kitada , Hitoshi Iyatomi

Adversarial perturbations are critical for certifying the robustness of deep learning models. A universal adversarial perturbation (UAP) can simultaneously attack multiple images, and thus offers a more unified threat model, obviating an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Pu Zhao , Parikshit Ram , Songtao Lu , Yuguang Yao , Djallel Bouneffouf , Xue Lin , Sijia Liu

Adversarial training is an approach of increasing the robustness of models to adversarial attacks by including adversarial examples in the training set. One major challenge of producing adversarial examples is to contain sufficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Tianjin Huang , Vlado Menkovski , Yulong Pei , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Adversarial training has been empirically proven to be one of the most effective and reliable defense methods against adversarial attacks. However, almost all existing studies about adversarial training are focused on balanced datasets,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Wentao Wang , Han Xu , Xiaorui Liu , Yaxin Li , Bhavani Thuraisingham , Jiliang Tang