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Adversarial training, a method for learning robust deep networks, is typically assumed to be more expensive than traditional training due to the necessity of constructing adversarial examples via a first-order method like projected gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Eric Wong , Leslie Rice , J. Zico Kolter

It is commonly believed that networks cannot be both accurate and robust, that gaining robustness means losing accuracy. It is also generally believed that, unless making networks larger, network architectural elements would otherwise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Cihang Xie , Mingxing Tan , Boqing Gong , Alan Yuille , Quoc V. Le

Adversarial Training (AT) with Projected Gradient Descent (PGD) is an effective approach for improving the robustness of the deep neural networks. However, PGD AT has been shown to suffer from two main limitations: i) high computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Ahmadreza Jeddi , Mohammad Javad Shafiee , Alexander Wong

Deep learning models have achieved state-of-the-art performances in various domains, while they are vulnerable to the inputs with well-crafted but small perturbations, which are named after adversarial examples (AEs). Among many strategies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Huihui Gong

Adversarial training serves as one of the most popular and effective methods to defend against adversarial perturbations. However, most defense mechanisms only consider a single type of perturbation while various attack methods might be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Huihui Gong , Minjing Dong , Siqi Ma , Seyit Camtepe , Surya Nepal , Chang Xu

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

Adversarial training is wildly considered as one of the most effective way to defend against adversarial examples. However, existing adversarial training methods consume unbearable time, due to the fact that they need to generate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Yaguan Qian , Qiqi Shao , Tengteng Yao , Bin Wang , Shouling Ji , Shaoning Zeng , Zhaoquan Gu , Wassim Swaileh

Adversarial training is a defense technique that improves adversarial robustness of a deep neural network (DNN) by including adversarial examples in the training data. In this paper, we identify an overlooked problem of adversarial training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Wonseok Lee , Hanbit Lee , Sang-goo Lee

Single-step adversarial training (AT) has received wide attention as it proved to be both efficient and robust. However, a serious problem of catastrophic overfitting exists, i.e., the robust accuracy against projected gradient descent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Tao Li , Yingwen Wu , Sizhe Chen , Kun Fang , Xiaolin Huang

Adversarial training (AT) has been demonstrated as one of the most promising defense methods against various adversarial attacks. To our knowledge, existing AT-based methods usually train with the locally most adversarial perturbed points…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Chuanbiao Song , Yanbo Fan , Yichen Yang , Baoyuan Wu , Yiming Li , Zhifeng Li , Kun He

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

Adversarial training (AT) is always formulated as a minimax problem, of which the performance depends on the inner optimization that involves the generation of adversarial examples (AEs). Most previous methods adopt Projected Gradient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Xiaojun Jia , Yong Zhang , Baoyuan Wu , Ke Ma , Jue Wang , Xiaochun Cao

Adversarial training, in which a network is trained on both adversarial and clean examples, is one of the most trusted defense methods against adversarial attacks. However, there are three major practical difficulties in implementing and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Shixian Wen , Laurent Itti

Despite recent efforts in Large Language Model (LLM) safety and alignment, current adversarial attacks on frontier LLMs can still consistently force harmful generations. Although adversarial training has been widely studied and shown to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Csaba Dékány , Stefan Balauca , Robin Staab , Dimitar I. Dimitrov , Martin Vechev

Despite extensive diagnostics and debugging by developers, AI systems sometimes exhibit harmful unintended behaviors. Finding and fixing these is challenging because the attack surface is so large -- it is not tractable to exhaustively…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Stephen Casper , Lennart Schulze , Oam Patel , Dylan Hadfield-Menell

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

Current neural-network-based classifiers are susceptible to adversarial examples. The most empirically successful approach to defending against such adversarial examples is adversarial training, which incorporates a strong self-attack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Bai Li , Shiqi Wang , Suman Jana , Lawrence Carin

Deep neural networks are easily fooled by small perturbations known as adversarial attacks. Adversarial Training (AT) is a technique that approximately solves a robust optimization problem to minimize the worst-case loss and is widely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Theodoros Tsiligkaridis , Jay Roberts

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have demonstrated unprecedented success in various image generation tasks. The encouraging results, however, come at the price of a cumbersome training process, during which the generator and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Chengchao Shen , Youtan Yin , Xinchao Wang , Xubin Li , Jie Song , Mingli Song

Adversarial training has become the primary method to defend against adversarial samples. However, it is hard to practically apply due to many shortcomings. One of the shortcomings of adversarial training is that it will reduce the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Zhishen Nie , Ying Lin , Sp Ren , Lan Zhang