English
Related papers

Related papers: Relating Adversarially Robust Generalization to Fl…

200 papers

The study on improving the robustness of deep neural networks against adversarial examples grows rapidly in recent years. Among them, adversarial training is the most promising one, which flattens the input loss landscape (loss change with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Dongxian Wu , Shu-tao Xia , Yisen Wang

Adversarial training is widely used to improve the robustness of deep neural networks to adversarial attack. However, adversarial training is prone to overfitting, and the cause is far from clear. This work sheds light on the mechanisms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Lin Li , Michael Spratling

Flatness of the loss surface not only correlates positively with generalization, but is also related to adversarial robustness since perturbations of inputs relate non-linearly to perturbations of weights. In this paper, we empirically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Nils Philipp Walter , Linara Adilova , Jilles Vreeken , Michael Kamp

Adversarial training (AT) is currently one of the most successful methods to obtain the adversarial robustness of deep neural networks. However, the phenomenon of robust overfitting, i.e., the robustness starts to decrease significantly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Jihoon Tack , Sihyun Yu , Jongheon Jeong , Minseon Kim , Sung Ju Hwang , Jinwoo Shin

Adversarial training (AT) has proven to be one of the most effective ways to defend Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) against adversarial attacks. However, the phenomenon of robust overfitting, i.e., the robustness will drop sharply at a certain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Shudong Zhang , Haichang Gao , Tianwei Zhang , Yunyi Zhou , Zihui Wu

Adversarial training is a popular method to robustify models against adversarial attacks. However, it exhibits much more severe overfitting than training on clean inputs. In this work, we investigate this phenomenon from the perspective of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Chen Liu , Zhichao Huang , Mathieu Salzmann , Tong Zhang , Sabine Süsstrunk

Adversarial training (AT) constructs robust neural networks by incorporating adversarial perturbations into natural data. However, it is plagued by the issue of robust overfitting (RO), which severely damages the model's robustness. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Chaojian Yu , Xiaolong Shi , Jun Yu , Bo Han , Tongliang Liu

Adversarial training (AT) with projected gradient descent is the most popular method to improve model robustness under adversarial attacks. However, computational overheads become prohibitively large when AT is applied to large backbone…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Quanwei Wu , Jun Guo , Wei Wang , Yi Wang

Standard adversarial training approaches suffer from robust overfitting where the robust accuracy decreases when models are adversarially trained for too long. The origin of this problem is still unclear and conflicting explanations have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Muhammad Zaid Hameed , Beat Buesser

Despite their empirical success, neural networks remain vulnerable to small, adversarial perturbations. A longstanding hypothesis suggests that flat minima, regions of low curvature in the loss landscape, offer increased robustness. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Nils Philipp Walter , Linara Adilova , Jilles Vreeken , Michael Kamp

This paper revisits the robust overfitting phenomenon of adversarial training. Observing that models with better robust generalization performance are less certain in predicting adversarially generated training inputs, we argue that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Minxing Zhang , Michael Backes , Xiao Zhang

In adversarial machine learning, deep neural networks can fit the adversarial examples on the training dataset but have poor generalization ability on the test set. This phenomenon is called robust overfitting, and it can be observed when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Jiancong Xiao , Yanbo Fan , Ruoyu Sun , Jue Wang , Zhi-Quan Luo

Adversarial training (AT) and its variants have spearheaded progress in improving neural network robustness to adversarial perturbations and common corruptions in the last few years. Algorithm design of AT and its variants are focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Kaustubh Sridhar , Souradeep Dutta , Ramneet Kaur , James Weimer , Oleg Sokolsky , Insup Lee

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

Despite the success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in many academic benchmarks for computer vision tasks, their application in the real-world is still facing fundamental challenges. One of these open problems is the inherent lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Julia Grabinski , Paul Gavrikov , Janis Keuper , Margret Keuper

One popular hypothesis of neural network generalization is that the flat local minima of loss surface in parameter space leads to good generalization. However, we demonstrate that loss surface in parameter space has no obvious relationship…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Fuxun Yu , Chenchen Liu , Yanzhi Wang , Liang Zhao , Xiang Chen

Obtaining deep networks that are robust against adversarial examples and generalize well is an open problem. A recent hypothesis even states that both robust and accurate models are impossible, i.e., adversarial robustness and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 David Stutz , Matthias Hein , Bernt Schiele

Adversarial training (AT) is currently one of the most effective ways to obtain the robustness of deep neural networks against adversarial attacks. However, most AT methods suffer from robust overfitting, i.e., a significant generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Daiwei Yu , Zhuorong Li , Lina Wei , Canghong Jin , Yun Zhang , Sixian Chan

Adversarial training has been demonstrated as one of the most effective methods for training robust models to defend against adversarial examples. However, adversarially trained models often lack adversarially robust generalization on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Chuanbiao Song , Kun He , Jiadong Lin , Liwei Wang , John E. Hopcroft

Over the past few years, several adversarial training methods have been proposed to improve the robustness of machine learning models against adversarial perturbations in the input. Despite remarkable progress in this regard, adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Adel Javanmard , Mohammad Mehrabi
‹ Prev 1 2 3 10 Next ›