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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Meiqi Liu , Zhuoqun Huang , Yue Xing

Deep models, while being extremely versatile and accurate, are vulnerable to adversarial attacks: slight perturbations that are imperceptible to humans can completely flip the prediction of deep models. Many attack and defense mechanisms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Kaiwen Wu , Yaoliang Yu

Adversarial examples mainly exploit changes to input pixels to which humans are not sensitive to, and arise from the fact that models make decisions based on uninterpretable features. Interestingly, cognitive science reports that the…

We demonstrate that the choice of optimizer, neural network architecture, and regularizer significantly affect the adversarial robustness of linear neural networks, providing guarantees without the need for adversarial training. To this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Fartash Faghri , Sven Gowal , Cristina Vasconcelos , David J. Fleet , Fabian Pedregosa , Nicolas Le Roux

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

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 neural networks are susceptible to adversarial attacks and common corruptions, which undermine their robustness. In order to enhance model resilience against such challenges, Adversarial Training (AT) has emerged as a prominent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Tejaswini Medi , Steffen Jung , Margret Keuper

Adversarial training (AT) refers to integrating adversarial examples -- inputs altered with imperceptible perturbations that can significantly impact model predictions -- into the training process. Recent studies have demonstrated the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Mengnan Zhao , Lihe Zhang , Jingwen Ye , Huchuan Lu , Baocai Yin , Xinchao Wang

Despite the rapid progress of neural networks, they remain highly vulnerable to adversarial examples, for which adversarial training (AT) is currently the most effective defense. While AT has been extensively studied, its practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Yisen Wang , Yichuan Mo , Hongjun Wang , Junyi Li , Zhouchen Lin

Convolutional Neural Networks have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial examples, which are known to locate in subspaces close to where normal data lies but are not naturally occurring and of low probability. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Fu Lin , Rohit Mittapalli , Prithvijit Chattopadhyay , Daniel Bolya , Judy Hoffman

Adversarial Training (AT) has been demonstrated to improve the robustness of deep neural networks (DNNs) against adversarial attacks. AT is a min-max optimization procedure where in adversarial examples are generated to train a more robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Olukorede Fakorede , Modeste Atsague , Jin Tian

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

Studying the robustness of machine learning models is important to ensure consistent model behaviour across real-world settings. To this end, adversarial robustness is a standard framework, which views robustness of predictions through a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Tessa Han , Suraj Srinivas , Himabindu Lakkaraju

In recent years, it has been found that neural networks can be easily fooled by adversarial examples, which is a potential safety hazard in some safety-critical applications. Many researchers have proposed various method to make neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Shuangtao Li , Yuanke Chen , Yanlin Peng , Lin Bai

Adversarial training enhances neural network robustness but suffers from a tendency to overfit and increased generalization errors on clean data. This work introduces CLAT, an innovative approach that mitigates adversarial overfitting by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Bhavna Gopal , Huanrui Yang , Jingyang Zhang , Mark Horton , Yiran Chen

Increasing the model capacity is a known approach to enhance the adversarial robustness of deep learning networks. On the other hand, various model compression techniques, including pruning and quantization, can reduce the size of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Svetlana Pavlitska , Hannes Grolig , J. Marius Zöllner

Robust training methods typically defend against specific attack types, such as Lp attacks with fixed budgets, and rarely account for the fact that defenders may encounter new attacks over time. A natural solution is to adapt the defended…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Sihui Dai , Christian Cianfarani , Arjun Bhagoji , Vikash Sehwag , Prateek Mittal

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples. Adversarial training (AT) is an effective defense against adversarial examples. However, AT is prone to overfitting which degrades robustness substantially. Recently, data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Lin Li , Jianing Qiu , Michael Spratling

Network pruning has been known to produce compact models without much accuracy degradation. However, how the pruning process affects a network's robustness and the working mechanism behind remain unresolved. In this work, we theoretically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Shufan Wang , Ningyi Liao , Liyao Xiang , Nanyang Ye , Quanshi Zhang

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