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Adversarial training (AT) is an effective technique for enhancing adversarial robustness, but it usually comes at the cost of a decline in generalization ability. Recent studies have attempted to use clean training to assist adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 MingWei Zhou , Xiaobing Pei

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

Though deep neural networks exhibit superior performance on various tasks, they are still plagued by adversarial examples. Adversarial training has been demonstrated to be the most effective method to defend against adversarial attacks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Xin Liu , Yichen Yang , Kun He , John E. Hopcroft

Adversarial distillation (AD) is a knowledge distillation technique that facilitates the transfer of robustness from teacher deep neural network (DNN) models to lightweight target (student) DNN models, enabling the target models to perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Zhenyu Liu , Huizhi Liang , Xinrun Li , Vaclav Snasel , Varun Ojha

Recent studies have highlighted that deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial examples. In this paper, we improve the robustness of DNNs by utilizing techniques of Distance Metric Learning. Specifically, we incorporate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Pengcheng Li , Jinfeng Yi , Bowen Zhou , Lijun Zhang

Adversarial training is a common approach for bias mitigation in natural language processing. Although most work on debiasing is motivated by equal opportunity, it is not explicitly captured in standard adversarial training. In this paper,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Xudong Han , Timothy Baldwin , Trevor Cohn

Understanding the vulnerability of large-scale pre-trained vision-language models like CLIP against adversarial attacks is key to ensuring zero-shot generalization capacity on various downstream tasks. State-of-the-art defense mechanisms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Fan Yang , Mingxuan Xia , Sangzhou Xia , Chicheng Ma , Hui Hui

Adversarial training (AT) is widely considered as the most promising strategy to defend against adversarial attacks and has drawn increasing interest from researchers. However, the existing AT methods still suffer from two challenges.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Lilin Zhang , Ning Yang , Yanchao Sun , Philip S. Yu

Dialogue systems are usually built on either generation-based or retrieval-based approaches, yet they do not benefit from the advantages of different models. In this paper, we propose a Retrieval-Enhanced Adversarial Training (REAT) method…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Qingfu Zhu , Lei Cui , Weinan Zhang , Furu Wei , Ting Liu

In this paper, we propose Inverse Adversarial Training (IAT) algorithm for training neural dialogue systems to avoid generic responses and model dialogue history better. In contrast to standard adversarial training algorithms, IAT…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Wangchunshu Zhou , Qifei Li , Chenle Li

Machine translation and other NLP systems often contain significant biases regarding sensitive attributes, such as gender or race, that worsen system performance and perpetuate harmful stereotypes. Recent preliminary research suggests that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Eve Fleisig , Christiane Fellbaum

Non-autoregressive translation (NAT) significantly accelerates the inference process via predicting the entire target sequence. However, recent studies show that NAT is weak at learning high-mode of knowledge such as one-to-many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Liang Ding , Longyue Wang , Xuebo Liu , Derek F. Wong , Dacheng Tao , Zhaopeng Tu

Adversarial attacks have been shown to be highly effective at degrading the performance of deep neural networks (DNNs). The most prominent defense is adversarial training, a method for learning a robust model. Nevertheless, adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Uriya Pesso , Koby Bibas , Meir Feder

Language models can achieve high accuracy on natural language tasks such as NLI, but performance suffers on manually created adversarial examples. We investigate the performance of a language model trained on the Stanford Natural Language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Chris Achard

Humans generally use natural language to communicate task requirements to each other. Ideally, natural language should also be usable for communicating goals to autonomous machines (e.g., robots) to minimize friction in task specification.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Li Zhou , Kevin Small

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 (DNNs) are known to be susceptible to adversarial attacks. Previous researches mainly focus on improving adversarial robustness in the fully supervised setting, leaving the challenging domain of zero-shot adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Xiao Li , Wei Zhang , Yining Liu , Zhanhao Hu , Bo Zhang , Xiaolin Hu

Recent work has explored integrating autoregressive language models with energy-based models (EBMs) to enhance text generation capabilities. However, learning effective EBMs for text is challenged by the discrete nature of language. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Xuwang Yin

Recent efforts show that neural networks are vulnerable to small but intentional perturbations on input features in visual classification tasks. Due to the additional consideration of connections between examples (\eg articles with citation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Fuli Feng , Xiangnan He , Jie Tang , Tat-Seng Chua

Raw deep neural network (DNN) performance is not enough; in real-world settings, computational load, training efficiency and adversarial security are just as or even more important. We propose to simultaneously tackle Performance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Madan Ravi Ganesh , Salimeh Yasaei Sekeh , Jason J. Corso