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We study the model robustness against adversarial examples, referred to as small perturbed input data that may however fool many state-of-the-art deep learning models. Unlike previous research, we establish a novel theory addressing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Shufei Zhang , Kaizhu Huang , Zenglin Xu

Despite the success of deep learning-based algorithms, it is widely known that neural networks may fail to be robust. A popular paradigm to enforce robustness is adversarial training (AT), however, this introduces many computational and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Nicolas Garcia Trillos , Matt Jacobs , Jakwang Kim , Matthew Werenski

Recently, deep learning has been applied to many security-sensitive applications, such as facial authentication. The existence of adversarial examples hinders such applications. The state-of-the-art result on defense shows that adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Qi-Zhi Cai , Min Du , Chang Liu , Dawn Song

Adversarial training (AT) aims to improve the robustness of deep learning models by mixing clean data and adversarial examples (AEs). Most existing AT approaches can be grouped into restricted and unrestricted approaches. Restricted AT…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Haidong Xie , Xueshuang Xiang , Naijin Liu , Bin Dong

The vulnerability of deep neural network models to adversarial example attacks is a practical challenge in many artificial intelligence applications. A recent line of work shows that the use of randomization in adversarial training is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Jiahao Xie , Chao Zhang , Weijie Liu , Wensong Bai , Hui Qian

Recently demonstrated physical-world adversarial attacks have exposed vulnerabilities in perception systems that pose severe risks for safety-critical applications such as autonomous driving. These attacks place adversarial artifacts in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Jan Hendrik Metzen , Nicole Finnie , Robin Hutmacher

Ensemble Adversarial Training (EAT) attempts to enhance the robustness of models against adversarial attacks by leveraging multiple models. However, current EAT strategies tend to train the sub-models independently, ignoring the cooperative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Li Dengjin , Guo Yanming , Xie Yuxiang , Li Zheng , Chen Jiangming , Li Xiaolong , Lao Mingrui

Recent studies have found that removing the norm-bounded projection and increasing search steps in adversarial training can significantly improve robustness. However, we observe that a too large number of search steps can hurt accuracy. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Bin Zhu , Zhaoquan Gu , Le Wang , Jinyin Chen , Qi Xuan

Deep neural networks are susceptible to adversarial attacks, which can compromise their performance and accuracy. Adversarial Training (AT) has emerged as a popular approach for protecting neural networks against such attacks. However, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Vijaya Raghavan T Ramkumar , Bahram Zonooz , Elahe Arani

In this paper, we investigate on improving the adversarial robustness obtained in adversarial training (AT) via reducing the difficulty of optimization. To better study this problem, we build a novel Bregman divergence perspective for AT,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Zihui Wu , Haichang Gao , Bingqian Zhou , Xiaoyan Guo , Shudong Zhang

The worst-case training principle that minimizes the maximal adversarial loss, also known as adversarial training (AT), has shown to be a state-of-the-art approach for enhancing adversarial robustness. Nevertheless, min-max optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Jingkang Wang , Tianyun Zhang , Sijia Liu , Pin-Yu Chen , Jiacen Xu , Makan Fardad , Bo Li

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

Adversarial examples are a pervasive phenomenon of machine learning models where seemingly imperceptible perturbations to the input lead to misclassifications for otherwise statistically accurate models. We propose a geometric framework,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Marc Khoury , Dylan Hadfield-Menell

This paper studies fast adversarial training against sparse adversarial perturbations bounded by $l_0$ norm. We demonstrate the challenges of employing $1$-step attacks on $l_0$ bounded perturbations for fast adversarial training, including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Xuyang Zhong , Yixiao Huang , Chen Liu

Class-incremental continual learning addresses catastrophic forgetting by enabling classification models to preserve knowledge of previously learned classes while acquiring new ones. However, the vulnerability of the models against…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Jungwoo Kim , Jong-Seok Lee

Multimodal recommender systems exploit visual and textual signals to alleviate data sparsity, but this also makes them more vulnerable to evasion-based promotion attacks. Existing defenses are largely limited to single-modal settings and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Guanmeng Xian , Ning Yang , Philip S. Yu

Adversarial training (AT) is a simple yet effective defense against adversarial attacks to image classification systems, which is based on augmenting the training set with attacks that maximize the loss. However, the effectiveness of AT as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Kaleab A. Kinfu , René Vidal

This paper examines the phenomenon of probabilistic robustness overestimation in TRADES, a prominent adversarial training method. Our study reveals that TRADES sometimes yields disproportionately high PGD validation accuracy compared to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Jonathan Weiping Li , Ren-Wei Liang , Cheng-Han Yeh , Cheng-Chang Tsai , Kuanchun Yu , Chun-Shien Lu , Shang-Tse Chen

When environmental interaction is expensive, model-based reinforcement learning offers a solution by planning ahead and avoiding costly mistakes. Model-based agents typically learn a single-step transition model. In this paper, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Kavosh Asadi , Evan Cater , Dipendra Misra , Michael L. Littman

Ensemble-based adversarial training is a principled approach to achieve robustness against adversarial attacks. An important technique of this approach is to control the transferability of adversarial examples among ensemble members. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Anh Bui , Trung Le , He Zhao , Paul Montague , Olivier deVel , Tamas Abraham , Dinh Phung