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Adversarial examples have been shown to be the severe threat to deep neural networks (DNNs). One of the most effective adversarial defense methods is adversarial training (AT) through minimizing the adversarial risk $R_{adv}$, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Yiming Li , Baoyuan Wu , Yan Feng , Yanbo Fan , Yong Jiang , Zhifeng Li , Shutao Xia

In this technical report, we evaluate the adversarial robustness of a very recent method called "Geometry-aware Instance-reweighted Adversarial Training"[7]. GAIRAT reports state-of-the-art results on defenses to adversarial attacks on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Dorjan Hitaj , Giulio Pagnotta , Iacopo Masi , Luigi V. Mancini

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, often leading to erroneous outputs. Adversarial training has been recognized as one of the most effective methods to counter such attacks. However, existing adversarial training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Xinli Yue , Ningping Mou , Qian Wang , Lingchen Zhao

Adversarial training is one of the most effective methods for enhancing model robustness. Recent approaches incorporate adversarial distillation in adversarial training architectures. However, we notice two scenarios of defense methods that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Zhenyu Liu , Haoran Duan , Huizhi Liang , Yang Long , Vaclav Snasel , Guiseppe Nicosia , Rajiv Ranjan , Varun Ojha

Despite the considerable success enjoyed by machine learning techniques in practice, numerous studies demonstrated that many approaches are vulnerable to attacks. An important class of such attacks involves adversaries changing features at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Liang Tong , Sixie Yu , Scott Alfeld , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

Adversarial machine learning concerns situations in which learners face attacks from active adversaries. Such scenarios arise in applications such as spam email filtering, malware detection and fake image generation, where security methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 David Benfield , Stefano Coniglio , Phan Tu Vuong , Alain Zemkoho

State-of-the-art machine learning models can be vulnerable to very small input perturbations that are adversarially constructed. Adversarial training is an effective approach to defend against such examples. It is formulated as a min-max…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-21 Antônio H. Ribeiro , Dave Zachariah , Thomas B. Schön

Recent studies have shown that, like traditional machine learning, federated learning (FL) is also vulnerable to adversarial attacks. To improve the adversarial robustness of FL, federated adversarial training (FAT) methods have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Chen Chen , Yuchen Liu , Xingjun Ma , Lingjuan Lyu

Self-ensemble adversarial training methods improve model robustness by ensembling models at different training epochs, such as model weight averaging (WA). However, previous research has shown that self-ensemble defense methods in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Zhaozhe Hu , Jia-Li Yin , Bin Chen , Luojun Lin , Bo-Hao Chen , Ximeng Liu

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have made significant advancement, however, they are widely known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Adversarial training is the most widely used technique for improving adversarial robustness to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Philipp Benz , Chaoning Zhang , Adil Karjauv , In So Kweon

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 shown that robustness to adversarial attacks can be transferred across networks. In other words, we can make a weak model more robust with the help of a strong teacher model. We ask if instead of learning from a static…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Jiang Liu , Chun Pong Lau , Hossein Souri , Soheil Feizi , Rama Chellappa

Neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, i.e. inputs that are imperceptibly perturbed from natural data and yet incorrectly classified by the network. Adversarial training, a heuristic form of robust optimization that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Ruiqi Gao , Tianle Cai , Haochuan Li , Liwei Wang , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Jason D. Lee

With the rapid growth of memory and computing power, datasets are becoming increasingly complex and imbalanced. This is especially severe in the context of clinical data, where there may be one rare event for many cases in the majority…

Existing adversarial training (AT) methods often suffer from incomplete perturbation, meaning that not all non-robust features are perturbed when generating adversarial examples (AEs). This results in residual correlations between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Lilin Zhang , Chengpei Wu , Ning Yang

Despite recent advances in video action recognition achieving strong performance on existing benchmarks, these models often lack robustness when faced with natural distribution shifts between training and test data. We propose two novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Kiyoon Kim , Shreyank N Gowda , Panagiotis Eustratiadis , Antreas Antoniou , Robert B Fisher

Overfitting widely exists in adversarial robust training of deep networks. An effective remedy is adversarial weight perturbation, which injects the worst-case weight perturbation during network training by maximizing the classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Chaojian Yu , Bo Han , Mingming Gong , Li Shen , Shiming Ge , Bo Du , Tongliang Liu

Despite their performance, Artificial Neural Networks are not reliable enough for most of industrial applications. They are sensitive to noises, rotations, blurs and adversarial examples. There is a need to build defenses that protect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Alfred Laugros , Alice Caplier , Matthieu Ospici

While convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved excellent performances in various computer vision tasks, they often misclassify with malicious samples, a.k.a. adversarial examples. Adversarial training is a popular and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Hiroki Adachi , Tsubasa Hirakawa , Takayoshi Yamashita , Hironobu Fujiyoshi , Yasunori Ishii , Kazuki Kozuka

Adversarial training and its many variants substantially improve deep network robustness, yet at the cost of compromising standard accuracy. Moreover, the training process is heavy and hence it becomes impractical to thoroughly explore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Haotao Wang , Tianlong Chen , Shupeng Gui , Ting-Kuei Hu , Ji Liu , Zhangyang Wang