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Adversarial Training (AT) is known as an effective approach to enhance the robustness of deep neural networks. Recently researchers notice that robust models with AT have good generative ability and can synthesize realistic images, while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Yifei Wang , Yisen Wang , Jiansheng Yang , Zhouchen Lin

Joint Energy-based Models (JEMs) are well known for their ability to unify classification and generation within a single framework. Despite their promising generative and discriminative performance, their robustness remains far inferior to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Kaichao Jiang , He Wang , Xiaoshuai Hao , Xiulong Yang , Ajian Liu , Qi Chu , Yunfeng Diao , Richang Hong

We propose the novel framework for generative modelling using hybrid energy-based models. In our method we combine the interpretable input gradients of the robust classifier and Langevin Dynamics for sampling. Using the adversarial training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Rostislav Korst , Arip Asadulaev

By reinterpreting a robust discriminative classifier as Energy-based Model (EBM), we offer a new take on the dynamics of adversarial training (AT). Our analysis of the energy landscape during AT reveals that untargeted attacks generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Mujtaba Hussain Mirza , Maria Rosaria Briglia , Senad Beadini , Iacopo Masi

Recently, deep neural networks have significant progress and successful application in various fields, but they are found vulnerable to attack instances, e.g., adversarial examples. State-of-art attack methods can generate attack images by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Ping Yu , Kaitao Song , Jianfeng Lu

We study a new approach to learning energy-based models (EBMs) based on adversarial training (AT). We show that (binary) AT learns a special kind of energy function that models the support of the data distribution, and the learning process…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Xuwang Yin , Shiying Li , Gustavo K. Rohde

While deep neural networks have achieved remarkable success in various computer vision tasks, they often fail to generalize to new domains and subtle variations of input images. Several defenses have been proposed to improve the robustness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Omid Poursaeed , Tianxing Jiang , Harry Yang , Serge Belongie , SerNam Lim

We offer a study that connects robust discriminative classifiers trained with adversarial training (AT) with generative modeling in the form of Energy-based Models (EBM). We do so by decomposing the loss of a discriminative classifier and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Senad Beadini , Iacopo Masi

Simultaneously achieving robust classification and high-fidelity generative modeling within a single framework presents a significant challenge. Hybrid approaches, such as Joint Energy-Based Models (JEM), interpret classifiers as EBMs but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Xuwang Yin , Claire Zhang , Julie Steele , Nir Shavit , Tony T. Wang

We propose a novel technique to make neural network robust to adversarial examples using a generative adversarial network. We alternately train both classifier and generator networks. The generator network generates an adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Hyeungill Lee , Sungyeob Han , Jungwoo Lee

Training adversarially robust discriminative (i.e., softmax) classifier has been the dominant approach to robust classification. Building on recent work on adversarial training (AT)-based generative models, we investigate using AT to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Xuwang Yin

In this paper, we propose to equip Generative Adversarial Networks with the ability to produce direct energy estimates for samples.Specifically, we propose a flexible adversarial training framework, and prove this framework not only ensures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-27 Zihang Dai , Amjad Almahairi , Philip Bachman , Eduard Hovy , Aaron Courville

We introduce a feature scattering-based adversarial training approach for improving model robustness against adversarial attacks. Conventional adversarial training approaches leverage a supervised scheme (either targeted or non-targeted) in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Haichao Zhang , Jianyu Wang

The tremendous success of generative models in recent years raises the question whether they can also be used to perform classification. Generative models have been used as adversarially robust classifiers on simple datasets such as MNIST,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-14 Roland S. Zimmermann , Lukas Schott , Yang Song , Benjamin A. Dunn , David A. Klindt

Deep learning-based discriminative classifiers, despite their remarkable success, remain vulnerable to adversarial examples that can mislead model predictions. While adversarial training can enhance robustness, it fails to address the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Chunheng Zhao , Pierluigi Pisu , Gurcan Comert , Negash Begashaw , Varghese Vaidyan , Nina Christine Hubig

Most adversarial attacks and defenses focus on perturbations within small $\ell_p$-norm constraints. However, $\ell_p$ threat models cannot capture all relevant semantics-preserving perturbations, and hence, the scope of robustness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Marcel Kollovieh , Lukas Gosch , Marten Lienen , Yan Scholten , Leo Schwinn , Stephan Günnemann

Upon the discovery of adversarial attacks, robust models have become obligatory for deep learning-based systems. Adversarial training with first-order attacks has been one of the most effective defenses against adversarial perturbations to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Inci M. Baytas , Debayan Deb

We study two important concepts in adversarial deep learning---adversarial training and generative adversarial network (GAN). Adversarial training is the technique used to improve the robustness of discriminator by combining adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Xuanqing Liu , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Generative networks are fundamentally different in their aim and methods compared to CNNs for classification, segmentation, or object detection. They have initially not been meant to be an image analysis tool, but to produce naturally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Markus Wenzel

Neural Image Classifiers are effective but inherently hard to interpret and susceptible to adversarial attacks. Solutions to both problems exist, among others, in the form of counterfactual examples generation to enhance explainability or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Rafael Bischof , Florian Scheidegger , Michael A. Kraus , A. Cristiano I. Malossi
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