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Adversarial training is a widely-applied approach to training deep neural networks to be robust against adversarial perturbation. However, although adversarial training has achieved empirical success in practice, it still remains unclear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Binghui Li , Yuanzhi Li

Adversarial training (AT) constructs robust neural networks by incorporating adversarial perturbations into natural data. However, it is plagued by the issue of robust overfitting (RO), which severely damages the model's robustness. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Chaojian Yu , Xiaolong Shi , Jun Yu , Bo Han , Tongliang Liu

Neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks: adding well-crafted, imperceptible perturbations to their input can modify their output. Adversarial training is one of the most effective approaches in training robust models against…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Hadi M. Dolatabadi , Sarah Erfani , Christopher Leckie

Adversarial training (AT) is a powerful regularization method for neural networks, aiming to achieve robustness to input perturbations. Yet, the specific effects of the robustness obtained from AT are still unclear in the context of natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Michihiro Yasunaga , Jungo Kasai , Dragomir Radev

Traditional classification algorithms assume that training and test data come from similar distributions. This assumption is violated in adversarial settings, where malicious actors modify instances to evade detection. A number of custom…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Bo Li , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Xinyun Chen

Adversarial Training (AT) is a key defense against Machine Learning evasion attacks, but its effectiveness for real-world malware detection remains poorly understood. This uncertainty stems from a critical disconnect in prior research:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Hamid Bostani , Jacopo Cortellazzi , Daniel Arp , Fabio Pierazzi , Veelasha Moonsamy , Lorenzo Cavallaro

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

Adversarial training (AT) is currently one of the most successful methods to obtain the adversarial robustness of deep neural networks. However, the phenomenon of robust overfitting, i.e., the robustness starts to decrease significantly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Jihoon Tack , Sihyun Yu , Jongheon Jeong , Minseon Kim , Sung Ju Hwang , Jinwoo Shin

Adversarial examples can cause catastrophic mistakes in Deep Neural Network (DNNs) based vision systems e.g., for classification, segmentation and object detection. The vulnerability of DNNs against such attacks can prove a major roadblock…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Muzammal Naseer , Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Fatih Porikli

Adversarial training (AT) as a regularization method has proved its effectiveness in various tasks, such as image classification and text classification. Though there are successful applications of AT in many tasks of natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Ziqing Yang , Yiming Cui , Wanxiang Che , Ting Liu , Shijin Wang , Guoping Hu

Adversarial training (AT) with projected gradient descent is the most popular method to improve model robustness under adversarial attacks. However, computational overheads become prohibitively large when AT is applied to large backbone…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Quanwei Wu , Jun Guo , Wei Wang , Yi Wang

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

Adversarial Training (AT) has been found to substantially improve the robustness of deep learning classifiers against adversarial attacks. AT involves obtaining robustness by including adversarial examples in training a classifier. Most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Olukorede Fakorede , Ashutosh Kumar Nirala , Modeste Atsague , Jin Tian

Enhancing model robustness under new and even adversarial environments is a crucial milestone toward building trustworthy machine learning systems. Current robust training methods such as adversarial training explicitly uses an "attack"…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Minhao Cheng , Pin-Yu Chen , Sijia Liu , Shiyu Chang , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Payel Das

Adversarial training (AT) has been considered one of the most effective methods for making deep neural networks robust against adversarial attacks, while the training mechanisms and dynamics of AT remain open research problems. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Zeming Wei , Yiwen Guo , Yisen Wang

Adversarial training is an effective defense method to protect classification models against adversarial attacks. However, one limitation of this approach is that it can require orders of magnitude additional training time due to high cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Haizhong Zheng , Ziqi Zhang , Juncheng Gu , Honglak Lee , Atul Prakash

Adversarial training (AT) methods have been found to be effective against adversarial attacks on deep neural networks. Many variants of AT have been proposed to improve its performance. Pang et al. [1] have recently shown that incorporating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Olukorede Fakorede , Ashutosh Nirala , Modeste Atsague , Jin Tian

Adversarial training (AT) is a widely recognized defense mechanism to gain the robustness of deep neural networks against adversarial attacks. It is built on min-max optimization (MMO), where the minimizer (i.e., defender) seeks a robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Yihua Zhang , Guanhua Zhang , Prashant Khanduri , Mingyi Hong , Shiyu Chang , Sijia Liu

Deep networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples. Adversarial Training (AT) has been a standard foundation of modern adversarial defense approaches due to its remarkable effectiveness. However, AT is extremely time-consuming, refraining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Shao-Yuan Lo , Vishal M. Patel

Adversarial Training (AT) is proposed to alleviate the adversarial vulnerability of machine learning models by extracting only robust features from the input, which, however, inevitably leads to severe accuracy reduction as it discards the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-06 Yifei Wang , Dan Peng , Furui Liu , Zhenguo Li , Zhitang Chen , Jiansheng Yang