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In this paper, we present an approach to improve the robustness of BERT language models against word substitution-based adversarial attacks by leveraging adversarial perturbations for self-supervised contrastive learning. We create a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Zhao Meng , Yihan Dong , Mrinmaya Sachan , Roger Wattenhofer

Despite the high performance achieved by deep neural networks on various tasks, extensive studies have demonstrated that small tweaks in the input could fail the model predictions. This issue of deep neural networks has led to a number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Ming-Chang Chiu , Xuezhe Ma

Adversarial training, as one of the most effective defense methods against adversarial attacks, tends to learn an inclusive decision boundary to increase the robustness of deep learning models. However, due to the large and unnecessary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Xiaoyu Liang , Yaguan Qian , Jianchang Huang , Xiang Ling , Bin Wang , Chunming Wu , Wassim Swaileh

Neural networks have changed the way machines interpret the world. At their core, they learn by following gradients, adjusting their parameters step by step until they identify the most discriminant patterns in the data. This process gives…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Samarup Bhattacharya , Anubhab Bhattacharya , Abir Chakraborty

While deep learning has led to remarkable results on a number of challenging problems, researchers have discovered a vulnerability of neural networks in adversarial settings, where small but carefully chosen perturbations to the input can…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Edward Grefenstette , Robert Stanforth , Brendan O'Donoghue , Jonathan Uesato , Grzegorz Swirszcz , Pushmeet Kohli

Adversarial Training (AT) is one of the most effective methods for developing robust deep neural networks (DNNs). However, AT faces a trade-off problem between clean accuracy and adversarial robustness. In this work, we reveal a surprising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Yanyun Wang , Qingqing Ye , Li Liu , Zi Liang , Haibo Hu

Large language models (LLMs) can often be made to behave in undesirable ways that they are explicitly fine-tuned not to. For example, the LLM red-teaming literature has produced a wide variety of 'jailbreaking' techniques to elicit harmful…

Adversarial training is exploited to develop a robust Deep Neural Network (DNN) model against the malicious altered data. These attacks may have catastrophic effects on DNN models but are indistinguishable for a human being. For example, an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Farzad Nikfam , Alberto Marchisio , Maurizio Martina , Muhammad Shafique

Sequential recommendation models, models that learn from chronological user-item interactions, outperform traditional recommendation models in many settings. Despite the success of sequential recommendation models, their robustness has…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Juntao Tan , Shelby Heinecke , Zhiwei Liu , Yongjun Chen , Yongfeng Zhang , Huan Wang

Defenses against adversarial examples, such as adversarial training, are typically tailored to a single perturbation type (e.g., small $\ell_\infty$-noise). For other perturbations, these defenses offer no guarantees and, at times, even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Florian Tramèr , Dan Boneh

Adversarial training shows promise as an approach for training models that are robust towards adversarial perturbation. In this paper, we explore some of the practical challenges of adversarial training. We present a sensitivity analysis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Evelyn Duesterwald , Anupama Murthi , Ganesh Venkataraman , Mathieu Sinn , Deepak Vijaykeerthy

We study the error of linear regression in the face of adversarial attacks. In this framework, an adversary changes the input to the regression model in order to maximize the prediction error. We provide bounds on the prediction error in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-29 Antônio H. Ribeiro , Thomas B. Schön

Neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks -- small visually imperceptible crafted noise which when added to the input drastically changes the output. The most effective method of defending against these adversarial attacks is to…

Adversarial training is a promising strategy for enhancing model robustness against adversarial attacks. However, its impact on generalization under substantial data distribution shifts in audio classification remains largely unexplored. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 René Heinrich , Lukas Rauch , Bernhard Sick , Christoph Scholz

Despite their promising performance across various natural language processing (NLP) tasks, current NLP systems are vulnerable to textual adversarial attacks. To defend against these attacks, most existing methods apply adversarial training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Junjie Wu , Dit-Yan Yeung

There has been great interest in enhancing the robustness of neural network classifiers to defend against adversarial perturbations through adversarial training, while balancing the trade-off between robust accuracy and standard accuracy.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Chester Holtz , Tsui-Wei Weng , Gal Mishne

Adversarial training is arguably the most popular way to provide empirical robustness against specific adversarial examples. While variants based on multi-step attacks incur significant computational overhead, single-step variants are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Alessandro De Palma , Serge Durand , Zakaria Chihani , François Terrier , Caterina Urban

Adversarial training, originally designed to resist test-time adversarial examples, has shown to be promising in mitigating training-time availability attacks. This defense ability, however, is challenged in this paper. We identify a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Lue Tao , Lei Feng , Hongxin Wei , Jinfeng Yi , Sheng-Jun Huang , Songcan Chen

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

Standard adversarial attacks change the predicted class label of a selected image by adding specially tailored small perturbations to its pixels. In contrast, a universal perturbation is an update that can be added to any image in a broad…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Ali Shafahi , Mahyar Najibi , Zheng Xu , John Dickerson , Larry S. Davis , Tom Goldstein