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Despite remarkable success in practice, modern machine learning models have been found to be susceptible to adversarial attacks that make human-imperceptible perturbations to the data, but result in serious and potentially dangerous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Lin Chen , Yifei Min , Mingrui Zhang , Amin Karbasi

The existence of adversarial data examples has drawn significant attention in the deep-learning community; such data are seemingly minimally perturbed relative to the original data, but lead to very different outputs from a deep-learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Bai Li , Changyou Chen , Wenlin Wang , Lawrence Carin

Despite its popularity, deep neural networks are easily fooled. To alleviate this deficiency, researchers are actively developing new training strategies, which encourage models that are robust to small input perturbations. Several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Jingyue Lu , M. Pawan Kumar

This paper revisits the simple, long-studied, yet still unsolved problem of making image classifiers robust to imperceptible perturbations. Taking CIFAR10 as an example, SOTA clean accuracy is about $100$%, but SOTA robustness to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Brian R. Bartoldson , James Diffenderfer , Konstantinos Parasyris , Bhavya Kailkhura

Data augmentation has been widely used to improve generalization in training deep neural networks. Recent works show that using worst-case transformations or adversarial augmentation strategies can significantly improve the accuracy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Liang Xiao , Jiaolong Xu , Dawei Zhao , Erke Shang , Qi Zhu , Bin Dai

Data augmentation is a powerful technique to improve performance in applications such as image and text classification tasks. Yet, there is little rigorous understanding of why and how various augmentations work. In this work, we consider a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Sen Wu , Hongyang R. Zhang , Gregory Valiant , Christopher Ré

Deep neural networks are increasingly being used to detect and diagnose medical conditions using medical imaging. Despite their utility, these models are highly vulnerable to adversarial attacks and distribution shifts, which can affect…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Josué Martínez-Martínez , Olivia Brown , Mostafa Karami , Sheida Nabavi

Efforts to address declining accuracy as a result of data shifts often involve various data-augmentation strategies. Adversarial training is one such method, designed to improve robustness to worst-case distribution shifts caused by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Fatemeh Amerehi , Patrick Healy

Data augmentation techniques have become standard practice in deep learning, as it has been shown to greatly improve the generalisation abilities of models. These techniques rely on different ideas such as invariance-preserving…

This work provides theoretical and empirical evidence that invariance-inducing regularizers can increase predictive accuracy for worst-case spatial transformations (spatial robustness). Evaluated on these adversarially transformed examples,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Fanny Yang , Zuowen Wang , Christina Heinze-Deml

Neural networks are susceptible to adversarial examples-small input perturbations that cause models to fail. Adversarial training is one of the solutions that stops adversarial examples; models are exposed to attacks during training and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Maximilian Kaufmann , Yiren Zhao , Ilia Shumailov , Robert Mullins , Nicolas Papernot

Pretrained models from self-supervision are prevalently used in fine-tuning downstream tasks faster or for better accuracy. However, gaining robustness from pretraining is left unexplored. We introduce adversarial training into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Tianlong Chen , Sijia Liu , Shiyu Chang , Yu Cheng , Lisa Amini , Zhangyang Wang

Data augmentation has proved extremely useful by increasing training data variance to alleviate overfitting and improve deep neural networks' generalization performance. In medical image analysis, a well-designed augmentation policy usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Yunhe Gao , Zhiqiang Tang , Mu Zhou , Dimitris Metaxas

Deep neural networks have achieved remarkable performance in various applications but are extremely vulnerable to adversarial perturbation. The most representative and promising methods that can enhance model robustness, such as adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Faqiang Liu , Rong Zhao

Recent works have shown that self-supervised learning can achieve remarkable robustness when integrated with adversarial training (AT). However, the robustness gap between supervised AT (sup-AT) and self-supervised AT (self-AT) remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Rundong Luo , Yifei Wang , Yisen Wang

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

Data augmentation has become a de facto component for training high-performance deep image classifiers, but its potential is under-explored for object detection. Noting that most state-of-the-art object detectors benefit from fine-tuning a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Xiangning Chen , Cihang Xie , Mingxing Tan , Li Zhang , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Boqing Gong

Diverse data augmentation strategies are a natural approach to improving robustness in computer vision models against unforeseen shifts in data distribution. However, the ability to tailor such strategies to inoculate a model against…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Ryan Soklaski , Michael Yee , Theodoros Tsiligkaridis

The vulnerability of neural networks under adversarial attacks has raised serious concerns and motivated extensive research. It has been shown that both neural networks and adversarial attacks against them can be sensitive to input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Houpu Yao , Zhe Wang , Guangyu Nie , Yassine Mazboudi , Yezhou Yang , Yi Ren

Modern neural networks are over-parameterized and thus rely on strong regularization such as data augmentation and weight decay to reduce overfitting and improve generalization. The dominant form of data augmentation applies invariant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Yang Liu , Shen Yan , Laura Leal-Taixé , James Hays , Deva Ramanan