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Adversarial training has proven to be effective in hardening networks against adversarial examples. However, the gained robustness is limited by network capacity and number of training samples. Consequently, to build more robust models, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Zheng Xu , Ali Shafahi , Tom Goldstein

Recently, adversarial training has been incorporated in self-supervised contrastive pre-training to augment label efficiency with exciting adversarial robustness. However, the robustness came at a cost of expensive adversarial training. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Yijiang Pang , Boyang Liu , Jiayu Zhou

Adversarial robustness often comes at the cost of degraded accuracy, impeding real-life applications of robust classification models. Training-based solutions for better trade-offs are limited by incompatibilities with already-trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Yatong Bai , Mo Zhou , Vishal M. Patel , Somayeh Sojoudi

Weak supervision combines the advantages of training on real data with the ability to exploit signal properties. However, training a neural network using weak supervision often requires an excessive amount of signal data, which severely…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-23 Zong-En Chen , Cheng-Wei Chiang , Feng-Yang Hsieh

Although data augmentation is a powerful technique for improving the performance of image classification tasks, it is difficult to identify the best augmentation policy. The optimal augmentation policy, which is the latent variable, cannot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Koichi Kuriyama

Despite extensive research since the community learned about adversarial examples 10 years ago, we still do not know how to train high-accuracy classifiers that are guaranteed to be robust to small perturbations of their inputs. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Bernd Prach , Christoph H. Lampert

Despite the success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in many academic benchmarks for computer vision tasks, their application in the real-world is still facing fundamental challenges. One of these open problems is the inherent lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Julia Grabinski , Paul Gavrikov , Janis Keuper , Margret Keuper

Recent work has shown that deep vision models tend to be overly dependent on low-level or "texture" features, leading to poor generalization. Various data augmentation strategies have been proposed to overcome this so-called texture bias in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Aditay Tripathi , Rishubh Singh , Anirban Chakraborty , Pradeep Shenoy

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

Neural networks are widespread due to their powerful performance. Yet, they degrade in the presence of noisy labels at training time. Inspired by the setting of learning with expert advice, where multiplicative weights (MW) updates were…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Noga Bar , Tomer Koren , Raja Giryes

Learning in deep weight spaces (DWS), where neural networks process the weights of other neural networks, is an emerging research direction, with applications to 2D and 3D neural fields (INRs, NeRFs), as well as making inferences about…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Aviv Shamsian , Aviv Navon , David W. Zhang , Yan Zhang , Ethan Fetaya , Gal Chechik , Haggai Maron

Recent work has developed methods for learning deep network classifiers that are provably robust to norm-bounded adversarial perturbation; however, these methods are currently only possible for relatively small feedforward networks. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Eric Wong , Frank R. Schmidt , Jan Hendrik Metzen , J. Zico Kolter

Data augmentation has been actively studied for robust neural networks. Most of the recent data augmentation methods focus on augmenting datasets during the training phase. At the testing phase, simple transformations are still widely used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Ildoo Kim , Younghoon Kim , Sungwoong Kim

A Very recent trend has emerged to couple the notion of interpretability and adversarial robustness, unlike earlier efforts which solely focused on good interpretations or robustness against adversaries. Works have shown that adversarially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Puneet Mangla , Vedant Singh , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

Data-driven models, especially deep learning classifiers often demonstrate great success on clean datasets. Yet, they remain vulnerable to common data distortions such as adversarial and common corruption perturbations. These perturbations…

Machine learning models are prone to capturing the spurious correlations between non-causal attributes and classes, with counterfactual data augmentation being a promising direction for breaking these spurious associations. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Xiaoling Zhou , Ou Wu , Michael K. Ng

This paper revisits the robust overfitting phenomenon of adversarial training. Observing that models with better robust generalization performance are less certain in predicting adversarially generated training inputs, we argue that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Minxing Zhang , Michael Backes , Xiao Zhang

Robustness against unwanted perturbations is an important aspect of deploying neural network classifiers in the real world. Common natural perturbations include noise, saturation, occlusion, viewpoint changes, and blur deformations. All of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Sadaf Gulshad , Ivan Sosnovik , Arnold Smeulders

In this paper, we delve into the essential components of adversarial training which is a pioneering defense technique against adversarial attacks. We indicate that some factors such as the loss function, learning rate scheduler, and data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Hong Liu

Performance-critical machine learning models should be robust to input perturbations not seen during training. Adversarial training is a method for improving a model's robustness to some perturbations by including them in the training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Angus Galloway , Thomas Tanay , Graham W. Taylor