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The major part of the vanilla vision transformer (ViT) is the attention block that brings the power of mimicking the global context of the input image. For better performance, ViT needs large-scale training data. To overcome this data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Ahmed Aldahdooh , Wassim Hamidouche , Olivier Deforges

Adversarial Training (AT) is one of the most effective methods to train robust Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). However, AT creates an inherent trade-off between clean accuracy and adversarial robustness, which is commonly attributed to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yanyun Wang , Li Liu

Large pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) have been shown to be susceptible to adversarial attacks, raising concerns about their deployment in safety-critical applications like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Lin Luo , Xin Wang , Bojia Zi , Shihao Zhao , Xingjun Ma , Yu-Gang Jiang

Adversarial training often suffers from a robustness-accuracy trade-off, where achieving high robustness comes at the cost of accuracy. One approach to mitigate this trade-off is leveraging invariance regularization, which encourages model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Futa Waseda , Ching-Chun Chang , Isao Echizen

Deep neural networks can be easily fooled into making incorrect predictions through corruption of the input by adversarial perturbations: human-imperceptible artificial noise. So far adversarial training has been the most successful defense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Lin Li , Michael Spratling

Despite the fact that adversarial training has become the de facto method for improving the robustness of deep neural networks, it is well-known that vanilla adversarial training suffers from daunting robust overfitting, resulting in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Tianjin Huang , Shiwei Liu , Tianlong Chen , Meng Fang , Li Shen , Vlaod Menkovski , Lu Yin , Yulong Pei , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Large-batch training has become a commonly used technique when training neural networks with a large number of GPU/TPU processors. As batch size increases, stochastic optimizers tend to converge to sharp local minima, leading to degraded…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Yong Liu , Xiangning Chen , Minhao Cheng , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Yang You

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

Ensemble-based attacks have been proven to be effective in enhancing adversarial transferability by aggregating the outputs of models with various architectures. However, existing research primarily focuses on refining ensemble weights or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Hanwen Cao , Haobo Lu , Xiaosen Wang , Kun He

Recently, plain vision Transformers (ViTs) have shown impressive performance on various computer vision tasks, thanks to their strong modeling capacity and large-scale pretraining. However, they have not yet conquered the problem of image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Jingfeng Yao , Xinggang Wang , Shusheng Yang , Baoyuan Wang

Deep neural networks are susceptible to adversarial examples, posing a significant security risk in critical applications. Adversarial Training (AT) is a well-established technique to enhance adversarial robustness, but it often comes at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Kaijie Zhu , Jindong Wang , Xixu Hu , Xing Xie , Ge Yang

Deep learning models have shown remarkable success in dermatological image analysis, offering potential for automated skin disease diagnosis. Previously, convolutional neural network(CNN) based architectures have achieved immense popularity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Rifat Sadik , Tanvir Rahman , Arpan Bhattacharjee , Bikash Chandra Halder , Ismail Hossain , Mridul Banik , Jia Uddin

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

Large pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) like CLIP, despite having remarkable generalization ability, are highly vulnerable to adversarial examples. This work studies the adversarial robustness of VLMs from the novel perspective of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Lin Li , Haoyan Guan , Jianing Qiu , Michael Spratling

Several recent studies have shown that the use of extra in-distribution data can lead to a high level of adversarial robustness. However, there is no guarantee that it will always be possible to obtain sufficient extra data for a selected…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Saehyung Lee , Hyungyu Lee

Deeper Vision Transformers (ViTs) are more challenging to train. We expose a degradation problem in deeper layers of ViT when using masked image modeling (MIM) for pre-training. To ease the training of deeper ViTs, we introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Guoxi Huang , Hongtao Fu , Adrian G. Bors

Adversarial training (AT) aims to improve the robustness of deep learning models by mixing clean data and adversarial examples (AEs). Most existing AT approaches can be grouped into restricted and unrestricted approaches. Restricted AT…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Haidong Xie , Xueshuang Xiang , Naijin Liu , Bin Dong

Current deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, where adversarial perturbations to the inputs can change or manipulate classification. To defend against such attacks, an effective and popular approach, known as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Gaoyuan Zhang , Songtao Lu , Yihua Zhang , Xiangyi Chen , Pin-Yu Chen , Quanfu Fan , Lee Martie , Lior Horesh , Mingyi Hong , Sijia Liu

While convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved excellent performances in various computer vision tasks, they often misclassify with malicious samples, a.k.a. adversarial examples. Adversarial training is a popular and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Hiroki Adachi , Tsubasa Hirakawa , Takayoshi Yamashita , Hironobu Fujiyoshi , Yasunori Ishii , Kazuki Kozuka

Following the success in advancing natural language processing and understanding, transformers are expected to bring revolutionary changes to computer vision. This work provides a comprehensive study on the robustness of vision transformers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Rulin Shao , Zhouxing Shi , Jinfeng Yi , Pin-Yu Chen , Cho-Jui Hsieh