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Deep neural networks are susceptible to adversarial attacks, which can compromise their performance and accuracy. Adversarial Training (AT) has emerged as a popular approach for protecting neural networks against such attacks. However, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Vijaya Raghavan T Ramkumar , Bahram Zonooz , Elahe Arani

Adversarial training (AT) has proven to be one of the most effective ways to defend Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) against adversarial attacks. However, the phenomenon of robust overfitting, i.e., the robustness will drop sharply at a certain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Shudong Zhang , Haichang Gao , Tianwei Zhang , Yunyi Zhou , Zihui Wu

Recent advances show that deep neural networks are not robust to deliberately crafted adversarial examples which many are generated by adding human imperceptible perturbation to clear input. Consider $l_2$ norms attacks, Project Gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Fanyou Wu , Rado Gazo , Eva Haviarova , Bedrich Benes

Recently, FGSM adversarial training is found to be able to train a robust model which is comparable to the one trained by PGD but an order of magnitude faster. However, there is a failure mode called catastrophic overfitting (CO) that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Peilin Kang , Seyed-Mohsen Moosavi-Dezfooli

Recent studies have found that removing the norm-bounded projection and increasing search steps in adversarial training can significantly improve robustness. However, we observe that a too large number of search steps can hurt accuracy. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Bin Zhu , Zhaoquan Gu , Le Wang , Jinyin Chen , Qi Xuan

Natural Gradient Descent (NGD) has emerged as a promising optimization algorithm for training neural network-based solvers for partial differential equations (PDEs), such as Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs). However, its practical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Ivan Bioli , Carlo Marcati , Giancarlo Sangalli

Adversarial examples, crafted by adding imperceptible perturbations to natural inputs, can easily fool deep neural networks (DNNs). One of the most successful methods for training adversarially robust DNNs is solving a nonconvex-nonconcave…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Beomsu Kim , Junghoon Seo

Existing deep learning real denoising methods require a large amount of noisy-clean image pairs for supervision. Nonetheless, capturing a real noisy-clean dataset is an unacceptable expensive and cumbersome procedure. To alleviate this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Yuanhao Cai , Xiaowan Hu , Haoqian Wang , Yulun Zhang , Hanspeter Pfister , Donglai Wei

Existing models that achieve state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance on both clean and adversarially-perturbed images rely on convolution operations conditioned with feature-wise linear modulation (FiLM) layers. These layers require many new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Souvik Kundu , Sairam Sundaresan , Massoud Pedram , Peter A. Beerel

In this paper, we will show an unprecedented method to accelerate training and improve performance, which called random gradient (RG). This method can be easier to the training of any model without extra calculation cost, we use Image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Jiakai Wei

The vulnerability of deep neural networks to small and even imperceptible perturbations has become a central topic in deep learning research. Although several sophisticated defense mechanisms have been introduced, most were later shown to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Leo Schwinn , An Nguyen , René Raab , Dario Zanca , Bjoern Eskofier , Daniel Tenbrinck , Martin Burger

Keyless entry systems in cars are adopting neural networks for localizing its operators. Using test-time adversarial defences equip such systems with the ability to defend against adversarial attacks without prior training on adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Abhiram Kolli , Muhammad Jehanzeb Mirza , Horst Possegger , Horst Bischof

Based on Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD), the paper introduces two optimizers, named Interpolational Accelerating Gradient Descent (IAGD) as well as Noise-Regularized Stochastic Gradient Descent (NRSGD). IAGD leverages second-order Newton…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Jiawen Li , Pascal Lefevre , Anwar Pp Abdul Majeed

The strategy of combining diffusion-based generative models with classifiers continues to demonstrate state-of-the-art performance on adversarial robustness benchmarks. Known as adversarial purification, this exploits a diffusion model's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-06 David D. Nguyen , The-Anh Ta , Yansong Gao , Alsharif Abuadbba

In this work, we introduce NoiseQuery as a novel method for enhanced noise initialization in versatile goal-driven text-to-image (T2I) generation. Specifically, we propose to leverage an aligned Gaussian noise as implicit guidance to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Ruoyu Wang , Huayang Huang , Ye Zhu , Olga Russakovsky , Yu Wu

Fast adversarial training (FAT) is an efficient method to improve robustness. However, the original FAT suffers from catastrophic overfitting, which dramatically and suddenly reduces robustness after a few training epochs. Although various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Xiaojun Jia , Yong Zhang , Xingxing Wei , Baoyuan Wu , Ke Ma , Jue Wang , Xiaochun Cao

Adversarial training is an effective but time-consuming way to train robust deep neural networks that can withstand strong adversarial attacks. As a response to its inefficiency, we propose Dynamic Efficient Adversarial Training (DEAT),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Fu Wang , Yanghao Zhang , Yanbin Zheng , Wenjie Ruan

Asynchronous execution is essential for scaling reinforcement learning (RL) to modern large model workloads, including large language models and AI agents, but it can fundamentally alter RL optimization behavior. While prior work on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Haofeng Xu , Junwei Su , Yukun Tian , Lansong Diao , Zhengping Qian , Chuan Wu

SGD (Stochastic Gradient Descent) is a popular algorithm for large scale optimization problems due to its low iterative cost. However, SGD can not achieve linear convergence rate as FGD (Full Gradient Descent) because of the inherent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Aixiang Chen , Bingchuan Chen , Xiaolong Chai , Rui Bian , Hengguang Li

Adversarial Training (AT) has been shown to significantly enhance adversarial robustness via a min-max optimization approach. However, its effectiveness in video recognition tasks is hampered by two main challenges. First, fast adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Songping Wang , Hanqing Liu , Yueming Lyu , Xiantao Hu , Ziwen He , Wei Wang , Caifeng Shan , Liang Wang