English
Related papers

Related papers: Sparsity Winning Twice: Better Robust Generalizati…

200 papers

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

Generative adversarial networks (GAN) have shown remarkable results in image generation tasks. High fidelity class-conditional GAN methods often rely on stabilization techniques by constraining the global Lipschitz continuity. Such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Jiachen Zhong , Xuanqing Liu , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Improvements in the performance of deep neural networks have often come through the design of larger and more complex networks. As a result, fast memory is a significant limiting factor in our ability to improve network performance. One…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-25 Simon Alford , Ryan Robinett , Lauren Milechin , Jeremy Kepner

Fast adversarial training (FAT) is beneficial for improving the adversarial robustness of neural networks. However, previous FAT work has encountered a significant issue known as catastrophic overfitting when dealing with large perturbation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Mengnan Zhao , Lihe Zhang , Yuqiu Kong , Baocai Yin

Adversarial training is an effective learning technique to improve the robustness of deep neural networks. In this study, the influence of adversarial training on deep learning models in terms of fairness, robustness, and generalization is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Xiaoling Zhou , Nan Yang , Ou Wu

Works on lottery ticket hypothesis (LTH) and single-shot network pruning (SNIP) have raised a lot of attention currently on post-training pruning (iterative magnitude pruning), and before-training pruning (pruning at initialization). The…

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

Adversarial training is a standard defense against malicious input perturbations in security-critical machine-learning systems. Its main burden is structural: before every parameter update, the current model must first be attacked to find a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Yue Wang , Guangyi He , Liepeng Zhang , Lukas Gonon , Qi Zhao

Adversarial training has shown promise in building robust models against adversarial examples. A major drawback of adversarial training is the computational overhead introduced by the generation of adversarial examples. To overcome this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Xiaojun Jia , Jianshu Li , Jindong Gu , Yang Bai , Xiaochun Cao

Sparse neural networks are effective approaches to reduce the resource requirements for the deployment of deep neural networks. Recently, the concept of adaptive sparse connectivity, has emerged to allow training sparse neural networks from…

Deep neural networks often suffer from poor generalization due to complex and non-convex loss landscapes. Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM) is a popular solution that smooths the loss landscape by minimizing the maximized change of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Peng Mi , Li Shen , Tianhe Ren , Yiyi Zhou , Tianshuo Xu , Xiaoshuai Sun , Tongliang Liu , Rongrong Ji , Dacheng Tao

In recent years, Dynamic Sparse Training (DST) has emerged as an alternative to post-training pruning for generating efficient models. In principle, DST allows for a more memory efficient training process, as it maintains sparsity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Nasib Ullah , Erik Schultheis , Mike Lasby , Yani Ioannou , Rohit Babbar

Adversarial training is a defense technique that improves adversarial robustness of a deep neural network (DNN) by including adversarial examples in the training data. In this paper, we identify an overlooked problem of adversarial training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Wonseok Lee , Hanbit Lee , Sang-goo Lee

Adversarial training is by far the most successful strategy for improving robustness of neural networks to adversarial attacks. Despite its success as a defense mechanism, adversarial training fails to generalize well to unperturbed test…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Yogesh Balaji , Tom Goldstein , Judy Hoffman

The Vision Transformer architecture is a deep learning model inspired by the success of the Transformer model in Natural Language Processing. However, the self-attention mechanism, large number of parameters, and the requirement for a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Yogi Prasetyo , Novanto Yudistira , Agus Wahyu Widodo

We investigate the difficulties of training sparse neural networks and make new observations about optimization dynamics and the energy landscape within the sparse regime. Recent work of \citep{Gale2019, Liu2018} has shown that sparse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Utku Evci , Fabian Pedregosa , Aidan Gomez , Erich Elsen

Adversarial examples can cause catastrophic mistakes in Deep Neural Network (DNNs) based vision systems e.g., for classification, segmentation and object detection. The vulnerability of DNNs against such attacks can prove a major roadblock…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Muzammal Naseer , Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Fatih Porikli

Continual learning on edge devices poses unique challenges due to stringent resource constraints. This paper introduces a novel method that leverages stochastic competition principles to promote sparsity, significantly reducing deep network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Theodoros Christophides , Kyriakos Tolias , Sotirios Chatzis

This paper investigates the theory of robustness against adversarial attacks. It focuses on the family of randomization techniques that consist in injecting noise in the network at inference time. These techniques have proven effective in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Rafael Pinot , Laurent Meunier , Alexandre Araujo , Hisashi Kashima , Florian Yger , Cédric Gouy-Pailler , Jamal Atif

To fully uncover the great potential of deep neural networks (DNNs), various learning algorithms have been developed to improve the model's generalization ability. Recently, sharpness-aware minimization (SAM) establishes a generic scheme…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Tao Li , Weihao Yan , Zehao Lei , Yingwen Wu , Kun Fang , Ming Yang , Xiaolin Huang