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Adversarial Training (AT) has been widely proved to be an effective method to improve the adversarial robustness against adversarial examples for Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). As a variant of AT, Adversarial Robustness Distillation (ARD) has…

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Despite remarkable achievements in deep learning across various domains, its inherent vulnerability to adversarial examples still remains a critical concern for practical deployment. Adversarial training has emerged as one of the most…

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Deep learning models continue to advance in accuracy, yet they remain vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which often lead to the misclassification of adversarial examples. Adversarial training is used to mitigate this problem by increasing…

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Deep learning algorithms have been shown to perform extremely well on many classical machine learning problems. However, recent studies have shown that deep learning, like other machine learning techniques, is vulnerable to adversarial…

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Adversarial training attains strong empirical robustness to specific adversarial attacks by training on concrete adversarial perturbations, but it produces neural networks that are not amenable to strong robustness certificates through…

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Adversarial distillation (AD) is a knowledge distillation technique that facilitates the transfer of robustness from teacher deep neural network (DNN) models to lightweight target (student) DNN models, enabling the target models to perform…

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Knowledge distillation (KD) has been widely used in teacher-student training, with applications to model compression in resource-constrained deep learning. Current works mainly focus on preserving the accuracy of the teacher model. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Rulin Shao , Jinfeng Yi , Pin-Yu Chen , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Adversarial training significantly improves adversarial robustness, but superior performance is primarily attained with large models. This substantial performance gap for smaller models has spurred active research into adversarial…

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In recent years, the rapid development of deep neural networks has brought increased attention to the security and robustness of these models. While existing adversarial attack algorithms have demonstrated success in improving adversarial…

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Adversarial distillation in the standard min-max adversarial training framework aims to transfer adversarial robustness from a large, robust teacher network to a compact student. However, existing work often neglects to incorporate…

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Neural networks provide state-of-the-art results for most machine learning tasks. Unfortunately, neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples: given an input $x$ and any target classification $t$, it is possible to find a new…

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In standard adversarial training, models are optimized to fit one-hot labels within allowable adversarial perturbation budgets. However, the ignorance of underlying distribution shifts brought by perturbations causes the problem of robust…

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Despite the advantages of discriminative prototype-based methods, their role in adversarial robustness remains underexplored. Meanwhile, current adversarial training methods predominantly focus on robustness against adversarial attacks…

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Adversarial training is an effective method to boost model robustness to malicious, adversarial attacks. However, such improvement in model robustness often leads to a significant sacrifice of standard performance on clean images. In many…

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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…

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Adversarial Robustness Distillation (ARD) is a promising task to boost the robustness of small-capacity models with the guidance of the pre-trained robust teacher. The ARD can be summarized as a min-max optimization process, i.e.,…

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Dataset distillation is an advanced technique aimed at compressing datasets into significantly smaller counterparts, while preserving formidable training performance. Significant efforts have been devoted to promote evaluation accuracy…

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We introduce Adversarial Diffusion Distillation (ADD), a novel training approach that efficiently samples large-scale foundational image diffusion models in just 1-4 steps while maintaining high image quality. We use score distillation to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Axel Sauer , Dominik Lorenz , Andreas Blattmann , Robin Rombach

The study of physical adversarial patches is crucial for identifying vulnerabilities in AI-based recognition systems and developing more robust deep learning models. While recent research has focused on improving patch stealthiness for…

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