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Despite many proposed algorithms to provide robustness to deep learning (DL) models, DL models remain susceptible to adversarial attacks. We hypothesize that the adversarial vulnerability of DL models stems from two factors. The first…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Mahsa Paknezhad , Cuong Phuc Ngo , Amadeus Aristo Winarto , Alistair Cheong , Chuen Yang Beh , Jiayang Wu , Hwee Kuan Lee

In adversarial machine learning, deep neural networks can fit the adversarial examples on the training dataset but have poor generalization ability on the test set. This phenomenon is called robust overfitting, and it can be observed when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Jiancong Xiao , Yanbo Fan , Ruoyu Sun , Jue Wang , Zhi-Quan Luo

Adversarial training has been empirically proven to be one of the most effective and reliable defense methods against adversarial attacks. However, almost all existing studies about adversarial training are focused on balanced datasets,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Wentao Wang , Han Xu , Xiaorui Liu , Yaxin Li , Bhavani Thuraisingham , Jiliang Tang

Adversarial training enhances neural network robustness but suffers from a tendency to overfit and increased generalization errors on clean data. This work introduces CLAT, an innovative approach that mitigates adversarial overfitting by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Bhavna Gopal , Huanrui Yang , Jingyang Zhang , Mark Horton , Yiran Chen

Adversarial training suffers from robust overfitting, a phenomenon where the robust test accuracy starts to decrease during training. In this paper, we focus on both heuristics-driven and data-driven augmentations as a means to reduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Sylvestre-Alvise Rebuffi , Sven Gowal , Dan A. Calian , Florian Stimberg , Olivia Wiles , Timothy Mann

Adversarial training (AT) is among the most effective techniques to improve model robustness by augmenting training data with adversarial examples. However, most existing AT methods adopt a specific attack to craft adversarial examples,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Yinpeng Dong , Zhijie Deng , Tianyu Pang , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Adversarial training is effective on balanced datasets, but its robustness degrades under longtailed class distributions, where tail classes suffer high robust error and unstable decision boundaries. We propose Manifold-Constrained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Guanmeng Xian , Ning Yang , Philip S. Yu

Existing adversarial training (AT) methods often suffer from incomplete perturbation, meaning that not all non-robust features are perturbed when generating adversarial examples (AEs). This results in residual correlations between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Lilin Zhang , Chengpei Wu , Ning Yang

Adversarial training, which is to enhance robustness against adversarial attacks, has received much attention because it is easy to generate human-imperceptible perturbations of data to deceive a given deep neural network. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-02 Dongyoon Yang , Insung Kong , Yongdai Kim

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

In Federated Learning (FL), models are as fragile as centrally trained models against adversarial examples. However, the adversarial robustness of federated learning remains largely unexplored. This paper casts light on the challenge of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Jie Zhang , Bo Li , Chen Chen , Lingjuan Lyu , Shuang Wu , Shouhong Ding , Chao Wu

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

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

Adversarial training has been actively studied in recent computer vision research to improve the robustness of models. However, due to the huge computational cost of generating adversarial samples, adversarial training methods are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Yihan Wu , Xinda Li , Florian Kerschbaum , Heng Huang , Hongyang Zhang

In this paper, we study adversarial training on datasets that obey the long-tailed distribution, which is practical but rarely explored in previous works. Compared with conventional adversarial training on balanced datasets, this process…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Guanlin Li , Guowen Xu , Tianwei Zhang

Current neural-network-based classifiers are susceptible to adversarial examples. The most empirically successful approach to defending against such adversarial examples is adversarial training, which incorporates a strong self-attack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Bai Li , Shiqi Wang , Suman Jana , Lawrence Carin

Adversarial training (AT) is currently one of the most successful methods to obtain the adversarial robustness of deep neural networks. However, the phenomenon of robust overfitting, i.e., the robustness starts to decrease significantly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Jihoon Tack , Sihyun Yu , Jongheon Jeong , Minseon Kim , Sung Ju Hwang , Jinwoo Shin

Neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks: adding well-crafted, imperceptible perturbations to their input can modify their output. Adversarial training is one of the most effective approaches to training robust models against…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Hadi M. Dolatabadi , Sarah Erfani , Christopher Leckie

Adversarial training suffers from the issue of robust overfitting, which seriously impairs its generalization performance. Data augmentation, which is effective at preventing overfitting in standard training, has been observed by many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Lin Li , Michael Spratling

Instances-reweighted adversarial training (IRAT) can significantly boost the robustness of trained models, where data being less/more vulnerable to the given attack are assigned smaller/larger weights during training. However, when tested…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Ruize Gao , Feng Liu , Kaiwen Zhou , Gang Niu , Bo Han , James Cheng