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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…

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Advances in the development of adversarial attacks have been fundamental to the progress of adversarial defense research. Efficient and effective attacks are crucial for reliable evaluation of defenses, and also for developing robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Gaurang Sriramanan , Sravanti Addepalli , Arya Baburaj , R. Venkatesh Babu

In response to the threat of adversarial examples, adversarial training provides an attractive option for enhancing the model robustness by training models on online-augmented adversarial examples. However, most of the existing adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Jia-Li Yin , Lehui Xie , Wanqing Zhu , Ximeng Liu , Bo-Hao Chen

Fast Adversarial Training (FAT) has proven effective in enhancing model robustness by encouraging networks to learn perturbation-invariant representations. However, FAT often suffers from catastrophic overfitting (CO), where the model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Mengnan Zhao , Lihe Zhang , Bo Wang , Tianhang Zheng , Hong Zhong , Geyong Min

Adversarial training has become one of the most effective methods for improving robustness of neural networks. However, it often suffers from poor generalization on both clean and perturbed data. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Minhao Cheng , Qi Lei , Pin-Yu Chen , Inderjit Dhillon , Cho-Jui Hsieh

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

It is common practice in deep learning to use overparameterized networks and train for as long as possible; there are numerous studies that show, both theoretically and empirically, that such practices surprisingly do not unduly harm the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Leslie Rice , Eric Wong , J. Zico Kolter

Our goal is to understand why the robustness drops after conducting adversarial training for too long. Although this phenomenon is commonly explained as overfitting, our analysis suggest that its primary cause is perturbation underfitting.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Zichao Li , Liyuan Liu , Chengyu Dong , Jingbo Shang

Adversarial training (AT) is proved to reliably improve network's robustness against adversarial data. However, current AT with a pre-specified perturbation budget has limitations in learning a robust network. Firstly, applying a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Chaojian Yu , Dawei Zhou , Li Shen , Jun Yu , Bo Han , Mingming Gong , Nannan Wang , Tongliang Liu

Adversarial training (AT) and its variants have spearheaded progress in improving neural network robustness to adversarial perturbations and common corruptions in the last few years. Algorithm design of AT and its variants are focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Kaustubh Sridhar , Souradeep Dutta , Ramneet Kaur , James Weimer , Oleg Sokolsky , Insup Lee

Adversarial training (AT) is a prominent technique employed by deep learning models to defend against adversarial attacks, and to some extent, enhance model robustness. However, there are three main drawbacks of the existing AT-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 X. Peng , D. Zhou , G. Sun , J. Shi , L. Wu

Adversarial training (AT) is one of the most effective strategies for promoting model robustness. However, recent benchmarks show that most of the proposed improvements on AT are less effective than simply early stopping the training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Tianyu Pang , Xiao Yang , Yinpeng Dong , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Vision Transformer (ViT) models have achieved remarkable performance across various vision tasks, with scalability being a key advantage when applied to large datasets. This scalability enables ViT models to exhibit strong generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Wenyun Li , Zheng Zhang , Dongmei Jiang , Yaowei Wang , Xiangyuan Lan

Adversarial training (AT) is always formulated as a minimax problem, of which the performance depends on the inner optimization that involves the generation of adversarial examples (AEs). Most previous methods adopt Projected Gradient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Xiaojun Jia , Yong Zhang , Baoyuan Wu , Ke Ma , Jue Wang , Xiaochun Cao

Federated Adversarial Training (FAT) can supplement robustness against adversarial examples to Federated Learning (FL), promoting a meaningful step toward trustworthy AI. However, FAT requires large models to preserve high accuracy while…

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Adversarial training is wildly considered as one of the most effective way to defend against adversarial examples. However, existing adversarial training methods consume unbearable time, due to the fact that they need to generate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Yaguan Qian , Qiqi Shao , Tengteng Yao , Bin Wang , Shouling Ji , Shaoning Zeng , Zhaoquan Gu , Wassim Swaileh

Adversarial training has been empirically shown to be more prone to overfitting than standard training. The exact underlying reasons still need to be fully understood. In this paper, we identify one cause of overfitting related to current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Enes Altinisik , Safa Messaoud , Husrev Taha Sencar , Sanjay Chawla

Adversarial training is often formulated as a min-max problem, however, concentrating only on the worst adversarial examples causes alternating repetitive confusion of the model, i.e., previously defended or correctly classified samples are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Qian Li , Yuxiao Hu , Yinpeng Dong , Dongxiao Zhang , Yuntian Chen

Classifiers fail to classify correctly input images that have been purposefully and imperceptibly perturbed to cause misclassification. This susceptability has been shown to be consistent across classifiers, regardless of their type,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Blerta Lindqvist , Shridatt Sugrim , Rauf Izmailov

Deep neural networks are easily fooled by small perturbations known as adversarial attacks. Adversarial Training (AT) is a technique aimed at learning features robust to such attacks and is widely regarded as a very effective defense.…

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