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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 in training robust models against…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Hadi M. Dolatabadi , Sarah Erfani , Christopher Leckie

Vision transformers (ViTs) have been an alternative design paradigm to convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, the training of ViTs is much harder than CNNs, as it is sensitive to the training parameters, such as learning rate,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Pichao Wang , Xue Wang , Hao Luo , Jingkai Zhou , Zhipeng Zhou , Fan Wang , Hao Li , Rong Jin

Visual recognition models are not invariant to viewpoint changes in the 3D world, as different viewing directions can dramatically affect the predictions given the same object. Although many efforts have been devoted to making neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Shouwei Ruan , Yinpeng Dong , Hang Su , Jianteng Peng , Ning Chen , Xingxing Wei

Adversarial training is a widely-applied approach to training deep neural networks to be robust against adversarial perturbation. However, although adversarial training has achieved empirical success in practice, it still remains unclear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Binghui Li , Yuanzhi Li

Though deep neural networks exhibit superior performance on various tasks, they are still plagued by adversarial examples. Adversarial training has been demonstrated to be the most effective method to defend against adversarial attacks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Xin Liu , Yichen Yang , Kun He , John E. Hopcroft

With the recent surge in the research of vision transformers, they have demonstrated remarkable potential for various challenging computer vision applications, such as image recognition, point cloud classification as well as video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Ziyuan Huang , Zhiwu Qing , Xiang Wang , Yutong Feng , Shiwei Zhang , Jianwen Jiang , Zhurong Xia , Mingqian Tang , Nong Sang , Marcelo H. Ang

Transformers are remarkably versatile, suggesting the existence of generic inductive biases beneficial across modalities. In this work, we explore a new way to instil such biases in vision transformers (ViTs) through pretraining on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Zachary Shinnick , Liangze Jiang , Hemanth Saratchandran , Damien Teney , Anton van den Hengel

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Tianjin Huang , Shiwei Liu , Tianlong Chen , Meng Fang , Li Shen , Vlaod Menkovski , Lu Yin , Yulong Pei , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Transformers have become central to recent advances in computer vision. However, training a vision Transformer (ViT) model from scratch can be resource intensive and time consuming. In this paper, we aim to explore approaches to reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Saghar Irandoust , Thibaut Durand , Yunduz Rakhmangulova , Wenjie Zi , Hossein Hajimirsadeghi

Recent studies have revealed that vision transformers (ViTs) face similar security risks from adversarial attacks as deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, directly applying attack methodology on CNNs to ViTs has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Chao Zhou , Xiaowen Shi , Yuan-Gen Wang

Vision Transformers (ViTs) that leverage self-attention mechanism have shown superior performance on many classical vision tasks compared to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and gain increasing popularity recently. Existing ViTs works…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Xinghua Xue , Cheng Liu , Ying Wang , Bing Yang , Tao Luo , Lei Zhang , Huawei Li , Xiaowei Li

Masked image modeling (MIM) pre-training for large-scale vision transformers (ViTs) has enabled promising downstream performance on top of the learned self-supervised ViT features. In this paper, we question if the \textit{extremely simple}…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Jin Gao , Shubo Lin , Shaoru Wang , Yutong Kou , Zeming Li , Liang Li , Congxuan Zhang , Xiaoqin Zhang , Yizheng Wang , Weiming Hu

Pretraining Vision Transformers (ViTs) has achieved great success in visual recognition. A following scenario is to adapt a ViT to various image and video recognition tasks. The adaptation is challenging because of heavy computation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Shoufa Chen , Chongjian Ge , Zhan Tong , Jiangliu Wang , Yibing Song , Jue Wang , Ping Luo

Vision transformers (ViTs) are top performing models on many computer vision benchmarks and can accurately predict human behavior on object recognition tasks. However, researchers question the value of using ViTs as models of biological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Lalit Pandey , Samantha M. W. Wood , Justin N. Wood

Vision Transformers (ViTs) and MLPs signal further efforts on replacing hand-wired features or inductive biases with general-purpose neural architectures. Existing works empower the models by massive data, such as large-scale pre-training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Xiangning Chen , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Boqing Gong

Vision transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in a variety of vision tasks. Despite their promising capabilities, training a ViT requires a large amount of diverse data. Several studies empirically found that using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Bum Jun Kim , Sang Woo Kim

Vision transformers (ViTs) have recently received explosive popularity, but their enormous model sizes and training costs remain daunting. Conventional post-training pruning often incurs higher training budgets. In contrast, this paper aims…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Tianlong Chen , Yu Cheng , Zhe Gan , Lu Yuan , Lei Zhang , Zhangyang Wang

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved comparable or superior performance than Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in computer vision. This empirical breakthrough is even more remarkable since, in contrast to CNNs, ViTs do not embed any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Samy Jelassi , Michael E. Sander , Yuanzhi Li

The transformer models have shown promising effectiveness in dealing with various vision tasks. However, compared with training Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models, training Vision Transformer (ViT) models is more difficult and relies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Jiawang Bai , Li Yuan , Shu-Tao Xia , Shuicheng Yan , Zhifeng Li , Wei Liu

Adversarial training (AT) is a simple yet effective defense against adversarial attacks to image classification systems, which is based on augmenting the training set with attacks that maximize the loss. However, the effectiveness of AT as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Kaleab A. Kinfu , René Vidal