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Generalization and robustness are both key desiderata for designing machine learning methods. Adversarial training can enhance robustness, but past work often finds it hurts generalization. In natural language processing (NLP), pre-training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Xiaodong Liu , Hao Cheng , Pengcheng He , Weizhu Chen , Yu Wang , Hoifung Poon , Jianfeng Gao

Recently it has been shown that state-of-the-art NLP models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, where the predictions of a model can be drastically altered by slight modifications to the input (such as synonym substitutions). While…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Yahan Yang , Soham Dan , Dan Roth , Insup Lee

Neural networks are known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks -- slight but carefully constructed perturbations of the inputs which can drastically impair the network's performance. Many defense methods have been proposed for improving…

Adversarial learning has emerged as one of the successful techniques to circumvent the susceptibility of existing methods against adversarial perturbations. However, the majority of existing defense methods are tailored to defend against a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Divyam Madaan , Jinwoo Shin , Sung Ju Hwang

Adversarial training is widely used to make classifiers robust to a specific threat or adversary, such as $\ell_p$-norm bounded perturbations of a given $p$-norm. However, existing methods for training classifiers robust to multiple threats…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Francesco Croce , Sylvestre-Alvise Rebuffi , Evan Shelhamer , Sven Gowal

Adversarial Training (AT) is widely recognized as an effective approach to enhance the adversarial robustness of Deep Neural Networks. As a variant of AT, Adversarial Robustness Distillation (ARD) has shown outstanding performance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Shiji Zhao , Chi Chen , Ranjie Duan , Xizhe Wang , Xingxing Wei

Adversarial training is one of the predominant techniques for training classifiers that are robust to adversarial attacks. Recent work, however has found that adversarial training, which makes the overall classifier robust, it does not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Meiyu Zhong , Ravi Tandon

Adversarial robustness corresponds to the susceptibility of deep neural networks to imperceptible perturbations made at test time. In the context of image tasks, many algorithms have been proposed to make neural networks robust to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Pranjal Awasthi , George Yu , Chun-Sung Ferng , Andrew Tomkins , Da-Cheng Juan

Adversarial training (AT) is an effective defense for large language models (LLMs) against jailbreak attacks, but performing AT on LLMs is costly. To improve the efficiency of AT for LLMs, recent studies propose continuous AT (CAT) that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Shaopeng Fu , Di Wang

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

There has been extensive evidence demonstrating that deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which motivates the development of defenses against adversarial attacks. Existing adversarial defenses typically improve model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Aishan Liu , Shiyu Tang , Xinyun Chen , Lei Huang , Haotong Qin , Xianglong Liu , Dacheng Tao

Adversarial examples derived from deliberately crafted perturbations on visual inputs can easily harm decision process of deep neural networks. To prevent potential threats, various adversarial training-based defense methods have grown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Byung-Kwan Lee , Junho Kim , Yong Man Ro

Adversarial robustness has become an emerging challenge for neural network owing to its over-sensitivity to small input perturbations. While being critical, we argue that solving this singular issue alone fails to provide a comprehensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Yu-Lin Tsai , Chia-Yi Hsu , Chia-Mu Yu , Pin-Yu Chen

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

Despite the empirical success in various domains, it has been revealed that deep neural networks are vulnerable to maliciously perturbed input data that much degrade their performance. This is known as adversarial attacks. To counter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Nanyang Ye , Qianxiao Li , Xiao-Yun Zhou , Zhanxing Zhu

Deep neural networks are incredibly vulnerable to crafted, human-imperceptible adversarial perturbations. Although adversarial training (AT) has proven to be an effective defense approach, we find that the AT-trained models heavily rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Binxiao Huang , Chaofan Tao , Rui Lin , Ngai Wong

Adversarial training (AT) has become the de-facto standard to obtain models robust against adversarial examples. However, AT exhibits severe robust overfitting: cross-entropy loss on adversarial examples, so-called robust loss, decreases…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-07 David Stutz , Matthias Hein , Bernt Schiele

While deep neural networks have been achieving state-of-the-art performance across a wide variety of applications, their vulnerability to adversarial attacks limits their widespread deployment for safety-critical applications. Alongside…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Ahmadreza Jeddi , Mohammad Javad Shafiee , Michelle Karg , Christian Scharfenberger , Alexander Wong

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Leo Hyun Park , Jaeuk Kim , Myung Gyo Oh , Jaewoo Park , Taekyoung Kwon

Deep neural networks are susceptible to adversarial attacks and common corruptions, which undermine their robustness. In order to enhance model resilience against such challenges, Adversarial Training (AT) has emerged as a prominent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Tejaswini Medi , Steffen Jung , Margret Keuper