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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

Deep learning models have shown impressive performance across a spectrum of computer vision applications including medical diagnosis and autonomous driving. One of the major concerns that these models face is their susceptibility to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Vivek B. S. , R. Venkatesh Babu

Catastrophic overfitting (CO) in single-step adversarial training (AT) results in abrupt drops in the adversarial test accuracy (even down to 0%). For models trained with multi-step AT, it has been observed that the loss function behaves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Elias Abad Rocamora , Fanghui Liu , Grigorios G. Chrysos , Pablo M. Olmos , Volkan Cevher

In this technical report, we evaluate the adversarial robustness of a very recent method called "Geometry-aware Instance-reweighted Adversarial Training"[7]. GAIRAT reports state-of-the-art results on defenses to adversarial attacks on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Dorjan Hitaj , Giulio Pagnotta , Iacopo Masi , Luigi V. Mancini

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) with projected gradient descent is the most popular method to improve model robustness under adversarial attacks. However, computational overheads become prohibitively large when AT is applied to large backbone…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Quanwei Wu , Jun Guo , Wei Wang , Yi Wang

Fast Adversarial Training (FAT) has attracted significant attention due to its efficiency in enhancing neural network robustness against adversarial attacks. However, FAT is prone to catastrophic overfitting (CO), wherein models overfit to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Mengnan Zhao , Lihe Zhang , Tianhang Zheng , Bo Wang , Baocai Yin

Adversarial training is an effective but time-consuming way to train robust deep neural networks that can withstand strong adversarial attacks. As a response to its inefficiency, we propose Dynamic Efficient Adversarial Training (DEAT),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Fu Wang , Yanghao Zhang , Yanbin Zheng , Wenjie Ruan

Adversarial training is an effective defense method to protect classification models against adversarial attacks. However, one limitation of this approach is that it can require orders of magnitude additional training time due to high cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Haizhong Zheng , Ziqi Zhang , Juncheng Gu , Honglak Lee , Atul Prakash

Adversarial training (AT) has been demonstrated to be effective in improving model robustness by leveraging adversarial examples for training. However, most AT methods are in face of expensive time and computational cost for calculating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Xiaojun Jia , Yong Zhang , Baoyuan Wu , Jue Wang , Xiaochun Cao

Recently, Wong et al. showed that adversarial training with single-step FGSM leads to a characteristic failure mode named Catastrophic Overfitting (CO), in which a model becomes suddenly vulnerable to multi-step attacks. Experimentally they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Pau de Jorge , Adel Bibi , Riccardo Volpi , Amartya Sanyal , Philip H. S. Torr , Grégory Rogez , Puneet K. Dokania

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 can improve the robustness of neural networks. Previous methods focus on a single adversarial training strategy and do not consider the model property trained by different strategies. By revisiting the previous methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Xingbin Liu , Huafeng Kuang , Xianming Lin , Yongjian Wu , Rongrong Ji

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

Deep learning models have achieved state-of-the-art performances in various domains, while they are vulnerable to the inputs with well-crafted but small perturbations, which are named after adversarial examples (AEs). Among many strategies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Huihui Gong

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

Due to the surprisingly good representation power of complex distributions, neural network (NN) classifiers are widely used in many tasks which include natural language processing, computer vision and cyber security. In recent works, people…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Guanxiong Liu , Issa Khalil , Abdallah Khreishah

In this paper, we study fast training of adversarially robust models. From the analyses of the state-of-the-art defense method, i.e., the multi-step adversarial training, we hypothesize that the gradient magnitude links to the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Jianyu Wang , Haichao Zhang

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

Despite its popularity, deep neural networks are easily fooled. To alleviate this deficiency, researchers are actively developing new training strategies, which encourage models that are robust to small input perturbations. Several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Jingyue Lu , M. Pawan Kumar