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Adversarial training has been widely explored for mitigating attacks against deep models. However, most existing works are still trapped in the dilemma between higher accuracy and stronger robustness since they tend to fit a model towards…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Guodong Cao , Zhibo Wang , Xiaowei Dong , Zhifei Zhang , Hengchang Guo , Zhan Qin , Kui Ren

Adversarial Robustness Distillation (ARD) has emerged as an effective method to enhance the robustness of lightweight deep neural networks against adversarial attacks. Current ARD approaches have leveraged a large robust teacher network to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Seyedhamidreza Mousavi , Seyedali Mousavi , Masoud Daneshtalab

Deep learning models are shown to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. Though adversarial training can enhance model robustness, typical approaches are computationally expensive. Recent works proposed to transfer the robustness to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Tao Bai , Jinnan Chen , Jun Zhao , Bihan Wen , Xudong Jiang , Alex Kot

Knowledge distillation refers to a technique of transferring the knowledge from a large learned model or an ensemble of learned models to a small model. This method relies on access to the original training set, which might not always be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Xiaoyang Qu , Jianzong Wang , Jing Xiao

Adversarial Training (AT) has been widely proved to be an effective method to improve the adversarial robustness against adversarial examples for Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). As a variant of AT, Adversarial Robustness Distillation (ARD) has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Shiji Zhao , Ranjie Duan , Xizhe Wang , Xingxing Wei

We present a novel adversarial penalized self-knowledge distillation method, named adversarial learning and implicit regularization for self-knowledge distillation (AI-KD), which regularizes the training procedure by adversarial learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Hyungmin Kim , Sungho Suh , Sunghyun Baek , Daehwan Kim , Daun Jeong , Hansang Cho , Junmo Kim

Adversarial training significantly improves adversarial robustness, but superior performance is primarily attained with large models. This substantial performance gap for smaller models has spurred active research into adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Hongsin Lee , Seungju Cho , Changick Kim

Knowledge Distillation (KD) has made remarkable progress in the last few years and become a popular paradigm for model compression and knowledge transfer. However, almost all existing KD algorithms are data-driven, i.e., relying on a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Gongfan Fang , Jie Song , Chengchao Shen , Xinchao Wang , Da Chen , Mingli Song

Adversarial Robustness Distillation (ARD) is a promising task to solve the issue of limited adversarial robustness of small capacity models while optimizing the expensive computational costs of Adversarial Training (AT). Despite the good…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Yuzheng Wang , Zhaoyu Chen , Dingkang Yang , Pinxue Guo , Kaixun Jiang , Wenqiang Zhang , Lizhe Qi

Adversarial Distillation aims to enhance student robustness by guiding the student with a robust teacher's soft labels within the min-max adversarial training framework, yet its success is notoriously inconsistent: a more robust teacher…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Hongsin Lee , Hye Won Chung

In recent years, the rapid development of deep neural networks has brought increased attention to the security and robustness of these models. While existing adversarial attack algorithms have demonstrated success in improving adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Wenyuan Wu , Zheng Liu , Yong Chen , Chao Su , Dezhong Peng , Xu Wang

In ordinary distillation, student networks are trained with soft labels (SLs) given by pretrained teacher networks, and students are expected to improve upon teachers since SLs are stronger supervision than the original hard labels.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Jianing Zhu , Jiangchao Yao , Bo Han , Jingfeng Zhang , Tongliang Liu , Gang Niu , Jingren Zhou , Jianliang Xu , Hongxia Yang

Neural networks can learn spurious correlations in the data, often leading to performance degradation for underrepresented subgroups. Studies have demonstrated that the disparity is amplified when knowledge is distilled from a complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Patrik Kenfack , Ulrich Aïvodji , Samira Ebrahimi Kahou

Adversarial robustness is a research area that has recently received a lot of attention in the quest for trustworthy artificial intelligence. However, recent works on adversarial robustness have focused on supervised learning where it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Dongyoon Yang , Insung Kong , Yongdai Kim

This paper proposes an ensemble learning model that is resistant to adversarial attacks. To build resilience, we introduced a training process where each member learns a radically distinct latent space. Member models are added one at a time…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-08 Ali Mirzaeian , Jana Kosecka , Houman Homayoun , Tinoosh Mohsenin , Avesta Sasan

Recent work has proposed several efficient approaches for generating gradient-based adversarial perturbations on embeddings and proved that the model's performance and robustness can be improved when they are trained with these contaminated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Yao Qiu , Jinchao Zhang , Jie Zhou

In the realm of Adversarial Distillation (AD), strategic and precise knowledge transfer from an adversarially robust teacher model to a less robust student model is paramount. Our Dynamic Guidance Adversarial Distillation (DGAD) framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Hyejin Park , Dongbo Min

Recent studies have shown that robustness to adversarial attacks can be transferred across networks. In other words, we can make a weak model more robust with the help of a strong teacher model. We ask if instead of learning from a static…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Jiang Liu , Chun Pong Lau , Hossein Souri , Soheil Feizi , Rama Chellappa

Knowledge distillation has been widely used to produce portable and efficient neural networks which can be well applied on edge devices for computer vision tasks. However, almost all top-performing knowledge distillation methods need to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Haoran Zhao , Xin Sun , Junyu Dong , Hui Yu , Huiyu Zhou

Adversarial training is a widely adopted strategy to bolster the robustness of neural network models against adversarial attacks. This paper revisits the fundamental assumptions underlying image classification and suggests that representing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Erh-Chung Chen , Che-Rung Lee