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A human's attention can intuitively adapt to corrupted areas of an image by recalling a similar uncorrupted image they have previously seen. This observation motivates us to improve the attention of adversarial images by considering their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Runqi Wang , Xiaoyue Duan , Baochang Zhang , Song Xue , Wentao Zhu , David Doermann , Guodong Guo

The task of continual learning requires careful design of algorithms that can tackle catastrophic forgetting. However, the noisy label, which is inevitable in a real-world scenario, seems to exacerbate the situation. While very few studies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Nazmul Karim , Umar Khalid , Ashkan Esmaeili , Nazanin Rahnavard

The vulnerability of deep neural network models to adversarial example attacks is a practical challenge in many artificial intelligence applications. A recent line of work shows that the use of randomization in adversarial training is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Jiahao Xie , Chao Zhang , Weijie Liu , Wensong Bai , Hui Qian

In this paper we propose a new family of algorithms, ATENT, for training adversarially robust deep neural networks. We formulate a new loss function that is equipped with an additional entropic regularization. Our loss function considers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Gauri Jagatap , Ameya Joshi , Animesh Basak Chowdhury , Siddharth Garg , Chinmay Hegde

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

Current adversarial attacks for multi-class classifiers choose the target class for a given input naively, based on the classifier's confidence levels for various target classes. We present a novel adversarial targeting method, \textit{MALT…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Odelia Melamed , Gilad Yehudai , Adi Shamir

Deep learning models exhibit a preference for statistical fitting over logical reasoning. Spurious correlations might be memorized when there exists statistical bias in training data, which severely limits the model performance especially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Wei Wang , Boxin Wang , Ning Shi , Jinfeng Li , Bingyu Zhu , Xiangyu Liu , Rong Zhang

Offline-to-online reinforcement learning (RL) aims to integrate the complementary strengths of offline and online RL by pre-training an agent offline and subsequently fine-tuning it through online interactions. However, recent studies…

Despite substantial advances in network architecture performance, the susceptibility of adversarial attacks makes deep learning challenging to implement in safety-critical applications. This paper proposes a data-centric approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Sandhya Aneja , Nagender Aneja , Pg Emeroylariffion Abas , Abdul Ghani Naim

Adversarial examples have become one of the largest challenges that machine learning models, especially neural network classifiers, face. These adversarial examples break the assumption of attack-free scenario and fool state-of-the-art…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Guanxiong Liu , Issa Khalil , Abdallah Khreishah

Adversarial attacks have been shown to be highly effective at degrading the performance of deep neural networks (DNNs). The most prominent defense is adversarial training, a method for learning a robust model. Nevertheless, adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Uriya Pesso , Koby Bibas , Meir Feder

Inferring an adversary's goals from exhibited behavior is crucial for counterplanning and non-cooperative multi-agent systems in domains like cybersecurity, military, and strategy games. Deep Inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL) methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Paul Ghanem , Owen Howell , Michael Potter , Pau Closas , Alireza Ramezani , Deniz Erdogmus , Tales Imbiriba

Supervised learning models are challenged by the intrinsic complexities of training data such as outliers and minority subpopulations and intentional attacks at inference time with adversarial samples. While traditional robust learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Shu Hu , Zhenhuan Yang , Xin Wang , Yiming Ying , Siwei Lyu

In this paper, we introduce Traversal Learning (TL), a novel approach designed to address the problem of decreased quality encountered in popular distributed learning (DL) paradigms such as Federated Learning (FL), Split Learning (SL), and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Erdenebileg Batbaatar , Jeonggeol Kim , Yongcheol Kim , Young Yoon

Recent studies have shown that, like traditional machine learning, federated learning (FL) is also vulnerable to adversarial attacks. To improve the adversarial robustness of FL, federated adversarial training (FAT) methods have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Chen Chen , Yuchen Liu , Xingjun Ma , Lingjuan Lyu

Neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, i.e. inputs that are imperceptibly perturbed from natural data and yet incorrectly classified by the network. Adversarial training, a heuristic form of robust optimization that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Ruiqi Gao , Tianle Cai , Haochuan Li , Liwei Wang , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Jason D. Lee

Adversarial Training (AT) with Projected Gradient Descent (PGD) is an effective approach for improving the robustness of the deep neural networks. However, PGD AT has been shown to suffer from two main limitations: i) high computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Ahmadreza Jeddi , Mohammad Javad Shafiee , Alexander Wong

Improving the robustness of deep neural networks (DNNs) to adversarial examples is an important yet challenging problem for secure deep learning. Across existing defense techniques, adversarial training with Projected Gradient Decent (PGD)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Yisen Wang , Xingjun Ma , James Bailey , Jinfeng Yi , Bowen Zhou , Quanquan Gu

Adversarial training (AT) aims to improve the robustness of deep learning models by mixing clean data and adversarial examples (AEs). Most existing AT approaches can be grouped into restricted and unrestricted approaches. Restricted AT…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Haidong Xie , Xueshuang Xiang , Naijin Liu , Bin Dong

Federated active learning (FAL) seeks to reduce annotation cost under privacy constraints, yet its effectiveness degrades in realistic settings with severe global class imbalance and highly heterogeneous clients. We conduct a systematic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Chen-Chen Zong , Sheng-Jun Huang