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Adversarial training (AT) is the de facto method for building robust neural networks, but it can be computationally expensive. To mitigate this, fast single-step attacks can be used, but this may lead to catastrophic overfitting (CO). This…

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

Fast Adversarial Training (FAT) has gained increasing attention within the research community owing to its efficacy in improving adversarial robustness. Particularly noteworthy is the challenge posed by catastrophic overfitting (CO) in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Mengnan Zhao , Lihe Zhang , Yuqiu Kong , Baocai Yin

Although fast adversarial training has demonstrated both robustness and efficiency, the problem of "catastrophic overfitting" has been observed. This is a phenomenon in which, during single-step adversarial training, the robust accuracy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Hoki Kim , Woojin Lee , Jaewook Lee

Recently, FGSM adversarial training is found to be able to train a robust model which is comparable to the one trained by PGD but an order of magnitude faster. However, there is a failure mode called catastrophic overfitting (CO) that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Peilin Kang , Seyed-Mohsen Moosavi-Dezfooli

Catastrophic overfitting (CO) presents a significant challenge in single-step adversarial training (AT), manifesting as highly distorted deep neural networks (DNNs) that are vulnerable to multi-step adversarial attacks. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Runqi Lin , Chaojian Yu , Bo Han , Hang Su , Tongliang Liu

While adversarial training and its variants have shown to be the most effective algorithms to defend against adversarial attacks, their extremely slow training process makes it hard to scale to large datasets like ImageNet. The key idea of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Zhichao Huang , Yanbo Fan , Chen Liu , Weizhong Zhang , Yong Zhang , Mathieu Salzmann , Sabine Süsstrunk , Jue Wang

This paper studies fast adversarial training against sparse adversarial perturbations bounded by $l_0$ norm. We demonstrate the challenges of employing $1$-step attacks on $l_0$ bounded perturbations for fast adversarial training, including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Xuyang Zhong , Yixiao Huang , Chen Liu

Adversarial training is a cornerstone of robust deep learning, but fast methods like the Fast Gradient Sign Method (FGSM) often suffer from Catastrophic Overfitting (CO), where models become robust to single-step attacks but fail against…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Fares B. Mehouachi , Saif Eddin Jabari

Despite the remarkable success achieved by deep learning algorithms in various domains, such as computer vision, they remain vulnerable to adversarial perturbations. Adversarial Training (AT) stands out as one of the most effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Mahdi Salmani , Alireza Dehghanpour Farashah , Mohammad Azizmalayeri , Mahdi Amiri , Navid Eslami , Mohammad Taghi Manzuri , Mohammad Hossein Rohban

Single-step adversarial training (SSAT) has demonstrated the potential to achieve both efficiency and robustness. However, SSAT suffers from catastrophic overfitting (CO), a phenomenon that leads to a severely distorted classifier, making…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Runqi Lin , Chaojian Yu , Tongliang Liu

Fast Adversarial Training (FAT) not only improves the model robustness but also reduces the training cost of standard adversarial training. However, fast adversarial training often suffers from Catastrophic Overfitting (CO), which results…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Xiaojun Jia , Yuefeng Chen , Xiaofeng Mao , Ranjie Duan , Jindong Gu , Rong Zhang , Hui Xue , Xiaochun Cao

Adversarial training (AT) has become an effective defense method against adversarial examples (AEs) and it is typically framed as a bi-level optimization problem. Among various AT methods, fast AT (FAT), which employs a single-step attack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Zhaoxin Wang , Handing Wang , Cong Tian , Yaochu Jin

Current neural-network-based classifiers are susceptible to adversarial examples. The most empirically successful approach to defending against such adversarial examples is adversarial training, which incorporates a strong self-attack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Bai Li , Shiqi Wang , Suman Jana , Lawrence Carin

Adversarial training is arguably the most popular way to provide empirical robustness against specific adversarial examples. While variants based on multi-step attacks incur significant computational overhead, single-step variants are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Alessandro De Palma , Serge Durand , Zakaria Chihani , François Terrier , Caterina Urban

Fast adversarial training (FAT) is beneficial for improving the adversarial robustness of neural networks. However, previous FAT work has encountered a significant issue known as catastrophic overfitting when dealing with large perturbation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Mengnan Zhao , Lihe Zhang , Yuqiu Kong , Baocai Yin

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

While adversarial training is an effective defense method against adversarial attacks, it notably increases the training cost. To this end, fast adversarial training (FAT) is presented for efficient training and has become a hot research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Jie Gui , Chengze Jiang , Minjing Dong , Kun Tong , Xinli Shi , Yuan Yan Tang , Dacheng Tao

In the field of adversarial robustness, there is a common practice that adopts the single-step adversarial training for quickly developing adversarially robust models. However, the single-step adversarial training is most likely to cause…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Xiaosen Wang , Chuanbiao Song , Liwei Wang , Kun He

Single-step adversarial training (AT) has received wide attention as it proved to be both efficient and robust. However, a serious problem of catastrophic overfitting exists, i.e., the robust accuracy against projected gradient descent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Tao Li , Yingwen Wu , Sizhe Chen , Kun Fang , Xiaolin Huang
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