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Model distillation is frequently proposed as a technique to reduce the privacy leakage of machine learning. These empirical privacy defenses rely on the intuition that distilled ``student'' models protect the privacy of training data, as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Matthew Jagielski , Milad Nasr , Christopher Choquette-Choo , Katherine Lee , Nicholas Carlini

Adversarial robustness of the neural network is a significant concern when it is applied to security-critical domains. In this situation, adversarial distillation is a promising option which aims to distill the robustness of the teacher…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Jaewon Jung , Hongsun Jang , Jaeyong Song , Jinho Lee

Adversarial training attains strong empirical robustness to specific adversarial attacks by training on concrete adversarial perturbations, but it produces neural networks that are not amenable to strong robustness certificates through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Alessandro De Palma

Knowledge distillation has become a cornerstone in modern machine learning systems, celebrated for its ability to transfer knowledge from a large, complex teacher model to a more efficient student model. Traditionally, this process is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Chen Wu , Qian Ma , Prasenjit Mitra , Sencun Zhu

Achieving resiliency against adversarial attacks is necessary prior to deploying neural network classifiers in domains where misclassification incurs substantial costs, e.g., self-driving cars or medical imaging. Recent work has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Jieren Deng , Aaron Palmer , Rigel Mahmood , Ethan Rathbun , Jinbo Bi , Kaleel Mahmood , Derek Aguiar

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

Adversarial attacks pose a significant threat to learning-based 3D point cloud models, critically undermining their reliability in security-sensitive applications. Existing defense methods often suffer from (1) high computational overhead…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Xiang Gu , Liming Lu , Xu Zheng , Anan Du , Yongbin Zhou , Shuchao Pang

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) has become a prominent paradigm for pre-training encoders to learning general-purpose representations from unlabeled data and releasing them on third-party platforms for broad downstream deep learning tasks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 TIngxu Han , Wei Song , Weisong Sun , Ziqi Ding , Yebo Feng , Chunrong Fang , Jun Li , Hanwei Qian , Zhenyu Chen , Yang Liu

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

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

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

Many recent works on knowledge distillation have provided ways to transfer the knowledge of a trained network for improving the learning process of a new one, but finding a good technique for knowledge distillation is still an open problem.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Byeongho Heo , Minsik Lee , Sangdoo Yun , Jin Young Choi

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) policies have been shown to be deceived by perturbations (e.g., random noise or intensional adversarial attacks) on state observations that appear at test time but are unknown during training. To increase…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Xinghua Qu , Yew-Soon Ong , Abhishek Gupta , Zhu Sun

Recent progress in accelerating text-to-image diffusion models enables high-fidelity synthesis within a single denoising step. However, customizing the fast one-step models remains challenging, as existing methods consistently fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Yixiong Yang , Tao Wu , Senmao Li , Shiqi Yang , Yaxing Wang , Joost van de Weijer , Kai Wang

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

Adversarial distillation (AD) is a knowledge distillation technique that facilitates the transfer of robustness from teacher deep neural network (DNN) models to lightweight target (student) DNN models, enabling the target models to perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Zhenyu Liu , Huizhi Liang , Xinrun Li , Vaclav Snasel , Varun Ojha

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

Neural networks (NNs) are already deployed in hardware today, becoming valuable intellectual property (IP) as many hours are invested in their training and optimization. Therefore, attackers may be interested in copying, reverse…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Mahdieh Grailoo , Zain Ul Abideen , Mairo Leier , Samuel Pagliarini

Dataset distillation synthesizes compact datasets that enable models to achieve performance comparable to training on the original large-scale datasets. However, existing distillation methods overlook the robustness of the model, resulting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Wei Lai , Tianyu Ding , ren dongdong , Lei Wang , Jing Huo , Yang Gao , Wenbin Li

We propose the task of knowledge distillation detection, which aims to determine whether a student model has been distilled from a given teacher, under a practical setting where only the student's weights and the teacher's API are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Qin Shi , Amber Yijia Zheng , Qifan Song , Raymond A. Yeh