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Adversarial training for neural networks has been in the limelight in recent years. The advancement in neural network architectures over the last decade has led to significant improvement in their performance. It sparked an interest in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Abhijith Sharma , Apurva Narayan

We demonstrate that the choice of optimizer, neural network architecture, and regularizer significantly affect the adversarial robustness of linear neural networks, providing guarantees without the need for adversarial training. To this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Fartash Faghri , Sven Gowal , Cristina Vasconcelos , David J. Fleet , Fabian Pedregosa , Nicolas Le Roux

Adversarial training can considerably robustify deep neural networks to resist adversarial attacks. However, some works suggested that adversarial training might comprise the privacy-preserving and generalization abilities. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Fengxiang He , Shaopeng Fu , Bohan Wang , Dacheng Tao

Robustness is critical for machine learning (ML) classifiers to ensure consistent performance in real-world applications where models may encounter corrupted or adversarial inputs. In particular, assessing the robustness of classifiers to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Georg Siedel , Ekagra Gupta , Andrey Morozov

Benefiting from the rapid development of deep learning, 2D and 3D computer vision applications are deployed in many safe-critical systems, such as autopilot and identity authentication. However, deep learning models are not trustworthy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Yanjie Li , Bin Xie , Songtao Guo , Yuanyuan Yang , Bin Xiao

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

Efforts to address declining accuracy as a result of data shifts often involve various data-augmentation strategies. Adversarial training is one such method, designed to improve robustness to worst-case distribution shifts caused by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Fatemeh Amerehi , Patrick Healy

We show that there may exist an inherent tension between the goal of adversarial robustness and that of standard generalization. Specifically, training robust models may not only be more resource-consuming, but also lead to a reduction of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-10 Dimitris Tsipras , Shibani Santurkar , Logan Engstrom , Alexander Turner , Aleksander Madry

Although deep networks achieve strong accuracy on a range of computer vision benchmarks, they remain vulnerable to adversarial attacks, where imperceptible input perturbations fool the network. We present both theoretical and empirical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Chengzhi Mao , Amogh Gupta , Vikram Nitin , Baishakhi Ray , Shuran Song , Junfeng Yang , Carl Vondrick

Adversarial training is a widely-applied approach to training deep neural networks to be robust against adversarial perturbation. However, although adversarial training has achieved empirical success in practice, it still remains unclear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Binghui Li , Yuanzhi Li

Adversarial training is an approach of increasing the robustness of models to adversarial attacks by including adversarial examples in the training set. One major challenge of producing adversarial examples is to contain sufficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Tianjin Huang , Vlado Menkovski , Yulong Pei , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Delusive attacks aim to substantially deteriorate the test accuracy of the learning model by slightly perturbing the features of correctly labeled training examples. By formalizing this malicious attack as finding the worst-case training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Lue Tao , Lei Feng , Jinfeng Yi , Sheng-Jun Huang , Songcan Chen

Adversarial training was introduced as a way to improve the robustness of deep learning models to adversarial attacks. This training method improves robustness against adversarial attacks, but increases the models vulnerability to privacy…

Since neural classifiers are known to be sensitive to adversarial perturbations that alter their accuracy, \textit{certification methods} have been developed to provide provable guarantees on the insensitivity of their predictions to such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Cornelius Emde , Francesco Pinto , Thomas Lukasiewicz , Philip H. S. Torr , Adel Bibi

Adversarial training yields robust models against a specific threat model, e.g., $L_\infty$ adversarial examples. Typically robustness does not generalize to previously unseen threat models, e.g., other $L_p$ norms, or larger perturbations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-01 David Stutz , Matthias Hein , Bernt Schiele

Federated learning is an emerging data-private distributed learning framework, which, however, is vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Although several heuristic defenses are proposed to enhance the robustness of federated learning, they do…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Cheng Chen , Bhavya Kailkhura , Ryan Goldhahn , Yi Zhou

As ML models are increasingly deployed in critical applications, robustness against adversarial perturbations is crucial. While numerous defenses have been proposed to counter such attacks, they typically assume that all adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Yuan Xin , Dingfan Chen , Michael Backes , Xiao Zhang

Adversarial training, originally designed to resist test-time adversarial examples, has shown to be promising in mitigating training-time availability attacks. This defense ability, however, is challenged in this paper. We identify a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Lue Tao , Lei Feng , Hongxin Wei , Jinfeng Yi , Sheng-Jun Huang , Songcan Chen

In guaranteeing the absence of adversarial examples in an instance's neighbourhood, certification mechanisms play an important role in demonstrating neural net robustness. In this paper, we ask if these certifications can compromise the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Andrew C. Cullen , Shijie Liu , Paul Montague , Sarah M. Erfani , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein

Traditional classification algorithms assume that training and test data come from similar distributions. This assumption is violated in adversarial settings, where malicious actors modify instances to evade detection. A number of custom…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Bo Li , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Xinyun Chen