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Despite the remarkable progress of deep neural networks (DNNs) in various visual tasks, their vulnerability to adversarial examples raises significant security concerns. Recent adversarial training methods leverage inverse adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Kejia Zhang , Juanjuan Weng , Shaozi Li , Zhiming Luo

Adversarial training (AT) is currently one of the most successful methods to obtain the adversarial robustness of deep neural networks. However, the phenomenon of robust overfitting, i.e., the robustness starts to decrease significantly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Jihoon Tack , Sihyun Yu , Jongheon Jeong , Minseon Kim , Sung Ju Hwang , Jinwoo Shin

Adversarial training is by far the most successful strategy for improving robustness of neural networks to adversarial attacks. Despite its success as a defense mechanism, adversarial training fails to generalize well to unperturbed test…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Yogesh Balaji , Tom Goldstein , Judy Hoffman

In this paper, we propose a new approach called MemLoss to improve the adversarial training of machine learning models. MemLoss leverages previously generated adversarial examples, referred to as 'Memory Adversarial Examples,' to enhance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Soroush Mahdi , Maryam Amirmazlaghani , Saeed Saravani , Zahra Dehghanian

By reinterpreting a robust discriminative classifier as Energy-based Model (EBM), we offer a new take on the dynamics of adversarial training (AT). Our analysis of the energy landscape during AT reveals that untargeted attacks generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Mujtaba Hussain Mirza , Maria Rosaria Briglia , Senad Beadini , Iacopo Masi

Recent work has demonstrated that neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples. To escape from the predicament, many works try to harden the model in various ways, in which adversarial training is an effective way which learns…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Kejiang Chen , Hang Zhou , Yuefeng Chen , Xiaofeng Mao , Yuhong Li , Yuan He , Hui Xue , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

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

Deep Neural Network (DNN) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. As a countermeasure, adversarial training aims to achieve robustness based on the min-max optimization problem and it has shown to be one of the most effective defense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Yaxin Li , Xiaorui Liu , Han Xu , Wentao Wang , Jiliang Tang

In this paper, we study adversarial training on datasets that obey the long-tailed distribution, which is practical but rarely explored in previous works. Compared with conventional adversarial training on balanced datasets, this process…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Guanlin Li , Guowen Xu , Tianwei Zhang

We answer the question in the title, showing that adversarial training (AT) for diffusion models (DMs) fundamentally differs from classifiers: while AT in classifiers enforces output invariance, AT in DMs requires equivariance to keep the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Briglia Maria Rosaria , Mujtaba Hussain Mirza , Giuseppe Lisanti , Iacopo Masi

We study the model robustness against adversarial examples, referred to as small perturbed input data that may however fool many state-of-the-art deep learning models. Unlike previous research, we establish a novel theory addressing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Shufei Zhang , Kaizhu Huang , Zenglin Xu

Adversarial training has been shown as an effective approach to improve the robustness of image classifiers against white-box attacks. However, its effectiveness against black-box attacks is more nuanced. In this work, we demonstrate that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Ali Rahmati , Seyed-Mohsen Moosavi-Dezfooli , Huaiyu Dai

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

In the future, powerful AI systems may be deployed in high-stakes settings, where a single failure could be catastrophic. One technique for improving AI safety in high-stakes settings is adversarial training, which uses an adversary to…

Large language models (LLMs) remain vulnerable to adversarial prompting despite advances in alignment and safety, often exhibiting harmful behaviors under novel attack strategies. While adversarial training can improve robustness, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yiwei Zhang , Jeremiah Birrell , Reza Ebrahimi , Rouzbeh Behnia , Jason Pacheco , Elisa Bertino

Although attention mechanisms have become fundamental components of deep learning models, they are vulnerable to perturbations, which may degrade the prediction performance and model interpretability. Adversarial training (AT) for attention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Shunsuke Kitada , Hitoshi Iyatomi

Adversarial examples for neural network image classifiers are known to be transferable: examples optimized to be misclassified by a source classifier are often misclassified as well by classifiers with different architectures. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Jacob M. Springer , Melanie Mitchell , Garrett T. Kenyon

Adversarial training is an important topic in robust deep learning, but the community lacks attention to its practical usage. In this paper, we aim to resolve a real-world challenge, i.e., training a model on an imbalanced and noisy dataset…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Guanlin Li , Kangjie Chen , Yuan Xu , Han Qiu , Tianwei Zhang

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

By injecting adversarial examples into training data, adversarial training is promising for improving the robustness of deep learning models. However, most existing adversarial training approaches are based on a specific type of adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Chuanbiao Song , Kun He , Liwei Wang , John E. Hopcroft