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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

Overfitting widely exists in adversarial robust training of deep networks. An effective remedy is adversarial weight perturbation, which injects the worst-case weight perturbation during network training by maximizing the classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Chaojian Yu , Bo Han , Mingming Gong , Li Shen , Shiming Ge , Bo Du , Tongliang Liu

Adversarial training (AT) is one of the most effective strategies for promoting model robustness. However, recent benchmarks show that most of the proposed improvements on AT are less effective than simply early stopping the training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Tianyu Pang , Xiao Yang , Yinpeng Dong , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Despite the fact that adversarial training has become the de facto method for improving the robustness of deep neural networks, it is well-known that vanilla adversarial training suffers from daunting robust overfitting, resulting in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Tianjin Huang , Shiwei Liu , Tianlong Chen , Meng Fang , Li Shen , Vlaod Menkovski , Lu Yin , Yulong Pei , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Deep neural networks are incredibly vulnerable to crafted, human-imperceptible adversarial perturbations. Although adversarial training (AT) has proven to be an effective defense approach, we find that the AT-trained models heavily rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Binxiao Huang , Chaofan Tao , Rui Lin , Ngai Wong

High cost of training time caused by multi-step adversarial example generation is a major challenge in adversarial training. Previous methods try to reduce the computational burden of adversarial training using single-step adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Lehui Xie , Yaopeng Wang , Jia-Li Yin , Ximeng Liu

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

Adversarial training suffers from robust overfitting, a phenomenon where the robust test accuracy starts to decrease during training. In this paper, we focus on reducing robust overfitting by using common data augmentation schemes. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Sylvestre-Alvise Rebuffi , Sven Gowal , Dan A. Calian , Florian Stimberg , Olivia Wiles , Timothy Mann

Our goal is to understand why the robustness drops after conducting adversarial training for too long. Although this phenomenon is commonly explained as overfitting, our analysis suggest that its primary cause is perturbation underfitting.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Zichao Li , Liyuan Liu , Chengyu Dong , Jingbo Shang

Adversarial training and its many variants substantially improve deep network robustness, yet at the cost of compromising standard accuracy. Moreover, the training process is heavy and hence it becomes impractical to thoroughly explore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Haotao Wang , Tianlong Chen , Shupeng Gui , Ting-Kuei Hu , Ji Liu , Zhangyang Wang

Adversarial training (AT) has been demonstrated to be effective in improving model robustness by leveraging adversarial examples for training. However, most AT methods are in face of expensive time and computational cost for calculating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Xiaojun Jia , Yong Zhang , Baoyuan Wu , Jue Wang , Xiaochun Cao

Adversarial training is a popular method to robustify models against adversarial attacks. However, it exhibits much more severe overfitting than training on clean inputs. In this work, we investigate this phenomenon from the perspective of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Chen Liu , Zhichao Huang , Mathieu Salzmann , Tong Zhang , Sabine Süsstrunk

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…

Adversarial training is so far the most effective strategy in defending against adversarial examples. However, it suffers from high computational costs due to the iterative adversarial attacks in each training step. Recent studies show that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Jinghui Chen , Yu Cheng , Zhe Gan , Quanquan Gu , Jingjing Liu

Adversarial training, a method for learning robust deep networks, is typically assumed to be more expensive than traditional training due to the necessity of constructing adversarial examples via a first-order method like projected gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Eric Wong , Leslie Rice , J. Zico Kolter

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

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

Adversarial training and data augmentation with noise are widely adopted techniques to enhance the performance of neural networks. This paper investigates adversarial training and data augmentation with noise in the context of regularized…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-04-20 Teng Zhang , Kang Li

Adversarial training is an effective method to boost model robustness to malicious, adversarial attacks. However, such improvement in model robustness often leads to a significant sacrifice of standard performance on clean images. In many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Pengyue Hou , Ming Zhou , Jie Han , Petr Musilek , Xingyu Li

While deep learning in the form of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) has caused a significant improvement in neural language modeling, the fact that they are extremely prone to overfitting is still a mainly unresolved issue. In this paper we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Sajad Movahedi , Azadeh Shakery