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Neural networks are susceptible to adversarial examples-small input perturbations that cause models to fail. Adversarial training is one of the solutions that stops adversarial examples; models are exposed to attacks during training and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Maximilian Kaufmann , Yiren Zhao , Ilia Shumailov , Robert Mullins , Nicolas Papernot

Recent studies demonstrate that deep networks, even robustified by the state-of-the-art adversarial training (AT), still suffer from large robust generalization gaps, in addition to the much more expensive training costs than standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Tianlong Chen , Zhenyu Zhang , Pengjun Wang , Santosh Balachandra , Haoyu Ma , Zehao Wang , Zhangyang Wang

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial noise. Adversarial Training (AT) has been demonstrated to be the most effective defense strategy to protect neural networks from being fooled. However, we find AT omits to learning robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Nuoyan Zhou , Nannan Wang , Decheng Liu , Dawei Zhou , Xinbo Gao

Adversarial training is an effective defense method to protect classification models against adversarial attacks. However, one limitation of this approach is that it can require orders of magnitude additional training time due to high cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Haizhong Zheng , Ziqi Zhang , Juncheng Gu , Honglak Lee , Atul Prakash

With the rise of powerful foundation models, a pre-training-fine-tuning paradigm becomes increasingly popular these days: A foundation model is pre-trained using a huge amount of data from various sources, and then the downstream users only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Meiqi Liu , Zhuoqun Huang , Yue Xing

Learning robust models under adversarial settings is widely recognized as requiring a considerably large number of training samples. Recent work proposes semi-supervised adversarial training (SSAT), which utilizes external unlabeled or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Somrita Ghosh , Yuelin Xu , Xiao Zhang

Human beings are able to master a variety of knowledge and skills with ongoing learning. By contrast, dramatic performance degradation is observed when new tasks are added to an existing neural network model. This phenomenon, termed as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Xin Yao , Tianchi Huang , Chenglei Wu , Rui-Xiao Zhang , Lifeng Sun

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

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are state-of-the-art algorithms for multiple applications, spanning from image classification to speech recognition. While providing excellent accuracy, they often have enormous compute and memory requirements.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Ussama Zahid , Giulio Gambardella , Nicholas J. Fraser , Michaela Blott , Kees Vissers

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

Despite federated learning endows distributed clients with a cooperative training mode under the premise of protecting data privacy and security, the clients are still vulnerable when encountering adversarial samples due to the lack of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Shuang Luo , Didi Zhu , Zexi Li , Chao Wu

Adversarial training (AT) has been considered one of the most effective methods for making deep neural networks robust against adversarial attacks, while the training mechanisms and dynamics of AT remain open research problems. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Zeming Wei , Yiwen Guo , Yisen Wang

The growing use of large pre-trained models in edge computing has made model inference on mobile clients both feasible and popular. Yet these devices remain vulnerable to adversarial attacks, threatening model robustness and security.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Tianyu Qi , Lei Xue , Yufeng Zhan , Xiaobo Ma

Recently proposed adversarial training methods show the robustness to both adversarial and original examples and achieve state-of-the-art results in supervised and semi-supervised learning. All the existing adversarial training methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Shufei Zhang , Kaizhu Huang , Jianke Zhu , Yang Liu

Adversarial training is an effective learning technique to improve the robustness of deep neural networks. In this study, the influence of adversarial training on deep learning models in terms of fairness, robustness, and generalization is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Xiaoling Zhou , Nan Yang , Ou Wu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are sensitive to adversarial examples, resulting in fragile and unreliable performance in the real world. Although adversarial training (AT) is currently one of the most effective methodologies to robustify DNNs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Yize Li , Pu Zhao , Xue Lin , Bhavya Kailkhura , Ryan Goldhahn

The fact that deep neural networks are susceptible to crafted perturbations severely impacts the use of deep learning in certain domains of application. Among many developed defense models against such attacks, adversarial training emerges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Anh Bui , Trung Le , He Zhao , Paul Montague , Olivier deVel , Tamas Abraham , Dinh Phung

We propose adaptive weight decay, which automatically tunes the hyper-parameter for weight decay during each training iteration. For classification problems, we propose changing the value of the weight decay hyper-parameter on the fly based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Amin Ghiasi , Ali Shafahi , Reza Ardekani

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

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