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Adversarial training is a widely adopted strategy to bolster the robustness of neural network models against adversarial attacks. This paper revisits the fundamental assumptions underlying image classification and suggests that representing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Erh-Chung Chen , Che-Rung Lee

We introduce Adversarial Sparse Teacher (AST), a robust defense method against distillation-based model stealing attacks. Our approach trains a teacher model using adversarial examples to produce sparse logit responses and increase the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Eda Yilmaz , Hacer Yalim Keles

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 Robustness Distillation (ARD) is a novel method to boost the robustness of small models. Unlike general adversarial training, its robust knowledge transfer can be less easily restricted by the model capacity. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Yuzheng Wang , Zhaoyu Chen , Dingkang Yang , Yang Liu , Siao Liu , Wenqiang Zhang , Lizhe Qi

Adversarial examples have appeared as a ubiquitous property of machine learning models where bounded adversarial perturbation could mislead the models to make arbitrarily incorrect predictions. Such examples provide a way to assess the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Zhuolin Yang , Zhaoxi Chen , Tiffany Cai , Xinyun Chen , Bo Li , Yuandong Tian

Adversarial robustness distillation (ARD) aims to transfer both performance and robustness from teacher model to lightweight student model, enabling resilient performance on resource-constrained scenarios. Though existing ARD approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Liming Lu , Shuchao Pang , Xu Zheng , Xiang Gu , Anan Du , Yunhuai Liu , Yongbin Zhou

Transfer learning is prevalent as a technique to efficiently generate new models (Student models) based on the knowledge transferred from a pre-trained model (Teacher model). However, Teacher models are often publicly available for sharing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Bang Wu , Shuo Wang , Xingliang Yuan , Cong Wang , Carsten Rudolph , Xiangwen Yang

In ordinary distillation, student networks are trained with soft labels (SLs) given by pretrained teacher networks, and students are expected to improve upon teachers since SLs are stronger supervision than the original hard labels.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Jianing Zhu , Jiangchao Yao , Bo Han , Jingfeng Zhang , Tongliang Liu , Gang Niu , Jingren Zhou , Jianliang Xu , Hongxia Yang

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

Data-free knowledge distillation transfers knowledge by recovering training data from a pre-trained model. Despite the recent success of seeking global data diversity, the diversity within each class and the similarity among different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yingping Liang , Ying Fu

We consider the problem of OOD generalization, where the goal is to train a model that performs well on test distributions that are different from the training distribution. Deep learning models are known to be fragile to such shifts and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Anshul Nasery , Sravanti Addepalli , Praneeth Netrapalli , Prateek Jain

Recent studies have shown that robustness to adversarial attacks can be transferred across networks. In other words, we can make a weak model more robust with the help of a strong teacher model. We ask if instead of learning from a static…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Jiang Liu , Chun Pong Lau , Hossein Souri , Soheil Feizi , Rama Chellappa

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

Adversarial Training (AT) has been widely proved to be an effective method to improve the adversarial robustness against adversarial examples for Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). As a variant of AT, Adversarial Robustness Distillation (ARD) has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Shiji Zhao , Ranjie Duan , Xizhe Wang , Xingxing Wei

Knowledge Distillation (KD) has made remarkable progress in the last few years and become a popular paradigm for model compression and knowledge transfer. However, almost all existing KD algorithms are data-driven, i.e., relying on a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Gongfan Fang , Jie Song , Chengchao Shen , Xinchao Wang , Da Chen , Mingli Song

Adversarial examples are artificially modified input samples which lead to misclassifications, while not being detectable by humans. These adversarial examples are a challenge for many tasks such as image and text classification, especially…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Marcus Soll , Tobias Hinz , Sven Magg , Stefan Wermter

Adversarial Robustness Distillation (ARD) has emerged as an effective method to enhance the robustness of lightweight deep neural networks against adversarial attacks. Current ARD approaches have leveraged a large robust teacher network to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Seyedhamidreza Mousavi , Seyedali Mousavi , Masoud Daneshtalab

A new understanding of adversarial examples and adversarial robustness is proposed by decoupling the data generator and the label generator (which we call the teacher). In our framework, adversarial robustness is a conditional concept---the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Chao Ma , Lexing Ying

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 works have demonstrated convolutional neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, i.e., inputs to machine learning models that an attacker has intentionally designed to cause the models to make a mistake. To improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Xianxu Hou , Jingxin Liu , Bolei Xu , Xiaolong Wang , Bozhi Liu , Guoping Qiu