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Fast Adversarial Training (FAT) has attracted significant attention due to its efficiency in enhancing neural network robustness against adversarial attacks. However, FAT is prone to catastrophic overfitting (CO), wherein models overfit to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Mengnan Zhao , Lihe Zhang , Tianhang Zheng , Bo Wang , Baocai Yin

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…

Although fast adversarial training provides an efficient approach for building robust networks, it may suffer from a serious problem known as catastrophic overfitting (CO), where multi-step robust accuracy suddenly collapses to zero. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Zhengbao He , Tao Li , Sizhe Chen , Xiaolin Huang

Fast adversarial training (FAT) is beneficial for improving the adversarial robustness of neural networks. However, previous FAT work has encountered a significant issue known as catastrophic overfitting when dealing with large perturbation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Mengnan Zhao , Lihe Zhang , Yuqiu Kong , Baocai Yin

Fast Adversarial Training (FAT) not only improves the model robustness but also reduces the training cost of standard adversarial training. However, fast adversarial training often suffers from Catastrophic Overfitting (CO), which results…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Xiaojun Jia , Yuefeng Chen , Xiaofeng Mao , Ranjie Duan , Jindong Gu , Rong Zhang , Hui Xue , Xiaochun Cao

While adversarial training is an effective defense method against adversarial attacks, it notably increases the training cost. To this end, fast adversarial training (FAT) is presented for efficient training and has become a hot research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Jie Gui , Chengze Jiang , Minjing Dong , Kun Tong , Xinli Shi , Yuan Yan Tang , Dacheng Tao

Adversarial training (AT) has become an effective defense method against adversarial examples (AEs) and it is typically framed as a bi-level optimization problem. Among various AT methods, fast AT (FAT), which employs a single-step attack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Zhaoxin Wang , Handing Wang , Cong Tian , Yaochu Jin

Recently, FGSM adversarial training is found to be able to train a robust model which is comparable to the one trained by PGD but an order of magnitude faster. However, there is a failure mode called catastrophic overfitting (CO) that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Peilin Kang , Seyed-Mohsen Moosavi-Dezfooli

Fast adversarial training (FAT) is an efficient method to improve robustness. However, the original FAT suffers from catastrophic overfitting, which dramatically and suddenly reduces robustness after a few training epochs. Although various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Xiaojun Jia , Yong Zhang , Xingxing Wei , Baoyuan Wu , Ke Ma , Jue Wang , Xiaochun Cao

Single-step adversarial training (SSAT) has demonstrated the potential to achieve both efficiency and robustness. However, SSAT suffers from catastrophic overfitting (CO), a phenomenon that leads to a severely distorted classifier, making…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Runqi Lin , Chaojian Yu , Tongliang Liu

Fast Adversarial Training (FAT) has proven effective in enhancing model robustness by encouraging networks to learn perturbation-invariant representations. However, FAT often suffers from catastrophic overfitting (CO), where the model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Mengnan Zhao , Lihe Zhang , Bo Wang , Tianhang Zheng , Hong Zhong , Geyong Min

Catastrophic overfitting (CO) presents a significant challenge in single-step adversarial training (AT), manifesting as highly distorted deep neural networks (DNNs) that are vulnerable to multi-step adversarial attacks. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Runqi Lin , Chaojian Yu , Bo Han , Hang Su , Tongliang Liu

Many adversarial defense methods have been proposed to enhance the adversarial robustness of natural language processing models. However, most of them introduce additional pre-set linguistic knowledge and assume that the synonym candidates…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Yichen Yang , Xin Liu , Kun He

Deep neural networks are susceptible to adversarial attacks, which can compromise their performance and accuracy. Adversarial Training (AT) has emerged as a popular approach for protecting neural networks against such attacks. However, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Vijaya Raghavan T Ramkumar , Bahram Zonooz , Elahe Arani

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

Adversarial training is a cornerstone of robust deep learning, but fast methods like the Fast Gradient Sign Method (FGSM) often suffer from Catastrophic Overfitting (CO), where models become robust to single-step attacks but fail against…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Fares B. Mehouachi , Saif Eddin Jabari

Adversarial training (AT) constructs robust neural networks by incorporating adversarial perturbations into natural data. However, it is plagued by the issue of robust overfitting (RO), which severely damages the model's robustness. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Chaojian Yu , Xiaolong Shi , Jun Yu , Bo Han , Tongliang Liu

Fast adversarial training (FAT) aims to enhance the robustness of models against adversarial attacks with reduced training time, however, FAT often suffers from compromised robustness due to insufficient exploration of adversarial space. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Euijin You , Hyang-Won Lee

Although fast adversarial training has demonstrated both robustness and efficiency, the problem of "catastrophic overfitting" has been observed. This is a phenomenon in which, during single-step adversarial training, the robust accuracy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Hoki Kim , Woojin Lee , Jaewook Lee

Adversarial examples cause neural networks to produce incorrect outputs with high confidence. Although adversarial training is one of the most effective forms of defense against adversarial examples, unfortunately, a large gap exists…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Saehyung Lee , Hyungyu Lee , Sungroh Yoon
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