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Deep neural networks are susceptible to human imperceptible adversarial perturbations. One of the strongest defense mechanisms is \emph{Adversarial Training} (AT). In this paper, we aim to address two predominant problems in AT. First,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Jianhui Sun , Sanchit Sinha , Aidong Zhang

Nowadays, pretrained models are increasingly used as general-purpose backbones and adapted at test-time to downstream environments where target data are scarce and unlabeled. While this paradigm has proven effective for improving clean…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Stefano Bianchettin , Giulio Rossolini , Giorgio Buttazzo

Adversarial training (AT) is a powerful regularization method for neural networks, aiming to achieve robustness to input perturbations. Yet, the specific effects of the robustness obtained from AT are still unclear in the context of natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Michihiro Yasunaga , Jungo Kasai , Dragomir Radev

Adversarial training (AT) with projected gradient descent is the most popular method to improve model robustness under adversarial attacks. However, computational overheads become prohibitively large when AT is applied to large backbone…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Quanwei Wu , Jun Guo , Wei Wang , Yi Wang

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

The phenomenon of adversarial examples in deep learning models has caused substantial concern over their reliability. While many deep neural networks have shown impressive performance in terms of predictive accuracy, it has been shown that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Sadia Chowdhury , Ruth Urner

Adversarial Robustness is a growing field that evidences the brittleness of neural networks. Although the literature on adversarial robustness is vast, a dimension is missing in these studies: assessing how severe the mistakes are. We call…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Guillaume Jeanneret , Juan C Perez , Pablo Arbelaez

Adversarial training (AT) aims to improve the robustness of deep learning models by mixing clean data and adversarial examples (AEs). Most existing AT approaches can be grouped into restricted and unrestricted approaches. Restricted AT…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Haidong Xie , Xueshuang Xiang , Naijin Liu , Bin Dong

The amount of manually labeled data is limited in medical applications, so semi-supervised learning and automatic labeling strategies can be an asset for training deep neural networks. However, the quality of the automatically generated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Wenhui Cui , Haleh Akrami , Anand A. Joshi , Richard M. Leahy

Recent deep neural networks (DNNs) can easily overfit to biased training data with noisy labels. Label correction strategy is commonly used to alleviate this issue by designing a method to identity suspected noisy labels and then correct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Yichen Wu , Jun Shu , Qi Xie , Qian Zhao , Deyu Meng

While deep neural networks have achieved remarkable success in various computer vision tasks, they often fail to generalize to new domains and subtle variations of input images. Several defenses have been proposed to improve the robustness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Omid Poursaeed , Tianxing Jiang , Harry Yang , Serge Belongie , SerNam Lim

Recent works have shown the effectiveness of randomized smoothing as a scalable technique for building neural network-based classifiers that are provably robust to $\ell_2$-norm adversarial perturbations. In this paper, we employ…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Hadi Salman , Greg Yang , Jerry Li , Pengchuan Zhang , Huan Zhang , Ilya Razenshteyn , Sebastien Bubeck

Adversarial training has achieved remarkable advancements in defending against adversarial attacks. Among them, fast adversarial training (FAT) is gaining attention for its ability to achieve competitive robustness with fewer computing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Chengze Jiang , Junkai Wang , Minjing Dong , Jie Gui , Xinli Shi , Yuan Cao , Yuan Yan Tang , James Tin-Yau Kwok

Extensive Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) studies have shown great success in practice by learning transferable representations across a labeled source domain and an unlabeled target domain with deep models. However, previous works…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Muhammad Awais , Fengwei Zhou , Hang Xu , Lanqing Hong , Ping Luo , Sung-Ho Bae , Zhenguo Li

Deep Neural Networks are susceptible to adversarial perturbations. Adversarial training and adversarial purification are among the most widely recognized defense strategies. Although these methods have different underlying logic, both rely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Hao Xuan , Peican Zhu , Xingyu Li

Noisy labels damage the performance of deep networks. For robust learning, a prominent two-stage pipeline alternates between eliminating possible incorrect labels and semi-supervised training. However, discarding part of noisy labels could…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Mingcai Chen , Hao Cheng , Yuntao Du , Ming Xu , Wenyu Jiang , Chongjun Wang

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

Adversarial training (AT) has become the de-facto standard to obtain models robust against adversarial examples. However, AT exhibits severe robust overfitting: cross-entropy loss on adversarial examples, so-called robust loss, decreases…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-07 David Stutz , Matthias Hein , Bernt Schiele

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

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become widely-used models for semi-supervised learning. However, the robustness of GNNs in the presence of label noise remains a largely under-explored problem. In this paper, we consider an important yet…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Siyi Qian , Haochao Ying , Renjun Hu , Jingbo Zhou , Jintai Chen , Danny Z. Chen , Jian Wu