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Robustness to natural corruptions remains a critical challenge for reliable deep learning, particularly in safety-sensitive domains. We study a family of model-based training approaches that leverage a learned nuisance variation model to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Josué Martínez-Martínez , Olivia Brown , Giselle Zeno , Pooya Khorrami , Rajmonda Caceres

Adversarial training has emerged as an effective approach to train robust neural network models that are resistant to adversarial attacks, even in low-label regimes where labeled data is scarce. In this paper, we introduce a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Tian Ye , Rajgopal Kannan , Viktor Prasanna

The impact of inference-time data perturbation (e.g., adversarial attacks) has been extensively studied in machine learning, leading to well-established certification techniques for adversarial robustness. In contrast, certifying models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Philip Sosnin , Matthew Wicker , Josh Collyer , Calvin Tsay

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable performance in many tasks, yet they often behave as opaque black boxes. Explanation-guided learning (EGL) methods steer DNNs using human-provided explanations or supervision on model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Chao Chen , Yanhui Chen , Shanshan Lin , Dongsheng Hong , Shu Wu , Xiangwen Liao , Chuanyi Liu

Deep neural networks are highly vulnerable to adversarial examples, i.e.,small perturbations that can significantly degrade model performance. While adversarial training has become the primary defense strategy, most studies focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Lilin Zhang , Yimo Guo , Yue Li , Jiancheng Shi , Xianggen Liu

Recent work has uncovered the interesting (and somewhat surprising) finding that training models to be invariant to adversarial perturbations requires substantially larger datasets than those required for standard classification. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Jonathan Uesato , Jean-Baptiste Alayrac , Po-Sen Huang , Robert Stanforth , Alhussein Fawzi , Pushmeet Kohli

Data corruption, including missing and noisy data, poses significant challenges in real-world machine learning. This study investigates the effects of data corruption on model performance and explores strategies to mitigate these effects…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Qi Liu , Wanjing Ma

Neural networks are central to modern artificial intelligence, yet their training remains highly sensitive to data contamination. Standard neural classifiers are trained by minimizing the categorical cross-entropy loss, corresponding to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-19 Suryasis Jana , Abhik Ghosh

Adversarial training (AT) and its variants have spearheaded progress in improving neural network robustness to adversarial perturbations and common corruptions in the last few years. Algorithm design of AT and its variants are focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Kaustubh Sridhar , Souradeep Dutta , Ramneet Kaur , James Weimer , Oleg Sokolsky , Insup Lee

A fundamental challenge for machine learning models is how to generalize learned models for out-of-distribution (OOD) data. Among various approaches, exploiting invariant features by Domain Adversarial Training (DAT) received widespread…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-02 YiFan Zhang , Xue Wang , Jian Liang , Zhang Zhang , Liang Wang , Rong Jin , Tieniu Tan

Adversarial training (AT) is proved to reliably improve network's robustness against adversarial data. However, current AT with a pre-specified perturbation budget has limitations in learning a robust network. Firstly, applying a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Chaojian Yu , Dawei Zhou , Li Shen , Jun Yu , Bo Han , Mingming Gong , Nannan Wang , Tongliang Liu

Label-noise or curated unlabeled data is used to compensate for the assumption of clean labeled data in training the conditional generative adversarial network; however, satisfying such an extended assumption is occasionally laborious or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Kai Katsumata , Duc Minh Vo , Tatsuya Harada , Hideki Nakayama

Neural Networks (NNs) are vulnerable to adversarial examples. Such inputs differ only slightly from their benign counterparts yet provoke misclassifications of the attacked NNs. The required perturbations to craft the examples are often…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Philip Sperl , Konstantin Böttinger

Adversarial training (AT) has been demonstrated as one of the most promising defense methods against various adversarial attacks. To our knowledge, existing AT-based methods usually train with the locally most adversarial perturbed points…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Chuanbiao Song , Yanbo Fan , Yichen Yang , Baoyuan Wu , Yiming Li , Zhifeng Li , Kun He

State-of-the-art, high capacity deep neural networks not only require large amounts of labelled training data, they are also highly susceptible to label errors in this data, typically resulting in large efforts and costs and therefore…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Christian Haase-Schütz , Rainer Stal , Heinz Hertlein , Bernhard Sick

Recent work has proposed several efficient approaches for generating gradient-based adversarial perturbations on embeddings and proved that the model's performance and robustness can be improved when they are trained with these contaminated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Yao Qiu , Jinchao Zhang , Jie Zhou

Data corruption is an impediment to modern machine learning deployments. Corrupted data can severely bias the learned model and can also lead to invalid inferences. We present, Picket, a simple framework to safeguard against data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Zifan Liu , Zhechun Zhou , Theodoros Rekatsinas

In this paper, we present an approach to improve the robustness of BERT language models against word substitution-based adversarial attacks by leveraging adversarial perturbations for self-supervised contrastive learning. We create a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Zhao Meng , Yihan Dong , Mrinmaya Sachan , Roger Wattenhofer

In practical scenarios where training data is limited, many predictive signals in the data can be rather from some biases in data acquisition (i.e., less generalizable), so that one cannot prevent a model from co-adapting on such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Jongheon Jeong , Sihyun Yu , Hankook Lee , Jinwoo Shin

Ensemble Adversarial Training (EAT) attempts to enhance the robustness of models against adversarial attacks by leveraging multiple models. However, current EAT strategies tend to train the sub-models independently, ignoring the cooperative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Li Dengjin , Guo Yanming , Xie Yuxiang , Li Zheng , Chen Jiangming , Li Xiaolong , Lao Mingrui