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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) 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

Fast Adversarial Training (FAT) has gained increasing attention within the research community owing to its efficacy in improving adversarial robustness. Particularly noteworthy is the challenge posed by catastrophic overfitting (CO) in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Mengnan Zhao , Lihe Zhang , Yuqiu Kong , Baocai Yin

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

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

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

Deep neural networks are easily fooled by small perturbations known as adversarial attacks. Adversarial Training (AT) is a technique that approximately solves a robust optimization problem to minimize the worst-case loss and is widely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Theodoros Tsiligkaridis , Jay Roberts

Despite the remarkable success achieved by deep learning algorithms in various domains, such as computer vision, they remain vulnerable to adversarial perturbations. Adversarial Training (AT) stands out as one of the most effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Mahdi Salmani , Alireza Dehghanpour Farashah , Mohammad Azizmalayeri , Mahdi Amiri , Navid Eslami , Mohammad Taghi Manzuri , Mohammad Hossein Rohban

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

While adversarial training and its variants have shown to be the most effective algorithms to defend against adversarial attacks, their extremely slow training process makes it hard to scale to large datasets like ImageNet. The key idea of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Zhichao Huang , Yanbo Fan , Chen Liu , Weizhong Zhang , Yong Zhang , Mathieu Salzmann , Sabine Süsstrunk , Jue Wang

Neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks -- small visually imperceptible crafted noise which when added to the input drastically changes the output. The most effective method of defending against these adversarial attacks is to…

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

Despite being effective in many application areas, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to being attacked. In object recognition, the attack takes the form of a small perturbation added to an image, that causes the DNN to misclassify,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 T. Windeatt

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

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are highly susceptible to adversarial examples--subtle, imperceptible perturbations that can lead to incorrect predictions. While detection-based defenses offer a practical alternative to adversarial training,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Sanggeon Yun , Ryozo Masukawa , Hyunwoo Oh , Nathaniel D. Bastian , Mohsen Imani

Deep neural networks (DNNs) could be deceived by generating human-imperceptible perturbations of clean samples. Therefore, enhancing the robustness of DNNs against adversarial attacks is a crucial task. In this paper, we aim to train robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Shayan Mohajer Hamidi , Linfeng Ye

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) in single-step adversarial training (AT) results in abrupt drops in the adversarial test accuracy (even down to 0%). For models trained with multi-step AT, it has been observed that the loss function behaves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Elias Abad Rocamora , Fanghui Liu , Grigorios G. Chrysos , Pablo M. Olmos , Volkan Cevher

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are known to be vulnerable to various adversarial perturbations. To address the safety concerns arising from these vulnerabilities, adversarial training (AT) has emerged as one of the most effective paradigms for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Rui Wang , Zeming Wei , Xiyue Zhang , Meng Sun
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