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We present a new algorithm to train a robust neural network against adversarial attacks. Our algorithm is motivated by the following two ideas. First, although recent work has demonstrated that fusing randomness can improve the robustness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Xuanqing Liu , Yao Li , Chongruo Wu , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Adversarial examples can easily degrade the classification performance in neural networks. Empirical methods for promoting robustness to such examples have been proposed, but often lack both analytical insights and formal guarantees.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Bernardo Aquino , Arash Rahnama , Peter Seiler , Lizhen Lin , Vijay Gupta

Due to numerous breakthroughs in real-world applications brought by machine intelligence, deep neural networks (DNNs) are widely employed in critical applications. However, predictions of DNNs are easily manipulated with imperceptible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Hongjun Wang , Yisen Wang

Adversarial training, as one of the few certified defenses against adversarial attacks, can be quite complicated and time-consuming, while the results might not be robust enough. To address the issue of lack of robustness, ensemble methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Yihao Wang

In this work, we propose a novel adversarial defence mechanism for image classification - CARSO - blending the paradigms of adversarial training and adversarial purification in a synergistic robustness-enhancing way. The method builds upon…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Emanuele Ballarin , Alessio Ansuini , Luca Bortolussi

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial examples, in which DNNs are misled to false outputs due to inputs containing imperceptible perturbations. Adversarial training, a reliable and effective method of defense, may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Zongyuan Zhang , Qingwen Bu , Tianyang Duan , Zheng Lin , Yuhao Qing , Zihan Fang , Heming Cui , Dong Huang

Although the recent progress is substantial, deep learning methods can be vulnerable to the maliciously generated adversarial examples. In this paper, we present a novel training procedure and a thresholding test strategy, towards robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Tianyu Pang , Chao Du , Yinpeng Dong , Jun Zhu

Injecting adversarial examples during training, known as adversarial training, can improve robustness against one-step attacks, but not for unknown iterative attacks. To address this challenge, we first show iteratively generated…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-20 Taesik Na , Jong Hwan Ko , Saibal Mukhopadhyay

Recently, RobustBench (Croce et al. 2020) has become a widely recognized benchmark for the adversarial robustness of image classification networks. In its most commonly reported sub-task, RobustBench evaluates and ranks the adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Peter Lorenz , Dominik Strassel , Margret Keuper , Janis Keuper

The integration of an ensemble of deep learning models has been extensively explored to enhance defense against adversarial attacks. The diversity among sub-models increases the attack cost required to deceive the majority of the ensemble,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Kaikang Zhao , Xi Chen , Wei Huang , Liuxin Ding , Xianglong Kong , Fan Zhang

Training machine learning models that are robust against adversarial inputs poses seemingly insurmountable challenges. To better understand adversarial robustness, we consider the underlying problem of learning robust representations. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Sicheng Zhu , Xiao Zhang , David Evans

Adversarial Training (AT) is one of the most effective methods for developing robust deep neural networks (DNNs). However, AT faces a trade-off problem between clean accuracy and adversarial robustness. In this work, we reveal a surprising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Yanyun Wang , Qingqing Ye , Li Liu , Zi Liang , Haibo Hu

In the context of adversarial robustness, a single model does not usually have enough power to defend against all possible adversarial attacks, and as a result, has sub-optimal robustness. Consequently, an emerging line of work has focused…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Dinghuai Zhang , Hongyang Zhang , Aaron Courville , Yoshua Bengio , Pradeep Ravikumar , Arun Sai Suggala

We aim at demonstrating the influence of diversity in the ensemble of CNNs on the detection of black-box adversarial instances and hardening the generation of white-box adversarial attacks. To this end, we propose an ensemble of diverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Mahdieh Abbasi , Arezoo Rajabi , Christian Gagne , Rakesh B. Bobba

Adversarial training suffers from robust overfitting, a phenomenon where the robust test accuracy starts to decrease during training. In this paper, we focus on reducing robust overfitting by using common data augmentation schemes. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Sylvestre-Alvise Rebuffi , Sven Gowal , Dan A. Calian , Florian Stimberg , Olivia Wiles , Timothy Mann

We present a method for making neural network predictions robust to shifts from the training data distribution. The proposed method is based on making predictions via a diverse set of cues (called 'middle domains') and ensembling them into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Teresa Yeo , Oğuzhan Fatih Kar , Alexander Sax , Amir Zamir

Adversarial training is an effective methodology for training deep neural networks that are robust against adversarial, norm-bounded perturbations. However, the computational cost of adversarial training grows prohibitively as the size of…

Adversarial robustness corresponds to the susceptibility of deep neural networks to imperceptible perturbations made at test time. In the context of image tasks, many algorithms have been proposed to make neural networks robust to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Pranjal Awasthi , George Yu , Chun-Sung Ferng , Andrew Tomkins , Da-Cheng Juan

Deep convolutional neural network (CNN) based models are vulnerable to the adversarial attacks. One of the possible reasons is that the embedding space of CNN based model is sparse, resulting in a large space for the generation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Haozhe Liu , Haoqin Ji , Yuexiang Li , Nanjun He , Haoqian Wu , Feng Liu , Linlin Shen , Yefeng Zheng

Developing robust models against adversarial perturbations has been an active area of research and many algorithms have been proposed to train individual robust models. Taking these pretrained robust models, we aim to study whether it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Devvrit , Minhao Cheng , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Inderjit Dhillon