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Diffusion-based purification defenses leverage diffusion models to remove crafted perturbations of adversarial examples and achieve state-of-the-art robustness. Recent studies show that even advanced attacks cannot break such defenses…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Mintong Kang , Dawn Song , Bo Li

We answer the question in the title, showing that adversarial training (AT) for diffusion models (DMs) fundamentally differs from classifiers: while AT in classifiers enforces output invariance, AT in DMs requires equivariance to keep the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Briglia Maria Rosaria , Mujtaba Hussain Mirza , Giuseppe Lisanti , Iacopo Masi

Certified defenses against adversarial attacks offer formal guarantees on the robustness of a model, making them more reliable than empirical methods such as adversarial training, whose effectiveness is often later reduced by unseen…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Thomas Altstidl , David Dobre , Björn Eskofier , Gauthier Gidel , Leo Schwinn

Thanks to their remarkable denoising capabilities, diffusion models are increasingly being employed as defensive tools to reinforce the security of other models, notably in purifying adversarial examples and certifying adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Changjiang Li , Ren Pang , Bochuan Cao , Jinghui Chen , Fenglong Ma , Shouling Ji , Ting Wang

Diffusion models (DMs) have demonstrated great potential in the field of adversarial robustness, where DM-based defense methods can achieve superior defense capability without adversarial training. However, they all require huge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Hefei Mei , Minjing Dong , Chang Xu

Recently Diffusion-based Purification (DiffPure) has been recognized as an effective defense method against adversarial examples. However, we find DiffPure which directly employs the original pre-trained diffusion models for adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Xiao Li , Wenxuan Sun , Huanran Chen , Qiongxiu Li , Yining Liu , Yingzhe He , Jie Shi , Xiaolin Hu

We question the current evaluation practice on diffusion-based purification methods. Diffusion-based purification methods aim to remove adversarial effects from an input data point at test time. The approach gains increasing attention as an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Minjong Lee , Dongwoo Kim

Adversarial attacks have become a well-explored domain, frequently serving as evaluation baselines for model robustness. Among these, black-box attacks based on transferability have received significant attention due to their practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Chun Tong Lei , Zhongliang Guo , Hon Chung Lee , Minh Quoc Duong , Chun Pong Lau

Adversarial training and adversarial purification are two widely used defense strategies for enhancing model robustness against adversarial attacks. However, adversarial training requires costly retraining, while adversarial purification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Xuelong Dai , Dong Wang , Xiuzhen Cheng , Bin Xiao

Recent developments in adversarial machine learning have highlighted the importance of building robust AI systems to protect against increasingly sophisticated attacks. While frameworks like AI Guardian are designed to defend against these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Trinath Sai Subhash Reddy Pittala , Uma Maheswara Rao Meleti , Geethakrishna Puligundla

Deep learning models are known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks by injecting sophisticated designed perturbations to input data. Training-time defenses still exhibit a significant performance gap between natural accuracy and robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Cheng-Han Yeh , Kuanchun Yu , Chun-Shien Lu

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are highly sensitive to imperceptible malicious perturbations, known as adversarial attacks. Following the discovery of this vulnerability in real-world imaging and vision applications, the associated safety…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Tsachi Blau , Roy Ganz , Bahjat Kawar , Alex Bronstein , Michael Elad

Diffusion models have been applied to improve adversarial robustness of image classifiers by purifying the adversarial noises or generating realistic data for adversarial training. However, diffusion-based purification can be evaded by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Huanran Chen , Yinpeng Dong , Zhengyi Wang , Xiao Yang , Chengqi Duan , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Existing diffusion-based purification methods aim to disrupt adversarial perturbations by introducing a certain amount of noise through a forward diffusion process, followed by a reverse process to recover clean examples. However, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Gaozheng Pei , Shaojie Lyu , Gong Chen , Ke Ma , Qianqian Xu , Yingfei Sun , Qingming Huang

Adversarial examples for diffusion models are widely used as solutions for safety concerns. By adding adversarial perturbations to personal images, attackers can not edit or imitate them easily. However, it is essential to note that all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Haotian Xue , Yongxin Chen

With wider application of deep neural networks (DNNs) in various algorithms and frameworks, security threats have become one of the concerns. Adversarial attacks disturb DNN-based image classifiers, in which attackers can intentionally add…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Jinyi Wang , Zhaoyang Lyu , Dahua Lin , Bo Dai , Hongfei Fu

Although deep learning-based visual tracking methods have made significant progress, they exhibit vulnerabilities when facing carefully designed adversarial attacks, which can lead to a sharp decline in tracking performance. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Long Xu , Peng Gao , Wen-Jia Tang , Fei Wang , Ru-Yue Yuan

Adversarial attacks, particularly patch attacks, pose significant threats to the robustness and reliability of deep learning models. Developing reliable defenses against patch attacks is crucial for real-world applications. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Caixin Kang , Yinpeng Dong , Zhengyi Wang , Shouwei Ruan , Yubo Chen , Hang Su , Xingxing Wei

The rapid growth of social media has led to the widespread sharing of individual portrait images, which pose serious privacy risks due to the capabilities of automatic face recognition (AFR) systems for mass surveillance. Hence, protecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Ali Salar , Qing Liu , Yingli Tian , Guoying Zhao

Incorporating diffusion-generated synthetic data into adversarial training (AT) has been shown to substantially improve the training of robust image classifiers. In this work, we extend the role of diffusion models beyond merely generating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Pin-Han Huang , Shang-Tse Chen , Hsuan-Tien Lin