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Large-scale pretrained models are widely leveraged as foundations for learning new specialized tasks via fine-tuning, with the goal of maintaining the general performance of the model while allowing it to gain new skills. A valuable goal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Jaedong Hwang , Brian Cheung , Zhang-Wei Hong , Akhilan Boopathy , Pulkit Agrawal , Ila Fiete

Robustness to adversarial attacks is typically obtained through expensive adversarial training with Projected Gradient Descent. Here we introduce ROPUST, a remarkably simple and efficient method to leverage robust pre-trained models and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Alessandro Cappelli , Julien Launay , Laurent Meunier , Ruben Ohana , Iacopo Poli

Deep neural networks for computer vision are deployed in increasingly safety-critical and socially-impactful applications, motivating the need to close the gap in model performance under varied, naturally occurring imaging conditions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Nathan Drenkow , Numair Sani , Ilya Shpitser , Mathias Unberath

Increasing the model capacity is a known approach to enhance the adversarial robustness of deep learning networks. On the other hand, various model compression techniques, including pruning and quantization, can reduce the size of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Svetlana Pavlitska , Hannes Grolig , J. Marius Zöllner

Despite unconditional feature inversion being the foundation of many image synthesis applications, training an inverter demands a high computational budget, large decoding capacity and imposing conditions such as autoregressive priors. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Renan A. Rojas-Gomez , Raymond A. Yeh , Minh N. Do , Anh Nguyen

In learning problems, the noise inherent to the task at hand hinders the possibility to infer without a certain degree of uncertainty. Quantifying this uncertainty, regardless of its wide use, assumes high relevance for security-sensitive…

Advances in adversarial defenses have led to a significant improvement in the robustness of Deep Neural Networks. However, the robust accuracy of present state-ofthe-art defenses is far from the requirements in critical applications such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Sravanti Addepalli , Samyak Jain , Gaurang Sriramanan , R. Venkatesh Babu

Discrete adversarial attacks are symbolic perturbations to a language input that preserve the output label but lead to a prediction error. While such attacks have been extensively explored for the purpose of evaluating model robustness,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Maor Ivgi , Jonathan Berant

The robustness of deep neural networks is usually lacking under adversarial examples, common corruptions, and distribution shifts, which becomes an important research problem in the development of deep learning. Although new deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Chang Liu , Yinpeng Dong , Wenzhao Xiang , Xiao Yang , Hang Su , Jun Zhu , Yuefeng Chen , Yuan He , Hui Xue , Shibao Zheng

Deep neural networks are susceptible to adversarial attacks and common corruptions, which undermine their robustness. In order to enhance model resilience against such challenges, Adversarial Training (AT) has emerged as a prominent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Tejaswini Medi , Steffen Jung , Margret Keuper

The fragility of deep neural networks to adversarially-chosen inputs has motivated the need to revisit deep learning algorithms. Including adversarial examples during training is a popular defense mechanism against adversarial attacks. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Jacob H. Seidman , Mahyar Fazlyab , Victor M. Preciado , George J. Pappas

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial noise. Adversarial Training (AT) has been demonstrated to be the most effective defense strategy to protect neural networks from being fooled. However, we find AT omits to learning robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Nuoyan Zhou , Nannan Wang , Decheng Liu , Dawei Zhou , Xinbo Gao

Deep learning models operating in the image domain are vulnerable to small input perturbations. For years, robustness to such perturbations was pursued by training models from scratch (i.e., with random initializations) using specialized…

Adversarial training has shown impressive success in learning bilingual dictionary without any parallel data by mapping monolingual embeddings to a shared space. However, recent work has shown superior performance for non-adversarial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Tasnim Mohiuddin , Shafiq Joty

Pre-trained models are widely used in fine-tuning downstream tasks with linear classifiers optimized by the cross-entropy loss, which might face robustness and stability problems. These problems can be improved by learning representations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Linyang Li , Demin Song , Ruotian Ma , Xipeng Qiu , Xuanjing Huang

Context:With the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) technology and applications, numerous AI models have been developed, leading to the emergence of open-source model hosting platforms like Hugging Face (HF). Thanks to these…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Hao Qin , Mingyang Li , Junjie Wang , Qing Wang

Contrastive learning has become a popular technique to pre-train image encoders, which could be used to build various downstream classification models in an efficient way. This process requires a large amount of data and computation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Yutong Wu , Han Qiu , Tianwei Zhang , Jiwei L , Meikang Qiu

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

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

Adversarial training has become the primary method to defend against adversarial samples. However, it is hard to practically apply due to many shortcomings. One of the shortcomings of adversarial training is that it will reduce the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Zhishen Nie , Ying Lin , Sp Ren , Lan Zhang