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Adversarial robustness is a critical measure of a neural network's ability to withstand adversarial attacks at inference time. While robust training techniques have improved defenses against individual $\ell_p$-norm attacks (e.g., $\ell_2$…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Ren Wang , Yuxuan Li , Can Chen , Dakuo Wang , Jinjun Xiong , Pin-Yu Chen , Sijia Liu , Mohammad Shahidehpour , Alfred Hero

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

We introduce a feature scattering-based adversarial training approach for improving model robustness against adversarial attacks. Conventional adversarial training approaches leverage a supervised scheme (either targeted or non-targeted) in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Haichao Zhang , Jianyu Wang

With the evolution of self-supervised learning, the pre-training paradigm has emerged as a predominant solution within the deep learning landscape. Model providers furnish pre-trained encoders designed to function as versatile feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Ziqi Zhou , Minghui Li , Wei Liu , Shengshan Hu , Yechao Zhang , Wei Wan , Lulu Xue , Leo Yu Zhang , Dezhong Yao , Hai Jin

In this paper, we investigate the adversarial robustness of vision transformers that are equipped with BERT pretraining (e.g., BEiT, MAE). A surprising observation is that MAE has significantly worse adversarial robustness than other BERT…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Qidong Huang , Xiaoyi Dong , Dongdong Chen , Yinpeng Chen , Lu Yuan , Gang Hua , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

Adversarial training is extensively utilized to improve the adversarial robustness of deep neural networks. Yet, mitigating the degradation of standard generalization performance in adversarial-trained models remains an open problem. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Xiangyu Yin , Wenjie Ruan

Adversarial training (AT) can help improve the robustness of Vision Transformers (ViT) against adversarial attacks by intentionally injecting adversarial examples into the training data. However, this way of adversarial injection inevitably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Fudong Lin , Jiadong Lou , Xu Yuan , Nian-Feng Tzeng

While leveraging additional training data is well established to improve adversarial robustness, it incurs the unavoidable cost of data collection and the heavy computation to train models. To mitigate the costs, we propose Guided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Salah Ghamizi , Jingfeng Zhang , Maxime Cordy , Mike Papadakis , Masashi Sugiyama , Yves Le Traon

Model-agnostic meta-learning (MAML) has emerged as one of the most successful meta-learning techniques in few-shot learning. It enables us to learn a meta-initialization} of model parameters (that we call meta-model) to rapidly adapt to new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Ren Wang , Kaidi Xu , Sijia Liu , Pin-Yu Chen , Tsui-Wei Weng , Chuang Gan , Meng Wang

Adversarial training is one of the most effective defenses against adversarial attacks, but it incurs a high computational cost. In this study, we present the first theoretical analysis suggesting that adversarially pretrained transformers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Soichiro Kumano , Hiroshi Kera , Toshihiko Yamasaki

Adversarial Training (AT) has been demonstrated to improve the robustness of deep neural networks (DNNs) against adversarial attacks. AT is a min-max optimization procedure where in adversarial examples are generated to train a more robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Olukorede Fakorede , Modeste Atsague , Jin Tian

In this paper, we investigate on improving the adversarial robustness obtained in adversarial training (AT) via reducing the difficulty of optimization. To better study this problem, we build a novel Bregman divergence perspective for AT,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Zihui Wu , Haichang Gao , Bingqian Zhou , Xiaoyan Guo , Shudong Zhang

Adversarial attacks pose a significant threat to the reliability of pre-trained language models (PLMs) such as GPT, BERT, RoBERTa, and T5. This paper presents Adversarial Robustness through Dynamic Ensemble Learning (ARDEL), a novel scheme…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Hetvi Waghela , Jaydip Sen , Sneha Rakshit

We propose a Regularization framework based on Adversarial Transformations (RAT) for semi-supervised learning. RAT is designed to enhance robustness of the output distribution of class prediction for a given data against input perturbation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Teppei Suzuki , Ikuro Sato

The worst-case training principle that minimizes the maximal adversarial loss, also known as adversarial training (AT), has shown to be a state-of-the-art approach for enhancing adversarial robustness. Nevertheless, min-max optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Jingkang Wang , Tianyun Zhang , Sijia Liu , Pin-Yu Chen , Jiacen Xu , Makan Fardad , Bo Li

Machine learning models are known to be vulnerable to adversarial evasion attacks as illustrated by image classification models. Thoroughly understanding such attacks is critical in order to ensure the safety and robustness of critical AI…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Kevin Eykholt , Taesung Lee , Douglas Schales , Jiyong Jang , Ian Molloy , Masha Zorin

The deep neural networks are known to be vulnerable to well-designed adversarial attacks. The most successful defense technique based on adversarial training (AT) can achieve optimal robustness against particular attacks but cannot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Guang Lin , Chao Li , Jianhai Zhang , Toshihisa Tanaka , Qibin Zhao

The vulnerability of deep neural networks (DNNs) to adversarial attack, which is an attack that can mislead state-of-the-art classifiers into making an incorrect classification with high confidence by deliberately perturbing the original…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Lina Wang , Rui Tang , Yawei Yue , Xingshu Chen , Wei Wang , Yi Zhu , Xuemei Zeng

Adversarial training (AT) defends deep neural networks against adversarial attacks. One challenge that limits its practical application is the performance degradation on clean samples. A major bottleneck identified by previous works is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Haotao Wang , Aston Zhang , Shuai Zheng , Xingjian Shi , Mu Li , Zhangyang Wang

Classical adversarial training (AT) frameworks are designed to achieve high adversarial accuracy against a single attack type, typically $\ell_\infty$ norm-bounded perturbations. Recent extensions in AT have focused on defending against the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Ameya D. Patil , Michael Tuttle , Alexander G. Schwing , Naresh R. Shanbhag