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Adversarial Training (AT) is one of the most effective methods to enhance the robustness of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). However, existing AT methods suffer from an inherent accuracy-robustness trade-off. Previous works have studied this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Yanyun Wang , Li Liu , Zi Liang , Yi R. , Fung , Qingqing Ye , Haibo Hu

Adversarial Training (AT) is a widely adopted defense against adversarial examples. However, existing approaches typically apply a uniform training objective across all classes, overlooking disparities in class-wise vulnerability. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Tejaswini Medi , Steffen Jung , Margret Keuper

Adversarial training often suffers from a robustness-accuracy trade-off, where achieving high robustness comes at the cost of accuracy. One approach to mitigate this trade-off is leveraging invariance regularization, which encourages model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Futa Waseda , Ching-Chun Chang , Isao Echizen

The field of adversarial robustness has attracted significant attention in machine learning. Contrary to the common approach of training models that are accurate in average case, it aims at training models that are accurate for worst case…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Oriol Barbany Mayor

Pre-trained language models (PLMs) have driven substantial progress in natural language processing but remain vulnerable to adversarial attacks, raising concerns about their robustness in real-world applications. Previous studies have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Yang Wang , Chenghao Xiao , Yizhi Li , Stuart E. Middleton , Noura Al Moubayed , Chenghua Lin

Adversarial training (AT) is widely considered as the most promising strategy to defend against adversarial attacks and has drawn increasing interest from researchers. However, the existing AT methods still suffer from two challenges.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Lilin Zhang , Ning Yang , Yanchao Sun , Philip S. Yu

We offer a study that connects robust discriminative classifiers trained with adversarial training (AT) with generative modeling in the form of Energy-based Models (EBM). We do so by decomposing the loss of a discriminative classifier and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Senad Beadini , Iacopo Masi

Adversarial training, as one of the most effective defense methods against adversarial attacks, tends to learn an inclusive decision boundary to increase the robustness of deep learning models. However, due to the large and unnecessary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Xiaoyu Liang , Yaguan Qian , Jianchang Huang , Xiang Ling , Bin Wang , Chunming Wu , Wassim Swaileh

Deep neural networks are susceptible to adversarial attacks, which can compromise their performance and accuracy. Adversarial Training (AT) has emerged as a popular approach for protecting neural networks against such attacks. However, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Vijaya Raghavan T Ramkumar , Bahram Zonooz , Elahe Arani

While adversarial training has been extensively studied for ResNet architectures and low resolution datasets like CIFAR, much less is known for ImageNet. Given the recent debate about whether transformers are more robust than convnets, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Naman D Singh , Francesco Croce , Matthias Hein

With the prevalence of the Pretraining-Finetuning paradigm in transfer learning, the robustness of downstream tasks has become a critical concern. In this work, we delve into adversarial robustness in transfer learning and reveal the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Andong Hua , Jindong Gu , Zhiyu Xue , Nicholas Carlini , Eric Wong , Yao Qin

The fine-tuning of pre-trained language models has a great success in many NLP fields. Yet, it is strikingly vulnerable to adversarial examples, e.g., word substitution attacks using only synonyms can easily fool a BERT-based sentiment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Xinhsuai Dong , Luu Anh Tuan , Min Lin , Shuicheng Yan , Hanwang Zhang

Neuroevolution automates the complex task of neural network design but often ignores the inherent adversarial fragility of evolved models which is a barrier to adoption in safety-critical scenarios. While robust training methods have…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Inês Valentim , Nuno Antunes , Nuno Lourenço

In this paper we propose a new family of algorithms, ATENT, for training adversarially robust deep neural networks. We formulate a new loss function that is equipped with an additional entropic regularization. Our loss function considers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Gauri Jagatap , Ameya Joshi , Animesh Basak Chowdhury , Siddharth Garg , Chinmay Hegde

Adversarial attacks can affect the object recognition capabilities of machines in wild. These can often result from spurious correlations between input and class labels, and are prone to memorization in large networks. While networks are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Girik Malik , Dakarai Crowder , Ennio Mingolla

Corruptions due to data perturbations and label noise are prevalent in the datasets from unreliable sources, which poses significant threats to model training. Despite existing efforts in developing robust models, current learning methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Peng-Fei Zhang , Zi Huang , Xin-Shun Xu , Guangdong Bai

Asymmetrical multiplayer (AMP) game is a popular game genre which involves multiple types of agents competing or collaborating with each other in the game. It is difficult to train powerful agents that can defeat top human players in AMP…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Chenglu Sun , Yichi Zhang , Yu Zhang , Ziling Lu , Jingbin Liu , Sijia Xu , Weidong Zhang

Although Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) achieve excellent performance on many real-world tasks, they are highly vulnerable to adversarial attacks. A leading defense against such attacks is adversarial training, a technique in which a DNN is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Gilad Cohen , Raja Giryes

Adversarial training (AT) with samples generated by Fast Gradient Sign Method (FGSM), also known as FGSM-AT, is a computationally simple method to train robust networks. However, during its training procedure, an unstable mode of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Zichao Li , Li Liu , Zeyu Wang , Yuyin Zhou , Cihang Xie

Adversarial training is a method for enhancing neural networks to improve the robustness against adversarial examples. Besides the security concerns of potential adversarial examples, adversarial training can also improve the generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Zhiyuan Zhang , Wei Li , Ruihan Bao , Keiko Harimoto , Yunfang Wu , Xu Sun