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Despite the remarkable success of deep neural networks (DNNs), the security threat of adversarial attacks poses a significant challenge to the reliability of DNNs. In this paper, both theoretically and empirically, we discover a universal…

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Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are being used in various daily tasks such as object detection, speech processing, and machine translation. However, it is known that DNNs suffer from robustness problems -- perturbed inputs called adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Junyu Lin , Lei Xu , Yingqi Liu , Xiangyu Zhang

Adversarial vulnerability and lack of interpretability are critical limitations of deep neural networks, especially in safety-sensitive settings such as autonomous driving. We introduce \DesignII, a neuro-symbolic framework that integrates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Ali Shafiee Sarvestani , Jason Schmidt , Arman Roohi

Projected Gradient Descent (PGD) is a strong and widely used first-order adversarial attack, yet its computational cost scales poorly, as all training samples undergo identical iterative inner-loop optimization despite contributing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Youran Ye , Dejin Wang , Ajinkya Bhandare

Non-adversarial robustness, also known as natural robustness, is a property of deep learning models that enables them to maintain performance even when faced with distribution shifts caused by natural variations in data. However, achieving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Gorana Gojić , Vladimir Vincan , Ognjen Kundačina , Dragiša Mišković , Dinu Dragan

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

The optimization with orthogonality has been shown useful in training deep neural networks (DNNs). To impose orthogonality on DNNs, both computational efficiency and stability are important. However, existing methods utilizing Riemannian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Fanchen Bu , Dong Eui Chang

Generating adversarial examples (AEs) can be formulated as an optimization problem. Among various optimization-based attacks, the gradient-based PGD and the momentum-based MI-FGSM have garnered considerable interest. However, all these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Wei Tao , Sheng Long , Xin Liu , Wei Li , Qing Tao

While adversarial training and its variants have shown to be the most effective algorithms to defend against adversarial attacks, their extremely slow training process makes it hard to scale to large datasets like ImageNet. The key idea of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Zhichao Huang , Yanbo Fan , Chen Liu , Weizhong Zhang , Yong Zhang , Mathieu Salzmann , Sabine Süsstrunk , Jue Wang

Fast Adversarial Training (FastAT) seeks to achieve adversarial robustness at a fraction of the computational cost incurred by standard multi-step methods such as PGD-AT. Although numerous FastAT techniques have been proposed in recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Chao Pan , Xin Yao

Adversarial attacks present a critical challenge to deep neural networks' robustness, particularly in transfer scenarios across different model architectures. However, the transferability of adversarial attacks faces a fundamental dilemma…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Zenghao Niu , Weicheng Xie , Siyang Song , Zitong Yu , Feng Liu , Linlin Shen

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

Although fast adversarial training has demonstrated both robustness and efficiency, the problem of "catastrophic overfitting" has been observed. This is a phenomenon in which, during single-step adversarial training, the robust accuracy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Hoki Kim , Woojin Lee , Jaewook Lee

Improving the resistance of deep neural networks against adversarial attacks is important for deploying models to realistic applications. However, most defense methods are designed to defend against intensity perturbations and ignore…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Pengfei Xia , Bin Li

Adversarial attacks on deep neural network models have seen rapid development and are extensively used to study the stability of these networks. Among various adversarial strategies, Projected Gradient Descent (PGD) is a widely adopted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Dayana Savostianova , Emanuele Zangrando , Francesco Tudisco

The impressive performance of deep learning architectures is associated with a massive increase in model complexity. Millions of parameters need to be tuned, with training and inference time scaling accordingly, together with energy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Paolo Didier Alfano , Vito Paolo Pastore , Lorenzo Rosasco , Francesca Odone

Despite the massive success of fine-tuning Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs), they remain susceptible to out-of-distribution input. Dataset cartography is a simple yet effective dual-model approach that improves the robustness of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Yupei Du , Albert Gatt , Dong Nguyen

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

Crafting adversarial examples can be formulated as an optimization problem. While sign-based optimizers such as I-FGSM and MI-FGSM have become the de facto standard for the induced optimization problems, there still exist several unsolved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Wei Tao , Yang Dai , Jincai Huang , Qing Tao

The state-of-the-art predictive maintenance (PdM) techniques have shown great success in reducing maintenance costs and downtime of complicated machines while increasing overall productivity through extensive utilization of…

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