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Adversarial Training (AT) is widely recognized as an effective approach to enhance the adversarial robustness of Deep Neural Networks. As a variant of AT, Adversarial Robustness Distillation (ARD) has shown outstanding performance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Shiji Zhao , Chi Chen , Ranjie Duan , Xizhe Wang , Xingxing Wei

Human-aligned deep learning models exhibit behaviors consistent with human values, such as robustness, fairness, and honesty. Transferring these behavioral properties to models trained on different tasks or data distributions remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Galen Pogoncheff , Michael Beyeler

Adversarial Distillation aims to enhance student robustness by guiding the student with a robust teacher's soft labels within the min-max adversarial training framework, yet its success is notoriously inconsistent: a more robust teacher…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Hongsin Lee , Hye Won Chung

We propose a conceptually simple and lightweight framework for improving the robustness of vision models through the combination of knowledge distillation and data augmentation. We address the conjecture that larger models do not make for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Andy Zhou , Jindong Wang , Yu-Xiong Wang , Haohan Wang

Adversarial training attains strong empirical robustness to specific adversarial attacks by training on concrete adversarial perturbations, but it produces neural networks that are not amenable to strong robustness certificates through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Alessandro De Palma

Adversarial training significantly improves adversarial robustness, but superior performance is primarily attained with large models. This substantial performance gap for smaller models has spurred active research into adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Hongsin Lee , Seungju Cho , Changick Kim

Knowledge distillation (KD) has been widely used in teacher-student training, with applications to model compression in resource-constrained deep learning. Current works mainly focus on preserving the accuracy of the teacher model. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Rulin Shao , Jinfeng Yi , Pin-Yu Chen , Cho-Jui Hsieh

In standard adversarial training, models are optimized to fit one-hot labels within allowable adversarial perturbation budgets. However, the ignorance of underlying distribution shifts brought by perturbations causes the problem of robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Yu-Yu Wu , Hung-Jui Wang , Shang-Tse Chen

Diffusion models with transformer architectures have demonstrated promising capabilities in generating high-fidelity images and scalability for high resolution. However, iterative sampling process required for synthesis is very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Yeongmin Kim , Sotiris Anagnostidis , Yuming Du , Edgar Schönfeld , Jonas Kohler , Markos Georgopoulos , Albert Pumarola , Ali Thabet , Artsiom Sanakoyeu

Adversarial Training (AT) has been widely proved to be an effective method to improve the adversarial robustness against adversarial examples for Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). As a variant of AT, Adversarial Robustness Distillation (ARD) has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Shiji Zhao , Ranjie Duan , Xizhe Wang , Xingxing Wei

Adversarial training is one effective approach for training robust deep neural networks against adversarial attacks. While being able to bring reliable robustness, adversarial training (AT) methods in general favor high capacity models,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Bojia Zi , Shihao Zhao , Xingjun Ma , Yu-Gang Jiang

Recent progress in accelerating text-to-image diffusion models enables high-fidelity synthesis within a single denoising step. However, customizing the fast one-step models remains challenging, as existing methods consistently fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Yixiong Yang , Tao Wu , Senmao Li , Shiqi Yang , Yaxing Wang , Joost van de Weijer , Kai Wang

Adversarial training significantly enhances adversarial robustness, yet superior performance is predominantly achieved on balanced datasets. Addressing adversarial robustness in the context of unbalanced or long-tailed distributions is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Seungju Cho , Hongsin Lee , Changick Kim

Adversarial training has been widely explored for mitigating attacks against deep models. However, most existing works are still trapped in the dilemma between higher accuracy and stronger robustness since they tend to fit a model towards…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Guodong Cao , Zhibo Wang , Xiaowei Dong , Zhifei Zhang , Hengchang Guo , Zhan Qin , Kui Ren

We introduce Adversarial Diffusion Distillation (ADD), a novel training approach that efficiently samples large-scale foundational image diffusion models in just 1-4 steps while maintaining high image quality. We use score distillation to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Axel Sauer , Dominik Lorenz , Andreas Blattmann , Robin Rombach

Adversarial attacks pose a significant threat to the security and safety of deep neural networks being applied to modern applications. More specifically, in computer vision-based tasks, experts can use the knowledge of model architecture to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Maniratnam Mandal , Suna Gao

Knowledge distillation has proven to be an effective technique in improving the performance a student model using predictions from a teacher model. However, recent work has shown that gains in average efficiency are not uniform across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Serena Wang , Harikrishna Narasimhan , Yichen Zhou , Sara Hooker , Michal Lukasik , Aditya Krishna Menon

Recent studies have shown that robustness to adversarial attacks can be transferred across networks. In other words, we can make a weak model more robust with the help of a strong teacher model. We ask if instead of learning from a static…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Jiang Liu , Chun Pong Lau , Hossein Souri , Soheil Feizi , Rama Chellappa

With the wide application of knowledge distillation between an ImageNet pre-trained teacher model and a learnable student model, unsupervised anomaly detection has witnessed a significant achievement in the past few years. The success of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Canhui Tang , Sanping Zhou , Yizhe Li , Yonghao Dong , Le Wang

This paper proposes a content relationship distillation (CRD) to tackle the over-parameterized generative adversarial networks (GANs) for the serviceability in cutting-edge devices. In contrast to traditional instance-level distillation, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Lizhou You , Mingbao Lin , Tie Hu , Fei Chao , Rongrong Ji