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Neural networks are getting better accuracy with higher energy and computational cost. After quantization, the cost can be greatly saved, and the quantized models are more hardware friendly with acceptable accuracy loss. On the other hand,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Chang Song , Riya Ranjan , Hai Li

Federated learning (FL) is one of the most important paradigms addressing privacy and data governance issues in machine learning (ML). Adversarial training has emerged, so far, as the most promising approach against evasion threats on ML…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Giulio Zizzo , Ambrish Rawat , Mathieu Sinn , Beat Buesser

Adversarial training (AT) is among the most effective techniques to improve model robustness by augmenting training data with adversarial examples. However, most existing AT methods adopt a specific attack to craft adversarial examples,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Yinpeng Dong , Zhijie Deng , Tianyu Pang , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Adversarial training is a standard defense against malicious input perturbations in security-critical machine-learning systems. Its main burden is structural: before every parameter update, the current model must first be attacked to find a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Yue Wang , Guangyi He , Liepeng Zhang , Lukas Gonon , Qi Zhao

Adversarial training has proven to be a highly effective method for improving the robustness of deep neural networks against adversarial attacks. Nonetheless, it has been observed to exhibit a limitation in terms of robust fairness,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Hongxin Zhi , Hongtao Yu , Shaome Li , Xiuming Zhao , Yiteng Wu

The study on improving the robustness of deep neural networks against adversarial examples grows rapidly in recent years. Among them, adversarial training is the most promising one, which flattens the input loss landscape (loss change with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Dongxian Wu , Shu-tao Xia , Yisen Wang

Adversarial training is often formulated as a min-max problem, however, concentrating only on the worst adversarial examples causes alternating repetitive confusion of the model, i.e., previously defended or correctly classified samples are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Qian Li , Yuxiao Hu , Yinpeng Dong , Dongxiao Zhang , Yuntian Chen

Adversarial training is one of the most effective approaches defending against adversarial examples for deep learning models. Unlike other defense strategies, adversarial training aims to promote the robustness of models intrinsically.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Tao Bai , Jinqi Luo , Jun Zhao , Bihan Wen , Qian Wang

Adversarial training may be regarded as standard training with a modified loss function. But its generalization error appears much larger than standard training under standard loss. This phenomenon, known as robust overfitting, has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Runzhi Tian , Yongyi Mao

Federated adversarial training can effectively complement adversarial robustness into the privacy-preserving federated learning systems. However, the high demand for memory capacity and computing power makes large-scale federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Minxue Tang , Jianyi Zhang , Mingyuan Ma , Louis DiValentin , Aolin Ding , Amin Hassanzadeh , Hai Li , Yiran Chen

Adversarial training is effective on balanced datasets, but its robustness degrades under longtailed class distributions, where tail classes suffer high robust error and unstable decision boundaries. We propose Manifold-Constrained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Guanmeng Xian , Ning Yang , Philip S. Yu

Adversarial Training (AT) has been shown to significantly enhance adversarial robustness via a min-max optimization approach. However, its effectiveness in video recognition tasks is hampered by two main challenges. First, fast adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Songping Wang , Hanqing Liu , Yueming Lyu , Xiantao Hu , Ziwen He , Wei Wang , Caifeng Shan , Liang Wang

Pretrained models from self-supervision are prevalently used in fine-tuning downstream tasks faster or for better accuracy. However, gaining robustness from pretraining is left unexplored. We introduce adversarial training into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Tianlong Chen , Sijia Liu , Shiyu Chang , Yu Cheng , Lisa Amini , Zhangyang Wang

Robustness of machine learning models to various adversarial and non-adversarial corruptions continues to be of interest. In this paper, we introduce the notion of the boundary thickness of a classifier, and we describe its connection with…

Quantization-aware training (QAT) is a leading technique for improving the accuracy of quantized neural networks. Previous work has shown that decomposing training into a full-precision (FP) phase followed by a QAT phase yields superior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Aleksandr Dremov , David Grangier , Angelos Katharopoulos , Awni Hannun

Despite being widely adopted as a canonical framework for learning robust models, adversarial training suffers from robust overfitting. Existing empirical measures and theoretical explorations are insufficient to provide satisfying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yuelin Xu , Xiao Zhang

Adversarial training (AT) is currently one of the most effective ways to obtain the robustness of deep neural networks against adversarial attacks. However, most AT methods suffer from robust overfitting, i.e., a significant generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Daiwei Yu , Zhuorong Li , Lina Wei , Canghong Jin , Yun Zhang , Sixian Chan

Adversarial Training (AT) with Projected Gradient Descent (PGD) is an effective approach for improving the robustness of the deep neural networks. However, PGD AT has been shown to suffer from two main limitations: i) high computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Ahmadreza Jeddi , Mohammad Javad Shafiee , Alexander Wong

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 training (AT) has been demonstrated as one of the most promising defense methods against various adversarial attacks. To our knowledge, existing AT-based methods usually train with the locally most adversarial perturbed points…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Chuanbiao Song , Yanbo Fan , Yichen Yang , Baoyuan Wu , Yiming Li , Zhifeng Li , Kun He