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Nowadays, pretrained models are increasingly used as general-purpose backbones and adapted at test-time to downstream environments where target data are scarce and unlabeled. While this paradigm has proven effective for improving clean…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Stefano Bianchettin , Giulio Rossolini , Giorgio Buttazzo

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples. Prior defenses attempted to make deep networks more robust by either changing the network architecture or augmenting the training set with adversarial examples, but both have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Yongshuai Liu , Jiyu Chen , Hao Chen

Traditionally, distillation has been used to train a student model to emulate the input/output functionality of a teacher. A more useful goal than emulation, yet under-explored, is for the student to learn feature representations that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Zhizhong Li , Avinash Ravichandran , Charless Fowlkes , Marzia Polito , Rahul Bhotika , Stefano Soatto

The fact that deep neural networks are susceptible to crafted perturbations severely impacts the use of deep learning in certain domains of application. Among many developed defense models against such attacks, adversarial training emerges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Anh Bui , Trung Le , He Zhao , Paul Montague , Olivier deVel , Tamas Abraham , Dinh Phung

Despite the success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in many academic benchmarks for computer vision tasks, their application in the real-world is still facing fundamental challenges. One of these open problems is the inherent lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Julia Grabinski , Paul Gavrikov , Janis Keuper , Margret Keuper

Transfer learning is a widely-used paradigm in deep learning, where models pre-trained on standard datasets can be efficiently adapted to downstream tasks. Typically, better pre-trained models yield better transfer results, suggesting that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Hadi Salman , Andrew Ilyas , Logan Engstrom , Ashish Kapoor , Aleksander Madry

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

Recent advances in deep learning has lead to rapid developments in the field of image retrieval. However, the best performing architectures incur significant computational cost. Recent approaches tackle this issue using knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Zakaria Laskar , Juho Kannala

Dataset distillation is an advanced technique aimed at compressing datasets into significantly smaller counterparts, while preserving formidable training performance. Significant efforts have been devoted to promote evaluation accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Yifan Wu , Jiawei Du , Ping Liu , Yuewei Lin , Wei Xu , Wenqing Cheng

Deep neural networks are capable of training fast and generalizing well within many domains. Despite their promising performance, deep networks have shown sensitivities to perturbations of their inputs (e.g., adversarial examples) and their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Justin Goodwin , Olivia Brown , Victoria Helus

Adversarial examples have appeared as a ubiquitous property of machine learning models where bounded adversarial perturbation could mislead the models to make arbitrarily incorrect predictions. Such examples provide a way to assess the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Zhuolin Yang , Zhaoxi Chen , Tiffany Cai , Xinyun Chen , Bo Li , Yuandong Tian

We propose Algorithm Distillation (AD), a method for distilling reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms into neural networks by modeling their training histories with a causal sequence model. Algorithm Distillation treats learning to…

Adversarial Robustness Distillation (ARD) has emerged as an effective method to enhance the robustness of lightweight deep neural networks against adversarial attacks. Current ARD approaches have leveraged a large robust teacher network to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Seyedhamidreza Mousavi , Seyedali Mousavi , Masoud Daneshtalab

We consider the problem of OOD generalization, where the goal is to train a model that performs well on test distributions that are different from the training distribution. Deep learning models are known to be fragile to such shifts and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Anshul Nasery , Sravanti Addepalli , Praneeth Netrapalli , Prateek Jain

Machine learning models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. One approach to addressing this vulnerability is certification, which focuses on models that are guaranteed to be robust for a given perturbation size. A drawback of recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Ryan Campbell , Chris Finlay , Adam M Oberman

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have had many successes, but they suffer from two major issues: (1) a vulnerability to adversarial examples and (2) a tendency to elude human interpretation. Interestingly, recent empirical and theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Adam Noack , Isaac Ahern , Dejing Dou , Boyang Li

Adversarial training (i.e., training on adversarially perturbed input data) is a well-studied method for making neural networks robust to potential adversarial attacks during inference. However, the improved robustness does not come for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Mathias Lechner , Alexander Amini , Daniela Rus , Thomas A. Henzinger

Much of the focus in the area of knowledge distillation has been on distilling knowledge from a larger teacher network to a smaller student network. However, there has been little research on how the concept of distillation can be leveraged…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Zhong Qiu Lin , Alexander Wong

A new understanding of adversarial examples and adversarial robustness is proposed by decoupling the data generator and the label generator (which we call the teacher). In our framework, adversarial robustness is a conditional concept---the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Chao Ma , Lexing Ying

Dataset distillation (DD) allows datasets to be distilled to fractions of their original size while preserving the rich distributional information, so that models trained on the distilled datasets can achieve a comparable accuracy while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Eric Xue , Yijiang Li , Haoyang Liu , Peiran Wang , Yifan Shen , Haohan Wang