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Adversarial training has been shown to be reliable in improving robustness against adversarial samples. However, the problem of adversarial training in terms of fairness has not yet been properly studied, and the relationship between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Junyi Chai , Xiaoqian Wang

Efficient inference is critical for deploying deep learning models on edge AI devices. Low-bit quantization (e.g., 3- and 4-bit) with fixed-point arithmetic improves efficiency, while low-power memory technologies like analog nonvolatile…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Anmol Biswas , Raghav Singhal , Sivakumar Elangovan , Shreyas Sabnis , Udayan Ganguly

The field of defense strategies against adversarial attacks has significantly grown over the last years, but progress is hampered as the evaluation of adversarial defenses is often insufficient and thus gives a wrong impression of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Francesco Croce , Matthias Hein

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

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

Machine learning has achieved great success in electroencephalogram (EEG) based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). Most existing BCI studies focused on improving the decoding accuracy, with only a few considering the adversarial security.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Xiaoqing Chen , Ziwei Wang , Dongrui Wu

Adversarial training of Deep Neural Networks is known to be significantly more data-hungry when compared to standard training. Furthermore, complex data augmentations such as AutoAugment, which have led to substantial gains in standard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Sravanti Addepalli , Samyak Jain , R. Venkatesh Babu

Adversarial training is one of the most effective approaches to improve model robustness against adversarial examples. However, previous works mainly focus on the overall robustness of the model, and the in-depth analysis on the role of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Qi Tian , Kun Kuang , Kelu Jiang , Fei Wu , Yisen Wang

Adversarial robustness is a critical challenge in deploying deep neural networks for real-world applications. While adversarial training is a widely recognized defense strategy, most existing studies focus on balanced datasets, overlooking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Wang YuHang , Junkang Guo , Aolei Liu , Kaihao Wang , Zaitong Wu , Zhenyu Liu , Wenfei Yin , Jian Liu

It is well-known that deep neural networks (DNNs) are susceptible to adversarial attacks, exposing a severe fragility of deep learning systems. As the result, adversarial training (AT) method, by incorporating adversarial examples during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Tuan Anh Bui , Trung Le , Quan Tran , He Zhao , Dinh Phung

Transfer learning is often used to decrease the computational cost of model training, as fine-tuning a model allows a downstream task to leverage the features learned from the pre-training dataset and quickly adapt them to a new task. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Joshua C. Zhao , Saurabh Bagchi

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

It is well known that adversarial attacks can fool deep neural networks with imperceptible perturbations. Although adversarial training significantly improves model robustness, failure cases of defense still broadly exist. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Boxi Wu , Heng Pan , Li Shen , Jindong Gu , Shuai Zhao , Zhifeng Li , Deng Cai , Xiaofei He , Wei Liu

Adversarial examples are typically optimized with gradient-based attacks. While novel attacks are continuously proposed, each is shown to outperform its predecessors using different experimental setups, hyperparameter settings, and number…

Numerous purportedly improved metaheuristics claim superior performance based on equivalent function evaluations (FEs), yet often conceal additional computational burdens in more intensive iterations, preprocessing stages, or hyperparameter…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Junbo Jacob Lian

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. Adversarial training (AT) is a popular and effective strategy to defend against adversarial attacks. Recent works (Benz et al., 2020; Xu et al., 2021; Tian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Boqi Li , Weiwei Liu

Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) method has emerged as a dominant paradigm for adapting pre-trained GNN models to downstream tasks. However, existing PEFT methods usually exhibit significant vulnerability to various noise and attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Ziyan Zhang , Bo Jiang , Jin Tang

Neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks: adding well-crafted, imperceptible perturbations to their input can modify their output. Adversarial training is one of the most effective approaches in training robust models against…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Hadi M. Dolatabadi , Sarah Erfani , Christopher Leckie

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

PGD-based and FGSM-based are two popular adversarial training (AT) approaches for obtaining adversarially robust models. Compared with PGD-based AT, FGSM-based one is significantly faster but fails with catastrophic overfitting (CO). For…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Axi Niu , Kang Zhang , Chaoning Zhang , Chenshuang Zhang , In So Kweon , Chang D. Yoo , Yanning Zhang