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Improving the robustness of deep neural networks (DNNs) to adversarial examples is an important yet challenging problem for secure deep learning. Across existing defense techniques, adversarial training with Projected Gradient Decent (PGD)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Yisen Wang , Xingjun Ma , James Bailey , Jinfeng Yi , Bowen Zhou , Quanquan Gu

Latent diffusion models have recently demonstrated superior capabilities in many downstream image synthesis tasks. However, customization of latent diffusion models using unauthorized data can severely compromise the privacy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Sen Peng , Mingyue Wang , Jianfei He , Jijia Yang , Xiaohua Jia

Adversarial Training (AT) is one of the most effective methods to enhance the robustness of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). However, existing AT methods suffer from an inherent accuracy-robustness trade-off. Previous works have studied this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Yanyun Wang , Li Liu , Zi Liang , Yi R. , Fung , Qingqing Ye , Haibo Hu

Despite the fact that adversarial training has become the de facto method for improving the robustness of deep neural networks, it is well-known that vanilla adversarial training suffers from daunting robust overfitting, resulting in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Tianjin Huang , Shiwei Liu , Tianlong Chen , Meng Fang , Li Shen , Vlaod Menkovski , Lu Yin , Yulong Pei , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Adversarial training (AT) is widely considered the state-of-the-art technique for improving the robustness of deep neural networks (DNNs) against adversarial examples (AE). Nevertheless, recent studies have revealed that adversarially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Chenhao Lin , Xiang Ji , Yulong Yang , Qian Li , Chao Shen , Run Wang , Liming Fang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are incredibly vulnerable to crafted, imperceptible adversarial perturbations. While adversarial training (AT) has proven to be an effective defense approach, the AT mechanism for robustness improvement is not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Binxiao Huang , Rui Lin , Chaofan Tao , Ngai Wong

Discriminator plays a vital role in training generative adversarial networks (GANs) via distinguishing real and synthesized samples. While the real data distribution remains the same, the synthesis distribution keeps varying because of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Ceyuan Yang , Yujun Shen , Yinghao Xu , Deli Zhao , Bo Dai , Bolei Zhou

A common goal in statistics and machine learning is to learn models that can perform well against distributional shifts, such as latent heterogeneous subpopulations, unknown covariate shifts, or unmodeled temporal effects. We develop and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-21 John Duchi , Hongseok Namkoong

The Decision Transformer (DT) has established a powerful sequence modeling approach to offline reinforcement learning. It conditions its action predictions on Return-to-Go (RTG), using it both to distinguish trajectory quality during…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Yongyi Wang , Hanyu Liu , Lingfeng Li , Bozhou Chen , Ang Li , Qirui Zheng , Xionghui Yang , Wenxin Li

Despite the high performance achieved by deep neural networks on various tasks, extensive studies have demonstrated that small tweaks in the input could fail the model predictions. This issue of deep neural networks has led to a number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Ming-Chang Chiu , Xuezhe Ma

Our goal is to understand why the robustness drops after conducting adversarial training for too long. Although this phenomenon is commonly explained as overfitting, our analysis suggest that its primary cause is perturbation underfitting.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Zichao Li , Liyuan Liu , Chengyu Dong , Jingbo Shang

Tabular learning transforms raw features into optimized spaces for downstream tasks, but its effectiveness deteriorates under distribution shifts between training and testing data. We formalize this challenge as the Distribution Shift…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Wangyang Ying , Nanxu Gong , Dongjie Wang , Xinyuan Wang , Arun Vignesh Malarkkan , Vivek Gupta , Chandan K. Reddy , Yanjie Fu

Training-free diffusion guidance offers a flexible framework for leveraging off-the-shelf classifiers without additional training. Yet, current approaches hinge on posterior approximations via Tweedie's formula, which often yield unreliable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Van Khoa Nguyen , Lionel Blondé , Alexandros Kalousis

Reinforcement learning (RL) policies deployed in safety-critical systems, such as unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) navigation in dynamic airspace, are vulnerable to out-ofdistribution (OOD) adversarial attacks in the observation space. These…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Deepak Kumar Panda , Adolfo Perrusquia , Weisi Guo

Distribution shifts and minority subpopulations frequently undermine the reliability of deep neural networks trained using Empirical Risk Minimization (ERM). Distributionally Robust Optimization (DRO) addresses this by optimizing for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Aheer Sravon , Devdyuti Mazumder , Md. Ibrahim

Adversarial training has become one of the most effective methods for improving robustness of neural networks. However, it often suffers from poor generalization on both clean and perturbed data. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Minhao Cheng , Qi Lei , Pin-Yu Chen , Inderjit Dhillon , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Adversarial Training (AT), which adversarially perturb the input samples during training, has been acknowledged as one of the most effective defenses against adversarial attacks, yet suffers from inevitably decreased clean accuracy. Instead…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Yihao Zhang , Hangzhou He , Jingyu Zhu , Huanran Chen , Yifei Wang , Zeming Wei

Adversarial attacks pose a significant challenge to deploying deep learning models in safety-critical applications. Maintaining model robustness while ensuring interpretability is vital for fostering trust and comprehension in these models.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Amira Guesmi , Nishant Suresh Aswani , Muhammad Shafique

While deep learning has resulted in major breakthroughs in many application domains, the frameworks commonly used in deep learning remain fragile to artificially-crafted and imperceptible changes in the data. In response to this fragility,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Alexander Robey , Hamed Hassani , George J. Pappas

Deep learning models continue to advance in accuracy, yet they remain vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which often lead to the misclassification of adversarial examples. Adversarial training is used to mitigate this problem by increasing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Leo Hyun Park , Jaeuk Kim , Myung Gyo Oh , Jaewoo Park , Taekyoung Kwon