Diffusion or Non-Diffusion Adversarial Defenses: Rethinking the Relation between Classifier and Adversarial Purifier

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Hauptverfasser: Chen, Yuan-Chih, Lu, Chun-Shien
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author Chen, Yuan-Chih
Lu, Chun-Shien
author_facet Chen, Yuan-Chih
Lu, Chun-Shien
contents Adversarial defense research continues to face challenges in combating against advanced adversarial attacks, yet with diffusion models increasingly favoring their defensive capabilities. Unlike most prior studies that focus on diffusion models for test-time defense, we explore the generalization loss in classifiers caused by diffusion models. We compare diffusion-based and non-diffusion-based adversarial purifiers, demonstrating that non-diffusion models can also achieve well performance under a practical setting of non-adaptive attack. While non-diffusion models show promising adversarial robustness, they particularly excel in defense transferability and color generalization without relying on additional data beyond the training set. Notably, a non-diffusion model trained on CIFAR-10 achieves state-of-the-art performance when tested directly on ImageNet, surpassing existing diffusion-based models trained specifically on ImageNet.
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spellingShingle Diffusion or Non-Diffusion Adversarial Defenses: Rethinking the Relation between Classifier and Adversarial Purifier
Chen, Yuan-Chih
Lu, Chun-Shien
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Adversarial defense research continues to face challenges in combating against advanced adversarial attacks, yet with diffusion models increasingly favoring their defensive capabilities. Unlike most prior studies that focus on diffusion models for test-time defense, we explore the generalization loss in classifiers caused by diffusion models. We compare diffusion-based and non-diffusion-based adversarial purifiers, demonstrating that non-diffusion models can also achieve well performance under a practical setting of non-adaptive attack. While non-diffusion models show promising adversarial robustness, they particularly excel in defense transferability and color generalization without relying on additional data beyond the training set. Notably, a non-diffusion model trained on CIFAR-10 achieves state-of-the-art performance when tested directly on ImageNet, surpassing existing diffusion-based models trained specifically on ImageNet.
title Diffusion or Non-Diffusion Adversarial Defenses: Rethinking the Relation between Classifier and Adversarial Purifier
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16904