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Main Authors: Zhang, Haibo, Yao, Zhihua, Sakurai, Kouichi, Saitoh, Takeshi
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.01399
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author Zhang, Haibo
Yao, Zhihua
Sakurai, Kouichi
Saitoh, Takeshi
author_facet Zhang, Haibo
Yao, Zhihua
Sakurai, Kouichi
Saitoh, Takeshi
contents In the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence, machine learning emerges as a key technology characterized by its vast potential and inherent risks. The stability and reliability of these models are important, as they are frequent targets of security threats. Adversarial attacks, first rigorously defined by Ian Goodfellow et al. in 2013, highlight a critical vulnerability: they can trick machine learning models into making incorrect predictions by applying nearly invisible perturbations to images. Although many studies have focused on constructing sophisticated defensive mechanisms to mitigate such attacks, they often overlook the substantial time and computational costs of training and maintaining these models. Ideally, a defense method should be able to generalize across various, even unseen, adversarial attacks with minimal overhead. Building on our previous work on image-to-image translation-based defenses, this study introduces an improved model that incorporates residual blocks to enhance generalizability. The proposed method requires training only a single model, effectively defends against diverse attack types, and is well-transferable between different target models. Experiments show that our model can restore the classification accuracy from near zero to an average of 72\% while maintaining competitive performance compared to state-of-the-art methods.
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spellingShingle Leveraging Generalizability of Image-to-Image Translation for Enhanced Adversarial Defense
Zhang, Haibo
Yao, Zhihua
Sakurai, Kouichi
Saitoh, Takeshi
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
In the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence, machine learning emerges as a key technology characterized by its vast potential and inherent risks. The stability and reliability of these models are important, as they are frequent targets of security threats. Adversarial attacks, first rigorously defined by Ian Goodfellow et al. in 2013, highlight a critical vulnerability: they can trick machine learning models into making incorrect predictions by applying nearly invisible perturbations to images. Although many studies have focused on constructing sophisticated defensive mechanisms to mitigate such attacks, they often overlook the substantial time and computational costs of training and maintaining these models. Ideally, a defense method should be able to generalize across various, even unseen, adversarial attacks with minimal overhead. Building on our previous work on image-to-image translation-based defenses, this study introduces an improved model that incorporates residual blocks to enhance generalizability. The proposed method requires training only a single model, effectively defends against diverse attack types, and is well-transferable between different target models. Experiments show that our model can restore the classification accuracy from near zero to an average of 72\% while maintaining competitive performance compared to state-of-the-art methods.
title Leveraging Generalizability of Image-to-Image Translation for Enhanced Adversarial Defense
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.01399