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Learning from Peers: Collaborative Ensemble Adversarial Training

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Dengjin Li
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Yanming Guo
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Yuxiang Xie
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Zheng Li
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Li, Xiaolong
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Mingrui Lao *
DOI:10.1007/978-981-95-4987-0_3delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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Ensemble Adversarial Training (EAT) attempts to enhance the robustness of models against adversarial attacks by leveraging multiple models. However, current EAT strategies tend to train the sub-models independently, ignoring the cooperative benefits between sub-models. Through detailed inspections of the process of EAT, we find that samples with classification disparities between sub-models are close to the decision boundary of ensemble, exerting greater influence on the robustness of ensemble. To this end, we propose a novel yet efficient Collaborative Ensemble Adversarial Training (CEAT), to highlight the cooperative learning among sub-models in the ensemble. To be specific, samples with larger predictive disparities between the sub-models will receive greater attention during the adversarial training of the other sub-models. CEAT leverages the probability disparities to adaptively assign weights to different samples, by incorporating a calibrating distance regularization. Extensive experiments on widely-adopted datasets show that our proposed method achieves the state-of-the-art performance over competitive EAT methods. It is noteworthy that CEAT is model-agnostic, which can be seamlessly adapted into various ensemble methods with flexible applicability.
Keywords:
Collaborative Strategy
Ensemble Adversarial Training
Calibrating Regularization

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PATTERN RECOGNITION AND COMPUTER VISION, PRCV 2025, PT I
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national university of defense technology - china
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1.8W
Papers: 1.4W
Citations: 9