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most citedBoosting Fast Adversarial Training with Learnable Adversarial Initialization

69 citations · 243 across the 31 of their papers we have counts for

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33 papers

cs.CR2025

Censorship Chokepoints: New Battlegrounds for Regional Surveillance, Censorship and Influence on the Internet

Yong Zhang, Nishanth Sastry

Undoubtedly, the Internet has become one of the most important conduits to information for the general public. Nonetheless, Internet access can be and has been limited systematical…

cs.CV2023★ 20 cited

DeepfakeBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark of Deepfake Detection

Zhiyuan Yan, Yong Zhang, Xinhang Yuan +2

A critical yet frequently overlooked challenge in the field of deepfake detection is the lack of a standardized, unified, comprehensive benchmark. This issue leads to unfair perfor…

cs.CV2023★ 3 cited

Versatile Backdoor Attack with Visible, Semantic, Sample-Specific, and Compatible Triggers

Ruotong Wang, Hongrui Chen, Zihao Zhu +2

Deep neural networks (DNNs) can be manipulated to exhibit specific behaviors when exposed to specific trigger patterns, without affecting their performance on benign samples, dubbe…

cs.LG2023★ 4 cited

Improving Fast Adversarial Training with Prior-Guided Knowledge

Xiaojun Jia, Yong Zhang, Xingxing Wei +4

Fast adversarial training (FAT) is an efficient method to improve robustness. However, the original FAT suffers from catastrophic overfitting, which dramatically and suddenly reduc…

cs.CV2023★ 4 cited

UCF: Uncovering Common Features for Generalizable Deepfake Detection

Zhiyuan Yan, Yong Zhang, Yanbo Fan +1

Deepfake detection remains a challenging task due to the difficulty of generalizing to new types of forgeries. This problem primarily stems from the overfitting of existing detecti…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

Generalizable Black-Box Adversarial Attack with Meta Learning

Fei Yin, Yong Zhang, Baoyuan Wu +4

In the scenario of black-box adversarial attack, the target model's parameters are unknown, and the attacker aims to find a successful adversarial perturbation based on query feedb…

cs.CV2022

3D GAN Inversion with Facial Symmetry Prior

Fei Yin, Yong Zhang, Xuan Wang +8

Recently, a surge of high-quality 3D-aware GANs have been proposed, which leverage the generative power of neural rendering. It is natural to associate 3D GANs with GAN inversion m…

cs.CV2022★ 2 cited

Fine-Grained Face Swapping via Regional GAN Inversion

Zhian Liu, Maomao Li, Yong Zhang +4

We present a novel paradigm for high-fidelity face swapping that faithfully preserves the desired subtle geometry and texture details. We rethink face swapping from the perspective…

cs.CV2022★ 22 cited

Boosting the Transferability of Adversarial Attacks with Reverse Adversarial Perturbation

Zeyu Qin, Yanbo Fan, Yi Liu +4

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial examples, which can produce erroneous predictions by injecting imperceptible perturbations. In this work…

cs.CV2022

Towards Real-World Video Deblurring by Exploring Blur Formation Process

Mingdeng Cao, Zhihang Zhong, Yanbo Fan +5

This paper aims at exploring how to synthesize close-to-real blurs that existing video deblurring models trained on them can generalize well to real-world blurry videos. In recent…

cs.CV2022★ 5 cited

Prior-Guided Adversarial Initialization for Fast Adversarial Training

Xiaojun Jia, Yong Zhang, Xingxing Wei +4

Fast adversarial training (FAT) effectively improves the efficiency of standard adversarial training (SAT). However, initial FAT encounters catastrophic overfitting, i.e.,the robus…

cs.LG2022

Fast Adversarial Training with Adaptive Step Size

Zhichao Huang, Yanbo Fan, Chen Liu +5

While adversarial training and its variants have shown to be the most effective algorithms to defend against adversarial attacks, their extremely slow training process makes it har…

cs.CV2022

VDTR: Video Deblurring with Transformer

Mingdeng Cao, Yanbo Fan, Yong Zhang +2

Video deblurring is still an unsolved problem due to the challenging spatio-temporal modeling process. While existing convolutional neural network-based methods show a limited capa…

cs.CV2022★ 4 cited

StyleHEAT: One-Shot High-Resolution Editable Talking Face Generation via Pre-trained StyleGAN

Fei Yin, Yong Zhang, Xiaodong Cun +7

One-shot talking face generation aims at synthesizing a high-quality talking face video from an arbitrary portrait image, driven by a video or an audio segment. One challenging qua…

cs.CV2022★ 8 cited

LAS-AT: Adversarial Training with Learnable Attack Strategy

Xiaojun Jia, Yong Zhang, Baoyuan Wu +3

Adversarial training (AT) is always formulated as a minimax problem, of which the performance depends on the inner optimization that involves the generation of adversarial examples…

cs.CL2022

E-LANG: Energy-Based Joint Inferencing of Super and Swift Language Models

Mohammad Akbari, Amin Banitalebi-Dehkordi, Yong Zhang

Building huge and highly capable language models has been a trend in the past years. Despite their great performance, they incur high computational cost. A common solution is to ap…

cs.LG2021★ 4 cited

ML4CO: Is GCNN All You Need? Graph Convolutional Neural Networks Produce Strong Baselines For Combinatorial Optimization Problems, If Tuned and Trained Properly, on Appropriate Data

Amin Banitalebi-Dehkordi, Yong Zhang

The 2021 NeurIPS Machine Learning for Combinatorial Optimization (ML4CO) competition was designed with the goal of improving state-of-the-art combinatorial optimization solvers by…

cs.CV2021★ 4 cited

FENeRF: Face Editing in Neural Radiance Fields

Jingxiang Sun, Xuan Wang, Yong Zhang +4

Previous portrait image generation methods roughly fall into two categories: 2D GANs and 3D-aware GANs. 2D GANs can generate high fidelity portraits but with low view consistency.…

cs.LG2021

Model Composition: Can Multiple Neural Networks Be Combined into a Single Network Using Only Unlabeled Data?

Amin Banitalebi-Dehkordi, Xinyu Kang, Yong Zhang

The diversity of deep learning applications, datasets, and neural network architectures necessitates a careful selection of the architecture and data that match best to a target ap…

cs.CV2021★ 4 cited

Repaint: Improving the Generalization of Down-Stream Visual Tasks by Generating Multiple Instances of Training Examples

Amin Banitalebi-Dehkordi, Yong Zhang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for visual tasks are believed to learn both the low-level textures and high-level object attributes, throughout the network depth. This paper f…

cs.CV2021★ 4 cited

EBJR: Energy-Based Joint Reasoning for Adaptive Inference

Mohammad Akbari, Amin Banitalebi-Dehkordi, Yong Zhang

State-of-the-art deep learning models have achieved significant performance levels on various benchmarks. However, the excellent performance comes at a cost of inefficient computat…

cs.CV2021★ 69 cited

Boosting Fast Adversarial Training with Learnable Adversarial Initialization

Xiaojun Jia, Yong Zhang, Baoyuan Wu +2

Adversarial training (AT) has been demonstrated to be effective in improving model robustness by leveraging adversarial examples for training. However, most AT methods are in face…

cs.CV2021★ 1 cited

Robust Physical-World Attacks on Face Recognition

Xin Zheng, Yanbo Fan, Baoyuan Wu +3

Face recognition has been greatly facilitated by the development of deep neural networks (DNNs) and has been widely applied to many safety-critical applications. However, recent st…

cs.CV2021★ 18 cited

High-Fidelity GAN Inversion for Image Attribute Editing

Tengfei Wang, Yong Zhang, Yanbo Fan +2

We present a novel high-fidelity generative adversarial network (GAN) inversion framework that enables attribute editing with image-specific details well-preserved (e.g., backgroun…