Continual Adversarial Defense

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.09481v6
• Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2025 21:32:52 GMT
• Title: Continual Adversarial Defense
• Authors: Qian Wang, Hefei Ling, Yingwei Li, Qihao Liu, Ruoxi Jia, Ning Yu,
• Abstract summary: We introduce the Continual Adversarial Defense (CAD) framework.<n>CAD continuously collects adversarial data online and adapts to evolving attack sequences.<n>Our research sheds light on a brand-new paradigm for continual defense adaptation against dynamic and evolving attacks.
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• Abstract: In response to the rapidly evolving nature of adversarial attacks against visual classifiers, numerous defenses have been proposed to generalize against as many known attacks as possible. However, designing a defense method that generalizes to all types of attacks is unrealistic, as the environment in which the defense system operates is dynamic. Over time, new attacks inevitably emerge that exploit the vulnerabilities of existing defenses and bypass them. Therefore, we propose a continual defense strategy under a practical threat model and, for the first time, introduce the Continual Adversarial Defense (CAD) framework. CAD continuously collects adversarial data online and adapts to evolving attack sequences, while adhering to four practical principles: (1) continual adaptation to new attacks without catastrophic forgetting, (2) few-shot adaptation, (3) memory-efficient adaptation, and (4) high classification accuracy on both clean and adversarial data. We explore and integrate cutting-edge techniques from continual learning, few-shot learning, and ensemble learning to fulfill the principles. Extensive experiments validate the effectiveness of our approach against multi-stage adversarial attacks and demonstrate significant improvements over a wide range of baseline methods. We further observe that CAD's defense performance tends to saturate as the number of attacks increases, indicating its potential as a persistent defense once adapted to a sufficiently diverse set of attacks. Our research sheds light on a brand-new paradigm for continual defense adaptation against dynamic and evolving attacks.

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