2019

Achieving Robustness in the Wild via Adversarial Mixing with Disentangled Representations

Gowal, Sven, Qin, Chongli, Huang, Po-Sen et al.

Understand

Recent research has made the surprising finding that state-of-the-art deep learning models sometimes fail to generalize to small variations of the input.

  • Adversarial training has been shown to be an effective approach to overcome this problem.
  • However, its application has been limited to enforcing invariance to analytically defined transformations like $\ell_p$-norm bounded perturbations.
  • Such perturbations do not necessarily cover plausible real-world variations that preserve the semantics of the input (such as a change in lighting conditions).

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