arxivcs.CVcs.AIcs.LG2026-06-26
Improving Adversarial Robustness via Activation Amplification and Attenuation
Taïga Gonçalves, Yongsong Huang, Tomo Miyazaki, Shinichiro Omachi
The existence of adversarial attacks is often attributed to the presence of non-robust features in neural networks. While prior defenses reduce their impact via pruning, masking, or feature recalibration, we instead propose to jointly learn to amplify and attenuate these signals…