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Logan Engstrom, Dimitris Tsipras, Ludwig Schmidt, Aleksander Madry. A Rotation and a Translation Suffice: Fooling CNNs with Simple Transformations. CoRR abs/1712.02779, 2017.

Engstrom et al. demonstrate that spatial transformations such as translations and rotations can be used to generate adversarial examples. Personally, however, I think that the paper does not address the question where adversarial perturbations “end” and generalization issues “start”. For larger translations and rotations, the problem is clearly a problem of generalization. Small ones, can also be interpreted as adversarial perturbations – especially when they are computed under the intention to fool the network. Still, the distinction is not clear ...

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