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Ruitong Huang, Bing Xu, Dale Schuurmans, Csaba Szepesvári. Learning with a Strong Adversary. CoRR abs/1511.03034, 2015.

Huang et al. propose a variant of adversarial training called “learning with a strong adversary”. In spirit the idea is also similar to related work [1]. In particular, the authors consider the min-max objective

$\min_g \sum_i \max_{\|r^{(i)}\|\leq c} l(g(x_i + r^{(i)}), y_i)$

where $g$ ranges over expressible functions and $(x_i, y_i)$ is a training sample. In the remainder of the paper, Huang et al. Address the problem of efficiently computing $r^{(i)}$ – i.e. a strong adversarial example based on the current state of the network – and subsequently updating the weights of the network by computing the gradient of the augmented loss. Details can be found in the paper.

  • [1] T. Miyato, S. Maeda, M. Koyama, K. Nakae, S. Ishii. Distributional Smoothing by Virtual Adversarial Training. ArXiv:1507.00677, 2015.
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