{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/autojoin-efficient-adversarial-training-for","title":"AutoJoin: Efficient Adversarial Training against Gradient-Free Perturbations for Robust Maneuvering via Denoising Autoencoder and Joint Learning","arxiv_id":"2205.10933","date":"2022-05-22","proceeding":null,"authors":["Michael Villarreal","Bibek Poudel","Ryan Wickman","Yu Shen","Weizi Li"],"abstract":"With the growing use of machine learning algorithms and ubiquitous sensors, many `perception-to-control' systems are being developed and deployed. To ensure their trustworthiness, improving their robustness through adversarial training is one potential approach. We propose a gradient-free adversarial training technique, named AutoJoin, to effectively and efficiently produce robust models for image-based maneuvering. Compared to other state-of-the-art methods with testing on over 5M images, AutoJoin achieves significant performance increases up to the 40% range against perturbations while improving on clean performance up to 300%. AutoJoin is also highly efficient, saving up to 86% time per training epoch and 90% training data over other state-of-the-art techniques. The core idea of AutoJoin is to use a decoder attachment to the original regression model creating a denoising autoencoder within the architecture. This architecture allows the tasks `maneuvering' and `denoising sensor input' to be jointly learnt and reinforce each other's performance.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.10933v3","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.10933v3.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"autojoin-efficient-adversarial-training-for","repo_url":"https://github.com/Fluidic-City-Lab/AutoJoin","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"pytorch","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"decoder","task_name":"Decoder"},{"task_slug":"denoising","task_name":"Denoising"}],"methods":[{"method_slug":"denoising-autoencoder","method_name":"Denoising Autoencoder"}],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}