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Random Spiking and Systematic Evaluation of Defenses Against Adversarial Examples

5 Dec 2018arXiv:1812.01804archive 2025-07-28

Huangyi Ge, Sze Yiu Chau, Bruno Ribeiro, Ninghui Li

Image classifiers often suffer from adversarial examples, which are generated by strategically adding a small amount of noise to input images to trick classifiers into misclassification. Over the years, many defense mechanisms have been proposed, and different researchers have made seemingly contradictory claims on their effectiveness. We present an analysis of possible adversarial models, and propose an evaluation framework for comparing different defense mechanisms. As part of the framework, we introduce a more powerful and realistic adversary strategy. Furthermore, we propose a new defense mechanism called Random Spiking (RS), which generalizes dropout and introduces random noises in the training process in a controlled manner. Evaluations under our proposed framework suggest RS delivers better protection against adversarial examples than many existing schemes.

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