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New GRAPE framework boosts neural network adversarial robustness

Researchers have introduced GRAPE, a novel training framework designed to enhance the adversarial robustness of neural networks while maintaining compact model sizes. GRAPE distinguishes itself by treating robust model learning as an evolutionary process, progressively exposing and optimizing parameters rather than relying on a fixed structure from the outset. This guided parameter-space evolution approach, which includes progressive hidden expansion and an adversarial spectral utilization score, has demonstrated significant improvements in robust accuracy on CIFAR-10 compared to traditional adversarial training methods, even with a comparable computational budget and a reduced parameter count. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Zhiyuan Ye (University of Science and Technology of China), Xiangyu Zhou (China Mobile), Ji Qi (China Mobile), Hao Zhang (University of Science and Technology of China), Yi Zhou (China Mobile) ·

    GRAPE: Guided Parameter-Space Evolution for Compact Adversarial Robustness

    arXiv:2606.14865v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Adversarial Training (AT) improves neural network robustness, but most methods train a fixed parameter space from the start. This paper asks whether the order in which parameters become optimizable can affect the final robust solu…