Catastrophic overfitting can be induced with discriminative non-robust features

1 code implementation • 16 Jun 2022 • Guillermo Ortiz-Jiménez, Pau de Jorge, Amartya Sanyal, Adel Bibi, Puneet K. Dokania, Pascal Frossard, Gregory Rogéz, Philip H. S. Torr

Through extensive experiments we analyze this novel phenomenon and discover that the presence of these easy features induces a learning shortcut that leads to CO. Our findings provide new insights into the mechanisms of CO and improve our understanding of the dynamics of AT.

Robust classification