Revisiting Role of Autoencoders in Adversarial Settings

21 May 2020  ·  Byeong Cheon Kim, Jung Uk Kim, Hakmin Lee, Yong Man Ro ·

To combat against adversarial attacks, autoencoder structure is widely used to perform denoising which is regarded as gradient masking. In this paper, we revisit the role of autoencoders in adversarial settings. Through the comprehensive experimental results and analysis, this paper presents the inherent property of adversarial robustness in the autoencoders. We also found that autoencoders may use robust features that cause inherent adversarial robustness. We believe that our discovery of the adversarial robustness of the autoencoders can provide clues to the future research and applications for adversarial defense.

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