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Deep neural networks have achieved substantial achievements in several computer vision areas, but have vulnerabilities that are often fooled by adversarial examples that are not recognized by humans. This is an important issue for security…
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Neural network compression has recently received much attention due to the computational requirements of modern deep models. In this work, our objective is to transfer knowledge from a deep and accurate model to a smaller one. Our…
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In this paper we provide an approach for deep learning that protects against adversarial examples in image classification-type networks. The approach relies on two mechanisms:1) a mechanism that increases robustness at the expense of…