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High Frequency Component Helps Explain the Generalization of Convolutional Neural Networks

, , , and . (2019)cite arxiv:1905.13545.

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We investigate the relationship between the frequency spectrum of image data and the generalization behavior of convolutional neural networks (CNN). We first notice CNN's ability in capturing the high-frequency components of images. These high-frequency components are almost imperceptible to a human. Thus the observation leads to multiple hypotheses that are related to the generalization behaviors of CNN, including a potential explanation for adversarial examples, a discussion of CNN's trade-off between robustness and accuracy, and some evidence in understanding training heuristics. Our observation also immediately inspire methods related to the adversarial attack and defense methods.

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[1905.13545] High Frequency Component Helps Explain the Generalization of Convolutional Neural Networks

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