Learning adversarially robust kernel ensembles with kernel average pooling

Pouya Bashivan, Reza Bayat, Adam Ibrahim, Amirozhan Dehghani, Yifei Ren

Abstract: Highlights•We introduce kernel average pooling (KAP) for learning ensembles in neural networks.•KAP leads to learning topographically organized kernel ensembles.•KAP networks develop substantial robustness against input noise.