AutoJoin: Efficient Adversarial Training against Gradient-Free Perturbations for Ro- bust Maneuvering via Denoising Autoencoder and Joint Learning

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Primary Area: applications to robotics, autonomy, planning
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Keywords: autonomous driving, gradient-free perturbations
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Abstract: With the growing use of machine learning algorithms and ubiquitous sensors, many ‘perception-to-control’ systems are being developed and deployed. To ensure their trustworthiness, improving their robustness through ad- versarial training is one potential approach. We propose a gradient-free adversarial training technique, named AutoJoin, to effectively and effi- ciently produce robust models for image-based maneuvering. Compared to other state-of-the-art methods with testing on over 5M images, AutoJoin achieves significant performance increases up to the 40% range against perturbations while improving on clean performance up to 300%. Auto- Join is also highly efficient, saving up to 86% time per training epoch and 90% training data over other state-of-the-art techniques. The core idea of AutoJoin is to use a decoder attachment to the original regression model creating a denoising autoencoder within the architecture. This archi- tecture allows the tasks ‘maneuvering’ and ‘denoising sensor input’ to be jointly learnt and reinforce each other’s performance. The project code is at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/AutoJoin-FA13.
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