Enhancing Classifier Conservativeness and Robustness by Polynomiality
Z. Wang (TU Delft - Pattern Recognition and Bioinformatics)
Marco Loog (TU Delft - Pattern Recognition and Bioinformatics, University of Copenhagen)
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Abstract
We illustrate the detrimental effect, such as overconfident decisions, that exponential behavior can have in methods like classical LDA and logistic regression. We then show how polynomiality can remedy the situation. This, among others, leads purposefully to random-level performance in the tails, away from the bulk of the training data. A directly related, simple, yet important technical novelty we subsequently present is softRmax: a reasoned alternative to the standard softmax function employed in contemporary (deep) neural networks. It is derived through linking the standard softmax to Gaussian class-conditional models, as employed in LDA, and replacing those by a polynomial alternative. We show that two aspects of softRmax, conservativeness and inherent gradient regularization, lead to robustness against adversarial attacks without gradient obfuscation.