# Dense Associative Memory Is Robust to Adversarial Inputs

@article{Krotov2018DenseAM,
title={Dense Associative Memory Is Robust to Adversarial Inputs},
author={Dmitry Krotov and John J. Hopfield},
journal={Neural Computation},
year={2018},
volume={30},
pages={3151-3167}
}
• Published 4 January 2017
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• Neural Computation
Deep neural networks (DNNs) trained in a supervised way suffer from two known problems. First, the minima of the objective function used in learning correspond to data points (also known as rubbish examples or fooling images) that lack semantic similarity with the training data. Second, a clean input can be changed by a small, and often imperceptible for human vision, perturbation so that the resulting deformed input is misclassified by the network. These findings emphasize the differences…
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