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Query: CIFS: Improving Adversarial Robustness of CNNs via Channel-wise
  Importance-based Feature Selection   We investigate the adversarial robustness of CNNs from the perspective of
channel-wise activations. By comparing \textit{non-robust} (normally trained)
and \textit{robustified} (adversarially trained) models, we observe that
adversarial training (AT) robustifies CNNs by aligning the channel-wise
activations of adversarial data with those of their natural counterparts.
However, the channels that are \textit{negatively-relevant} (NR) to predictions
are still over-activated when processing adversarial data. Besides, we also
observe that AT does not result in similar robustness for all classes. For the
robust classes, channels with larger activation magnitudes are usually more
\textit{positively-relevant} (PR) to predictions, but this alignment does not
hold for the non-robust classes. Given these observations, we hypothesize that
suppressing NR channels and aligning PR ones with their relevances further
enhances the robustness of CNNs under AT. To examine this hypothesis, we
introduce a novel mechanism, i.e., \underline{C}hannel-wise
\underline{I}mportance-based \underline{F}eature \underline{S}election (CIFS).
The CIFS manipulates channels' activations of certain layers by generating
non-negative multipliers to these channels based on their relevances to
predictions. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets including CIFAR10 and
SVHN clearly verify the hypothesis and CIFS's effectiveness of robustifying
CNNs. \url{https://github.com/HanshuYAN/CIFS}

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