Poster
A Causal View on Robustness of Neural Networks
Cheng Zhang · Kun Zhang · Yingzhen Li
Poster Session 3 #805
Keywords: [ Deep Learning ] [ Memory-Augmented Neural Networks; Neu ] [ Data, Challenges, Implementations, and Software -> Virtual Environments; Deep Learning ]
We present a causal view on the robustness of neural networks against input manipulations, which applies not only to traditional classification tasks but also to general measurement data. Based on this view, we design a deep causal manipulation augmented model (deep CAMA) which explicitly models possible manipulations on certain causes leading to changes in the observed effect. We further develop data augmentation and test-time fine-tuning methods to improve deep CAMA's robustness. When compared with discriminative deep neural networks, our proposed model shows superior robustness against unseen manipulations. As a by-product, our model achieves disentangled representation which separates the representation of manipulations from those of other latent causes.