cs.AI, cs.LG

Why the Maximum Second Derivative of Activations Matters for Adversarial Robustness

arXiv:2603.23860v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This work investigates the critical role of activation function curvature — quantified by the maximum second derivative $\max|\sigma”|$ — in adversarial robustness. Using the Recursive Curvature-Tunab…