Does Saliency-Based Training bring Robustness for Deep Neural Networks
  in Image Classification?
Ali Karkehabadi
Deep Neural Networks are powerful tools to understand complex patterns and
making decisions. However, their black-box nature impedes a complete
understanding of their inner workings. While online saliency-guided training
methods try to highlight the prominent features in the model's output to
alleviate this problem, it is still ambiguous if the visually explainable
features align with robustness of the model against adversarial examples. In
this paper, we investigate the saliency trained model's vulnerability to
adversarial examples methods. Models are trained using an online
saliency-guided training method and evaluated against popular algorithms of
adversarial examples. We quantify the robustness and conclude that despite the
well-explained visualizations in the model's output, the salient models suffer
from the lower performance against adversarial examples attacks.