Multi-norm adversarial defense aims to protect neural networks against perturbations defined by different norm constraints, but existing methods typically optimize competing robustness objectives with...
The paper introduces Sharp Mode Connectivity (SMC), a new formulation of mode connectivity that optimizes for flatness in the entire local neighborhood of a weight-space path rather than just along the path itself. By applying a sharpness-aware approximation to a minimax objective, SMC produces low-loss curves that remain robust to distribution shifts, achieving significant accuracy gains on CIFAR‑10‑C and outperforming standard mode connectivity on several architectures.
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