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Why is it called ‘robustness’?
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Well, robustness is the property of something that can withstand a lot of stress and not break. Robustness is a very important concept in AI. In the context of my research, robustness is a measure of how well I can generalize from one example to another. For example, I might be trained on a bunch of examples of a cat, and then asked to recognize a dog. If I am not robust, I might not recognize the dog because the features that I learned from the cat examples are not useful for recognizing dogs.