# Towards Adversarial Robustness of Model-Level Mixture-of-Experts Architectures for Semantic Segmentation Source: [Towards Adversarial Robustness of Model-Level Mixture-of-Experts Architectures for Semantic Segmentation]() Collection index: [llms.txt]() Data updated: 2025-10-26T03:50:30.323Z Authors: Svetlana Pavlitska, Enrico Eisen, J. Marius Z\\"ollner Published: 2024-12-16T09:49:59.000Z ## Abstract Vulnerability to adversarial attacks is a well-known deficiency of deep neural networks. Larger networks are generally more robust, and ensembling is one method to increase adversarial robustness: each model's weaknesses are compensated by the strengths of others. While an ensemble uses a deterministic rule to combine model outputs, a mixture of experts (MoE) includes an additional learnable gating component that predicts weights for the outputs of the expert models, thus determining their contributions to the final prediction. MoEs have been shown to outperform ensembles on specific tasks, yet their susceptibility to adversarial attacks has not been studied yet. In this work, we evaluate the adversarial vulnerability of MoEs for semantic segmentation of urban and highway traffic scenes. We show that MoEs are, in most cases, more robust to per-instance and universal white-box adversarial attacks and can better withstand transfer attacks. Our code is available at \\url{https://github.com/KASTEL-MobilityLab/mixtures-of-experts/}. ## Recorded benchmark results A research result applies to its stated dataset, split, metric and evaluation configuration. Compare like-for-like settings, preserve the metric's unit and direction, and distinguish paper-reported results from independent reproduction. The best result recorded here is not a claim of exhaustive, current global coverage. ## Original sources and implementation [Original paper]() [PDF]()