分布偏移是神經網絡訓練與部署的過程中常見的現象，此現象的發生對於神經網路的性能有很大影響。過去的文章中分別討論了兩種分布偏移的情況，首先是神經網路權重的情況，第二種則是輸入資料上的變化，並分別提出了解決這些問題的方法。而在此論文中，我將兩種分布偏移同時進行討論，最終我們提出了兩種神經網路訓練過程的優化技術，粗糙感知更新和梯度掩蔽，通過引導神經網路的訓練過程收斂到位於損失平面較為平坦的區域，改善神經網絡的泛化能力，藉此來減輕分布偏移對神經網路所帶來的影響。最後我們也用實驗結果來證明我們方法的有效性，並且可以將我們的方法與現有的改進技巧相結合，來更進一步提高神經網路的泛化能力，並且在各個數據集中取得更好的準確率。

Distribution shift is a common phenomenon in training and deploying neural networks, which largely affects the model performance. Previous works have considered two cases of distribution shift, either on model weights or input data, and have proposed methods that separately address these issues.
We propose two optimization techniques, Roughness-Aware Update and Gradient Masking, to mitigate the effect of distribution shift by improving the network generalization, via guiding the optimization to converge to solutions located in the flatter region of loss surface.
Our experiments on the corrupted image datasets and the simulated environment with noisy weights show that, when combining our techniques with the existing leading optimization methods, we can further improve the generalization of the model solution and achieve even better performance.

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