Provably Robust Deep Learning via Adversarially Trained Smoothed Classifiers

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Posted by Yanghao ZHANG on July 12, 2020

Provably Robust Deep Learning via Adversarially Trained Smoothed Classifiers

Microsoft: Hadi Salman, Greg Yang, Jerry Li, Pengchuan Zhang, Huan Zhang, Ilya Razenshteyn, Sébastien Bubeck

Contribution:

  • employ adversarial training to improve the performance of randomized smoothing.
  • state-of-the-art results for l2 norm
  • a more concise proof of tight robustness guarantee by casting this as a non-linear Lipschitz property

Not a new certification method, the improvement are due to the better base classifiers as a result of adversarial training

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Author’s blog: https://decentdescent.org/smoothadv.html

Author’s video: smoothadv Code: https://github.com/Hadisalman/smoothing-adversarial