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Towards Certifying L-infinity Robustness using Neural Networks with L-inf-dist Neurons
Bohang Zhang · Tianle Cai · Zhou Lu · Di He · Liwei Wang

Thu Jul 22 07:25 PM -- 07:30 PM (PDT) @
in Adversarial Learning 4 »
It is well-known that standard neural networks, even with a high classification accuracy, are vulnerable to small $\ell_\infty$-norm bounded adversarial perturbations. Although many attempts have been made, most previous works either can only provide empirical verification of the defense to a particular attack method, or can only develop a certified guarantee of the model robustness in limited scenarios. In this paper, we seek for a new approach to develop a theoretically principled neural network that inherently resists $\ell_\infty$ perturbations. In particular, we design a novel neuron that uses $\ell_\infty$-distance as its basic operation (which we call $\ell_\infty$-dist neuron), and show that any neural network constructed with $\ell_\infty$-dist neurons (called $\ell_{\infty}$-dist net) is naturally a 1-Lipschitz function with respect to $\ell_\infty$-norm. This directly provides a rigorous guarantee of the certified robustness based on the margin of prediction outputs. We then prove that such networks have enough expressive power to approximate any 1-Lipschitz function with robust generalization guarantee. We further provide a holistic training strategy that can greatly alleviate optimization difficulties. Experimental results show that using $\ell_{\infty}$-dist nets as basic building blocks, we consistently achieve state-of-the-art performance on commonly used datasets: 93.09\% certified accuracy on MNIST ($\epsilon=0.3$), 35.42\% on CIFAR-10 ($\epsilon=8/255$) and 16.31\% on TinyImageNet ($\epsilon=1/255$).
Keywords: Adversarial Examples · Algorithms

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Bohang Zhang (Peking University)
Tianle Cai (Princeton University)
Zhou Lu (Princeton University)
Di He (Microsoft Research)
Liwei Wang (Peking University)

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