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GSmooth: Certified Robustness against Semantic Transformations via Generalized Randomized Smoothing
Zhongkai Hao · Chengyang Ying · Yinpeng Dong · Hang Su · Jian Song · Jun Zhu

Tue Jul 19 03:30 PM -- 05:30 PM (PDT) @ Hall E #409
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Certified defenses such as randomized smoothing have shown promise towards building reliable machine learning systems against $\ell_p$ norm bounded attacks. However, existing methods are insufficient or unable to provably defend against semantic transformations, especially those without closed-form expressions (such as defocus blur and pixelate), which are more common in practice and often unrestricted. To fill up this gap, we propose generalized randomized smoothing (GSmooth), a unified theoretical framework for certifying robustness against general semantic transformations via a novel dimension augmentation strategy. Under the GSmooth framework, we present a scalable algorithm that uses a surrogate image-to-image network to approximate the complex transformation. The surrogate model provides a powerful tool for studying the properties of semantic transformations and certifying robustness. Experimental results on several datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach for robustness certification against multiple kinds of semantic transformations and corruptions, which is not achievable by the alternative baselines.
Keywords: Deep Learning · DL: Robustness
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Author Information

Zhongkai Hao (Tsinghua University)
Chengyang Ying (Tsinghua University)
Yinpeng Dong (Tsinghua University)
Hang Su (Tsinghua University)
Jian Song (Tsinghua University)
Jun Zhu (Tsinghua University)

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