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Improving Adversarial Robustness via Mutual Information Estimation
Dawei Zhou · Nannan Wang · Xinbo Gao · Bo Han · Xiaoyu Wang · Yibing Zhan · Tongliang Liu

Wed Jul 20 10:30 AM -- 10:35 AM (PDT) @ Room 318 - 320
in DL: Robustness »

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are found to be vulnerable to adversarial noise. They are typically misled by adversarial samples to make wrong predictions. To alleviate this negative effect, in this paper, we investigate the dependence between outputs of the target model and input adversarial samples from the perspective of information theory, and propose an adversarial defense method. Specifically, we first measure the dependence by estimating the mutual information (MI) between outputs and the natural patterns of inputs (called natural MI) and MI between outputs and the adversarial patterns of inputs (called adversarial MI), respectively. We find that adversarial samples usually have larger adversarial MI and smaller natural MI compared with those w.r.t. natural samples. Motivated by this observation, we propose to enhance the adversarial robustness by maximizing the natural MI and minimizing the adversarial MI during the training process. In this way, the target model is expected to pay more attention to the natural pattern that contains objective semantics. Empirical evaluations demonstrate that our method could effectively improve the adversarial accuracy against multiple attacks.

Keywords: APP: Computer Vision · Deep Learning · DL: Robustness

Author Information

Dawei Zhou (Xidian University)
Nannan Wang (Xidian University)
Xinbo Gao (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications)
Bo Han (HKBU / RIKEN)
Xiaoyu Wang (-)
Yibing Zhan (Jingdong )
Tongliang Liu (The University of Sydney)

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