## A Dynamical System Perspective for Lipschitz Neural Networks

### Laurent Meunier · Blaise Delattre · Alexandre ARAUJO · Alexandre Allauzen

##### Hall E #309

Keywords: [ DL: Robustness ]

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Wed 20 Jul 3:30 p.m. PDT — 5:30 p.m. PDT

Oral presentation: DL: Robustness
Wed 20 Jul 10:15 a.m. PDT — 11:45 a.m. PDT

Abstract: The Lipschitz constant of neural networks has been established as a key quantity to enforce the robustness to adversarial examples. In this paper, we tackle the problem of building $1$-Lipschitz Neural Networks. By studying Residual Networks from a continuous time dynamical system perspective, we provide a generic method to build $1$-Lipschitz Neural Networks and show that some previous approaches are special cases of this framework. Then, we extend this reasoning and show that ResNet flows derived from convex potentials define $1$-Lipschitz transformations, that lead us to define the {\em Convex Potential Layer} (CPL). A comprehensive set of experiments on several datasets demonstrates the scalability of our architecture and the benefits as an $\ell_2$-provable defense against adversarial examples. Our code is available at \url{https://github.com/MILES-PSL/Convex-Potential-Layer}

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