Learning Diverse-Structured Networks for Adversarial Robustness

Xuefeng Du, Jingfeng Zhang, Bo Han*, Tongliang Liu, Yu Rong, Gang Niu*, Junzhou Huang, Masashi Sugiyama

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Abstract

In adversarial training (AT), the main focus has been the objective and optimizer while the model has been less studied, so that the models being used are still those classic ones in standard training (ST). Classic network architectures (NAs) are generally worse than searched NA in ST, which should be the same in AT. In this paper, we argue that NA and AT cannot be handled independently, since given a dataset, the optimal NA in ST would be no longer optimal in AT. That being said, AT is time-consuming itself; if we directly search NAs in AT over large search spaces, the computation will be practically infeasible. Thus, we propose diverse-structured network (DS-Net), to significantly reduce the size of the search space: instead of low-level operations, we only consider predefined atomic blocks, where an atomic block is a time-tested building block like the residual block. There are only a few atomic blocks and thus we can weight all atomic blocks rather than find the best one in a searched block of DS-Net, which is an essential tradeoff between exploring diverse structures and exploiting the best structures. Empirical results demonstrate the advantages of DS-Net, i.e., weighting the atomic blocks.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2021)
EditorsMarina Meila, Tong Zhang
PublisherML Research Press
Pages2880-2891
Number of pages12
Publication statusPublished - 18 Jul 2021
Event38th International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2021 - Virtual
Duration: 18 Jul 202124 Jul 2021
https://icml.cc/virtual/2021/index.html
https://icml.cc/Conferences/2021
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/

Publication series

NameProceedings of Machine Learning Research
Volume139
ISSN (Print)2640-3498

Conference

Conference38th International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2021
Period18/07/2124/07/21
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