Generating Less Certain Adversarial Examples Improves Robust Generalization

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.04539v4
• Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 06:42:51 GMT
• Title: Generating Less Certain Adversarial Examples Improves Robust Generalization
• Authors: Minxing Zhang, Michael Backes, Xiao Zhang,
• Abstract summary: This paper revisits the robust overfitting phenomenon of adversarial training. We argue that overconfidence in predicting adversarial examples is a potential cause. We propose a formal definition of adversarial certainty that captures the variance of the model's predicted logits on adversarial examples.
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• Abstract: This paper revisits the robust overfitting phenomenon of adversarial training. Observing that models with better robust generalization performance are less certain in predicting adversarially generated training inputs, we argue that overconfidence in predicting adversarial examples is a potential cause. Therefore, we hypothesize that generating less certain adversarial examples improves robust generalization, and propose a formal definition of adversarial certainty that captures the variance of the model's predicted logits on adversarial examples. Our theoretical analysis of synthetic distributions characterizes the connection between adversarial certainty and robust generalization. Accordingly, built upon the notion of adversarial certainty, we develop a general method to search for models that can generate training-time adversarial inputs with reduced certainty, while maintaining the model's capability in distinguishing adversarial examples. Extensive experiments on image benchmarks demonstrate that our method effectively learns models with consistently improved robustness and mitigates robust overfitting, confirming the importance of generating less certain adversarial examples for robust generalization. Our implementations are available as open-source code at: https://github.com/TrustMLRG/AdvCertainty.

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