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Fast Adversarial Training With Adaptive Step Size

While adversarial training and its variants have shown to be the most effective algorithms to defend against adversarial attacks, their extremely slow training process makes it hard to scale to large datasets like ImageNet. The key idea of recent works to accelerate adversarial training is to substi...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on image processing 2023, Vol.32, p.6102-6114
Main Authors: Huang, Zhichao, Fan, Yanbo, Liu, Chen, Zhang, Weizhong, Zhang, Yong, Salzmann, Mathieu, Susstrunk, Sabine, Wang, Jue
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Summary:While adversarial training and its variants have shown to be the most effective algorithms to defend against adversarial attacks, their extremely slow training process makes it hard to scale to large datasets like ImageNet. The key idea of recent works to accelerate adversarial training is to substitute multi-step attacks (e.g., PGD) with single-step attacks (e.g., FGSM). However, these single-step methods suffer from catastrophic overfitting, where the accuracy against PGD attack suddenly drops to nearly 0% during training, and the network totally loses its robustness. In this work, we study the phenomenon from the perspective of training instances. We show that catastrophic overfitting is instance-dependent, and fitting instances with larger input gradient norm is more likely to cause catastrophic overfitting. Based on our findings, we propose a simple but effective method, Adversarial Training with Adaptive Step size (ATAS). ATAS learns an instance-wise adaptive step size that is inversely proportional to its gradient norm. Our theoretical analysis shows that ATAS converges faster than the commonly adopted non-adaptive counterparts. Empirically, ATAS consistently mitigates catastrophic overfitting and achieves higher robust accuracy on CIFAR10, CIFAR100, and ImageNet when evaluated on various adversarial budgets. Our code is released at https://github.com/HuangZhiChao95/ATAS .
ISSN:1057-7149
1941-0042
DOI:10.1109/TIP.2023.3326398