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Main Authors: Thorsteinsson, Hallgrimur, Henriksen, Valdemar J, Cruz, Daniel I R, Selvan, Raghavendra, Chen, Tong
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09441
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author Thorsteinsson, Hallgrimur
Henriksen, Valdemar J
Cruz, Daniel I R
Selvan, Raghavendra
Chen, Tong
author_facet Thorsteinsson, Hallgrimur
Henriksen, Valdemar J
Cruz, Daniel I R
Selvan, Raghavendra
Chen, Tong
contents As deep learning (DL) models are increasingly being integrated into our everyday lives, ensuring their safety by making them robust against adversarial attacks has become increasingly critical. DL models have been found to be susceptible to adversarial attacks by introducing small, targeted perturbations to disrupt the input data. Adversarial training has been presented as a mitigation strategy that can result in more robust models. This adversarial robustness comes with additional computational costs required to design adversarial attacks during training. The two objectives -- adversarial robustness and computational efficiency -- then appear to be in conflict with each other. In this work, we explore the effects of neural network compression on adversarial robustness. We specifically explore the effects of fine-tuning on compressed models, and present the trade-off between standard fine-tuning and adversarial fine-tuning. Our results show that adversarial fine-tuning of compressed models can yield large improvements to their robustness performance. We present experiments on several benchmark datasets showing that adversarial fine-tuning of compressed models can achieve robustness performance comparable to adversarially trained models, while also improving computational efficiency. Source code is available here: https://github.com/saintslab/Adver-Fine.
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spellingShingle An Empirical Study of the Influence of Adversarial Fine-Tuning on Compressed Neural Networks
Thorsteinsson, Hallgrimur
Henriksen, Valdemar J
Cruz, Daniel I R
Selvan, Raghavendra
Chen, Tong
Machine Learning
As deep learning (DL) models are increasingly being integrated into our everyday lives, ensuring their safety by making them robust against adversarial attacks has become increasingly critical. DL models have been found to be susceptible to adversarial attacks by introducing small, targeted perturbations to disrupt the input data. Adversarial training has been presented as a mitigation strategy that can result in more robust models. This adversarial robustness comes with additional computational costs required to design adversarial attacks during training. The two objectives -- adversarial robustness and computational efficiency -- then appear to be in conflict with each other. In this work, we explore the effects of neural network compression on adversarial robustness. We specifically explore the effects of fine-tuning on compressed models, and present the trade-off between standard fine-tuning and adversarial fine-tuning. Our results show that adversarial fine-tuning of compressed models can yield large improvements to their robustness performance. We present experiments on several benchmark datasets showing that adversarial fine-tuning of compressed models can achieve robustness performance comparable to adversarially trained models, while also improving computational efficiency. Source code is available here: https://github.com/saintslab/Adver-Fine.
title An Empirical Study of the Influence of Adversarial Fine-Tuning on Compressed Neural Networks
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09441