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Understanding Catastrophic Overfitting in Single-step Adversarial Training

AAAI 2021 · Adversarial robustness and security › Certified and empirical robustness · approach: Adversarial training refinements · 75 citations (OpenAlex)

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Measured effects reported in the paper

What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
Select the earliest misclassified checkpoint along each image's adversarial direction instead of always using the maximum perturbationSingle-step adversarial training · CIFAR10 testPGD50 accuracy (%): 0.1±0.1 -> 33.9±2.3Helped
Select the earliest misclassified checkpoint along each image's adversarial direction instead of always using the maximum perturbationSingle-step adversarial training · Tiny ImageNet testPGD50 accuracy (%): 0.0±0.0 -> 7.8±0.1Helped
Use image-specific checkpoint selection rather than a uniform epsilon schedule matched to the average perturbationFast adversarial training · CIFAR10 trainingPGD7 robustness during trainingHelped
Increase checkpoint count from 2 to 3 (ablation)Ours · CIFAR10 teststandard accuracy (%): 86.8±0.3 -> 87.7±0.8Helped
Increase checkpoint count from 3 to 4 (ablation)Ours · CIFAR10 teststandard accuracy (%): 87.7±0.8 -> 87.8±0.9No clear effect
Vary checkpoint count (ablation)Ours · CIFAR10 testPGD50 robustnessNo clear effect
Increase checkpoint count from 2 to 4 (ablation)Ours · CIFAR10training time (h): 3.5 -> 4.4Hurt
Use a cyclic rather than stepwise learning-rate schedule (ablation)Ours · CIFAR10 testPGD50 accuracy (%): 33.9±2.3 -> 37.8±0.5Mixed
Raise GradAlign regularization parameter β to 2 (ablation)GradAlign · Tiny ImageNet trainingPGD7 robustnessHurt
Vary GradAlign β from 0.2 to 0.02 (ablation)GradAlign · Tiny ImageNet trainingPGD7 robustnessNo clear effect
Increase maximum perturbation ε across the tested settings (ablation)FGSM and Fast Adv. · CIFAR10 trainingPGD7 robustnessHurt
Use the proposed checkpoint method while increasing ε (ablation)Ours · CIFAR10 trainingPGD7 robustnessHelped

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