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Boosting Accuracy and Robustness of Student Models via Adaptive Adversarial Distillation
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Measured effects reported in the paper
| What was changed | Where | Measured | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| Use adaptive inner optimization to maximize student-teacher prediction discrepancy, then distill at the resulting point | ResNet-18 with WRN-34-20 teacher · CIFAR-10 | AA accuracy (%): 49.85 -> 52.96 | Helped |
| Use adaptive inner optimization to maximize student-teacher prediction discrepancy, then distill at the resulting point | ResNet-18 with WRN-34-10 teacher · CIFAR-10 | Clean accuracy (%): 84.69 -> 86.75 | Helped |
| Use adaptive inner optimization to maximize student-teacher prediction discrepancy, then distill at the resulting point | ResNet-18 with WRN-34-10 teacher · CIFAR-10 | AA accuracy (%): 48.82 -> 50.74 | Helped |
| Combine adaptive adversarial distillation with IAD | ResNet-18 · CIFAR-100 | AA accuracy (%): 27.77 -> 27.98 | Helped |
| Use AdaAD instead of the strongest reported baseline | MobileNetV2 · CIFAR-100 | Clean accuracy (%): 57.18 -> 61.44 | Helped |
| Combine adaptive adversarial distillation with IAD | MobileNetV2 · CIFAR-100 | AA accuracy (%): 24.65 -> 26.43 | Helped |
| Use adaptive adversarial distillation with transfer-based attacks | ResNet-18 · CIFAR-10, attack transferred from ResNet-34 | PGD accuracy (%): 63.20 -> 64.57 | Helped |
| Increase the inner-optimization perturbation limit from 8/255 to 32/255 (ablation) | AdaAD ResNet-18 with WRN-34-20 teacher · CIFAR-10 | AA accuracy (%): 50.06% to 52.86% | Helped |
| Increase the inner-optimization perturbation limit from 8/255 to 32/255 (ablation) | AdaAD ResNet-18 · CIFAR-10 | Clean accuracy (%) | No clear effect |
| Increase the inner-optimization perturbation limit (ablation) | PGD-AT, TRADES, ARD, IAD, RSLAD, and AKD · CIFAR-10 | Clean accuracy (%) | Hurt |
| Increase the inner-optimization perturbation limit (ablation) | PGD-AT, TRADES, ARD, IAD, RSLAD, and AKD · CIFAR-10 | AA accuracy (%) | Hurt |
| Use AdaIAD for self adversarial distillation instead of PGD-AT | ResNet-18 · CIFAR-10 self-distillation | AA accuracy (%): 47.69% to 50.19% | Helped |
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