Adversarial Defense Via Local Flatness Regularization

Autor: Jia Xu, Yiming Li, Yong Jiang, Shu-Tao Xia
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: ICIP
DOI: 10.1109/icip40778.2020.9191346
Popis: Adversarial defense is a popular and important research area. Due to its intrinsic mechanism, one of the most straightforward and effective ways of defending attacks is to analyze the property of loss surface in the input space. In this paper, we define the local flatness of the loss surface as the maximum value of the chosen norm of the gradient regarding to the input within a neighborhood centered on the benign sample, and discuss the relationship between the local flatness and adversarial vulnerability. Based on the analysis, we propose a novel defense approach via regularizing the local flatness, dubbed local flatness regularization (LFR). We also demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method from other perspectives, such as human visual mechanism, and analyze the relationship between LFR and other related methods theoretically. Experiments are conducted to verify our theory and demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method.
Accepted by the ICIP 2020. The first two authors contributed equally to this work
Databáze: OpenAIRE