Wasserstein Adversarial Robustness
| dc.contributor.author | Wu, Kaiwen | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-21T20:27:51Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-09-21T20:27:51Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-09-21 | |
| dc.date.submitted | 2020-09-16 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Deep models, while being extremely flexible and accurate, are surprisingly vulnerable to ``small, imperceptible'' perturbations known as adversarial attacks. While the majority of existing attacks focus on measuring perturbations under the $\ell_p$ metric, Wasserstein distance, which takes geometry in pixel space into account, has long been known to be a suitable metric for measuring image quality and has recently risen as a compelling alternative to the $\ell_p$ metric in adversarial attacks. However, constructing an effective attack under the Wasserstein metric is computationally much more challenging and calls for better optimization algorithms. We address this gap in two ways: (a) we develop an exact yet efficient projection operator to enable a stronger projected gradient attack; (b) we show that the Frank-Wolfe method equipped with a suitable linear minimization oracle works extremely fast under Wasserstein constraints. Our algorithms not only converge faster but also generate much stronger attacks. For instance, we decrease the accuracy of a residual network on CIFAR-10 to 3.4% within a Wasserstein perturbation ball of radius 0.005, in contrast to 65.6% using the previous Wasserstein attack based on an approximate projection operator. Furthermore, employing our stronger attacks in adversarial training significantly improves the robustness of adversarially trained models. Our algorithms are applicable to general Wasserstein constrained optimization problems in other domains beyond adversarial robustness. | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10012/16345 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.pending | false | |
| dc.publisher | University of Waterloo | en |
| dc.relation.uri | https://github.com/watml/fast-wasserstein-adversarial | en |
| dc.subject | Wasserstein distance | en |
| dc.subject | adversarial robustness | en |
| dc.subject | optimization | en |
| dc.title | Wasserstein Adversarial Robustness | en |
| dc.type | Master Thesis | en |
| uws-etd.degree | Master of Mathematics | en |
| uws-etd.degree.department | David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science | en |
| uws-etd.degree.discipline | Computer Science | en |
| uws-etd.degree.grantor | University of Waterloo | en |
| uws.contributor.advisor | Yu, Yaoliang | |
| uws.contributor.affiliation1 | Faculty of Mathematics | en |
| uws.peerReviewStatus | Unreviewed | en |
| uws.published.city | Waterloo | en |
| uws.published.country | Canada | en |
| uws.published.province | Ontario | en |
| uws.scholarLevel | Graduate | en |
| uws.typeOfResource | Text | en |
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