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arxiv 2002.10716 v2 pith:A6Z42HN2 submitted 2020-02-25 cs.LG stat.ML

Understanding and Mitigating the Tradeoff Between Robustness and Accuracy

classification cs.LG stat.ML
keywords errorstandardrobustadversariallinearperturbationspredictortraining
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Adversarial training augments the training set with perturbations to improve the robust error (over worst-case perturbations), but it often leads to an increase in the standard error (on unperturbed test inputs). Previous explanations for this tradeoff rely on the assumption that no predictor in the hypothesis class has low standard and robust error. In this work, we precisely characterize the effect of augmentation on the standard error in linear regression when the optimal linear predictor has zero standard and robust error. In particular, we show that the standard error could increase even when the augmented perturbations have noiseless observations from the optimal linear predictor. We then prove that the recently proposed robust self-training (RST) estimator improves robust error without sacrificing standard error for noiseless linear regression. Empirically, for neural networks, we find that RST with different adversarial training methods improves both standard and robust error for random and adversarial rotations and adversarial $\ell_\infty$ perturbations in CIFAR-10.

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