MixTrain swMATH ID: 31370 Software Authors: Shiqi Wang, Yizheng Chen, Ahmed Abdou, Suman Jana Description: MixTrain: Scalable Training of Verifiably Robust Neural Networks. Making neural networks robust against adversarial inputs has resulted in an arms race between new defenses and attacks. The most promising defenses, adversarially robust training and verifiably robust training, have limitations that restrict their practical applications. The adversarially robust training only makes the networks robust against a subclass of attackers and we reveal such weaknesses by developing a new attack based on interval gradients. By contrast, verifiably robust training provides protection against any L-p norm-bounded attacker but incurs orders of magnitude more computational and memory overhead than adversarially robust training. We propose two novel techniques, stochastic robust approximation and dynamic mixed training, to drastically improve the efficiency of verifiably robust training without sacrificing verified robustness. We leverage two critical insights: (1) instead of over the entire training set, sound over-approximations over randomly subsampled training data points are sufficient for efficiently guiding the robust training process; and (2) We observe that the test accuracy and verifiable robustness often conflict after certain training epochs. Therefore, we use a dynamic loss function to adaptively balance them for each epoch. We designed and implemented our techniques as part of MixTrain and evaluated it on six networks trained on three popular datasets including MNIST, CIFAR, and ImageNet-200. Our evaluations show that MixTrain can achieve up to 95.2 Homepage: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.02625 Source Code: https://github.com/tcwangshiqi-columbia/Interval-Attack Keywords: Machine Learning; arXiv_cs.LG; Cryptography and Security; arXiv_cs.CR; arXiv_stat.ML; Scalable Training; Robust Neural Networks Related Software: SkipNet; Adam; Marabou; Reluplex; TensorFlow; PaRoT Cited in: 0 Publications