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Fixing Data Augmentation to Improve Adversarial Robustness
Sylvestre-Alvise Rebuffi, Sven Gowal, Dan A. Calian, Florian Stimberg, Olivia Wiles, Timothy Mann
Adversarial training suffers from robust overfitting, a phenomenon where the robust test accuracy starts to decrease during training. In this paper, we focus on both heuristics-driven and data-driven augmentations as a means to reduce robust overfitting. First, we demonstrate that, contrary to previous findings, when combined with model weight averaging, data augmentation can significantly boost robust accuracy. Second, we explore how state-of-the-art generative models can be leveraged to artificially increase the size of the training set and further improve adversarial robustness. Finally, we evaluate our approach on CIFAR-10 against ℓ_∞ and ℓ₂ norm-bounded perturbations of size ϵ= 8/255 and ϵ= 128/255, respectively. We show large absolute improvements of +7.06% and +5.88% in robust accuracy compared to previous state-of-the-art methods. In particular, against ℓ_∞ norm-bounded perturbations of size ϵ= 8/255, our model reaches 64.20% robust accuracy without using any external data, beating most prior works that use external data.
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