2019/03/15 by Chen Liu, Ryota Tomioka, Liu, Chen +3 · 1 citation
Computer Science · #Advanced Neural Network Applications #Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Machine Learning (stat.ML)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1903.06603
openalex publication_date 2019/03/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
This work studies the robustness certification problem of neural network models, which aims to find certified adversary-free regions as large as possible around data points. In contrast to the existing approaches that seek regions bounded uniformly along all input features, we consider non-uniform bounds and use it to study the decision boundary of neural network models. We formulate our target as an optimization problem with nonlinear constraints. Then, a framework applicable for general feedforward neural networks is proposed to bound the output logits so that the relaxed problem can be solved by the augmented Lagrangian method. Our experiments show the non-uniform bounds have larger volumes than uniform ones and the geometric similarity of the non-uniform bounds gives a quantitative, data-agnostic metric of input features' robustness. Further, compared with normal models, the robust models have even larger non-uniform bounds and better interpretability.