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Poster

Nash Equilibria and Pitfalls of Adversarial Training in Adversarial Robustness Games

Maria-Florina Balcan · Rattana Pukdee · Pradeep Ravikumar · Hongyang Zhang

Auditorium 1 Foyer 165

Abstract:

Adversarial training is a standard technique for training adversarially robust models. In this paper, we study adversarial training as an alternating best-response strategy in a 2-player zero-sum game. We prove that even in a simple scenario of a linear classifier and a statistical model that abstracts robust vs. non-robust features, the alternating best response strategy of such game may not converge. On the other hand, a unique pure Nash equilibrium of the game exists and is provably robust. We support our theoretical results with experiments, showing the non-convergence of adversarial training and the robustness of Nash equilibrium.

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