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Poster

Non-vacuous Generalization Bounds for Adversarial Risk in Stochastic Neural Networks

Waleed Mustafa · Philipp Liznerski · Antoine Ledent · Dennis Wagner · Puyu Wang · Marius Kloft

Multipurpose Room 1 - Number 85

Abstract: Adversarial examples are manipulated samples used to deceive machine learning models, posing a serious threat in safety-critical applications. Existing safety certificates for machine learning models are limited to individual input examples, failing to capture generalization to unseen data. To address this limitation, we propose novel generalization bounds based on the PAC-Bayesian and randomized smoothing frameworks, providing certificates that predict the model's performance and robustness on unseen test samples based solely on the training data. We present an effective procedure to train and compute the first non-vacuous generalization bounds for neural networks in adversarial settings. Experimental results on the widely recognized MNIST and CIFAR-10 datasets demonstrate the efficacy of our approach, yielding the first robust risk certificates for stochastic convolutional neural networks under the $L_2$ threat model. Our method offers valuable tools for evaluating model susceptibility to real-world adversarial risks.

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