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Task: security-adversarial-training

Adversarial Training for Model Robustness

Research Question

How to design better adversarial training methods to enhance model robustness against L_inf adversarial attacks?

Background

Adversarial training is the most effective approach for improving neural network robustness against adversarial examples. The standard method (Madry et al., 2018) trains on PGD-generated adversarial examples using cross-entropy loss, but suffers from a trade-off between clean accuracy and robust accuracy. Advanced methods like TRADES and MART address this through different loss formulations that decouple the robustness objective from clean classification.

Task

Implement a novel adversarial training method in bench/custom_adv_train.py by modifying the AdversarialTrainer class. Your method should improve robust accuracy against white-box L_inf attacks while maintaining reasonable clean accuracy.

Interface

You must implement the AdversarialTrainer class with two methods:

  • __init__(self, model, eps, alpha, attack_steps, num_classes, **kwargs): Initialize your trainer.

    • model: The neural network to train (nn.Module).
    • eps: L_inf perturbation budget (0.3 for MNIST, 8/255 for CIFAR).
    • alpha: Step size for inner PGD attack.
    • attack_steps: Number of PGD steps for adversarial example generation.
    • num_classes: Number of output classes (10 or 100).
  • train_step(self, images, labels, optimizer) -> dict: Perform one training step.

    • images: Clean images, shape (N, C, H, W), values in [0, 1].
    • labels: Ground truth labels, shape (N,).
    • optimizer: SGD optimizer (lr, momentum, weight_decay already configured).
    • Returns: dict with at least 'loss' key (float).

The training loop, learning rate schedule (cosine annealing), model architecture, and data loading are handled externally. You only control the adversarial training procedure within each step.

Evaluation

After training, models are evaluated on:

  • Clean accuracy: Accuracy on unperturbed test images.
  • Robust accuracy (FGSM): Accuracy under 1-step FGSM attack.
  • Robust accuracy (PGD-50): Accuracy under 50-step PGD attack (primary metric).

Four scenarios (model + dataset):

  • SmallCNN on MNIST (eps = 0.3)
  • PreActResNet-18 on CIFAR-10 (eps = 8/255)
  • VGG-11-BN on CIFAR-10 (eps = 8/255)
  • PreActResNet-18 on CIFAR-100 (eps = 8/255)

Higher robust accuracy (PGD-50) across all scenarios is better.

Baselines

  • standard: Vanilla training (no adversarial examples). High clean accuracy, ~0% robust accuracy.
  • pgdat: PGD Adversarial Training (Madry et al., 2018). Trains on PGD adversarial examples with CE loss.
  • trades: TRADES (Zhang et al., 2019). Balances clean and robust accuracy via KL divergence regularization.
  • mart: MART (Wang et al., 2020). Misclassification-aware regularization that focuses on hard examples.
  • awp: AWP + TRADES (Wu et al., 2020). Adversarial weight perturbation
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    10  class AdversarialTrainer:
    11      """Confidence-adaptive rival-aware adversarial training with AWP."""
    12  
    13      def __init__(self, model, eps, alpha, attack_steps, num_classes, **kwargs):
    14          import copy
    15          self.model = model
    16          self.eps = eps
    17          self.alpha = alpha
    18          self.attack_steps = attack_steps
    19          self.num_classes = num_classes
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## Seed 42

### SmallCNN-MNIST (scripts/SmallCNN_MNIST.sh)
Training progress (SmallCNN-MNIST):
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=1 loss=3.9368 lr=0.009961
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=10 loss=1.3749 lr=0.006545
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=20 loss=0.9697 lr=0.000955
Results (SmallCNN-MNIST): clean_acc=0.9888, robust_acc_fgsm=0.9678, robust_acc_pgd=0.9426

### PreActResNet18-C10 (scripts/PreActResNet18_C10.sh)
Training progress (PreActResNet18-C10):
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=40 loss=2.7579 lr=0.050000
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=50 loss=2.6728 lr=0.030866
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=60 loss=2.5496 lr=0.014645
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=70 loss=2.4414 lr=0.003806
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=80 loss=2.3670 lr=0.000000
Results (PreActResNet18-C10): clean_acc=0.8649, robust_acc_fgsm=0.5826, robust_acc_pgd=0.4957


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### SmallCNN-MNIST (scripts/SmallCNN_MNIST.sh)
Training progress (SmallCNN-MNIST):
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=1 loss=3.7285 lr=0.009961
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=10 loss=1.3401
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true_logit)\n\n    def _robust_loss(self, logits_clean, logits_adv, labels):\n        nat_probs, conf, rival = self._nat_stats(logits_clean, labels)\n        hardness = 1.0 - conf\n        kl = self._kl_per(logits_adv, nat_probs)\n        margin = self._margin_per(logits_adv, labels, rival)\n        ce_adv = F.cross_entropy(logits_adv, labels, reduction='none')\n        loss_clean = F.cross_entropy(logits_clean, labels)\n        loss_robust = self.beta * (kl + self.margin_weight * hardness * margin).mean()\n        loss_hard = self.outer_ce * (hardness * ce_adv).mean()\n        return loss_clean + loss_robust + loss_hard\n\n    def _make_adv(self, images, labels, logits_clean):\n        nat_probs, conf, rival = self._nat_stats(logits_clean, labels)\n        hardness = 1.0 - conf\n        adv = images.detach() + torch.empty_like(images).uniform_(-self.eps, self.eps)\n        adv = adv.clamp(0.0, 1.0)\n        mom = torch.zeros_like(adv)\n        self.model.eval()\n        for _ in range(self.attack_steps):\n            adv.requires_grad_(True)\n            logits_adv = self.model(adv)\n            kl = self._kl_per(logits_adv, nat_probs)\n            ce = F.cross_entropy(logits_adv, labels, reduction='none')\n            margin = self._margin_per(logits_adv, labels, rival)\n            loss = (kl + self.attack_ce * hardness * ce + self.attack_margin * hardness * margin).mean()\n            grad = torch.autograd.grad(loss, adv)[0]\n            grad = grad / (grad.abs().mean(dim=(1, 2, 3), keepdim=True) + 1e-12)\n            mom = self.momentum * mom + grad\n            adv = adv.detach() + self.alpha * mom.sign()\n            delta = torch.clamp(adv - 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     7| # ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
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    10  class AdversarialTrainer:
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    13      def __init__(self, model, eps, alpha, attack_steps, num_classes, **kwargs):
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### SmallCNN-MNIST (scripts/SmallCNN_MNIST.sh)
Training progress (SmallCNN-MNIST):
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=1 loss=3.2572 lr=0.009961
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=10 loss=0.6001 lr=0.006545
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=20 loss=0.4649 lr=0.000955
Results (SmallCNN-MNIST): clean_acc=0.9879, robust_acc_fgsm=0.9679, robust_acc_pgd=0.9424

### PreActResNet18-C10 (scripts/PreActResNet18_C10.sh)
Training progress (PreActResNet18-C10):
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=40 loss=2.9358 lr=0.050000
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=50 loss=2.8351 lr=0.030866
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=60 loss=2.7198 lr=0.014645
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=70 loss=2.5841 lr=0.003806
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=80 loss=2.4958 lr=0.000000
Results (PreActResNet18-C10): clean_acc=0.8594, robust_acc_fgsm=0.5884, robust_acc_pgd=0.5075

[Leaderboard] Results saved: {'clean_acc_SmallCNN_MNIST': 0.9879, 'robust_acc_fgsm_SmallCNN_MNIST': 0.9679, 'robust_acc_pgd_SmallCNN_MNIST': 0.9424, 'elapsed_SmallCNN-MNIST': 676, 'clean_acc_
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### SmallCNN-MNIST (scripts/SmallCNN_MNIST.sh)
Training progress (SmallCNN-MNIST):
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=1 loss=3.2572 lr=0.009961
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=10 loss=0.6001 lr=0.006545
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=20 loss=0.4649 lr=0.000955
Results (SmallCNN-MNIST): clean_acc=0.9879, robust_acc_fgsm=0.9679, robust_acc_pgd=0.9424

### PreActResNet18-C10 (scripts/PreActResNet18_C10.sh)
Training progress (PreActResNet18-C10):
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=40 loss=2.9358 lr=0.050000
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=50 loss=2.8351 lr=0.030866
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=60 loss=2.7198 lr=0.014645
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=70 loss=2.5841 lr=0.003806
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=80 loss=2.4958 lr=0.000000
Results (PreActResNet18-C10): clean_acc=0.8594, robust_acc_fgsm=0.5884, robust_acc_pgd=0.5075

### PreActResNet18-C100 (scripts/PreActResNet18_C100.sh)
Training progress (PreActResNet18-C100):
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=40 loss=7.0003 lr=0.050000
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=50 loss=6.6937 lr=0.030866
TRAIN_METRICS epoc
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     7| # ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
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    10  class AdversarialTrainer:
    11      """Confidence-interpolated adversarial training with margin-aware PGD."""
    12  
    13      def __init__(self, model, eps, alpha, attack_steps, num_classes, **kwargs):
    14          self.model = model
    15          self.eps = eps
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[Test #1] (2 tests remaining; call submit(n=1) to submit this result)


## Seed 42

### SmallCNN-MNIST (scripts/SmallCNN_MNIST.sh)
Training progress (SmallCNN-MNIST):
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=1 loss=2.5046 lr=0.009961
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=10 loss=1.0427 lr=0.006545
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=20 loss=0.3657 lr=0.000955
Results (SmallCNN-MNIST): clean_acc=0.9920, robust_acc_fgsm=0.9640, robust_acc_pgd=0.9348

### PreActResNet18-C10 (scripts/PreActResNet18_C10.sh)
Training progress (PreActResNet18-C10):
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=40 loss=12.3032 lr=0.050000
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=50 loss=11.0394 lr=0.030866
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=60 loss=9.1577 lr=0.014645
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=70 loss=6.4921 lr=0.003806
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=80 loss=4.5936 lr=0.000000
Results (PreActResNet18-C10): clean_acc=0.8507, robust_acc_fgsm=0.5529, robust_acc_pgd=0.4516


## Seed 123

### SmallCNN-MNIST (scripts/SmallCNN_MNIST.sh)
Training progress (SmallCNN-MNIST):
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=1 loss=2.2061 lr=0.009961
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=10 loss=0.96
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3  "filename": "torchattacks/bench/custom_adv_train.py",
4  "content": "class AdversarialTrainer:\n    \"\"\"Hardness-adaptive AWP-TRADES with margin-aware inner maximization.\"\"\"\n\n    def __init__(self, model, eps, alpha, attack_steps, num_classes, **kwargs):\n        import copy\n        self.model, self.eps, self.alpha = model, eps, alpha\n        self.attack_steps, self.num_classes = attack_steps, num_classes\n        self.beta = 6.0 if num_classes <= 10 else 5.0\n        self.hard_w, self.margin_w, self.awp_gamma, self.step = 1.0, 0.2, 0.005, 0\n        self.proxy = copy.deepcopy(model)\n        self.proxy_optim = torch.optim.SGD(self.proxy.parameters(), lr=0.01)\n\n    def _loss_terms(self, logits_clean, logits_adv, labels):\n        probs = F.softmax(logits_clean, dim=1)\n        p_true = probs.gather(1, labels[:, None]).squeeze(1).detach()\n        weight = 1.0 + self.hard_w * (1.0 - p_true)\n        loss_nat = F.cross_entropy(logits_clean, labels)\n        loss_rob = F.kl_div(F.log_softmax(logits_adv, dim=1), probs.detach(), reduction='none').sum(1)\n        return loss_nat, (weight * loss_rob).mean()\n\n    def _attack(self, images, labels):\n        self.model.eval()\n        with torch.no_grad():\n            clean_probs = F.softmax(self.model(images), dim=1)\n        adv = (images.detach() + torch.empty_like(images).uniform_(-self.eps, self.eps)).clamp(0.0, 1.0)\n        mask = F.one_hot(labels, self.num_classes).bool()\n        for _ in range(self.attack_steps):\n            adv.requires_grad_(True)\n            logits_adv = self.model(adv)\n            true_logit = logits_adv.gather(1, labels[:, None]).squeeze(1)\n            other_logit = logits_adv.masked_fill(mask, -1e9).max(1)[0]\n            loss = F.kl_div(F.log_softmax(logits_adv, dim=1), clean_probs, reduction='batchmean')\n            loss = loss + self.margin_w * (other_logit - true_logit).mean()\n            grad = torch.autograd.grad(loss, adv)[0]\n            adv = adv.detach() + self.alpha * grad.sign()\n            adv = (images + (adv - images).clamp(-self.eps, self.eps)).clamp(0.0, 1.0).detach()\n        return adv\n\n    def _calc_awp(self, images, adv_images, labels, scale):\n        if scale <= 0.0:\n            return {}\n        self.proxy.load_state_dict(self.model.state_dict())\n        self.proxy.train()\n        loss_nat, loss_rob = self._loss_terms(self.proxy(images), self.proxy(adv_images), labels)\n        loss = -(loss_nat + self.beta * loss_rob)\n        self.proxy_optim.zero_grad(); loss.backward(); self.proxy_optim.step()\n        diff = {}\n        for (name, param), (_, proxy_param) in zip(self.model.named_parameters(), self.proxy.named_parameters()):\n            if param.ndim > 1:\n                delta = proxy_param.data - param.data\n                diff[name] = scale * param.data.norm() / (delta.norm() + 1e-12) * delta\n        return diff\n\n    def _perturb(self, diff):\n        for name, param in self.model.named_parameters():\n            if name in diff: param.data.add_(diff[name])\n\n    def _restore(self, diff):\n        for name, param in self.model.named_parameters():\n            if name in diff: param.data.sub_(diff[name])\n\n    def train_step(self, images, labels, optimizer):\n        self.step += 1\n        adv_images = self._attack(images, labels)\n        diff = self._calc_awp(images, adv_images, labels, self.awp_gamma * min(1.0, self.step / 1000.0))\n        self._perturb(diff)\n        self.model.train()\n        loss_nat, loss_rob = self._loss_terms(self.model(images), self.model(adv_images), labels)\n        loss = loss_nat + self.beta * loss_rob\n        optimizer.zero_grad(); loss.backward(); self._restore(diff); optimizer.step()\n        return {'loss': loss.item()}",
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[Current file: torchattacks/bench/custom_adv_train.py | editable: 10–80 | total: 83 lines]
     7| # ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
     8| # EDITABLE — implement AdversarialTrainer below
     9| # ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
    10  class AdversarialTrainer:
    11      """Hardness-adaptive AWP-TRADES with margin-aware inner maximization."""
    12  
    13      def __init__(self, model, eps, alpha, attack_steps, num_classes, **kwargs):
    14          import copy
    15          self.model, self.eps, self.alpha = model, eps, alpha
    16          self.attack_steps, self.num_classes = attack_steps, num_classes
    17          self.beta = 6.0 if num_classes <= 10 else 5.0
    18          self.hard_w, self.margin_w, self.awp_gamma, self.step = 1.0, 0.2, 0.005, 0
    19          self.proxy = copy.deepcopy
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Tool ResultStep 4
[Test #2] (1 test remaining; call submit(n=2) to submit this result)

### SmallCNN-MNIST (scripts/SmallCNN_MNIST.sh)
Training progress (SmallCNN-MNIST):
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=1 loss=2.5601 lr=0.009961
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=10 loss=0.6109 lr=0.006545
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=20 loss=0.4418 lr=0.000955
Results (SmallCNN-MNIST): clean_acc=0.9898, robust_acc_fgsm=0.9688, robust_acc_pgd=0.9434

### PreActResNet18-C10 (scripts/PreActResNet18_C10.sh)
Training progress (PreActResNet18-C10):
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=40 loss=2.1916 lr=0.050000
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=50 loss=2.3157 lr=0.030866
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=60 loss=2.4066 lr=0.014645
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=70 loss=2.4992 lr=0.003806
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=80 loss=2.4786 lr=0.000000
Results (PreActResNet18-C10): clean_acc=0.8615, robust_acc_fgsm=0.5825, robust_acc_pgd=0.5125

[Leaderboard] Results saved: {'clean_acc_SmallCNN_MNIST': 0.9898, 'robust_acc_fgsm_SmallCNN_MNIST': 0.9688, 'robust_acc_pgd_SmallCNN_MNIST': 0.9434, 'elapsed_SmallCNN-MNIST': 632, 'clean_acc_
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Tool Input
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