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Task: security-poison-robust-learning

Poison-Robust Learning under Fixed Label Poisoning

Research Question

How can we design a stronger loss function or sample-weighting rule that improves robustness to poisoned training labels without changing the model, optimizer, or data pipeline?

Background

A small fraction of poisoned labels can disproportionately distort model decision boundaries. Robust learning methods typically modify the objective to downweight suspicious samples or reduce memorization of corrupted targets.

Task

Implement a better poison-robust objective in bench/poison/custom_robust_loss.py. The fixed harness injects label corruption into the training set, trains with your loss, and evaluates on a clean test set.

Your method should improve clean test accuracy under poisoning while keeping the training procedure modular and transferable across datasets.

Editable Interface

You must implement:

class RobustLoss:
    def compute_loss(self, logits, labels, epoch):
        ...

logits: current minibatch model outputs
labels: possibly poisoned labels
epoch: current training epoch
Return value: scalar loss tensor

The corruption process, model, optimizer, and training schedule are fixed.

Evaluation

Benchmarks:

fmnist-labelflip
cifar10-labelflip
cifar100-labelflip

Reported metrics:

test_acc
poison_fit
robust_score

Primary metric: robust_score (higher is better).

Baselines

cross_entropy: standard ERM on poisoned labels
generalized_ce: generalized cross-entropy for noisy labels
symmetric_ce: CE plus reverse-CE penalty
bootstrap: target interpolation with model predictions

pytorch-vision/bench/poison/custom_robust_loss.py [EDITABLE — entire file only]

     1: """Editable poison-robust loss for MLS-Bench."""
     2: 
     3: import torch
     4: import torch.nn.functional as F
     5: 
     6: # ============================================================
     7: # EDITABLE
     8: # ============================================================
     9: class RobustLoss:
    10:     """Default cross-entropy objective."""
    11: 
    12:     def __init__(self):
    13:         self.q = 0.7
    14: 
    15:     def compute_loss(self, logits, labels, epoch):
    16:         return F.cross_entropy(logits, labels)
    17: # ============================================================
    18: # END EDITABLE
    19: # ============================================================

cross_entropy baseline — editable region [READ-ONLY — reference implementation]

     1: """Editable poison-robust loss for MLS-Bench."""
     2: 
     3: import torch
     4: import torch.nn.functional as F
     5: 
     6: # ============================================================
     7: # EDITABLE
     8: class RobustLoss:
     9:     """Standard cross-entropy on poisoned labels."""
    10: 
    11:     def __init__(self):
    12:

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     1  """Editable poison-robust loss for MLS-Bench."""
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     3  import torch
     4  import torch.nn.functional as F
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     6  # ============================================================
     7  # EDITABLE
     8  # ============================================================
     9  class RobustLoss:
    10      """Tempered channel-posterior loss for cyclic label flips.
    11  
    12      The benchmark flips a poisoned label by `(y_true + 1) % C`, so for an
    13      observed label `y` the clean label can only plausibly be either:
    14        1) `y`   (sample is clean), or
    15        2) `y-1` (sample was poisoned).
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    17      We form a detached posterior over these two latent clean-label candidates
    18      using the mode

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     1  """Editable poison-robust loss for MLS-Bench."""
     2  
     3  import torch
     4  import torch.nn.functional as F
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     6  # ============================================================
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     8  # ============================================================
     9  class RobustLoss:
    10      """Confidence-gated correction for deterministic label flips.
    11  
    12      The benchmark corrupts labels as ``y_obs = (y_true + 1) % C``. For an
    13      observed label ``y``, the only single-step correction candidate is therefore
    14      ``y_prev = (y - 1) % C``.
    15  
    16      This loss uses the model's *detached* predictions to estimate a soft poison
    17      probability and then trains against the correspond

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### resnet20-cifar10-labelflip (scripts/resnet20_cifar10_labelflip.sh)
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=1 loss=1.7657 train_acc=35.30 lr=0.099975
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=10 loss=0.9468 train_acc=71.37 lr=0.097553
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=20 loss=0.7412 train_acc=74.30 lr=0.090451
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=30 loss=0.5382 train_acc=75.93 lr=0.079389
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=40 loss=0.4373 train_acc=77.01 lr=0.065451
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=50 loss=0.4058 train_acc=78.64 lr=0.050000
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=60 loss=0.3705 train_acc=80.17 lr=0.034549
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=70 loss=0.3256 train_acc=82.58 lr=0.020611
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=80 loss=0.2711 train_acc=85.20 lr=0.009549
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=90 loss=0.2211 train_acc=87.71 lr=0.002447
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=100 loss=0.2028 train_acc=88.60 lr=0.000000
resnet20-cifar10-labelflip: test_acc=0.9192, poison_fit=0.0308, robust_score=0.9442

### vgg16bn-cifar100-labelflip (scripts/vgg16bn_cifar100_labelflip.sh)
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     1  """Editable poison-robust loss for MLS-Bench."""
     2  
     3  import torch
     4  import torch.nn.functional as F
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     6  # ============================================================
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     8  # ============================================================
     9  class RobustLoss:
    10      """Confidence-gated correction for deterministic label flips.
    11  
    12      The benchmark corrupts labels as ``y_obs = (y_true + 1) % C``. For an
    13      observed label ``y``, the only single-step correction candidate is therefore
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    16      This loss uses the model's *detached* predictions to estimate a soft poison
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### resnet20-cifar10-labelflip (scripts/resnet20_cifar10_labelflip.sh)
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=1 loss=1.7657 train_acc=35.30 lr=0.099975
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=10 loss=0.9464 train_acc=71.27 lr=0.097553
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=20 loss=0.7431 train_acc=74.35 lr=0.090451
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=30 loss=0.5354 train_acc=76.14 lr=0.079389
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=40 loss=0.4391 train_acc=77.06 lr=0.065451
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=50 loss=0.4055 train_acc=78.54 lr=0.050000
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=60 loss=0.3675 train_acc=80.45 lr=0.034549
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=70 loss=0.3234 train_acc=82.58 lr=0.020611
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=80 loss=0.2723 train_acc=85.02 lr=0.009549
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=90 loss=0.2209 train_acc=87.66 lr=0.002447
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=100 loss=0.2037 train_acc=88.53 lr=0.000000
resnet20-cifar10-labelflip: test_acc=0.9158, poison_fit=0.0282, robust_score=0.9438

### vgg16bn-cifar100-labelflip (scripts/vgg16bn_cifar100_labelflip.sh)
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### resnet20-cifar10-labelflip (scripts/resnet20_cifar10_labelflip.sh)
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=1 loss=1.7657 train_acc=35.30 lr=0.099975
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=10 loss=0.9464 train_acc=71.27 lr=0.097553
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=20 loss=0.7431 train_acc=74.35 lr=0.090451
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=30 loss=0.5354 train_acc=76.14 lr=0.079389
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=40 loss=0.4391 train_acc=77.06 lr=0.065451
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=50 loss=0.4055 train_acc=78.54 lr=0.050000
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=60 loss=0.3675 train_acc=80.45 lr=0.034549
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=70 loss=0.3234 train_acc=82.58 lr=0.020611
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=80 loss=0.2723 train_acc=85.02 lr=0.009549
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=90 loss=0.2209 train_acc=87.66 lr=0.002447
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=100 loss=0.2037 train_acc=88.53 lr=0.000000
resnet20-cifar10-labelflip: test_acc=0.9158, poison_fit=0.0282, robust_score=0.9438

### vgg16bn-cifar100-labelflip (scripts/vgg16bn_cifar100_labelflip.sh)
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=1 loss=4.