Calibrated Surrogate Losses for Adversarially Robust Classification

Abstract

Adversarially robust classification seeks a classifier that is insensitive to adversarial perturbations of test patterns. This problem is often formulated via a minimax objective, where the target loss is the worst-case value of the 0-1 loss subject to a bound on the size of perturbation. Recent work has proposed convex surrogates for the adversarial 0-1 loss, in an effort to make optimization more tractable. A primary question is that of consistency, that is, whether minimization of the surrogate risk implies minimization of the adversarial 0-1 risk. In this work, we analyze this question through the lens of calibration, which is a pointwise notion of consistency. We show that no convex surrogate loss is calibrated with respect to the adversarial 0-1 loss when restricted to the class of linear models. We further introduce a class of nonconvex losses and offer necessary and sufficient conditions for losses in this class to be calibrated. We also show that if the underlying distribution satisfies Massart's noise condition, convex losses can also be calibrated in the adversarial setting.

Corrigendum to the published version in COLT2020 (http://proceedings.mlr.press/v125/bao20a.html)

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