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Robust Binary Models by Pruning Randomly-initialized Networks

Liu, Chen  
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Zhao, Ziqi
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Süsstrunk, Sabine  
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October 12, 2022
Thirty-sixth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems - NeurIPS 2022

Robustness to adversarial attacks was shown to require a larger model capacity, and thus a larger memory footprint. In this paper, we introduce an approach to obtain robust yet compact models by pruning randomly-initialized binary networks. Unlike adversarial training, which learns the model parameters, we initialize the model parameters as either +1 or −1, keep them fixed, and find a subnetwork structure that is robust to attacks. Our method confirms the Strong Lottery Ticket Hypothesis in the presence of adversarial attacks, and extends this to binary networks. Furthermore, it yields more compact networks with competitive performance than existing works by 1) adaptively pruning different network layers; 2) exploiting an effective binary initialization scheme; 3) incorporating a last batch normalization layer to improve training stability. Our experiments demonstrate that our approach not only always outperforms the state-of-the-art robust binary networks, but also can achieve accuracy better than full-precision ones on some datasets. Finally, we show the structured patterns of our pruned binary networks.

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conference paper not in proceedings
Author(s)
Liu, Chen  
Zhao, Ziqi
Süsstrunk, Sabine  
Salzmann, Mathieu  
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2022-10-12

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Thirty-sixth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems - NeurIPS 2022

New Orleans, USA

November 28 - December 9, 2022

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October 12, 2022
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