Adaptive Randomized Smoothing: Certified Adversarial Robustness for Multi-Step Defences

Abstract

We propose Adaptive Randomized Smoothing (ARS) to certify the predictions of our test-time adaptive models against adversarial examples.ARS extends the analysis of randomized smoothing using $f$-Differential Privacy to certify the adaptive composition of multiple steps.For the first time, our theory covers the sound adaptive composition of general and high-dimensional functions of noisy inputs.We instantiate ARS on deep image classification to certify predictions against adversarial examples of bounded $L_{\infty}$ norm.In the $L_{\infty}$ threat model, ARS enables flexible adaptation through high-dimensional input-dependent masking.We design adaptivity benchmarks, based on CIFAR-10 and CelebA, and show that ARS improves standard test accuracy by 1 to 15\% points.On ImageNet, ARS improves certified test accuracy by up to 1.6% points over standard RS without adaptivity. Our code is available at [https://github.com/ubc-systopia/adaptive-randomized-smoothing](https://github.com/ubc-systopia/adaptive-randomized-smoothing).