RAMP: Boosting Adversarial Robustness Against Multiple $l_p$
  Perturbations
Enyi Jiang Gagandeep Singh
There is considerable work on improving robustness against adversarial
attacks bounded by a single $l_p$ norm using adversarial training (AT).
However, the multiple-norm robustness (union accuracy) of AT models is still
low. We observe that simultaneously obtaining good union and clean accuracy is
hard since there are tradeoffs between robustness against multiple $l_p$
perturbations, and accuracy/robustness/efficiency. By analyzing the tradeoffs
from the lens of distribution shifts, we identify the key tradeoff pair among
$l_p$ attacks to boost efficiency and design a logit pairing loss to improve
the union accuracy. Next, we connect natural training with AT via gradient
projection, to find and incorporate useful information from natural training
into AT, which moderates the accuracy/robustness tradeoff. Combining our
contributions, we propose a framework called \textbf{RAMP}, to boost the
robustness against multiple $l_p$ perturbations. We show \textbf{RAMP} can be
easily adapted for both robust fine-tuning and full AT. For robust fine-tuning,
\textbf{RAMP} obtains a union accuracy up to $53.5\%$ on CIFAR-10, and $29.7\%$
on ImageNet. For training from scratch, \textbf{RAMP} achieves SOTA union
accuracy of $44.6\%$ and relatively good clean accuracy of $81.2\%$ on
ResNet-18 against AutoAttack on CIFAR-10.