siddhi-lipare / CausalAdv

Code for 'CausalAdv: Adversarial Robustness Through the Lens of Causality'

CausalAdv:Adversarial Robustness through the lens of causality

Link to the Paper: Arxiv

Deep Neural Networks, though seemingly accurate, can be easily fooled by small, intentional changes in the input data called adversarial attacks.This highlights the need for robust models that maintain accuracy even under such attacks. Thus, the paper attempts to train the model on such adversarial examples in order to become resistant/robust against such manipulations in the data.

• Tried running the code locally, added reqs and a README file as well.

Prerequisites

• Python 3.10
• GPU
• Install necessary packages using pip install -r requirements.txt

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• Run the Following command:

python causaladv_utils.py

and

python causaladv.py

• Initially, comment out lines 214-250 in causaladv.py, and uncomment line 213 (run the model from scratch) to obtain cifar10-adam_13-best.pth.
• After model is trained, comment out line 213 and uncomment lines 214-250 to check model robustness.
• In case of a CPU machine, run on Google Colab with runtime type: T4 GPU