Property-driven Training: All You Ever Wanted to Know About

Neural networks are known for their ability to detect general patterns in noisy data. This makes them a popular tool for perception components in complex AI systems. Paradoxically, they are also known for being vulnerable to adversarial attacks. In response, various methods such as adversarial training, data-augmentation and Lipschitz robustness training have been proposed as means of improving their robustness. However, as this paper explores, these training methods each optimise for a different definition of robustness. We perform an in-depth comparison of these different definitions, including their relationship, assumptions, interpretability and verifiability after training. We also look at constraint-driven training, a general approach designed to encode arbitrary constraints, and show that not all of these definitions are directly encodable. Finally we perform experiments to compare the applicability and efficacy of the training methods at ensuring the network obeys these different definitions. These results highlight that even the encoding of such a simple piece of knowledge such as robustness in neural network training is fraught with difficult choices and pitfalls.