CALIBRATING UNCERTAINTY FOR ZERO-SHOT ADVERSARIAL CLIP
Revolutionizing AI Reliability: Calibrated Uncertainty for CLIP
In this seminal work, we address a critical flaw in Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) models: their vulnerability to adversarial attacks. Unlike conventional understanding, adversarial perturbations often *decrease* predictive uncertainty in CLIP, leading to dangerously overconfident and miscalibrated predictions. Our groundbreaking Uncertainty-Calibrated Adversarial fine-Tuning (UCAT) framework redefines CLIP logits as Dirichlet distribution parameters. This enables a unified representation that not only preserves the crucial semantic structure but also actively calibrates predictive confidence under adversarial conditions. UCAT demonstrates superior zero-shot adversarial robustness and restores reliable uncertainty estimation across diverse datasets, setting a new standard for trustworthy AI in open-world scenarios.
Key Impact Metrics
UCAT delivers quantifiable improvements in adversarial robustness and predictive reliability across critical benchmarks.
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Calibrated Robustness (H-score)
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Clean Accuracy Maintained
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Multi-label F1-Score (Under Attack)
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Critical Reliability Gap Identified
A surprising finding: adversarial inputs often *reduce* CLIP's predictive uncertainty, leading to dangerously overconfident misclassifications. UCAT directly addresses this reliability gap by restoring calibrated uncertainty, ensuring the model's confidence accurately reflects its performance even under attack. This is a critical step towards truly trustworthy AI systems in unpredictable environments.
40.39% Calibrated Robustness Achieved (H-score)Enterprise Process Flow
Reparameterize CLIP Logits
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Derive Dirichlet Concentration `α`
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Model Predictive Uncertainty `Dir(π; α)`
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Decompose to Aleatoric/Epistemic Uncertainty
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Enable Holistic Calibration & Semantic Preservation
| Feature | CLIP Base | Lce Only | Lce+KL(P) | UCAT (Lce+KL(Dir)) |
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| Clean Accuracy (Avg) | 64.45% | 43.83% | 45.05% | 54.17% |
| PGD Robustness (Avg) | 0.05% | 29.86% | 29.98% | 32.20% |
| Harmonic Mean (H-score) | 0.10% | 35.43% | 35.84% | 40.39% |
This comparison highlights the progressive benefits of UCAT's components. While a simple cross-entropy (Lce) improves robustness, only the holistic Dirichlet-level alignment effectively balances clean accuracy and adversarial robustness by calibrating uncertainty and preserving inter-class relations. This combined approach leads to the superior H-score, representing a balanced performance.
Enhanced Multi-label Robustness in MS-COCO
Our UCAT framework demonstrates superior performance on multi-label datasets like MS-COCO, a challenging scenario due to inherent data ambiguity. By preserving semantic fidelity and calibrated confidence, UCAT achieves F1@3 of 37.04% and a mAP of 37.60% under strong adversarial attacks. This significantly outperforms single-anchor alignment methods, confirming UCAT's robust recognition of multiple objects within a single image, even in complex, ambiguous environments.
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Discovery & Strategy
In-depth analysis of your current AI vulnerabilities and business objectives. Development of a tailored UCAT integration strategy.
Proof of Concept & Pilot
Deployment of UCAT on a subset of your data to demonstrate tangible improvements in adversarial robustness and uncertainty calibration.
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Continuous Optimization
Ongoing monitoring, fine-tuning, and advanced research integration to maintain state-of-the-art AI reliability and performance.
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