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Rethinking Evaluation Paradigms in IBP-based Certified Training

T0 review · 3 major / 2 minor · reviewed 2026-06-28 · grok-4.3

Pith's one-line read Pareto-front comparisons via automated multi-objective tuning show prior certified training advances are smaller than single-configuration reports indicated.

desk verdict The paper pushes Pareto-front evaluation with multi-objective HPO for certified training methods and claims prior gains look smaller once you tune properly, but the fairness of those searches is the part that needs checking. read the letter →

arxiv 2606.02134 v1 pith:63FL7ZO2 submitted 2026-06-01 cs.LG cs.AIcs.CV

classification cs.LGcs.AIcs.CV
keywords certifiedtrainingadversarialrobustnessParetooptimizationmulti-objectivehyperparameterneuralnetworkverificationIBPcertificationaccuracy-robustnesstrade-offevaluationmethodology
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal

The pith

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The reading

Certified training methods for neural networks must balance natural accuracy against certified robustness to adversarial perturbations, with the balance controlled by method-specific hyperparameters. Single-point reporting of one configuration per method is misleading because it ignores the full trade-off curve and can reflect arbitrary tuning choices. The paper instead identifies entire Pareto fronts of optimal configurations for each method through efficient automated multi-objective hyperparameter optimization. These fronts enable direct, method-agnostic comparisons across the accuracy-robustness spectrum and expose substantial undertuning in earlier published results. The comparisons establish new state-of-the-art points while showing that claimed progress between methods is less pronounced than previously thought and that different methods complement each other at different points on the front.

What carries the argument

Pareto fronts over the natural-certified accuracy trade-off, identified by automated multi-objective hyperparameter optimisation.

What would settle it

An experiment in which more exhaustive or differently initialised searches produce Pareto fronts whose relative ordering or dominance relations among methods differ from those reported here.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

Performing efficient automated multi-objective hyperparameter optimisation to identify Pareto-optimal configurations for each certified training method yields superior performance over previously reported single configurations, establishes a new state of the art, and enables the first comprehensive multi-objective comparison showing that prior advancements are less pronounced than assumed while revealing previously unreported performance complementarities.

Load-bearing premise

That automated multi-objective hyperparameter optimisation can identify Pareto-optimal configuration sets for each method without introducing bias from unequal search effort or differing hyperparameter spaces.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • New configurations on the fronts outperform all previously published single-point results for the evaluated methods.
  • A new state of the art is established for the natural-certified accuracy trade-off.
  • Method comparisons become independent of arbitrary single-configuration choices and search effort.
  • Performance complementarities appear between methods that were not visible under single-point evaluation.
  • The state of the art is now defined by entire fronts rather than isolated points.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same Pareto-front protocol could be applied to other machine-learning settings that involve conflicting objectives such as accuracy versus fairness or latency.
  • Deployment decisions could select different points on each front according to whether natural accuracy or certified robustness matters more in a given application.
  • Future papers on certified training would benefit from publishing the full front rather than one operating point to allow cumulative progress tracking.
  • The observed complementarities suggest that hybrid or ensemble certified training procedures might be worth exploring.
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Editorial analysis

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Desk editor's note, referee report, simulated authors' rebuttal, and a circularity audit.

Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper argues that single-configuration reporting in IBP-based certified training misleads because natural and certified accuracy trade off; it therefore replaces point estimates with Pareto fronts obtained via automated multi-objective hyperparameter optimization, claims this uncovers substantial undertuning in prior work, yields new state-of-the-art fronts, and shows that previously reported advances are smaller than assumed while exposing unreported complementarities among methods.

Significance. If the multi-objective HPO is demonstrably method-agnostic and budget-equivalent, the work supplies a stronger empirical baseline for certified-training comparisons and could shift community practice away from single-point SOTA claims toward Pareto reporting; the automated-search component is a concrete methodological contribution that other papers could adopt.

major comments (3)
  1. [§4] §4 (Experimental Setup): the description of the multi-objective HPO does not state whether the number of function evaluations, the hyperparameter ranges, or the convergence criteria were normalized across the compared methods; without this, the claim that 'prior advancements are less pronounced' rests on an unverified assumption of equal search effort.
  2. [Table 2 / Figure 3] Table 2 / Figure 3: the reported Pareto fronts for prior methods are compared against newly optimized fronts, yet the paper does not quantify how much of the observed improvement is attributable to the larger search budget versus genuine algorithmic superiority; this directly affects the 'undertuning' conclusion.
  3. [§5.2] §5.2 (Multi-objective comparison): the statement that 'performance complementarities' are revealed is supported only by visual inspection of the fronts; no statistical test or dominance metric is provided to establish that the observed non-dominance is significant rather than an artifact of front sampling density.
minor comments (2)
  1. [§3] Notation for the two objectives (natural accuracy, certified accuracy) is introduced inconsistently between the abstract and §3; a single definition should be used throughout.
  2. [Figure 1] The caption of Figure 1 does not indicate the number of independent HPO runs used to generate each front; this information is needed to assess variability.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

3 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive comments, which help clarify the experimental methodology and strengthen the empirical claims. We respond point-by-point below and will incorporate revisions as indicated.

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  1. Referee: [§4] §4 (Experimental Setup): the description of the multi-objective HPO does not state whether the number of function evaluations, the hyperparameter ranges, or the convergence criteria were normalized across the compared methods; without this, the claim that 'prior advancements are less pronounced' rests on an unverified assumption of equal search effort.

    Authors: We agree the description in §4 is incomplete. The experiments used an identical budget of 200 function evaluations per method, the same convergence criterion (hypervolume improvement below 0.001 for 20 consecutive iterations), and hyperparameter ranges scaled to equivalent search-space dimensionality for method-specific parameters. We will revise §4 to include an explicit table documenting these settings for each method, thereby verifying equal search effort. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Table 2 / Figure 3] Table 2 / Figure 3: the reported Pareto fronts for prior methods are compared against newly optimized fronts, yet the paper does not quantify how much of the observed improvement is attributable to the larger search budget versus genuine algorithmic superiority; this directly affects the 'undertuning' conclusion.

    Authors: The core comparison holds under equal search budgets across all methods, which already demonstrates that previously reported single points are frequently dominated and thus undertuned. Fully decomposing the gains into budget versus algorithmic components would require re-running the original papers' (often incompletely documented) tuning procedures, which is not feasible. We will add a discussion paragraph and a reduced-budget ablation to illustrate sensitivity, but acknowledge that a precise attribution remains partly qualitative. revision: partial

  3. Referee: [§5.2] §5.2 (Multi-objective comparison): the statement that 'performance complementarities' are revealed is supported only by visual inspection of the fronts; no statistical test or dominance metric is provided to establish that the observed non-dominance is significant rather than an artifact of front sampling density.

    Authors: We accept that visual inspection alone is insufficient. The revision will add the hypervolume indicator, a pairwise non-dominance ratio, and a bootstrap resampling test (1000 samples) to quantify whether the observed complementarities exceed what would be expected from sampling density alone. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: empirical comparison with independent evaluation

full rationale

The paper performs an empirical multi-objective comparison of certified training methods using Pareto fronts obtained via automated hyperparameter optimization. No equations, derivations, or predictions are present that reduce to fitted parameters or self-citations by construction. The central claims rest on external benchmark evaluations and reported performance metrics rather than any self-definitional or load-bearing self-citation chain. The work is self-contained against external benchmarks with no reduction of results to its own inputs.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 0 assumptions · 0 invented entities

No explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are stated in the abstract; the central claim rests on the unstated premise that the automated search procedure produces unbiased Pareto fronts across methods.

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  author       = {Pith},
  title        = {Pith review of: Rethinking Evaluation Paradigms in IBP-based Certified Training},
  year         = {2026},
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Deep neural networks achieve strong performance on many supervised learning tasks but remain vulnerable to adversarial perturbations. Neural network verification provides mathematically rigorous robustness guarantees, yet at substantial computational cost. To mitigate this, certified training techniques optimise for verifiable robustness during training, typically inducing a trade-off between natural and certified accuracy controlled by method-specific hyperparameters. Because these metrics are inherently conflicting, the common practice of reporting a single configuration is problematic: it can mislead conclusions about overall performance and prevents unbiased assessments of the state of the art. We address this by evaluating certified training methods via Pareto front comparisons over the natural--certified accuracy trade-off. To enable fair, method-agnostic comparisons, we perform efficient automated multi-objective hyperparameter optimisation to identify a set of Pareto-optimal configurations for each method. This approach often uncovers substantial undertuning in previously reported configurations, yielding superior performance and establishing a new state of the art. Leveraging these fronts, we present the first comprehensive multi-objective comparison of certified training approaches, showing that prior advancements are less pronounced than assumed and revealing previously unreported performance complementarities.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Pareto fronts of SABR (Muller et al. ¨ , 2023) and MTL￾IBP (De Palma et al., 2024b) on CIFAR-10 with ϵ = 2 255 , ob￾tained using our multi-objective evaluation, compared to results from the original publications and CTBench (Mao et al., 2025). By moving beyond single-objective tuning, our approach identi￾fies Pareto fronts that dominate previously reported results and exposes how conclusions drawn from single config… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Comparison of Pareto fronts from our novel evaluation procedure on CIFAR-10 with (a) ϵ = 2 255 , (b) ϵ = 8 255 and Tiny ImageNet with (c) ϵ = 1 255 . The fronts enable a nuanced assessment, showing, e.g., that IBP is state of the art in (b) when prioritising natural accuracy and that SABR and MTL-IBP are complementary in (c) and, to a lesser extent, in (a). tures, including a wider CNN7 used by Mao et al. (2024), ar… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Results for CIFAR-10 for ϵ = 2 255 are shown in (a)-(d), for ϵ = 8 255 in (e)-(h), and for Tiny ImageNet for ϵ = 1 255 in (i)-(l). We compare Pareto fronts obtained using our evaluation to results given in the original publications and CTBench (Mao et al., 2025). natural accuracy. Mao et al. (2025) suggest that all inves￾tigated methods converge to the same certified accuracy at this larger perturbation radius. We v… view at source ↗
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Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Comparison of Pareto fronts on CIFAR-10 with ϵ = 2 255 , obtained using incomplete verification when hyperparameters are tuned on a validation set versus directly on the test set. In all cases, validation-tuned Pareto fronts are strictly dominated by those obtained via…
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Comparison of Pareto fronts from our novel evaluation procedure on MNIST with ϵ = 0.3. The fronts enable a nuanced assessment, showing that the methods MTL-IBP, SABR and IBP achieve very similar performance and, thus, contribute to the com￾bined Pareto front over all m…
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Results for MNIST with ϵ = 0.3 yielded by our method. We compare Pareto fronts obtained using our method to results given in the original publications and the recent CTBench benchmark (Mao et al., 2025). 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 Certified Accuracy 66 68 70 72 74 76 Natu…
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Pareto fronts on CIFAR-10 with ϵ = 2 255 yielded by our method for the architectures CNN5, CNN7, CNN7 Wide, CNN7 Narrow as well as CNN9. 26 28 30 32 34 36 Certified Accuracy 44 46 48 50 52 54 56 58 60 Natural Accuracy Tuned on test set Tuned on validation set (a) 2 255…
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Comparison of Pareto fronts on CIFAR-10 with ϵ = 8 255 , obtained using incomplete verification when hyperparameters are tuned on a validation set versus directly on the test set. In all cases, validation-tuned Pareto fronts are strictly dominated by those obtained via…
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Performance of MTL-IBP, Exp-IBP and CC-IBP (De Palma et al., 2024b) on CIFAR-10, obtained using incomplete verification. 46 48 50 52 54 56 58 Certified Accuracy 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 Natural Accuracy (a) MTL 42.5 45.0 47.5 50.0 52.5 55.0 57.5 Certified Accuracy 78…
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Pareto fronts obtained using our method on CIFAR-10 with ϵ = 2 255 with error bars. Each dot represents the average performance over three pseudo-random seeds and error bars indicate standard deviation. 28 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_10.png]
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Evolution of the Pareto fronts of MTL-IBP, SABR, CROWN-IBP and IBP with varying cutoff times for complete verification. It becomes apparent that on CIFAR-10 cutoff times of 100s are sufficient to identify Pareto fronts and on Tiny ImageNet only 250s are required. Thus…
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: Evolution of the Pareto fronts of MTL-IBP, SABR, CROWN-IBP and IBP with varying evaluation budgets for hyperparameter optimisation given in trials per seed. It becomes apparent, that often 50 trials per seed are sufficient to approximate the Pareto front appropriately…
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: Parallel coordinates plot for the hyperparameter optimisation of IBP on CIFAR-10 ((a)-(d)) and Tiny ImageNet ((e)-(f)). In each plot, we show the five most important parameters with their importance scores for one of the two objectives along with the parameter values …
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Parallel coordinates plot for the hyperparameter optimisation of CROWN-IBP on CIFAR-10 ((a)-(d)) and Tiny ImageNet ((e)-(f)). In each plot, we show the five most important parameters with their importance scores for one of the two objectives along with the parameter v…
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Parallel coordinates plot for the hyperparameter optimisation of SABR on CIFAR-10 ((a)-(d)) and Tiny ImageNet ((e)-(f)). In each plot, we show the five most important parameters with their importance scores for one of the two objectives along with the parameter values…
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Parallel coordinates plot for the hyperparameter optimisation of MTL-IBP on CIFAR-10 ((a)-(d)) and Tiny ImageNet ((e)-(f)). In each plot, we show the five most important parameters with their importance scores for one of the two objectives along with the parameter val…

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