Deep model compression has been extensively studied, and state-of-the-art
methods can now achieve high compression ratios with minimal accuracy loss.
This paper studies model compression through a different lens: could we
compress models without hurting their robustness to adversarial attacks, in
addition to maintaining accuracy? Previous literature suggested that the goals
of robustness and compactness might sometimes contradict. We propose a novel
Adversarially Trained Model Compression (ATMC) framework. ATMC constructs a
unified constrained optimization formulation, where existing compression means
(pruning, factorization, quantization) are all integrated into the constraints.
An efficient algorithm is then developed. An extensive group of experiments are
presented, demonstrating that ATMC obtains remarkably more favorable trade-off
among model size, accuracy and robustness, over currently available
alternatives in various settings. The codes are publicly available at:
https://github.com/shupenggui/ATMC.