Study shows AmI attacks are not robust to adversarial examples.
problem Robustness of AmI attacks to adversarial examples.
method Evaluation of AmI attacks on adversarial examples.
result AmI attacks are not robust to adversarial examples.
AMI-Net+ tackles medical diagnosis from incomplete, imbalanced data.
problem Medical diagnosis from incomplete and imbalanced data.
method AMI-Net+ uses multi-instance neural network with embedding, multi-head attention, and gated attention-based pooling. It also employs focal loss and self-adaptive multi-instance pooling.
result AMI-Net+ outperforms state-of-the-art models on real-world medical datasets.
FastAMI efficiently approximates AMI and SMI for large datasets.
problem Computational difficulty in comparing clusterings with an adjustment for chance.
method Monte Carlo-based approach to approximate AMI and SMI.
result FastAMI provides accurate results for large datasets.
AMI framework improves text generation by optimizing mutual information between source and target.
problem Previous MI approaches ignored the backward network, leading to loose variational bounds.
method AMI is a saddle point optimization framework that iteratively promotes and demotes generated instances.
result AMI significantly outperforms baselines on various text generation tasks.
Hybrid approach protects privacy while analyzing smart meter data.
problem Privacy concerns in AMI data analysis under CPUC regulations.
method Anonymization, differential privacy, federated learning, synthetic data, cryptography.
result Comprehensive privacy-preserving analytics framework for AMI data.
Enhanced mortality prediction model using EHR and free-text data.
problem Predicting one-year mortality in AMI patients.
method Used deep learning models with word embedding features from free-text discharge summaries.
result Significant improvement in model performance (92.89% accuracy, 0.928 F-measure).
Study on multitask learning performance factors.
problem Mixed results in multitask learning performance.
method Task simulator and symbolic regression to learn performance factors.
result Empirical formulas relating model performance to sqrt(n), sqrt(T), and sqrt(AMI).
Adjusted for chance measures are widely used to compare partitions/clusterings of the same data set. In particular, the Adjusted Rand Index (ARI) based on pair-counting, and the Adjusted Mutual Information (AMI) based on Shannon information theory are very popular in the clustering community. Nonetheless it is an open …
Modern smart grids rely on advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) networks for monitoring and billing purposes. However, such an approach suffers from electricity theft cyberattacks. Different from the existing research that utilizes shallow, static, and customer-specific-based electricity theft detectors, this paper p…
Paper proposes a new framework for SAD using GANs.
problem Speech Activity Detection (SAD) in diverse conditions.
method Joint learning with GANs and temporal discriminator.
result Framework outperforms state-of-the-art SAD approaches.
Researchers use clustering to differentiate COVID-19 lung scans.
problem Identifying infected individuals with COVID-19.
method Applied unsupervised clustering techniques using PCA, K-Means++, and RCC.
result KM++ and RCC algorithms improved in clustering COVID-19 lung scans.
This paper detects multi-stage Feint Attacks using Bi-RNN and few-shot learning.
problem Detecting multi-stage Feint Attacks due to lack of professional datasets and semantic relationships.
method Fuzzy clustering for attack chain mining, few-shot deep learning, Bi-RNN for feature extraction.
result Accurately detected Feint Attacks using Bi-RNN and few-shot learning.
This paper studies adversarial attacks on Gaussian process bandits.
problem Adversarial attacks on Gaussian process bandits to manipulate optimal function regions.
method Proposes various adversarial attack methods on GP bandits, including white-box and black-box attacks.
result Adversarial attacks can force GP bandits to optima in target regions even with low attack budgets.
Subpopulation attacks poison data to misclassify naturally distributed points.
problem Improving accuracy of machine learning predictions through adversarial data modification.
method Introducing a novel subpopulation attack framework, using influence functions and gradient optimization.
result Subpopulation attacks are effective and stealthy, making them difficult to defend against.
Efficient attacks on DRL models without model access and low computation.
problem Vulnerabilities of DRL models to adversarial attacks.
method Adapting black-box attacks, introducing efficient online sequential attacks, exploring perturbations in environment dynamics, and generating robust physical perturbations.
result Demonstrated the effectiveness of proposed attacks on real-world robots.
Reward-poisoning attacks can force RL agents to learn bad policies, and we categorize and quantify their feasibility.
problem Reward-poisoning attacks can manipulate RL agents to learn undesirable policies.
method Categorize attacks by infinity-norm constraint, provide thresholds for feasibility, and develop adaptive attack strategies.
result Adaptive reward-poisoning attacks can achieve the nefarious policy in polynomial steps, while non-adaptive attacks require exponential steps.
Spanning attack improves black-box attacks with unlabeled data.
problem Query inefficiency in black-box attacks due to high input space dimensionality.
method Proposes spanning attack by constraining adversarial perturbations in a low-dimensional subspace via an auxiliary unlabeled dataset.
result Significantly improves query efficiency of black-box attacks.
Headless attacks bypass classification heads to fool transfer learning models.
problem Adversarial attacks against transfer learning models without access to the classification head.
method Label-blind adversarial attacks that do not require class-label information.
result Transfer attack lowers ResNet18 accuracy on CIFAR10 by over 40%.
New attack manipulates UCB algorithm, new defense algorithm reduces pseudo-regret.
problem Adversarial attacks on stochastic bandit algorithms.
method Introducing action-manipulation attacks and proposing a robust defense algorithm.
result Proposed defense algorithm reduces pseudo-regret to O(max{log T, A}).
This paper explores evasion attacks against Bayesian models.
problem Bayesian predictive models are vulnerable to evasion attacks.
method Developed gradient-based attacks for specific point predictions and entire posterior distributions.
result Optimal evasion attacks can be designed against Bayesian models.
Adversarial attacks pose a threat to deep neural networks, especially in safety-critical applications.
problem Adversarial attacks can misclassify deep neural networks, leading to safety issues.
method Adversarial attacks are categorized into white-box and black-box attacks based on the attacker's knowledge. They can be targeted or non-targeted.
result Adversarial attacks are effective and can transfer between different models and real-world scenarios.
A new Frank-Wolfe framework improves efficiency and effectiveness of adversarial attacks.
problem Develop efficient and effective optimization-based adversarial attack algorithms.
method Proposes a Frank-Wolfe algorithm variant for both white-box and black-box adversarial attacks.
result Demonstrates improved efficiency and effectiveness compared to existing methods.
A new adversarial attack improves model perturbation efficiency.
problem Improving adversarial attacks to better perturb images.
method LogBarrier method for solving constrained minimization problem.
result LogBarrier attack performs better on challenging images.
Adversarial attacks hide cyber-physical attacks in ICS.
problem Hiding cyber-physical attacks in industrial control systems.
method Modeling an attacker compromising sensors, manipulating data, and evaluating attacks on both continuous and mixed data.
result Successfully hides cyber-physical attacks with 2.87 out of 12 sensors compromised on average.
New approach deflects adversarial attacks by causing them to resemble target classes.
problem Ongoing cycle of stronger defenses being broken by more advanced attacks.
method Combines three detection mechanisms in Capsule Networks to achieve state-of-the-art performance on both standard and defense-aware attacks. Uses human study to show attacks can no longer be called adversarial.
result Attack images can no longer be called adversarial because they are classified the same way as humans do.
Paper introduces methods to automatically generate SOAP notes from patient-physician conversations.
problem Burden of creating digital SOAP notes by physicians.
method Cluster2Sent algorithm for summarizing patient-physician conversations.
result Cluster2Sent algorithm outperforms existing methods by 8 ROUGE-1 points.
This paper optimizes attacks on reinforcement learning policies, reducing their effectiveness.
problem Optimizing adversarial attacks on reinforcement learning policies to minimize rewards.
method Designing optimal attacks for both white-box and black-box scenarios using Markov Decision Processes and Reinforcement Learning.
result Optimal attacks can reduce the effectiveness of reinforcement learning policies, especially for smooth policies.
New defense method against physical attacks on image classification models.
problem Defending against physically realizable attacks on image classification models.
method Proposed a new abstract adversarial model, rectangular occlusion attacks, and developed two approaches for efficiently computing adversarial examples.
result Adversarial training using the new attack yields robust image classification models against physical attacks.
A structured approach to generating adversarial attacks for ML systems.
problem Vulnerability of ML systems to adversarial perturbations.
method Developed an 'attack generator' to systematically create adversarial attacks.
result Summarized and extended existing adversarial perturbation taxonomies.
RayS attack improves hard-label adversarial attacks by reducing query complexity and identifying false robust models.
problem Challenges in hard-label adversarial attacks, especially in terms of effectiveness and efficiency.
method Reformulates continuous problem into discrete problem without gradient estimation and uses a fast check step to eliminate unnecessary searches.
result Significantly reduces the number of queries needed for hard-label attacks and identifies false robust models.
New attacks on RL agents' action space improve understanding of cyber-physical systems vulnerabilities.
problem Understanding and improving the robustness of RL agents in CPS against action space attacks.
method Proposed white-box MAS and LAS attack algorithms to optimize and temporally couple attack budgets.
result LAS attacks cause significantly more performance degradation than MAS attacks.
New method handles uncertainty in adversarial attacks using ensemble noise simulation.
problem Uncertainty in adversarial attacks on neural networks.
method Simulates attacker's noisy perturbation using various gradient-based attack algorithms and a pre-processing Denoising Autoencoder (DAE) defense.
result Significant improvements in post-attack accuracy with the proposed ensemble-trained defense.
New attacks reveal membership in label-only ML models.
problem Vulnerability of ML models to membership inference attacks.
method Developed decision-based membership inference attacks.
result Label-only exposures are vulnerable to membership leakage.
Paper creates universal adversarial attacks.
problem Creating universal, transferable, and targeted adversarial attacks.
method Learn a universal mapping to map sources to adversarial examples.
result Examples can fool networks into classifying all into one targeted class and have strong transferability.
Defends against ML inference attacks using adversarial examples.
problem Automated inference attacks using ML classifiers pose privacy and security threats.
method Turns ML classifier vulnerabilities into defenses by adding adversarial noise to public data.
result Adversarial examples can mislead ML classifiers and protect private data.
This paper proposes multi-view attack strategies for deep models.
problem Vulnerability of multi-view deep models to adversarial attacks.
method Two multi-view attack strategies: two-stage attack (TSA) and end-to-end attack (ETEA).
result Proposed multi-view attack strategies are effective on multi-view deep models.
New attacks can infer model training membership using only label predictions, not confidence.
problem Inferring whether a data point was used to train a machine learning model.
method Evaluate model's predicted labels under perturbations to infer membership.
result Label-only attacks perform as well as confidence-based attacks and break defenses that rely on confidence masking.
Paper studies attacks on bandit algorithms and shows how attackers can manipulate data to hijack behavior.
problem Potential attacks on bandit algorithms can cause catastrophic loss in real-world applications.
method Proposes a framework of offline and online attacks on bandit algorithms using convex optimization and adaptive strategies.
result Attackers can force bandit algorithms to pull target arms with high probability by manipulating data.
Efficiently attacks large-scale graphs without using the whole graph.
problem Vulnerability of graph neural networks to adversarial attacks.
method Simplified Gradient-based Attack (SGA) method for large-scale graphs.
result SGA achieves significant time and memory efficiency improvements.
Pixle attacks images by rearranging pixels, bypassing neural networks.
problem Vulnerability of neural networks to black-box adversarial attacks.
method A novel attack that rearranges a small number of pixels in images.
result Successfully attacks a high percentage of samples on various datasets and models.
Adversarial training makes models more vulnerable to privacy attacks.
problem Privacy attacks on robust models become feasible.
method Demonstrated through model inversion attacks on robustly trained models.
result Privacy attacks on robust models are now feasible.
We introduce two tactics to attack agents trained by deep reinforcement learning algorithms using adversarial examples, namely the strategically-timed attack and the enchanting attack. In the strategically-timed attack, the adversary aims at minimizing the agent's reward by only attacking the agent at a small subset of…
A new method uses adversarial attacks to detect other adversarial attacks.
problem Detecting iterative adversarial attacks on deep neural networks.
method Using the Carlini-Wagner (CW) attack as a detector itself, under certain assumptions.
result The method provides asymptotically optimal separation of original and attacked images.
Interval attacks find more adversarial examples than existing methods.
problem Evaluating robustness of adversarially trained neural networks against unknown attacks.
method Symbolic interval propagation for bound over-approximation and gradient-guided attacks.
result Interval attacks find on average 47% more violations than state-of-the-art methods.
Paper proposes a black-box adversarial attack method for graph embedding models.
problem Robustness of graph embedding models against adversarial attacks.
method GF-Attack constructs a generalized adversarial attacker by the graph filter and feature matrix, performing the attack on the graph filter in a black-box fashion.
result GF-Attack can consistently make strong attacks on different graph embedding models even with small perturbations.
Study on reward poisoning attacks on CMAB, revealing attackability depends on adversary's knowledge.
problem Reward poisoning attacks on Combinatorial Multi-Armed Bandits (CMAB).
method Provided a sufficient and necessary condition for attackability, devised an attack algorithm.
result Attackability of CMAB depends on adversary's knowledge of the bandit instance.
Many machine learning algorithms are vulnerable to almost imperceptible perturbations of their inputs. So far it was unclear how much risk adversarial perturbations carry for the safety of real-world machine learning applications because most methods used to generate such perturbations rely either on detailed model inf…
New black-box attack method improves GNN defense without needing training data.
problem Vulnerability of Graph Neural Networks to adversarial attacks.
method Developed a gradient-based black-box attack algorithm, BBGA, which does not require access to training data.
result BBGA achieves stable attack performance without accessing training sets, and is effective against various defenses.