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48 results for Compression-Based Defense

Evaluates SHIELD's effectiveness against adaptive adversaries in various threat models.

problem Evaluating SHIELD's efficacy against adaptive adversaries in different threat models.
method Empirical analysis of SHIELD's robustness against adaptive attacks using Projected Gradient Descent (PGD) attacks in various threat models (white-box, gray-box).
result The targeted PGD attack success rate drops from 64.3% to 48.9% when models are trained from scratch instead of retrained.

Unified framework for non-compressed networks from compression bounds.

problem Generalization of large deep neural networks with huge model size.
method Unified framework converting compression based bounds to non-compressed networks.
result Unified data-dependent generalization error bound with tighter evaluation.

Proposes a new algorithm to reduce communication costs in decentralized training.

problem How to apply error-compensated compression to decentralized training.
method Error-compensated stochastic gradient descent for decentralized training.
result Proposed algorithm outperforms existing methods in communication cost reduction.

Tensor decompositions are powerful tools for large data analytics as they jointly model multiple aspects of data into one framework and enable the discovery of the latent structures and higher-order correlations within the data. One of the most widely studied and used decompositions, especially in data mining and machi…

2018-07-03abs ↗pdf ↗

DZip improves general-purpose lossless compression using neural networks.

problem Improving general-purpose lossless compression methods.
method Hybrid architecture combining adaptive and semi-adaptive training of neural networks for prediction followed by arithmetic coding.
result Significant compression improvements on various real and synthetic datasets.

ATHENA builds flexible defenses against adversarial attacks.

problem Extensive research on adversarial attacks is domain-specific and cannot be easily extended.
method Designing an extensible framework based on diverse weak defenses.
result Comprehensive empirical study demonstrates the effectiveness of ATHENA.

New defense method inspired by encryption improves visual classification accuracy.

problem Conventional defenses reduce accuracy and are defeated by obfuscated gradients.
method Block-wise pixel shuffling with secret key for training and test images.
result Achieves high accuracy (91.55%) on clean images and (89.66%) on adversarial examples.

Automated discovery of adaptive attacks improves adversarial defense evaluation.

problem Challenges in reliably evaluating adversarial defenses.
method Formalizes adaptive attacks as reusable building blocks in a search space for automatic discovery.
result Our tool discovers significantly stronger attacks than AutoAttack, improving adversarial defense evaluation.

New research shows many recent defenses against adversarial examples are ineffective against black-box attacks.

problem The robustness of recent defenses against adversarial examples is insufficient, especially against black-box attacks.
method Evaluation of nine defenses on two black-box adversarial models and six attacks on CIFAR-10 and Fashion-MNIST datasets.
result Most recent defenses provide only marginal improvements in security (<25%<25\%) compared to undefended networks.

Paper analyzes adversarial attacks and defenses using game theory.

problem Unclear conditions for optimal attacks and defenses in adversarial learning.
method Game-theoretic framework with locally linear decision boundary model.
result Fast Gradient Method attack and Randomized Smoothing defense form a Nash Equilibrium.

Topology-aware generative models improve manifold-based defenses against adversarial examples.

problem Adversarial examples compromise the reliability of ML models, especially DNNs.
method Investigate if generative models used in manifold-based defenses need to be topology-aware.
result Topology-aware generative models enhance the robustness of manifold-based defenses.

New defense against DNN model stealing attacks by poisoning predictions.

problem Stealing DNN models through black-box access attacks.
method Active perturbation of predictions to mislead attacker's training.
result Effective against a wide range of DNN stealing attacks, reducing attacker's success rate significantly.

This paper proposes to perform authorship analysis using the Fast Compression Distance (FCD), a similarity measure based on compression with dictionaries directly extracted from the written texts. The FCD computes a similarity between two documents through an effective binary search on the intersection set between the …

2014-02-14abs ↗pdf ↗

This study evaluates adversarial attacks and defenses for chest X-ray disease classification.

problem Vulnerability of deep neural networks to adversarial examples in chest X-ray disease detection.
method Detailed introduction and evaluation of various attack and defense methods.
result Attack and defense methods perform poorly with excessive iterations and large perturbations.

Stochastic defense improves natural classifiers against adversarial attacks.

problem Vulnerability of deep networks to adversarial attacks.
method Long-run MCMC sampling with Energy-Based Model for adversarial purification.
result Balancing memoryless and metastable behavior leads to effective purification and robust classification.

New defense mechanism RS outperforms existing schemes in protecting against adversarial examples.

problem Adversarial examples trick classifiers into misclassification.
method Proposed a new defense mechanism called Random Spiking (RS) and an evaluation framework.
result Random Spiking (RS) delivers better protection against adversarial examples than many existing schemes.

Paper proposes HRS to improve neural network robustness without significant accuracy loss.

problem Vulnerability of neural networks to adversarial attacks and performance degradation.
method Hierarchical Random Switching (HRS) for robustness without sacrificing accuracy.
result HRS significantly improves adversarial robustness with minimal accuracy loss.

Adversarial examples that fool machine learning models, particularly deep neural networks, have been a topic of intense research interest, with attacks and defenses being developed in a tight back-and-forth. Most past defenses are best effort and have been shown to be vulnerable to sophisticated attacks. Recently a set…

2018-02-09abs ↗pdf ↗

BUZz defends images from adversarial attacks using simple transformations.

problem Adversarial attacks on deep neural networks for image classification.
method Combination of deep neural networks and simple image transformations.
result Achieves significant improvement over state-of-the-art defenses with a modest drop in clean accuracy.

Deep Partition Aggregation defends against poisoning attacks with provable certificates.

problem Adversarial poisoning attacks corrupt classifier test-time behavior.
method Deep Partition Aggregation (DPA) is an ensemble method using hash partitions and base models trained on these partitions.
result DPA can certify >= 50% of test images against over 500 poison image insertions on MNIST, and nine insertions on CIFAR-10.

This paper reviews defenses against adversarial learning attacks on statistical classifiers.

problem Adversarial attacks on machine learning systems, particularly statistical classifiers.
method Survey of recent work on test-time evasion, data poisoning, and reverse engineering attacks and defenses.
result Novel insights that challenge conventional AL wisdom and target unresolved issues.

Unified framework for analyzing model stealing attacks and defenses.

problem Vulnerability of ML applications to model stealing attacks.
method Developed a rigorous threat model and evaluation criteria, proposed methods to quantify attack and defense strategies.
result Demonstrated the importance of attack-specific perturbations for effective defenses.

The paper evaluates machine learning cyber defenses using log data against adversarial attacks.

problem Evaluating the robustness of machine learning cyber defenses against adversarial attacks.
method Developed a testing framework using deep reinforcement learning and adversarial natural language processing.
result Higher dropout levels increase robustness, with 90% dropout probability showing the highest robustness.

A Bayesian framework models adversarial uncertainty for robust machine learning.

problem Vulnerability of machine learning models to adversarial attacks.
method Formal Bayesian framework that models adversarial uncertainty through a stochastic channel, articulating probabilistic assumptions.
result Explicitly modeling adversarial uncertainty leads to improved robustification strategies.

Interpreting machine learning models helps understand adversarial attacks and defenses.

problem Understanding model vulnerability to adversarial attacks.
method Model interpretation techniques to explore adversarial attacks and defenses.
result Interpretation methods can be applied to adversarial attacks and defenses.

Defensive distillation fails against targeted adversarial attacks, forcing a tradeoff between learning and security.

problem Defensive distillation's limitations in blocking targeted adversarial attacks.
method Systematic exploration of defensive distillation's effectiveness and limitations.
result Defensive distillation is effective against non-targeted attacks but fails against targeted attacks, necessitating a tradeoff between learning and security.

Aggregation defenses improve deep learning models' robustness against data poisoning attacks.

problem Data poisoning attacks manipulate deep learning models with malicious training samples.
method Deep Partition Aggregation, efficiency improvements, data-to-complexity ratio, poisoning overfitting phenomenon.
result Aggregation defenses boost poisoning robustness through the poisoning overfitting phenomenon.

Research evaluates adversarial attacks and defenses on 3D point cloud classifiers.

problem Robustness of 3D object classifiers against adversarial attacks.
method Extending 2D adversarial attacks to 3D point clouds and proposing new defenses.
result 3D point cloud classifiers are weak to adversarial attacks but more defensible.