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48 results for Sample-Level Vulnerability

New holistic approach measures sample-level adversarial vulnerability for trustworthy systems.

problem Inherent bias in adversarial attacks across subgroups.
method Combining high-frequency feature reliance and sample-distance to decision boundary.
result Holistic approach improves adversarial vulnerability estimation and system trustworthiness.

GenSDR tackles SDR by leveraging generative models to fully recover lower-dimensional structures.

problem Challenges in identifying low-dimensional sufficient structures in nonlinear SDR.
method Proposes GenSDR, a method that uses modern generative models to fully recover information in the central σ-field.
result Establishes consistency of GenSDR estimator for sample-level data and extends its applicability to non-Euclidean responses.

New metric evaluates generative models across domains, diagnosing fidelity, diversity, and generalization.

problem Evaluating generative models in diverse domains with limited metrics.
method Introduces a 3D evaluation metric (αα-Precision, ββ-Recall, Authenticity) for domain-agnostic diagnostics.
result Unified metric characterizes fidelity, diversity, and generalization, diagnosing model performance.

o1Neuro neural network approximates complex functions and converges quickly.

problem Approximating complex functions and ensuring convergence in neural networks.
method Sparse indicator activation neurons, population and sample level convergence properties.
result o1Neuro achieves optimal model approximation and convergence with high probability.

Study improves privacy in cross-silo federated learning by personalizing data.

problem Privacy concerns in cross-silo federated learning.
method Introduced sample-level differential privacy for silos, analyzed mean-regularized multi-task learning.
result Mean-regularized multi-task learning is a strong baseline for cross-silo federated learning under stronger privacy requirements.

Despite the remarkable performance of deep neural networks on various computer vision tasks, they are known to be susceptible to adversarial perturbations, which makes it challenging to deploy them in real-world safety-critical applications. In this paper, we conjecture that the leading cause of adversarial vulnerabili…

2019-08-12abs ↗pdf ↗

A membership inference attack (MIA) against a machine-learning model enables an attacker to determine whether a given data record was part of the model's training data or not. In this paper, we provide an in-depth study of the phenomenon of disparate vulnerability against MIAs: unequal success rate of MIAs against diff…

2019-06-02abs ↗pdf ↗

New risk measures assess cryptocurrency market vulnerabilities during financial distress.

problem Capturing systemic risk in cryptocurrency markets during financial distress.
method Introducing Vulnerability Conditional Risk Measures (VCoES) and related measures.
result Validated theoretical insights and demonstrated practical relevance in cryptocurrency market.

Preschool attendance correlates with lower developmental vulnerabilities in Queensland, Australia.

problem Understanding the relationship between preschool attendance and developmental vulnerabilities in different regions.
method Data Analysis and Machine Learning to identify clusters of socio-demographic variables.
result Identified three clusters with varying socio-demographic variables affecting the relationship between preschool attendance and developmental vulnerabilities.

Study on measuring vulnerability of neural network parameters via corruption.

problem Understanding the robustness and generalization of deep neural networks.
method Proposes an indicator to measure parameter robustness via parameter corruption and provides a gradient-based estimation.
result Demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed indicator and training method in improving parameter robustness and accuracy.

Study reveals how high-dimensional models are vulnerable to consistent adversarial attacks.

problem Understanding the vulnerability of high-dimensional linear classifiers to adversarial attacks.
method Introducing a new error metric to quantify model vulnerability, and rigorously characterizing these metrics in asymptotic settings.
result As models become more overparameterized, their vulnerability to label-preserving perturbations increases.

Thousands of security vulnerabilities are discovered in production software each year, either reported publicly to the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database or discovered internally in proprietary code. Vulnerabilities often manifest themselves in subtle ways that are not obvious to code reviewers or the develo…

2018-02-14abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper analyzes how much data points can be altered to change their rank in nearest neighbor searches.

problem Vulnerability of nearest neighbor search in high-dimensional data.
method Statistical analysis of perturbation needed to change neighbor rank.
result Derived statistical distribution of perturbation needed to modify neighbor rank.

New method certifies joint adversarial robustness of model ensembles.

problem Ensuring robustness of model ensembles against adversarial attacks.
method Proposes a novel technique to certify joint robustness, building on prior work on single-model robustness certification.
result Demonstrates the effectiveness of certifying joint robustness of ensembles, improving understanding of ensemble defenses.

Language model benchmarks often misrepresent true understanding, revealing vulnerabilities in evaluation methods.

problem Language model benchmarks fail to accurately reflect true language understanding and adaptability.
method Systematic analysis of NLP evaluation frameworks, identifying vulnerabilities in static benchmarks, human evaluation protocols, and LLM-as-judge frameworks.
result Current evaluation methods are unreliable and need improvement to accurately assess LLM performance.

DVERGE diversifies adversarial vulnerabilities to enhance robust ensemble models.

problem Diverse adversarial vulnerabilities for robust ensemble models.
method Isolates and diversifies adversarial vulnerabilities through distillation and training.
result Achieves higher robustness against transfer attacks compared to previous methods.

This study presents a novel end-to-end architecture that learns hierarchical representations from raw EEG data using fully convolutional deep neural networks for the task of neonatal seizure detection. The deep neural network acts as both feature extractor and classifier, allowing for end-to-end optimization of the sei…

2017-09-18abs ↗pdf ↗

New method defends RL agents from poisoning attacks without MDP knowledge.

problem Poisoning attacks on RL systems can cause learning failures.
method Generic poisoning framework for online RL, Vulnerability-Aware Adversarial Critic Poison (VA2C-P).
result Successfully prevents RL agents from learning good policies or converging to target policies.

Improved security of smart contracts by classifying them into four categories.

problem Detecting and classifying vulnerabilities in smart contracts efficiently.
method Used AWD-LSTM for multi-class classification, addressing class imbalance.
result Achieved a weighted average Fbeta score of 90.0%.

This paper extensively evaluates the vulnerability of capsule networks to different adversarial attacks. Recent work suggests that these architectures are more robust towards adversarial attacks than other neural networks. However, our experiments show that capsule networks can be fooled as easily as convolutional neur…

2019-06-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Designing models that are robust to small adversarial perturbations of their inputs has proven remarkably difficult. In this work we show that the reverse problem---making models more vulnerable---is surprisingly easy. After presenting some proofs of concept on MNIST, we introduce a generic tilting attack that injects …

2018-06-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Graph neural network (GNN), as a powerful representation learning model on graph data, attracts much attention across various disciplines. However, recent studies show that GNN is vulnerable to adversarial attacks. How to make GNN more robust? What are the key vulnerabilities in GNN? How to address the vulnerabilities …

2019-05-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Study reveals how neural network smoothness affects their vulnerability to adversarial attacks.

problem Understanding adversarial vulnerability in deep learning networks.
method Analysis of manifold smoothness and generalization capability of deep neural networks trained with local errors.
result High generalization accuracy requires a fast power-law decay of eigen-spectrum of hidden representations.

Boosting algorithms predict financial vulnerability of farmers in Chile and Tunisia.

problem Predict financial vulnerability of farmers in Chile and Tunisia using environmental data.
method Interpretable boosting algorithms based on ridge-regularized generalized linear models.
result Interaction effects improve predictive power only when included in two-step boosting.

Study bounds for prices of European and American options with optional termination.

problem Bounding prices of options with potential termination.
method Duality results linking upper prices of vulnerable options to American options with constrained exercise times.
result Linking upper prices of vulnerable options to American options and game options.

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are found to be vulnerable against adversarial examples, which are carefully crafted inputs with a small magnitude of perturbation aiming to induce arbitrarily incorrect predictions. Recent studies show that adversarial examples can pose a threat to real-world security-critical applications:…

2019-07-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Study identifies key parameters and input dimensions making LLMs and VLMs brittle.

problem Vulnerability of large language and vision-language models to perturbations.
method Proposed FI measure based on information geometry to quantify sensitivity.
result Small subset of high FI parameters significantly contribute to brittleness.

New insights into adversarial vulnerability linked to manifold separability issues.

problem Adversarial vulnerability in machine learning models.
method Characterized data distribution as a low-dimensional manifold, focusing on on/off manifold directions and the impact of first-order vs. second-order optimization methods.
result First-order optimization methods lead to poor convergence in the off-manifold direction, causing adversarial vulnerability in inseparable datasets.

This paper evaluates targeted data poisoning attacks by focusing on the hardest samples, improving evaluation and defense strategies.

problem The effectiveness of targeted data poisoning attacks is often overestimated due to average evaluation methods.
method The paper introduces metrics to identify the hardest and easiest to poison samples based on clean model information.
result The proposed metrics reliably stratify samples by poisoning vulnerability, enabling rigorous worst-case evaluation and proactive defense.

Paper tackles model vulnerabilities by reconstructing training data.

problem Reconstructing training data from model parameters poses a security risk.
method Developed a mathematical framework and score matching method for both Bayesian and non-Bayesian models.
result First score matching framework for reconstructing data in Bayesian models.

Data analytics and machine learning techniques are being rapidly adopted into the power system, including power system control as well as electricity market design. In this paper, from an adversarial machine learning point of view, we examine the vulnerability of data-driven electricity market design. More precisely, w…

2019-11-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Despite achieving impressive performance, state-of-the-art classifiers remain highly vulnerable to small, imperceptible, adversarial perturbations. This vulnerability has proven empirically to be very intricate to address. In this paper, we study the phenomenon of adversarial perturbations under the assumption that the…

2018-02-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Overparameterized models are more vulnerable to membership inference attacks.

problem Vulnerability of overparameterized models to membership inference attacks.
method Theoretical and empirical analysis of overparameterized linear and ridge-regularized linear regression models in the Gaussian data setting.
result Increased number of parameters and model complexity increase vulnerability to membership inference attacks.

Mathematical framework to understand neural network vulnerability.

problem Understanding and quantifying adversarial vulnerability in neural networks.
method Develops a geometric framework using Ricci curvature to measure decision boundaries and adversarial perturbations.
result Establishes a new theory linking adversarial attacks to Ricci curvature of decision boundaries.