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48 results for adversarial measurements

New measure assesses deep neural networks' robustness to adversarial attacks.

problem Deep learning's fragility to adversarial attacks limits its adoption in mission-critical applications.
method Introduces residual error as a new performance measure for assessing adversarial robustness.
result Demonstrates effectiveness of residual error in assessing robustness of deep neural networks.

Study proves existence of robust classifiers in multiclass adversarial training.

problem Proves existence of robust classifiers in multiclass adversarial training.
method Three models of adversarial training in multiclass classification, proving existence of Borel measurable robust classifiers.
result Proves existence of Borel measurable robust classifiers in each model.

The paper analyzes and minimizes transferability of adversarial attacks between models in an ensemble.

problem Adversarial attacks can transfer between models, posing security risks.
method Introduces a gradient-based measure to assess and reduce transferability, and uses it during training to increase robustness.
result Demonstrates that the gradient-based measure can be used to increase an ensemble's robustness to adversarial attacks.

Adversarial attacks can fool ML energy theft detection models.

problem Vulnerability of ML-based energy theft detection models to adversarial attacks.
method Design of an adversarial measurement generation algorithm.
result ML models can be significantly fooled by adversarial attacks, reducing their detection accuracy.

This work introduces adversarial sparsity to measure robustness beyond adversarial accuracy.

problem Evaluating robustness to adversarial attacks beyond just accuracy.
method Adversarial sparsity, which quantifies the difficulty of finding perturbations.
result Sparsity provides valuable insights into neural networks and suggests improvements in robustness.

Study compares adversarial regularization to sole supervision in machine learning.

problem Understanding when adversarial regularization outperforms sole supervision.
method Examines vanishing gradient, iteration complexity, gradient flow, and convergence in both paradigms.
result Adversarial regularization accelerates gradient descent and improves generalization.

New bounds show complexity of adversarial decision making.

problem Understanding sample efficiency in adversarial decision making.
method New upper and lower bounds on Decision-Estimation Coefficient.
result Decision-Estimation Coefficient is necessary and sufficient for low regret in adversarial decision making.

Measuring uncertainty is a promising technique for detecting adversarial examples, crafted inputs on which the model predicts an incorrect class with high confidence. But many measures of uncertainty exist, including predictive en- tropy and mutual information, each capturing different types of uncertainty. We study th…

2018-03-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Study improves distributed linear estimation under adversarial conditions.

problem Mean estimation of a random vector with adversarial measurements and asynchrony.
method Two-timescale ℓ1-minimization algorithm with tight convergence rates.
result Unified finite-time characterization of robustness, identifiability, and statistical efficiency.

PAD offers a principled approach to malware detection against evasion attacks.

problem Machine Learning techniques for malware detection are vulnerable to evasion attacks.
method PAD proposes a new adversarial training framework with convergence guarantees for robust optimization.
result PAD significantly outperforms state-of-the-art defenses and can harden ML-based malware detection against 27 evasion attacks.

This paper introduces metrics to evaluate robustness of neural networks to natural adversarial examples.

problem Measuring robustness of neural networks to natural adversarial examples.
method Proposes latent space performance metrics based on generative models.
result Latent adversarial perturbations are often perceptually small and associated with classifier accuracy.

Mathematical conditions and practical computations for adversarial robustness measures are established.

problem Existence, uniqueness, and scalability of adversarial robustness measures for AI classifiers.
method Formulated and proven mathematical conditions for existence, uniqueness, and explicit analytical computation of minimal adversarial paths and distances. Practical computation demonstrated on various AI tools and synthetic benchmarks.
result Explicit mathematical conditions and practical computations for adversarial robustness measures are established.

New algorithms reduce regret in online MDPs by adapting to data and variance.

problem Adapting to both adversarial and stochastic environments in online MDPs.
method Develops algorithms based on global optimization and policy optimization, using optimistic follow-the-regularized-leader with log-barrier regularization.
result Achieves refined data-dependent and variance-dependent regret bounds.

Deep learning takes advantage of large datasets and computationally efficient training algorithms to outperform other approaches at various machine learning tasks. However, imperfections in the training phase of deep neural networks make them vulnerable to adversarial samples: inputs crafted by adversaries with the int…

2015-11-24abs ↗pdf ↗

We present a data-driven framework for learning fair universal representations (FUR) that guarantee statistical fairness for any learning task that may not be known a priori. Our framework leverages recent advances in adversarial learning to allow a data holder to learn representations in which a set of sensitive attri…

2019-09-27abs ↗pdf ↗

New algorithm reduces dynamic regret for MDPs with unknown transition and adversarial rewards.

problem Episodic linear mixture MDPs with unknown transition and adversarial rewards.
method Combines occupancy-measure-based global optimization and policy-based variance-aware value-targeted regression.
result Achieves near-optimal dynamic regret of O~(dH3K+HK(H+PˉK))\widetilde{\mathcal{O}}(d \sqrt{H^3 K} + \sqrt{HK(H + \bar{P}_K)}).

The NIPS 2018 Adversarial Vision Challenge is a competition to facilitate measurable progress towards robust machine vision models and more generally applicable adversarial attacks. This document is an updated version of our competition proposal that was accepted in the competition track of 32nd Conference on Neural In…

2018-08-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Despite their numerous successes, there are many scenarios where adversarial risk metrics do not provide an appropriate measure of robustness. For example, test-time perturbations may occur in a probabilistic manner rather than being generated by an explicit adversary, while the poor train--test generalization of adver…

2019-12-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Despite numerous attempts to defend deep learning based image classifiers, they remain susceptible to the adversarial attacks. This paper proposes a technique to identify susceptible classes, those classes that are more easily subverted. To identify the susceptible classes we use distance-based measures and apply them …

2019-05-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Study reveals adversarially robust domain adaptation is harder to generalize across domains.

problem Hardness of transferring adversarial robustness across different domains.
method Analysis of adversarial Rademacher complexity over symmetric difference hypothesis space.
result Adversarial Rademacher complexity is always greater than non-adversarial, indicating intrinsic hardness.

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.

Human-machine interaction is increasingly dependent on speech communication. Machine Learning models are usually applied to interpret human speech commands. However, these models can be fooled by adversarial examples, which are inputs intentionally perturbed to produce a wrong prediction without being noticed. While mu…

2020-01-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes a new adversarial model to avoid accuracy vs. adversarial accuracy tradeoff.

problem Inherent tradeoff between accuracy and adversarial accuracy in existing adversarial robustness definitions.
method Introduces Voronoi-epsilon adversary that balances perturbation constraints.
result Voronoi-epsilon adversary avoids accuracy vs. adversarial accuracy tradeoff even with large εε.

Improved estimation of concentration using half-spaces for adversarial vulnerability.

problem Understanding the concentration of measure phenomenon and its impact on adversarial vulnerability.
method Extending Gaussian Isoperimetric Inequality to non-spherical Gaussian measures and arbitrary ℓ_p-norms, using half-spaces to estimate concentration.
result Proposed method finds tighter intrinsic robustness bounds, providing evidence against concentration as a cause of adversarial vulnerability.

This paper quantifies privacy-robustness and generalization-robustness trade-offs in adversarial training.

problem Privacy and generalization issues in adversarial training.
method Defines robustified intensity and empirical robustified intensity to measure robustness, proving differential privacy and generalization bounds.
result Proves adversarial training is (ε,δ)(\varepsilon, δ)-differentially private and provides generalization bounds.

The paper proposes a new approach to model risk measurement based on the Wasserstein distance between two probability measures. It formulates the theoretical motivation resulting from the interpretation of fictitious adversary of robust risk management. The proposed approach accounts for equivalent and non-equivalent p…

2018-09-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Generative model learns object variability from MRI measurements.

problem Establishing stochastic object models from medical imaging data.
method Advanced AmbientGANs with multiresolution training.
result AmbientGANs reliably learn object distributions from incomplete or noisy data.

Extends randomized smoothing to certify robustness against various threat models and adversarial perturbations.

problem Certifying robustness of classifiers against adversarial perturbations.
method Develops a method to certify robustness against any p\ell_p (pN>0p\in\mathbb{N}_{>0}) minimized adversarial perturbation.
result Randomized smoothing suffers from the curse of dimensionality, reducing effective radius as pp increases.

The paper develops a robust signal estimation method for noisy measurements from generative models.

problem Signal estimation from noisy non-linear measurements with adversarial corruptions.
method Generalized Lasso approach with sub-Gaussian measurements and adversarial noise consideration.
result The method requires $O\left(\frac{k}{ε^2}\log L ight)$ samples for εε-error recovery, robust to adversarial noise.

Many predicted structured objects (e.g., sequences, matchings, trees) are evaluated using the F-score, alignment error rate (AER), or other multivariate performance measures. Since inductively optimizing these measures using training data is typically computationally difficult, empirical risk minimization of surrogate …

2017-12-20abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper analyzes adversarial robustness for linear models and neural networks using Rademacher complexity.

problem Understanding adversarial robustness of linear models and neural networks.
method The paper uses Rademacher complexity to provide upper and lower bounds for adversarial robustness of linear hypotheses and neural networks.
result The paper provides bounds on adversarial Rademacher complexity for linear hypotheses and neural networks, offering a finer analysis of input dimensionality.

The last few years have seen a staggering number of empirical studies of the robustness of neural networks in a model of adversarial perturbations of their inputs. Most rely on an adversary which carries out local modifications within prescribed balls. None however has so far questioned the broader picture: how to fram…

2018-06-08abs ↗pdf ↗

New method improves neural network interpretability against adversarial attacks.

problem Adversarial attacks can hide from neural network interpretability methods.
method Develops an interpretability-aware defensive scheme promoting robust interpretation.
result Achieves both robust classification and robust interpretation.

Machine learning models, especially based on deep architectures are used in everyday applications ranging from self driving cars to medical diagnostics. It has been shown that such models are dangerously susceptible to adversarial samples, indistinguishable from real samples to human eye, adversarial samples lead to in…

2017-05-05abs ↗pdf ↗

No universal trading strategy exists due to mathematical impossibilities.

problem The impossibility of universally winning trading strategies in competitive markets.
method Three mathematical paradigms: measure-theoretic, No-Free-Lunch theorem, and adversarial Cantor diagonalization.
result No-arbitrage and free-lunch principles are mathematically precluded in competitive markets.

Generating adversarial examples is a critical step for evaluating and improving the robustness of learning machines. So far, most existing methods only work for classification and are not designed to alter the true performance measure of the problem at hand. We introduce a novel flexible approach named Houdini for gene…

2017-07-17abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, we investigate the adversarial robustness of multivariate MM-Estimators. In the considered model, after observing the whole dataset, an adversary can modify all data points with the goal of maximizing inference errors. We use adversarial influence function (AIF) to measure the asymptotic rate at which t…

2019-03-27abs ↗pdf ↗

New research shows flat minima in robust loss landscapes correlate with good adversarial robustness.

problem Adversarial training leads to robust overfitting, poor robust generalization.
method Average- and worst-case metrics to measure flatness in robust loss landscapes.
result Flatness in robust loss landscapes correlates with good adversarial robustness.

Adversarial examples are considered a serious issue for safety critical applications of AI, such as finance, autonomous vehicle control and medicinal applications. Though significant work has resulted in increased robustness of systems to these attacks, systems are still vulnerable to well-crafted attacks. To address t…

2018-12-06abs ↗pdf ↗