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48 results for adversarial structure

This paper introduces a new method to deceive causal structure learning by omitting data.

problem Deceiving causal structure learning algorithms with incompletely observed data.
method Adversarial missingness attack to bias the learned causal structures.
result Theoretical and practical attack mechanisms are developed for various SCMs.

Study on robustness in linear regression models, focusing on adversarial perturbations.

problem Understanding and improving robustness in linear regression models to adversarial perturbations.
method Developed a two-stage adversarial learning framework that incorporates model structure information.
result Proved the consistency and developed the Bahadur representation of the adversarially robust estimator.

Generative Adversarial Networks create synthetic data for structural damage detection.

problem Data scarcity in structural damage detection.
method 1-D Wasserstein Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks (1-D WDCGAN-GP) for synthetic data generation.
result Generated synthetic data improves damage detection accuracy in 1-D Deep Convolutional Neural Networks.

DefenseVGAE defends graph neural networks against adversarial attacks.

problem Vulnerability of GNNs to adversarial structural perturbations.
method Variational Graph Autoencoder (VGAE) to reconstruct graph structure.
result DefenseVGAE reduces adversarial perturbations and boosts GCN performance.

In adversarial attacks to machine-learning classifiers, small perturbations are added to input that is correctly classified. The perturbations yield adversarial examples, which are virtually indistinguishable from the unperturbed input, and yet are misclassified. In standard neural networks used for deep learning, atta…

2018-09-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Pro-GNN defends graph neural networks from adversarial attacks by learning graph structure.

problem Vulnerability of GNNs to adversarial attacks on real-world graphs.
method Pro-GNN learns a structural graph and a robust GNN model jointly from perturbed graphs guided by intrinsic graph properties.
result Pro-GNN achieves significantly better performance than state-of-the-art defense methods, even on heavily perturbed graphs.

Adversarial training achieves optimal test error for shallow networks.

problem Achieving optimal adversarial test error for general data distributions.
method Applying new Rademacher complexity bounds and properties of optimal adversarial predictors.
result Adversarial training can achieve optimal adversarial test error for general data distributions.

Graph Information Bottleneck (GIB) optimizes graph representations for robustness against adversarial attacks.

problem Challenges in learning graph representations due to structure and feature information.
method GIB is an information-theoretic principle that balances expressiveness and robustness by maximizing mutual information between representation and target, while constraining mutual information with input data.
result GIB-based models are more robust to adversarial attacks, achieving up to 31% improvement.

Graph embedding is an effective method to represent graph data in a low dimensional space for graph analytics. Most existing embedding algorithms typically focus on preserving the topological structure or minimizing the reconstruction errors of graph data, but they have mostly ignored the data distribution of the laten…

2018-02-13abs ↗pdf ↗

CANs improve GANs by enforcing structured constraints during training.

problem Generating valid structured objects like molecules and game maps from examples alone.
method Constrained Adversarial Networks (CANs) embed constraints into the model during training, penalizing invalid structures.
result CANs efficiently generate high-quality and novel valid structures.

We propose Graphical Generative Adversarial Networks (Graphical-GAN) to model structured data. Graphical-GAN conjoins the power of Bayesian networks on compactly representing the dependency structures among random variables and that of generative adversarial networks on learning expressive dependency functions. We intr…

2018-04-10abs ↗pdf ↗

This work addresses dynamic KDE data structures with robustness to adversarial queries.

problem Efficient KDE data structures for dynamic changing data distributions.
method Developed a theoretical framework for KDE data structures that support subquadratic space, sublinear updates, and adaptive queries.
result Theoretical framework and practical implementation of KDE data structures robust to adversarial queries.

The representations learned by deep neural networks are difficult to interpret in part due to their large parameter space and the complexities introduced by their multi-layer structure. We introduce a method for computing persistent homology over the graphical activation structure of neural networks, which provides acc…

2019-01-28abs ↗pdf ↗

We derive upper and lower bounds for the policy regret of TT-round online learning problems with graph-structured feedback, where the adversary is nonoblivious but assumed to have a bounded memory. We obtain upper bounds of O~(T2/3)\widetilde O(T^{2/3}) and O~(T3/4)\widetilde O(T^{3/4}) for strongly-observable and weakly-observab…

2018-04-01abs ↗pdf ↗

The goal of network representation learning is to learn low-dimensional node embeddings that capture the graph structure and are useful for solving downstream tasks. However, despite the proliferation of such methods, there is currently no study of their robustness to adversarial attacks. We provide the first adversari…

2018-09-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Adversarial training is a useful approach to promote the learning of transferable representations across the source and target domains, which has been widely applied for domain adaptation (DA) tasks based on deep neural networks. Until very recently, existing adversarial domain adaptation (ADA) methods ignore the usefu…

2019-05-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes a defense method against multiple adversarial video types.

problem Lack of multi-perturbation robustness in existing defense approaches.
method Adversarial training with multiple independent BN layers and a BN selection module.
result Demonstrates stronger multi-perturbation robustness against different adversarial video types.

This paper introduces a cross adversarial source separation (CASS) framework via autoencoder, a new model that aims at separating an input signal consisting of a mixture of multiple components into individual components defined via adversarial learning and autoencoder fitting. CASS unifies popular generative networks l…

2019-05-23abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

DALI improves inference for GANs by matching prior and conditional distributions.

problem Effective inference for generative adversarial models (GANs).
method Explicitly matches prior and conditional distributions in data and code spaces, constraining dependency structure.
result Significantly improves reconstruction and generation compared to other GAN inference models.

As a new approach to train generative models, \emph{generative adversarial networks} (GANs) have achieved considerable success in image generation. This framework has also recently been applied to data with graph structures. We propose labeled-graph generative adversarial networks (LGGAN) to train deep generative model…

2019-06-07abs ↗pdf ↗

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 ↗

Paper addresses hybrid learning with constrained adversaries, achieving optimal performance.

problem Hybrid learning problem with i.i.d. features and adversarial labels.
method Structured adversarial setting, efficient algorithm with ERM oracle.
result Oracle-efficient algorithm with regret scaling with Rademacher complexity.

To accelerate research on adversarial examples and robustness of machine learning classifiers, Google Brain organized a NIPS 2017 competition that encouraged researchers to develop new methods to generate adversarial examples as well as to develop new ways to defend against them. In this chapter, we describe the struct…

2018-03-31abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper proposes a method to learn structured representations from unlabeled data using mutual information maximization.

problem Learning structured representations from unlabeled data.
method Adversarial maximization of mutual information between a structured latent variable and a target variable.
result The proposed method outperforms current baselines in document hashing and yields highly compressed interpretable representations.

Algorithm tackles adaptive discretization in adversarial Lipschitz bandits for dynamic pricing and auctions.

problem Adaptive discretization in adversarial Lipschitz bandits.
method Adversarial Zooming algorithm for adaptive discretization.
result First algorithm for adversarial Lipschitz bandits with instance-dependent regret bounds.

A new method transfers adversarial robustness from teacher to student using feature distillation.

problem Adversarial robustness transfer across different models and tasks.
method Guided Adversarial Contrastive Distillation (GACD) with contrastive learning and sample reweighted estimation.
result GACD effectively transfers adversarial robustness from teacher to student, achieving comparable or better results.

CleverHans is a software library that provides standardized reference implementations of adversarial example construction techniques and adversarial training. The library may be used to develop more robust machine learning models and to provide standardized benchmarks of models' performance in the adversarial setting. …

2016-10-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Graph neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks by manipulating graph structure.

problem Vulnerability of Graph Neural Networks to adversarial attacks.
method Categorization and review of existing attacks and defenses.
result Developed a repository for empirical studies on graph adversarial attacks and defenses.

Paper explores tradeoff between standard and robust accuracy for latent models.

problem Tradeoff between standard accuracy and robust accuracy in adversarial training.
method Revisits adversarial training for latent models, considering Gaussian mixture and generalized linear models.
result Low-dimensional manifold structure mitigates the tradeoff between standard and robust accuracy.

New method trims network data to resist adversarial contamination.

problem Adversarial contamination in network data affects statistical and algorithmic performance.
method Proposes a new trimming method operating in model space to address both block and white noise contamination.
result Demonstrates superior performance in simulations compared to direct trimming.