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48 results for classifier defense

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 method for non-parametric classifiers robust against adversarial attacks.

problem Lack of robustness in non-parametric classifiers against adversarial attacks.
method Adversarial pruning method to preprocess datasets and a novel attack.
result Adversarial pruning provides a robust defense for non-parametric classifiers.

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.

Tricks adversarial attacks to target specific classes, improving classifier accuracy.

problem Recent adversarial defense approaches have failed to protect classifiers from untargeted attacks.
method Target Training defense tricks untargeted attacks into targeted attacks on designated classes, then derives the real class.
result 86.2% accuracy for CW-L2 (confidence=0) in CIFAR10, outperforming unsecured classifiers.

Minimax defense improves neural network security against gradient-based attacks.

problem Gradient-based adversarial attacks on neural networks.
method Minimax optimization in a GAN framework to create a discriminator that plays a minimax game with the generator.
result Minimax defense significantly reduces adversarial attack success rates compared to standard classifiers.

Defends classifiers from adversarial attacks using self-supervised data estimation.

problem Protecting classifiers from adversarial attacks with full attacker access.
method RIDE, a self-supervised learning algorithm for individual data estimation.
result Significant improvement in adversarial defense performance (98%, 76%, 43% test accuracy on MNIST, CIFAR-10, and ImageNet datasets respectively).

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.

Denoised smoothing defends pretrained classifiers against adversarial attacks.

problem Adversarial attacks on pretrained classifiers.
method Prepending a denoiser to any off-the-shelf classifier using randomized smoothing.
result Guaranteed p\ell_p-robustness to adversarial examples without modifying the pretrained classifier.

Deep-learning based classification algorithms have been shown to be susceptible to adversarial attacks: minor changes to the input of classifiers can dramatically change their outputs, while being imperceptible to humans. In this paper, we present a simple hypothesis about a feature compression property of artificial i…

2019-05-25abs ↗pdf ↗

A wide range of defenses have been proposed to harden neural networks against adversarial attacks. However, a pattern has emerged in which the majority of adversarial defenses are quickly broken by new attacks. Given the lack of success at generating robust defenses, we are led to ask a fundamental question: Are advers…

2018-09-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Data poisoning attacks -- where an adversary can modify a small fraction of training data, with the goal of forcing the trained classifier to high loss -- are an important threat for machine learning in many applications. While a body of prior work has developed attacks and defenses, there is not much general understan…

2019-05-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Machine learning (ML) classifiers are vulnerable to adversarial examples. An adversarial example is an input sample which is slightly modified to induce misclassification in an ML classifier. In this work, we investigate white-box and grey-box evasion attacks to an ML-based malware detector and conduct performance eval…

2019-04-07abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper proposes a framework for certifying neural network defenses against data poisoning attacks.

problem Vulnerability of neural networks to data poisoning attacks.
method Random selection based defenses that average predictions on sub-datasets sampled from the training set.
result The certified radius of bagging derived by the framework is tighter than previous work.

Improved defense against data poisoning attacks by aggregating smaller subsets.

problem Mitigating the impact of poisoned data on model robustness.
method Finite Aggregation method that combines duplicates of smaller disjoint subsets for training.
result Consistent improvement in certified robustness bounds, up to 4.77% on GTSRB.

This study improves scalability of randomized smoothing for certifying classifier robustness.

problem Certifying machine learning classifiers against adversarial attacks is challenging and scalable solutions are needed.
method The study reviews and explores randomized smoothing and its derivatives, focusing on scalability.
result The study provides theoretical guarantees and discusses scalability challenges of randomized smoothing.

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 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.

Despite a large amount of attention on adversarial examples, very few works have demonstrated an effective defense against this threat. We examine Deep k-Nearest Neighbor (DkNN), a proposed defense that combines k-Nearest Neighbor (kNN) and deep learning to improve the model's robustness to adversarial examples. It is …

2019-03-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Detecting adversarial examples is as hard as classifying them.

problem The difficulty of detecting adversarial examples in machine learning models.
method Proved a general hardness reduction between detection and classification of adversarial examples.
result The hardness reduction implies that detecting adversarial examples is computationally infeasible.

Enhances single-step adversarial training to defend against iterative adversarial examples.

problem Defending against iterative adversarial examples in neural networks.
method Identified and leveraged empirical properties of Iter-Adv to improve Single-Adv.
result Enhanced Single-Adv to defend against iterative adversarial examples with improved accuracy and reduced training cost.

Adversarial attack methods have demonstrated the fragility of deep neural networks. Their imperceptible perturbations are frequently able fool classifiers into potentially dangerous misclassifications. We propose a novel way to interpret adversarial perturbations in terms of the effective input signal that classifiers …

2018-03-21abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

CBC makes CNNs robust against adversarial attacks with minimal computational overhead.

problem Making CNNs robust against adversarial attacks without increasing computational complexity.
method CBC uses a stacked encoder-convolutional model where an auto-encoder encodes the input image, and the latent representation is used for classification.
result CBC is more robust to adversarial examples and has significantly lower computational complexity.

An adversarial machine learning approach is introduced to launch jamming attacks on wireless communications and a defense strategy is presented. A cognitive transmitter uses a pre-trained classifier to predict the current channel status based on recent sensing results and decides whether to transmit or not, whereas a j…

2018-07-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Detects backdoors in trained classifiers without access to training data.

problem Post-training detection of backdoor attacks in DNN image classifiers.
method Purely unsupervised anomaly detection (AD) approach.
result Detects whether a classifier has been backdoor-attacked and infers source and target classes.

Randomized classifiers outperform deterministic ones in robustness against adversarial attacks.

problem Ensuring optimal robustness against all adversarial attacks.
method Game-theoretic approach, focusing on the non-existence of Nash equilibrium in deterministic classifiers and demonstrating the superiority of randomized classifiers.
result Randomized classifiers can outperform deterministic ones in robustness against adversarial attacks.

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.

A new method aggregates generative classifiers to resist adversarial attacks.

problem Adversarial attacks on deep neural networks.
method Rank-aggregating ensemble of generative classifiers trained on intermediate layer responses.
result The ensemble of generative classifiers shows robustness to adversarial attacks.