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New attacks can infer model training membership using only label predictions, not confidence.
New attacks reveal membership in label-only ML models.
Current neural network-based classifiers are susceptible to adversarial examples even in the black-box setting, where the attacker only has query access to the model. In practice, the threat model for real-world systems is often more restrictive than the typical black-box model where the adversary can observe the full …
Machine unlearning can compromise privacy, study shows.
We present new minimax results that concisely capture the relative benefits of source and target labeled data, under covariate-shift. Namely, we show that the benefits of target labels are controlled by a transfer-exponent that encodes how singular Q is locally w.r.t. P, and interestingly allows situations where tr…
In training speech recognition systems, labeling audio clips can be expensive, and not all data is equally valuable. Active learning aims to label only the most informative samples to reduce cost. For speech recognition, confidence scores and other likelihood-based active learning methods have been shown to be effectiv…
"Feint Attack", as a new type of APT attack, has become the focus of attention. It adopts a multi-stage attacks mode which can be concluded as a combination of virtual attacks and real attacks. Under the cover of virtual attacks, real attacks can achieve the real purpose of the attacker, as a result, it often caused hu…
This paper studies adversarial attacks on Gaussian process bandits.
Subpopulation attacks poison data to misclassify naturally distributed points.
Reward-poisoning attacks can force RL agents to learn bad policies, and we categorize and quantify their feasibility.
Spanning attack improves black-box attacks with unlabeled data.
Headless attacks bypass classification heads to fool transfer learning models.
New attack manipulates UCB algorithm, new defense algorithm reduces pseudo-regret.
This paper explores evasion attacks against Bayesian models.
Adversarial attacks pose a threat to deep neural networks, especially in safety-critical applications.
New approach deflects adversarial attacks by causing them to resemble target classes.
RayS attack improves hard-label adversarial attacks by reducing query complexity and identifying false robust models.
Depending on how much information an adversary can access to, adversarial attacks can be classified as white-box attack and black-box attack. For white-box attack, optimization-based attack algorithms such as projected gradient descent (PGD) can achieve relatively high attack success rates within moderate iterates. How…
Control policies, trained using the Deep Reinforcement Learning, have been recently shown to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks introducing even very small perturbations to the policy input. The attacks proposed so far have been designed using heuristics, and build on existing adversarial example crafting techniques …
Adversarial attacks for image classification are small perturbations to images that are designed to cause misclassification by a model. Adversarial attacks formally correspond to an optimization problem: find a minimum norm image perturbation, constrained to cause misclassification. A number of effective attacks have b…
This paper proposes multi-view attack strategies for deep models.
Pixle attacks images by rearranging pixels, bypassing neural networks.
Efficiently attacks large-scale graphs without using the whole graph.
Most state-of-the-art machine learning (ML) classification systems are vulnerable to adversarial perturbations. As a consequence, adversarial robustness poses a significant challenge for the deployment of ML-based systems in safety- and security-critical environments like autonomous driving, disease detection or unmann…
We introduce two tactics to attack agents trained by deep reinforcement learning algorithms using adversarial examples, namely the strategically-timed attack and the enchanting attack. In the strategically-timed attack, the adversary aims at minimizing the agent's reward by only attacking the agent at a small subset of…
A new method uses adversarial attacks to detect other adversarial attacks.
Transformers can learn optimal variable selection in group-sparse classification.
Study on reward poisoning attacks on CMAB, revealing attackability depends on adversary's knowledge.
Many machine learning algorithms are vulnerable to almost imperceptible perturbations of their inputs. So far it was unclear how much risk adversarial perturbations carry for the safety of real-world machine learning applications because most methods used to generate such perturbations rely either on detailed model inf…
New black-box attack method improves GNN defense without needing training data.
Robustness of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) algorithms towards adversarial attacks in real world applications such as those deployed in cyber-physical systems (CPS) are of increasing concern. Numerous studies have investigated the mechanisms of attacks on the RL agent's state space. Nonetheless, attacks on the RL a…
Gradient-based adversarial attacks on neural networks can be crafted in a variety of ways by varying either how the attack algorithm relies on the gradient, the network architecture used for crafting the attack, or both. Most recent work has focused on defending classifiers in a case where there is no uncertainty about…
Transferability captures the ability of an attack against a machine-learning model to be effective against a different, potentially unknown, model. Empirical evidence for transferability has been shown in previous work, but the underlying reasons why an attack transfers or not are not yet well understood. In this paper…
Recent studies show that Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which attack DRL models by adding small perturbations to the observations. However, some attacks assume full availability of the victim model, and some require a huge amount of computation, making them less feasible…
This paper improves attacks on recommender systems by solving optimization problems more precisely.
First robust bandit algorithm for contextual bandits with sub-linear regret.
As machine learning (ML) becomes more and more powerful and easily accessible, attackers increasingly leverage ML to perform automated large-scale inference attacks in various domains. In such an ML-equipped inference attack, an attacker has access to some data (called public data) of an individual, a software, or a sy…
In this paper we propose a new membership attack method called co-membership attacks against deep generative models including Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Specifically, membership attack aims to check whether a given instance x was used in the training data or not. A co-me…
Efficient poisoning attack converges to any target classifier with provable convergence.
New adversarial training enhances malware detectors against various attacks.
Regularisation improves ML classifier stability against poisoning attacks.
With the great success of graph embedding model on both academic and industry area, the robustness of graph embedding against adversarial attack inevitably becomes a central problem in graph learning domain. Regardless of the fruitful progress, most of the current works perform the attack in a white-box fashion: they n…
Adversarial attacks can manipulate ML-aided visualizations, tricking analysts.
ODS improves adversarial attacks by maximizing output diversity.
Study online learner attacks by manipulating labels, revealing critical thresholds.
Attackers can poison environments to force RL agents to follow target policies.
Paper examines adversarial attacks on weather forecasting models, focusing on TC trajectory prediction.
Adversarial training was introduced as a way to improve the robustness of deep learning models to adversarial attacks. This training method improves robustness against adversarial attacks, but increases the models vulnerability to privacy attacks. In this work we demonstrate how model inversion attacks, extracting trai…