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48 results for white-box transformers

Minimalistic unsupervised learning with sparse manifold transform achieves SOTA performance.

problem Achieving state-of-the-art unsupervised learning performance without complex engineering.
method Sparse manifold transform, leveraging sparse coding, manifold learning, and slow feature analysis.
result 99.3% KNN top-1 accuracy on MNIST, 81.1% on CIFAR-10, and 53.2% on CIFAR-100.

This research discovers model architecture and training dataset characteristics through strategic input probing.

problem Discovering model architecture and training dataset characteristics in black box models.
method Structured input probes and model outputs are used to train a deep classifier for image and text classification.
result The approach successfully distinguishes between different image and text datasets and architectures.

Graphical normalizing flows use Bayesian networks to improve normalizing flows' interpretability and performance.

problem Improving the interpretability and performance of normalizing flows.
method Revisiting normalizing flows as probabilistic graphical models, proposing graphical normalizing flows with either prescribed or learnable graph structures.
result Graphical conditioners lead to competitive white box density estimators.

Watermarking of deep neural networks (DNN) can enable their tracing once released by a data owner. In this paper, we generalize white-box watermarking algorithms for DNNs, where the data owner needs white-box access to the model to extract the watermark. White-box watermarking algorithms have the advantage that they do…

2019-10-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep 3D models are vulnerable to isometry transformations under adversarial attacks.

problem Vulnerability of deep 3D models to isometry transformations under adversarial attacks.
method Developed a black-box attack with success rate over 95% and a novel white-box attack framework.
result Deep 3D models are extremely vulnerable to isometry transformations under adversarial attacks.

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.

New defense method inspired by encryption improves visual classification accuracy.

problem Conventional defenses reduce accuracy and are defeated by obfuscated gradients.
method Block-wise pixel shuffling with secret key for training and test images.
result Achieves high accuracy (91.55%) on clean images and (89.66%) on adversarial examples.

ODS improves adversarial attacks by maximizing output diversity.

problem Efficiency and effectiveness of adversarial attacks, especially black-box attacks.
method Output Diversified Sampling (ODS) that maximizes diversity in model outputs.
result ODS reduces the number of queries needed for black-box attacks on ImageNet by a factor of two.

Transfer learning improves model robustness against adversarial attacks.

problem Understanding how transfer learning affects model robustness against adversarial attacks.
method Extensive empirical evaluations of white-box and black-box attacks on fine-tuned transfer learning models.
result Adversarial examples are more transferable when fine-tuning is used than when networks are trained independently.

Extends batch active learning to non-differentiable models.

problem Efficiently training machine learning models on large, initially unlabelled datasets.
method Black-box batch active learning for regression tasks that relies solely on model predictions.
result Achieves strong performance on regression datasets compared to white-box approaches for deep learning models.

New action poisoning attacks improve LinUCB's performance by changing action signals.

problem Improving understanding of adversarial attacks on contextual bandit algorithms.
method Proposed action poisoning attacks in white-box and black-box settings.
result Action poisoning attacks can force LinUCB to pull a target arm frequently with low cost.

Study on how many queries an adversary needs to make to match the best attack in white-box model.

problem Query complexity of adversarial attacks in machine learning models.
method Investigates the number of queries required for an adversary to match the best possible attack in the white-box model, using entropy of decision boundaries as a measure.
result Lower bound on the number of queries required for an adversary to match the best possible attack in the white-box model.

Shapelet transform improves time series classification for earthquake, wind, and wave events.

problem Autonomous detection of specific events from large time series datasets in civil engineering.
method Shapelet transform for local similarity in time series subsequences, combined with machine learning.
result Shapelet transform yields a new feature representation for time series signals in civil engineering.

SCENE-Net improves 3D point cloud segmentation with low resource usage and transparency.

problem Lack of resources and transparency in 3D semantic segmentation models.
method SCENE-Net uses signature shapes identified via GENEOs to achieve semantic segmentation with minimal resources.
result SCENE-Net achieves comparable IoU to state-of-the-art methods with less data and computational resources.

RTFE provides adversarial robustness to multiple models.

problem Adversarial examples can transfer to other models, compromising robustness.
method Proposes RTFE, a deep learning-based pre-processing mechanism.
result RTFE provides adversarial robustness to multiple independently trained classifiers.

ReduNet optimizes data compression by maximizing rate reduction in deep networks.

problem Optimizing deep networks for high-dimensional multi-class data.
method Maximizing rate reduction through iterative gradient ascent, leading to a multi-layer deep network.
result ReduNet achieves optimal linear discriminative representation and is more efficient in the spectral domain.

In this appraisal paper, we evaluate the efficacy of SHIELD, a compression-based defense framework for countering adversarial attacks on image classification models, which was published at KDD 2018. Here, we consider alternative threat models not studied in the original work, where we assume that an adaptive adversary …

2019-02-01abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, we study the problem of how to defend classifiers against adversarial attacks that fool the classifiers using subtly modified input data. In contrast to previous works, here we focus on the white-box adversarial defense where the attackers are granted full access to not only the classifiers but also defe…

2019-09-13abs ↗pdf ↗

The performance of many algorithms in the fields of hard combinatorial problem solving, machine learning or AI in general depends on tuned hyperparameter configurations. Automated methods have been proposed to alleviate users from the tedious and error-prone task of manually searching for performance-optimized configur…

2019-06-18abs ↗pdf ↗

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 ↗

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 ↗

Paper presents a method to disrupt deep uncertainty estimation without affecting accuracy.

problem Uncertainty estimation in deep neural networks for risk-sensitive applications.
method A novel attack that cripples uncertainty estimation without reducing accuracy.
result The attack causes the network to be more confident in incorrect predictions than correct ones.