Summary of Boosting Few-pixel Robustness Verification Via Covering Verification Designs, by Yuval Shapira et al.
Boosting Few-Pixel Robustness Verification via Covering Verification Designs
by Yuval Shapira, Naor Wiesel, Shahar Shabelman, Dana Drachsler-Cohen
First submitted to arxiv on: 17 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO); Programming Languages (cs.PL)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary Proving local robustness of neural networks is crucial for reliability. While many verifiers prove robustness in L∞ ε-balls, little work deals with robustness verification in L0 ε-balls, capturing robustness to few pixel attacks. The proposed covering verification design, CoVerD, introduces a combinatorial challenge by selecting between different candidate coverings without constructing them. This prediction relies on a theorem providing closed-form expressions for the mean and variance of this distribution. CoVerD constructs the chosen covering verification design on-the-fly, while keeping memory consumption minimal and enabling parallelization. Experimental results show that CoVerD reduces verification time by up to 5.1x compared to prior work, scaling to larger L0 ε-balls. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about making sure neural networks are reliable. Right now, many ways to check if a network is robust only work for small changes in the data. But what if someone wants to make bigger changes? This would be a problem because there are too many possible changes to check them all. The authors came up with an idea called CoVerD that can help solve this problem by choosing the right way to check the network’s reliability. They tested it and found that it works faster than other methods, making it useful for checking bigger changes. |
