Summary of Rethinking the Intermediate Features in Adversarial Attacks: Misleading Robotic Models Via Adversarial Distillation, by Ke Zhao (1) et al.
Rethinking the Intermediate Features in Adversarial Attacks: Misleading Robotic Models via Adversarial Distillation
by Ke Zhao, Huayang Huang, Miao Li, Yu Wu
First submitted to arxiv on: 21 Nov 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Robotics (cs.RO)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper proposes a novel adversarial prompt attack tailored to language-conditioned robotic models, which enables a single model to execute diverse tasks in response to verbal commands. The approach involves crafting a universal adversarial prefix that induces the model to perform unintended actions when added to any original prompt. The authors demonstrate that existing adversarial techniques are ineffective when directly transferred to the robotic domain due to the inherent robustness of discretized robotic action spaces. To overcome this challenge, they propose optimizing adversarial prefixes based on continuous action representations, circumventing the discretization process. Additionally, they identify the beneficial impact of intermediate features on adversarial attacks and leverage the negative gradient of intermediate self-attention features to further enhance attack efficacy. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps keep robots safe by finding ways to trick them into doing bad things. Right now, there are no good ways to test how well a robot will respond to new commands, but this research proposes a way to do just that. The authors create fake prompts that make the robot do unexpected things, and they show that existing methods don’t work very well because robots have limited actions they can take. To fix this problem, the researchers suggest looking at the internal workings of the robot’s brain to find the best ways to trick it. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Prompt » Self attention
