Summary of Generating Potent Poisons and Backdoors From Scratch with Guided Diffusion, by Hossein Souri et al.
Generating Potent Poisons and Backdoors from Scratch with Guided Diffusion
by Hossein Souri, Arpit Bansal, Hamid Kazemi, Liam Fowl, Aniruddha Saha, Jonas Geiping, Andrew Gordon Wilson, Rama Chellappa, Tom Goldstein, Micah Goldblum
First submitted to arxiv on: 25 Mar 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The research paper presents a novel approach to creating more effective poisons and backdoors in neural networks. By synthesizing base samples from scratch using guided diffusion, the authors demonstrate that these samples can lead to significantly more potent attacks compared to previous state-of-the-art methods. The proposed Guided Diffusion Poisoning (GDP) technique allows for boosting the effectiveness of downstream poisoning or backdoor attacks by carefully selecting the base samples. The authors also provide public access to their implementation code. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary A group of scientists have discovered a way to make fake data that can trick artificial intelligence models into making bad decisions. They used a new method called guided diffusion to create these fake data points, which they call “base samples.” These base samples are very good at being poisoned or backdoored, meaning they can be easily modified to harm the AI model. The scientists think that using these base samples will make it easier to create attacks on AI models, and they’ve made their code available online so others can use it. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Boosting * Diffusion
