Summary of Defense Without Forgetting: Continual Adversarial Defense with Anisotropic & Isotropic Pseudo Replay, by Yuhang Zhou et al.
Defense without Forgetting: Continual Adversarial Defense with Anisotropic & Isotropic Pseudo Replay
by Yuhang Zhou, Zhongyun Hua
First submitted to arxiv on: 2 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A novel deep learning approach is proposed to continually adapt adversarial defense against sequences of attacks, rather than just one-shot scenarios. The method, called Anisotropic & Isotropic Replay (AIR), aims to balance model plasticity and stability while defending against new attacks. AIR consists of three key components: isotropic replay for consistency in the neighborhood distribution of new data, anisotropic replay for learning a compromise data manifold with fresh mixed semantics, and a regularizer to mitigate the trade-off between plasticity and stability. Experimental results show that AIR can approximate or even exceed the empirical performance upper bounds achieved by Joint Training. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary A group of scientists have developed a new way to protect computers from attacks. These attacks try to trick the computer into doing something it shouldn’t do. The new method is called Anisotropic & Isotropic Replay (AIR). It’s like a special kind of memory that helps the computer learn and remember what it has seen before, so it can defend itself better against new attacks. AIR is good at balancing two important things: being able to change and adapt to new situations, and staying consistent with what it already knows. This makes it very effective in defending against different types of attacks. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Deep learning * One shot * Semantics
