Summary of Treatment Of Statistical Estimation Problems in Randomized Smoothing For Adversarial Robustness, by Vaclav Voracek
Treatment of Statistical Estimation Problems in Randomized Smoothing for Adversarial Robustness
by Vaclav Voracek
First submitted to arxiv on: 25 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about making computer systems safer from fake or misleading information. One way to do this is by using something called “randomized smoothing.” Right now, randomized smoothing is slow because it needs to check many different versions of a piece of data. The researchers in this paper looked at why that’s the case and came up with new ways to make it faster. They also found a way to make sure that the results are still accurate even when we only have limited information. This could help us keep our computers and networks safer from fake news and other types of attacks. |
