Summary of A Brain-inspired Regularizer For Adversarial Robustness, by Elie Attias et al.
A Brain-Inspired Regularizer for Adversarial Robustness
by Elie Attias, Cengiz Pehlevan, Dina Obeid
First submitted to arxiv on: 4 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed research aims to develop regularizers that mimic the computational function of neural regularizers without requiring neural recordings, thereby expanding their usability and effectiveness. The study builds upon recent findings that training Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) with brain-like representations can improve model robustness. However, these methods are restricted by the need for neural data. By analyzing a neural regularizer introduced in Li et al. (2019), the authors discover that it uses neural representational similarities, which correlate with pixel similarities. Motivated by this finding, they introduce a new regularizer that retains the essence of the original but is computed using image pixel similarities. The proposed method significantly increases model robustness to various black box attacks on different datasets and is computationally inexpensive, relying only on original data. This work explores how biologically motivated loss functions can drive the performance of artificial neural networks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper tries to find a way to make computer models more robust without needing special brain data. It looks at how regularizers that are inspired by brain connections can help make AI better. They take a closer look at one type of regularizer and see how it works. From this, they create a new kind of regularizer that doesn’t need the brain data and still makes the computer models work well. This new method helps protect against bad attacks on the models and is easy to use. |
