Summary of Adversarial Vulnerability As a Consequence Of On-manifold Inseparibility, by Rajdeep Haldar et al.
Adversarial Vulnerability as a Consequence of On-Manifold Inseparibility
by Rajdeep Haldar, Yue Xing, Qifan Song, Guang Lin
First submitted to arxiv on: 9 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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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 paper investigates the relationship between dimensionality reduction techniques and adversarial vulnerability in classification tasks. The study characterizes data distribution as a low-dimensional manifold with varying features defining the on/off direction, arguing that clean training experiences poor convergence in the off-manifold direction due to ill-conditioning in first-order optimizers. This poor convergence then acts as a source of adversarial vulnerability when the dataset is inseparable in the on-manifold direction. The paper provides theoretical results for logistic regression and 2-layer linear networks, advocating for the use of second-order methods that are immune to ill-conditioning and lead to better robustness. Experimental results demonstrate significant robustness improvements through long training and second-order method employment, confirming the framework. Additionally, batch-norm layers hinder these gains due to differing implicit biases between traditional and batch-normalized neural networks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary A new study looks at how using fewer data dimensions can make models more or less vulnerable to attacks. The researchers found that when we try to reduce the number of dimensions in a dataset, it doesn’t always make our model more robust. Instead, they discovered that this reduction can actually make the model worse at handling unwanted changes to the data. To solve this problem, the scientists suggest using special methods that are better at dealing with these issues and tested their ideas on different types of models. They found that these new methods work much better than usual methods in making the models more robust. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Classification * Dimensionality reduction * Logistic regression
