Summary of Improving Robustness to Model Inversion Attacks Via Sparse Coding Architectures, by Sayanton V. Dibbo et al.
Improving Robustness to Model Inversion Attacks via Sparse Coding Architectures
by Sayanton V. Dibbo, Adam Breuer, Juston Moore, Michael Teti
First submitted to arxiv on: 21 Mar 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); 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 The proposed novel network architecture leverages sparse-coding layers to achieve superior robustness against model inversion attacks, which reconstruct neural networks’ private training data by repeatedly querying the network. The study explores the connection between sparse coding and state-of-the-art privacy vulnerabilities, hypothesizing that sparse coding architectures can defend against these attacks while maintaining classification accuracy. Compared to various state-of-the-art defenses, the proposed approach maintains comparable or higher classification accuracy while degrading reconstruction quality by factors of 1.1 to 18.3 across multiple metrics (PSNR, SSIM, FID) on five datasets (CelebA, medical images, and CIFAR-10). The study’s findings hold across various state-of-the-art SGD-based and GAN-based inversion attacks, including Plug-&-Play attacks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The researchers developed a new way to make neural networks more secure. They used an old idea called sparse coding, which is usually used for image denoising or object recognition. But they found that it can also help protect against attacks that try to steal the network’s private training data. This is important because those attacks can be very powerful and could be used by bad actors. The new approach is able to keep its accuracy while making it much harder for attackers to get the training data. It works on different types of images and even medical images. The study also provides code so that other researchers can test and improve this idea. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Classification * Gan * Image denoising
