Summary of Meta Invariance Defense Towards Generalizable Robustness to Unknown Adversarial Attacks, by Lei Zhang et al.
Meta Invariance Defense Towards Generalizable Robustness to Unknown Adversarial Attacks
by Lei Zhang, Yuhang Zhou, Yi Yang, Xinbo Gao
First submitted to arxiv on: 4 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: 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 This paper proposes Meta Invariance Defense (MID), a novel method for defending deep neural networks against unknown adversarial attacks. Despite their high performance, current DNN models are highly vulnerable to these attacks, and existing defenses often focus on known attacks rather than unknown ones. MID uses a meta principle to learn attack-invariant features from pixel-, feature-, and prediction-level consistency distillation between benign and adversarial samples. This approach simultaneously achieves robustness to imperceptible adversarial perturbations in high-level image classification and attack-suppression in low-level robust image regeneration. The authors verify the generalizable robustness of MID on numerous benchmarks such as ImageNet, demonstrating its superiority over existing methods. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about a new way to protect computer models from being tricked by fake data. Right now, these models are very good at recognizing images and objects, but they can be easily fooled by special kinds of fake data designed to confuse them. The researchers propose a new method called Meta Invariance Defense (MID) that can help these models resist these attacks. MID works by learning from both normal and fake data to figure out what makes the data “normal” or “fake”. This approach helps the model become more robust, meaning it’s harder for attackers to trick them with fake data. The researchers tested this method on many different datasets and found that it worked well. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Distillation * Image classification
