Summary of Mitigating the Impact Of Noisy Edges on Graph-based Algorithms Via Adversarial Robustness Evaluation, by Yongyu Wang et al.
Mitigating the Impact of Noisy Edges on Graph-Based Algorithms via Adversarial Robustness Evaluation
by Yongyu Wang, Xiaotian Zhuang
First submitted to arxiv on: 28 Jan 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a novel approach to mitigate the impact of noisy edges in graph construction, which affects the performance of graph-based algorithms. The authors view these noisy edges as adversarial attacks and develop a spectral adversarial robustness evaluation method to identify robust points that are less vulnerable to noise. These robust points are then leveraged to perform graph-based algorithms, outperforming state-of-the-art denoising methods by a significant margin. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Imagine you’re trying to build a map of the internet, but there are many fake roads and wrong turns. This can make it hard for your map-making algorithm to find the right path. The authors of this paper have come up with a new way to fix this problem. They treat the noisy edges like a kind of attack on their map-making process. Then, they use special math to find the parts that are less affected by these attacks and only use those to make their map. This approach works really well and beats other methods at fixing the noise. |
