Summary of Relaxing Graph Transformers For Adversarial Attacks, by Philipp Foth et al.
Relaxing Graph Transformers for Adversarial Attacks
by Philipp Foth, Lukas Gosch, Simon Geisler, Leo Schwinn, Stephan Günnemann
First submitted to arxiv on: 16 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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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 focuses on the adversarial robustness of Graph Transformers (GTs), a type of Graph Neural Network (GNN) architecture. While GTs have shown superiority in certain benchmarks, their susceptibility to attacks has not been thoroughly explored. The authors propose adaptive attacks targeting three representative GT architectures based on different positional encoding methods. They evaluate the robustness of these models against structure perturbations and node injection attacks for node and graph classification tasks. The results show that GTs can be catastrophically fragile, emphasizing the importance of developing adaptive attacks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This research looks at how vulnerable Graph Transformers are to cyberattacks. Graph Transformers are a type of AI model used for analyzing networks like social media or phone connections. Right now, we don’t know much about how well they can withstand attacks that try to manipulate their results. The authors of this paper came up with new ways to test these models and found that they’re surprisingly easy to trick. This shows us the importance of developing stronger defenses against these types of attacks. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Classification * Gnn * Graph neural network * Positional encoding
