Summary of Sparse and Transferable Universal Singular Vectors Attack, by Kseniia Kuvshinova et al.
Sparse and Transferable Universal Singular Vectors Attack
by Kseniia Kuvshinova, Olga Tsymboi, Ivan Oseledets
First submitted to arxiv on: 25 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 This research paper proposes a novel method for generating adversarial attacks on neural networks, specifically focusing on improving model interpretability and robustness. The proposed attack, called Truncated Power Iteration-based Sparse Universal White-box Attack (TPI-SUWA), exploits the vulnerability of state-of-the-art models by targeting their Jacobian matrices. Experimental results demonstrate TPI-SUWA’s effectiveness, achieving a 50% fooling rate on the ImageNet benchmark while minimizing pixel damage and perturbation samples required. Additionally, the paper shows that constructed perturbations are highly transferable across different models without significantly decreasing fooling rates. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This study explores how to make neural networks more robust against attacks. The researchers developed a new way to trick these networks using only a small part of the network’s hidden layers. They tested their method on a big image dataset and found that it can make many popular networks fail, while only changing a few pixels. This means that these networks are vulnerable to attacks and need to be improved to prevent them from being fooled. |
