Summary of Towards Unlocking the Mystery Of Adversarial Fragility Of Neural Networks, by Jingchao Gao et al.
Towards unlocking the mystery of adversarial fragility of neural networks
by Jingchao Gao, Raghu Mudumbai, Xiaodong Wu, Jirong Yi, Catherine Xu, Hui Xie, Weiyu Xu
First submitted to arxiv on: 23 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Information Theory (cs.IT); Signal Processing (eess.SP)
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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 delves into the adversarial robustness of deep neural networks, focusing on classification tasks. The researchers investigate the smallest magnitude of perturbations that can alter a model’s output, providing a matrix-theoretic explanation for the vulnerability of these models. Specifically, they show that as input dimension d increases, neural network adversarial robustness degrades. Additionally, their analytical findings demonstrate that neural networks’ robustness is at most 1/√d of the optimal level. These results align with an earlier information-theoretic feature-compression-based explanation for neural network fragility. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This study looks at how well deep learning models can withstand being tricked into making mistakes. The researchers want to know what’s the smallest change they can make to a picture or text that will cause a model to misclassify it. They found that as the amount of information in an input grows, these models become less robust against these types of attacks. This helps us understand why deep learning models are often fooled by small changes. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Classification * Deep learning * Neural network
