Summary of Tropical Decision Boundaries For Neural Networks Are Robust Against Adversarial Attacks, by Kurt Pasque and Christopher Teska and Ruriko Yoshida and Keiji Miura and Jefferson Huang
Tropical Decision Boundaries for Neural Networks Are Robust Against Adversarial Attacks
by Kurt Pasque, Christopher Teska, Ruriko Yoshida, Keiji Miura, Jefferson Huang
First submitted to arxiv on: 1 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Combinatorics (math.CO)
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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 introduces a novel, efficient, and robust neural network architecture that is resistant to adversarial attacks. The tropical convolutional neural network (TCNN) leverages the properties of piece-wise linear networks by embedding data in the tropical projective torus within a single hidden layer, which can be added to any model. The authors demonstrate the geometry of the decision boundary and showcase its robustness against adversarial attacks on image datasets through computational experiments. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper creates a new way to make computer models more secure by adding a special layer that makes them harder to trick. It’s called the tropical convolutional neural network (TCNN) and it can be added to any model. The TCNN works by using math from something called the tropical projective torus, which is hard for hackers to mess with. The researchers tested this new model on pictures and showed that it can withstand attacks that are meant to make it misclassify things. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Embedding * Neural network
