Summary of Understanding Deep Learning Defenses Against Adversarial Examples Through Visualizations For Dynamic Risk Assessment, by Xabier Echeberria-barrio et al.
Understanding Deep Learning defenses Against Adversarial Examples Through Visualizations for Dynamic Risk Assessment
by Xabier Echeberria-Barrio, Amaia Gil-Lerchundi, Jon Egana-Zubia, Raul Orduna-Urrutia
First submitted to arxiv on: 12 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
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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 explores the vulnerabilities of Deep Neural Network models used in critical tasks where misdiagnosis can have severe consequences. Researchers have identified numerous attacks on these models, but existing defenses are often opaque and their inner workings unknown. To address this, the authors focus on visualizing how different defenses modify the behavior of a target model to better understand their impact. They select three defenses – adversarial training, dimensionality reduction, and prediction similarity – and develop a model using convolutional neural network (CNN) and dense neural network layers. By comparing the original and defended models’ behaviors through visualization, they shed light on how each defense affects the target model’s performance. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper is about making sure that special computer models don’t make mistakes that can cause big problems. These models are very good at doing tasks like recognizing pictures or hearing voices, but if they’re not perfect, it could be bad news! Some people have been trying to trick these models into making wrong decisions, which is a problem. To stop this from happening, some smart people have created ways to protect the models. But nobody really knows how those protections work. The authors of this paper want to figure out what’s going on by looking at how different protection methods change how the model behaves. They chose three special ways to do this and used a mix of computer layers to make their own model. By comparing the original and protected models, they can understand how each method helps or hurts the model’s performance. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Cnn * Dimensionality reduction * Neural network
