Social learning under inferential attacks
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Author(s)
Ntemos, Konstantinos
Bordignon, Virginia
Vlaski, Stefan
Sayed, Ali H
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
A common assumption in the social learning literature is that agents exchange information in an unselfish manner. In this work, we consider the scenario where a subset of agents aims at driving the network beliefs to the wrong hypothesis. The adversaries are unaware of the true hypothesis. However, they will "blend in" by behaving similarly to the other agents and will manipulate the likelihood functions used in the belief update process to launch inferential attacks. We will characterize the conditions under which the network is misled. Then, we will explain that it is possible for such attacks to succeed by showing that strategies exist that can be adopted by the malicious agents for this purpose. We examine both situations in which the agents have minimal or no information about the network model.
Date Issued
2021-05-13
Date Acceptance
2021-05-01
Citation
2021 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH AND SIGNAL PROCESSING (ICASSP 2021), 2021, pp.5479-5483
Publisher
IEEE
Start Page
5479
End Page
5483
Journal / Book Title
2021 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH AND SIGNAL PROCESSING (ICASSP 2021)
Copyright Statement
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Source
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Acoustics
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science, Software Engineering
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Imaging Science & Photographic Technology
Computer Science
Engineering
social learning
malicious agents
information diffusion
inferential attacks
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2021-06-06
Finish Date
2021-06-11
Coverage Spatial
ELECTR NETWORK
Date Publish Online
2021-05-13