Jacobian regularization for mitigating universal adversarial perturbations
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Author(s)
Co, Kenneth T
Rego, David Martinez
Lupu, Emil C
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Universal Adversarial Perturbations (UAPs) are input perturbations that can fool a neural network on large sets of data. They are a class of attacks that represents a significant threat as they facilitate realistic, practical, and low-cost attacks on neural networks. In this work, we derive upper bounds for the effectiveness of UAPs based on norms of data-dependent Jacobians. We empirically verify that Jacobian regularization greatly increases model robustness to UAPs by up to four times whilst maintaining clean performance. Our theoretical analysis also allows us to formulate a metric for the strength of shared adversarial perturbations between pairs of inputs. We apply this metric to benchmark datasets and show that it is highly correlated with the actual observed robustness. This suggests that realistic and practical universal attacks can be reliably mitigated without sacrificing clean accuracy, which shows promise for the robustness of machine learning systems.
Date Issued
2021-09-07
Date Acceptance
2021-06-15
Citation
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2021, 12894, pp.202-213
ISSN
0302-9743
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Start Page
202
End Page
213
Journal / Book Title
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume
12894
Copyright Statement
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021. The final publication is available at Springer via https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-86380-7_17
Subjects
cs.LG
cs.LG
cs.AI
cs.CR
cs.CV
Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2021-09-07