Enhancing the Antidote: Improved Pointwise Certifications against Poisoning Attacks

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Main Authors: Liu, Shijie, Cullen, Andrew C., Montague, Paul, Erfani, Sarah M., Rubinstein, Benjamin I. P.
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Published: 2023
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author Liu, Shijie
Cullen, Andrew C.
Montague, Paul
Erfani, Sarah M.
Rubinstein, Benjamin I. P.
author_facet Liu, Shijie
Cullen, Andrew C.
Montague, Paul
Erfani, Sarah M.
Rubinstein, Benjamin I. P.
contents Poisoning attacks can disproportionately influence model behaviour by making small changes to the training corpus. While defences against specific poisoning attacks do exist, they in general do not provide any guarantees, leaving them potentially countered by novel attacks. In contrast, by examining worst-case behaviours Certified Defences make it possible to provide guarantees of the robustness of a sample against adversarial attacks modifying a finite number of training samples, known as pointwise certification. We achieve this by exploiting both Differential Privacy and the Sampled Gaussian Mechanism to ensure the invariance of prediction for each testing instance against finite numbers of poisoned examples. In doing so, our model provides guarantees of adversarial robustness that are more than twice as large as those provided by prior certifications.
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spellingShingle Enhancing the Antidote: Improved Pointwise Certifications against Poisoning Attacks
Liu, Shijie
Cullen, Andrew C.
Montague, Paul
Erfani, Sarah M.
Rubinstein, Benjamin I. P.
Machine Learning
Cryptography and Security
Poisoning attacks can disproportionately influence model behaviour by making small changes to the training corpus. While defences against specific poisoning attacks do exist, they in general do not provide any guarantees, leaving them potentially countered by novel attacks. In contrast, by examining worst-case behaviours Certified Defences make it possible to provide guarantees of the robustness of a sample against adversarial attacks modifying a finite number of training samples, known as pointwise certification. We achieve this by exploiting both Differential Privacy and the Sampled Gaussian Mechanism to ensure the invariance of prediction for each testing instance against finite numbers of poisoned examples. In doing so, our model provides guarantees of adversarial robustness that are more than twice as large as those provided by prior certifications.
title Enhancing the Antidote: Improved Pointwise Certifications against Poisoning Attacks
topic Machine Learning
Cryptography and Security
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07553