Manipulating Predictions over Discrete Inputs in Machine Teaching

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Hauptverfasser: Wu, Xiaodong, Han, Yufei, Dahrouj, Hayssam, Ni, Jianbing, Liang, Zhenwen, Zhang, Xiangliang
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Veröffentlicht: 2024
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author Wu, Xiaodong
Han, Yufei
Dahrouj, Hayssam
Ni, Jianbing
Liang, Zhenwen
Zhang, Xiangliang
author_facet Wu, Xiaodong
Han, Yufei
Dahrouj, Hayssam
Ni, Jianbing
Liang, Zhenwen
Zhang, Xiangliang
contents Machine teaching often involves the creation of an optimal (typically minimal) dataset to help a model (referred to as the `student') achieve specific goals given by a teacher. While abundant in the continuous domain, the studies on the effectiveness of machine teaching in the discrete domain are relatively limited. This paper focuses on machine teaching in the discrete domain, specifically on manipulating student models' predictions based on the goals of teachers via changing the training data efficiently. We formulate this task as a combinatorial optimization problem and solve it by proposing an iterative searching algorithm. Our algorithm demonstrates significant numerical merit in the scenarios where a teacher attempts at correcting erroneous predictions to improve the student's models, or maliciously manipulating the model to misclassify some specific samples to the target class aligned with his personal profits. Experimental results show that our proposed algorithm can have superior performance in effectively and efficiently manipulating the predictions of the model, surpassing conventional baselines.
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spellingShingle Manipulating Predictions over Discrete Inputs in Machine Teaching
Wu, Xiaodong
Han, Yufei
Dahrouj, Hayssam
Ni, Jianbing
Liang, Zhenwen
Zhang, Xiangliang
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
I.2.6
Machine teaching often involves the creation of an optimal (typically minimal) dataset to help a model (referred to as the `student') achieve specific goals given by a teacher. While abundant in the continuous domain, the studies on the effectiveness of machine teaching in the discrete domain are relatively limited. This paper focuses on machine teaching in the discrete domain, specifically on manipulating student models' predictions based on the goals of teachers via changing the training data efficiently. We formulate this task as a combinatorial optimization problem and solve it by proposing an iterative searching algorithm. Our algorithm demonstrates significant numerical merit in the scenarios where a teacher attempts at correcting erroneous predictions to improve the student's models, or maliciously manipulating the model to misclassify some specific samples to the target class aligned with his personal profits. Experimental results show that our proposed algorithm can have superior performance in effectively and efficiently manipulating the predictions of the model, surpassing conventional baselines.
title Manipulating Predictions over Discrete Inputs in Machine Teaching
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
I.2.6
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.17865