Effect of Ambient-Intrinsic Dimension Gap on Adversarial Vulnerability

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Auteurs principaux: Haldar, Rajdeep, Xing, Yue, Song, Qifan
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author Haldar, Rajdeep
Xing, Yue
Song, Qifan
author_facet Haldar, Rajdeep
Xing, Yue
Song, Qifan
contents The existence of adversarial attacks on machine learning models imperceptible to a human is still quite a mystery from a theoretical perspective. In this work, we introduce two notions of adversarial attacks: natural or on-manifold attacks, which are perceptible by a human/oracle, and unnatural or off-manifold attacks, which are not. We argue that the existence of the off-manifold attacks is a natural consequence of the dimension gap between the intrinsic and ambient dimensions of the data. For 2-layer ReLU networks, we prove that even though the dimension gap does not affect generalization performance on samples drawn from the observed data space, it makes the clean-trained model more vulnerable to adversarial perturbations in the off-manifold direction of the data space. Our main results provide an explicit relationship between the $\ell_2,\ell_{\infty}$ attack strength of the on/off-manifold attack and the dimension gap.
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spellingShingle Effect of Ambient-Intrinsic Dimension Gap on Adversarial Vulnerability
Haldar, Rajdeep
Xing, Yue
Song, Qifan
Machine Learning
Cryptography and Security
The existence of adversarial attacks on machine learning models imperceptible to a human is still quite a mystery from a theoretical perspective. In this work, we introduce two notions of adversarial attacks: natural or on-manifold attacks, which are perceptible by a human/oracle, and unnatural or off-manifold attacks, which are not. We argue that the existence of the off-manifold attacks is a natural consequence of the dimension gap between the intrinsic and ambient dimensions of the data. For 2-layer ReLU networks, we prove that even though the dimension gap does not affect generalization performance on samples drawn from the observed data space, it makes the clean-trained model more vulnerable to adversarial perturbations in the off-manifold direction of the data space. Our main results provide an explicit relationship between the $\ell_2,\ell_{\infty}$ attack strength of the on/off-manifold attack and the dimension gap.
title Effect of Ambient-Intrinsic Dimension Gap on Adversarial Vulnerability
topic Machine Learning
Cryptography and Security
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03967