Limited but consistent gains in adversarial robustness by co-training object recognition models with human EEG

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Autores principales: Guo, Manshan, Choksi, Bhavin, Sadiya, Sari, Gifford, Alessandro T., Vilas, Martina G., Cichy, Radoslaw M., Roig, Gemma
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author Guo, Manshan
Choksi, Bhavin
Sadiya, Sari
Gifford, Alessandro T.
Vilas, Martina G.
Cichy, Radoslaw M.
Roig, Gemma
author_facet Guo, Manshan
Choksi, Bhavin
Sadiya, Sari
Gifford, Alessandro T.
Vilas, Martina G.
Cichy, Radoslaw M.
Roig, Gemma
contents In contrast to human vision, artificial neural networks (ANNs) remain relatively susceptible to adversarial attacks. To address this vulnerability, efforts have been made to transfer inductive bias from human brains to ANNs, often by training the ANN representations to match their biological counterparts. Previous works relied on brain data acquired in rodents or primates using invasive techniques, from specific regions of the brain, under non-natural conditions (anesthetized animals), and with stimulus datasets lacking diversity and naturalness. In this work, we explored whether aligning model representations to human EEG responses to a rich set of real-world images increases robustness to ANNs. Specifically, we trained ResNet50-backbone models on a dual task of classification and EEG prediction; and evaluated their EEG prediction accuracy and robustness to adversarial attacks. We observed significant correlation between the networks' EEG prediction accuracy, often highest around 100 ms post stimulus onset, and their gains in adversarial robustness. Although effect size was limited, effects were consistent across different random initializations and robust for architectural variants. We further teased apart the data from individual EEG channels and observed strongest contribution from electrodes in the parieto-occipital regions. The demonstrated utility of human EEG for such tasks opens up avenues for future efforts that scale to larger datasets under diverse stimuli conditions with the promise of stronger effects.
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spellingShingle Limited but consistent gains in adversarial robustness by co-training object recognition models with human EEG
Guo, Manshan
Choksi, Bhavin
Sadiya, Sari
Gifford, Alessandro T.
Vilas, Martina G.
Cichy, Radoslaw M.
Roig, Gemma
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Human-Computer Interaction
In contrast to human vision, artificial neural networks (ANNs) remain relatively susceptible to adversarial attacks. To address this vulnerability, efforts have been made to transfer inductive bias from human brains to ANNs, often by training the ANN representations to match their biological counterparts. Previous works relied on brain data acquired in rodents or primates using invasive techniques, from specific regions of the brain, under non-natural conditions (anesthetized animals), and with stimulus datasets lacking diversity and naturalness. In this work, we explored whether aligning model representations to human EEG responses to a rich set of real-world images increases robustness to ANNs. Specifically, we trained ResNet50-backbone models on a dual task of classification and EEG prediction; and evaluated their EEG prediction accuracy and robustness to adversarial attacks. We observed significant correlation between the networks' EEG prediction accuracy, often highest around 100 ms post stimulus onset, and their gains in adversarial robustness. Although effect size was limited, effects were consistent across different random initializations and robust for architectural variants. We further teased apart the data from individual EEG channels and observed strongest contribution from electrodes in the parieto-occipital regions. The demonstrated utility of human EEG for such tasks opens up avenues for future efforts that scale to larger datasets under diverse stimuli conditions with the promise of stronger effects.
title Limited but consistent gains in adversarial robustness by co-training object recognition models with human EEG
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Human-Computer Interaction
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.03646