Detecting Adversarial Data via Provable Adversarial Noise Amplification

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Auteurs principaux: Mumcu, Furkan, Yilmaz, Yasin
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author Mumcu, Furkan
Yilmaz, Yasin
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Yilmaz, Yasin
contents The nonuniform and growing impact of adversarial noise across the layers of deep neural networks has been used in the literature, without a formal mathematical justification, to detect adversarial inputs and improve robustness. In this work, we study this phenomenon in detail and present a formal adversarial noise amplification theorem. We specify a set of sufficient conditions under which the adversarial noise amplification is mathematically guaranteed. Based on theoretical observations, we propose a novel training methodology with a custom spectral loss function and a specific architectural design to enhance the amplification signal for detecting adversarial data. Finally, we introduce a new, lightweight detection mechanism that leverages the enhanced amplification signal and operates entirely at inference time. To validate our approach, we demonstrate the detector's efficacy against both state-of-the-art attacks and a purpose-built adaptive attack, confirming that enhanced amplification can serve as a robust and reliable signal for adversarial defense.
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spellingShingle Detecting Adversarial Data via Provable Adversarial Noise Amplification
Mumcu, Furkan
Yilmaz, Yasin
Machine Learning
Cryptography and Security
The nonuniform and growing impact of adversarial noise across the layers of deep neural networks has been used in the literature, without a formal mathematical justification, to detect adversarial inputs and improve robustness. In this work, we study this phenomenon in detail and present a formal adversarial noise amplification theorem. We specify a set of sufficient conditions under which the adversarial noise amplification is mathematically guaranteed. Based on theoretical observations, we propose a novel training methodology with a custom spectral loss function and a specific architectural design to enhance the amplification signal for detecting adversarial data. Finally, we introduce a new, lightweight detection mechanism that leverages the enhanced amplification signal and operates entirely at inference time. To validate our approach, we demonstrate the detector's efficacy against both state-of-the-art attacks and a purpose-built adaptive attack, confirming that enhanced amplification can serve as a robust and reliable signal for adversarial defense.
title Detecting Adversarial Data via Provable Adversarial Noise Amplification
topic Machine Learning
Cryptography and Security
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.02109