arXiv Machine Learning

Adversarial Training of Linear Models under Stealthy Attacks

The paper introduces a detector‑based switched model to defend linear predictive models against stealthy false data injection attacks. It derives a convex formulation of the adversarial risk that incorporates protected features and a hyperparameter for attack probability, allowing an explicit trade‑off between clean and attacked data performance. Numerical experiments on real and synthetic datasets demonstrate improved performance on partially attacked data, even when the attack probability is misspecified.

OpenAI Blog
Aug 22, 2019

Testing robustness against unforeseen adversaries

We’ve developed a method to assess whether a neural network classifier can reliably defend against adversarial attacks not seen during training. Our method yields a new metric, UAR (Unforeseen Attack Robustness), which evaluates the robustness of a single model against an unanticipated attack, and highlights the need to measure performance across a more diverse range of unforeseen attacks.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

Rethinking the Transferable Adversarial Attacks and Robust Defense in Federated Learning

The paper investigates how adversarial examples transfer between client models in federated learning and explores the relationship between these examples and client data distributions. It proposes a defense strategy based on adversarial training that leverages the transferability of model robustness. Experiments on real-life datasets demonstrate that the new attack and defense methods outperform existing state‑of‑the‑art approaches.

By Zuobin Xiong, Deval Mukherjee, Homook Cho, Wei Li