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Robustness against Adversarial Attacks in Neural Networks using Incremental Dissipativity

Machine Learning 2022-02-15 v2 Artificial Intelligence Systems and Control Systems and Control

Abstract

Adversarial examples can easily degrade the classification performance in neural networks. Empirical methods for promoting robustness to such examples have been proposed, but often lack both analytical insights and formal guarantees. Recently, some robustness certificates have appeared in the literature based on system theoretic notions. This work proposes an incremental dissipativity-based robustness certificate for neural networks in the form of a linear matrix inequality for each layer. We also propose an equivalent spectral norm bound for this certificate which is scalable to neural networks with multiple layers. We demonstrate the improved performance against adversarial attacks on a feed-forward neural network trained on MNIST and an Alexnet trained using CIFAR-10.

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@article{arxiv.2111.12906,
  title  = {Robustness against Adversarial Attacks in Neural Networks using Incremental Dissipativity},
  author = {Bernardo Aquino and Arash Rahnama and Peter Seiler and Lizhen Lin and Vijay Gupta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.12906},
  year   = {2022}
}
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