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On Lp-norm Robustness of Ensemble Decision Stumps and Trees
Yihan Wang · Huan Zhang · Hongge Chen · Duane Boning · Cho-Jui Hsieh
Wed Jul 15 04:00 PM -- 04:45 PM & Thu Jul 16 03:00 AM -- 03:45 AM (PDT) @ None #None
Recent papers have demonstrated that ensemble stumps and trees could be vulnerable to small input perturbations, so robustness verification and defense for those models have become an important research problem. However, due to the structure of decision trees, where each node makes decision purely based on one feature value, all the previous works only consider the $\ell_\infty$ norm perturbation. To study robustness with respect to a general $\ell_p$ norm perturbation, one has to consider the correlation between perturbations on different features, which has not been handled by previous algorithms. In this paper, we study the problem of robustness verification and certified defense with respect to general $\ell_p$ norm perturbations for ensemble decision stumps and trees. For robustness verification of ensemble stumps, we prove that complete verification is NP-complete for $p\in(0, \infty)$ while polynomial time algorithms exist for $p=0$ or $\infty$. For $p\in(0, \infty)$ we develop an efficient dynamic programming based algorithm for sound verification of ensemble stumps. For ensemble trees, we generalize the previous multi-level robustness verification algorithm to $\ell_p$ norm.
We demonstrate the first certified defense method for training ensemble stumps and trees with respect to $\ell_p$ norm perturbations, and verify its effectiveness empirically on real datasets.
Author Information
Yihan Wang (Tsinghua University)
Huan Zhang (UCLA)
Hongge Chen (MIT)
Duane Boning (MIT)
Cho-Jui Hsieh (UCLA)
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