Poster
First-Order Adversarial Vulnerability of Neural Networks and Input Dimension
Carl-Johann Simon-Gabriel · Yann Ollivier · Leon Bottou · Bernhard Schölkopf · David Lopez-Paz
Pacific Ballroom #62
Keywords: [ Optimization ] [ Computer Vision ] [ Architectures ] [ Adversarial Examples ]
Over the past few years, neural networks were proven vulnerable to adversarial images: targeted but imperceptible image perturbations lead to drastically different predictions. We show that adversarial vulnerability increases with the gradients of the training objective when viewed as a function of the inputs. Surprisingly, vulnerability does not depend on network topology: for many standard network architectures, we prove that at initialization, the L1-norm of these gradients grows as the square root of the input dimension, leaving the networks increasingly vulnerable with growing image size. We empirically show that this dimension-dependence persists after either usual or robust training, but gets attenuated with higher regularization.
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