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Workshop: 2nd ICML Workshop on New Frontiers in Adversarial Machine Learning

Feature Partition Aggregation: A Fast Certified Defense Against a Union of 0 Attacks

Zayd S Hammoudeh · Daniel Lowd

Keywords: [ Backdoor Attack ] [ data poisoning ] [ sparse attack ] [ evasion attack ] [ Certified defense ] [ 0 attack ]


Abstract: Sparse or 0 adversarial attacks arbitrarily perturb an unknown subset of the features. 0 robustness analysis is particularly well-suited for heterogeneous (tabular) data where features have different types or scales. State-of-the-art 0 certified defenses are based on randomized smoothing and apply to evasion attacks only. This paper proposes feature partition aggregation (FPA) - a certified defense against the union of 0 evasion, backdoor, and poisoning attacks. FPA generates its stronger robustness guarantees via an ensemble whose submodels are trained on disjoint feature sets. Compared to state-of-the-art 0 defenses, FPA is up to 3,000× faster and provides median robustness guarantees up to 4× larger, meaning FPA provides the additional dimensions of robustness essentially for free.

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