Synthetic measurements show that gold-standard performance degrades according to distinct functional forms when optimizing proxy reward models via RL or best-of-n, with coefficients scaling smoothly by reward model parameter count.
Towards deep neural network architectures robust to adversarial examples
2 Pith papers cite this work. Polarity classification is still indexing.
abstract
Recent work has shown deep neural networks (DNNs) to be highly susceptible to well-designed, small perturbations at the input layer, or so-called adversarial examples. Taking images as an example, such distortions are often imperceptible, but can result in 100% mis-classification for a state of the art DNN. We study the structure of adversarial examples and explore network topology, pre-processing and training strategies to improve the robustness of DNNs. We perform various experiments to assess the removability of adversarial examples by corrupting with additional noise and pre-processing with denoising autoencoders (DAEs). We find that DAEs can remove substantial amounts of the adversarial noise. How- ever, when stacking the DAE with the original DNN, the resulting network can again be attacked by new adversarial examples with even smaller distortion. As a solution, we propose Deep Contractive Network, a model with a new end-to-end training procedure that includes a smoothness penalty inspired by the contractive autoencoder (CAE). This increases the network robustness to adversarial examples, without a significant performance penalty.
fields
cs.LG 2representative citing papers
Baseline defenses including perplexity-based detection, input preprocessing, and adversarial training offer partial robustness to text adversarial attacks on LLMs, with challenges arising from weak discrete optimizers.
citing papers explorer
-
Scaling Laws for Reward Model Overoptimization
Synthetic measurements show that gold-standard performance degrades according to distinct functional forms when optimizing proxy reward models via RL or best-of-n, with coefficients scaling smoothly by reward model parameter count.
-
Baseline Defenses for Adversarial Attacks Against Aligned Language Models
Baseline defenses including perplexity-based detection, input preprocessing, and adversarial training offer partial robustness to text adversarial attacks on LLMs, with challenges arising from weak discrete optimizers.