Gradient-based explanation is the cornerstone of explainable deep networks, but it has been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. However, existing works measure the explanation robustness based on $\ell_p$-norm, which can be counter-intuitive to humans, who only pay attention to the top few salient features. We propose explanation ranking thickness as a more suitable explanation robustness metric. We then present a new practical adversarial attacking goal for manipulating explanation rankings. To mitigate the ranking-based attacks while maintaining computational feasibility, we derive surrogate bounds of the thickness that involve expensive sampling and integration. We use a multi-objective approach to analyze the convergence of a gradient-based attack to confirm that the explanation robustness can be measured by the thickness metric. We conduct experiments on various network architectures and diverse datasets to prove the superiority of the proposed methods, while the widely accepted Hessian-based curvature smoothing approaches are not as robust as our method.

Explainability has been widely stated as a cornerstone of the responsible and trustworthy use of machine learning models. With the ubiquitous use of Deep Neural Network (DNN) models expanding to risk-sensitive and safety-critical domains, many methods have been proposed to explain the decisions of these models. Recent years have also seen concerted efforts that have shown how such explanations can be distorted (attacked) by minor input perturbations. While there have been many surveys that review explainability methods themselves, there has been no effort hitherto to assimilate the different methods and metrics proposed to study the robustness of explanations of DNN models. In this work, we present a comprehensive survey of methods that study, understand, attack, and defend explanations of DNN models. We also present a detailed review of different metrics used to evaluate explanation methods, as well as describe attributional attack and defense methods. We conclude with lessons and take-aways for the community towards ensuring robust explanations of DNN model predictions.

Post-hoc explanation methods are used with the intent of providing insights about neural networks and are sometimes said to help engender trust in their outputs. However, popular explanations methods have been found to be fragile to minor perturbations of input features or model parameters. Relying on constraint relaxation techniques from non-convex optimization, we develop a method that upper-bounds the largest change an adversary can make to a gradient-based explanation via bounded manipulation of either the input features or model parameters. By propagating a compact input or parameter set as symbolic intervals through the forwards and backwards computations of the neural network we can formally certify the robustness of gradient-based explanations. Our bounds are differentiable, hence we can incorporate provable explanation robustness into neural network training. Empirically, our method surpasses the robustness provided by previous heuristic approaches. We find that our training method is the only method able to learn neural networks with certificates of explanation robustness across all six datasets tested.

对抗性可转移性是一种有趣的性质 - 针对一个模型制作的对抗性扰动也是对另一个模型有效的，而这些模型来自不同的模型家庭或培训过程。为了更好地保护ML系统免受对抗性攻击，提出了几个问题：对抗性转移性的充分条件是什么，以及如何绑定它？有没有办法降低对抗的转移性，以改善合奏ML模型的鲁棒性？为了回答这些问题，在这项工作中，我们首先在理论上分析和概述了模型之间的对抗性可转移的充分条件;然后提出一种实用的算法，以减少集合内基础模型之间的可转换，以提高其鲁棒性。我们的理论分析表明，只有促进基础模型梯度之间的正交性不足以确保低可转移性;与此同时，模型平滑度是控制可转移性的重要因素。我们还在某些条件下提供了对抗性可转移性的下界和上限。灵感来自我们的理论分析，我们提出了一种有效的可转让性，减少了平滑（TRS）集合培训策略，以通过实施基础模型之间的梯度正交性和模型平滑度来培训具有低可转换性的强大集成。我们对TRS进行了广泛的实验，并与6个最先进的集合基线进行比较，防止不同数据集的8个白箱攻击，表明所提出的TRS显着优于所有基线。

最近的研究表明，深度神经网络（DNNS）极易受到精心设计的对抗例子的影响。对那些对抗性例子的对抗性学习已被证明是防御这种攻击的最有效方法之一。目前，大多数现有的对抗示例生成方法基于一阶梯度，这几乎无法进一步改善模型的鲁棒性，尤其是在面对二阶对抗攻击时。与一阶梯度相比，二阶梯度提供了相对于自然示例的损失格局的更准确近似。受此启发的启发，我们的工作制作了二阶的对抗示例，并使用它们来训练DNNS。然而，二阶优化涉及Hessian Inverse的耗时计算。我们通过将问题转换为Krylov子空间中的优化，提出了一种近似方法，该方法显着降低了计算复杂性以加快训练过程。在矿工和CIFAR-10数据集上进行的广泛实验表明，我们使用二阶对抗示例的对抗性学习优于其他FISRT-阶方法，这可以改善针对广泛攻击的模型稳健性。

Adaptive attacks have (rightfully) become the de facto standard for evaluating defenses to adversarial examples. We find, however, that typical adaptive evaluations are incomplete. We demonstrate that thirteen defenses recently published at ICLR, ICML and NeurIPS-and which illustrate a diverse set of defense strategies-can be circumvented despite attempting to perform evaluations using adaptive attacks. While prior evaluation papers focused mainly on the end result-showing that a defense was ineffective-this paper focuses on laying out the methodology and the approach necessary to perform an adaptive attack. Some of our attack strategies are generalizable, but no single strategy would have been sufficient for all defenses. This underlines our key message that adaptive attacks cannot be automated and always require careful and appropriate tuning to a given defense. We hope that these analyses will serve as guidance on how to properly perform adaptive attacks against defenses to adversarial examples, and thus will allow the community to make further progress in building more robust models.

已知深度神经网络（DNN）容易受到用不可察觉的扰动制作的对抗性示例的影响，即，输入图像的微小变化会引起错误的分类，从而威胁着基于深度学习的部署系统的可靠性。经常采用对抗训练（AT）来通过训练损坏和干净的数据的混合物来提高DNN的鲁棒性。但是，大多数基于AT的方法在处理\ textit {转移的对抗示例}方面是无效的，这些方法是生成以欺骗各种防御模型的生成的，因此无法满足现实情况下提出的概括要求。此外，对抗性训练一般的国防模型不能对具有扰动的输入产生可解释的预测，而不同的领域专家则需要一个高度可解释的强大模型才能了解DNN的行为。在这项工作中，我们提出了一种基于Jacobian规范和选择性输入梯度正则化（J-SIGR）的方法，该方法通过Jacobian归一化提出了线性化的鲁棒性，还将基于扰动的显着性图正规化，以模仿模型的可解释预测。因此，我们既可以提高DNN的防御能力和高解释性。最后，我们评估了跨不同体系结构的方法，以针对强大的对抗性攻击。实验表明，提出的J-Sigr赋予了针对转移的对抗攻击的鲁棒性，我们还表明，来自神经网络的预测易于解释。

可说明的机器学习吸引了越来越多的关注，因为它提高了模型的透明度，这有助于机器学习在真实应用中受到信任。然而，最近证明了解释方法易于操纵，在那里我们可以在保持其预测常数的同时轻松改变模型的解释。为了解决这个问题，已经支付了一些努力来使用更稳定的解释方法或更改模型配置。在这项工作中，我们从训练角度解决了问题，并提出了一种称为对抗的解释培训的新培训计划（ATEX），以改善模型的内部解释稳定性，无论应用的具体解释方法如何。而不是直接指定数据实例上的解释值，而是仅为模型预测提供了要求，该预测避免了涉及在优化中的二阶导数。作为进一步的讨论，我们还发现解释稳定性与模型的另一个性质密切相关，即暴露于对抗性攻击的风险。通过实验，除了表明ATEX改善了针对操纵靶向解释的模型鲁棒性，它还带来了额外的益处，包括平滑解释，并在应用于模型时提高对抗性训练的功效。

在本讨论文件中，我们调查了有关机器学习模型鲁棒性的最新研究。随着学习算法在数据驱动的控制系统中越来越流行，必须确保它们对数据不确定性的稳健性，以维持可靠的安全至关重要的操作。我们首先回顾了这种鲁棒性的共同形式主义，然后继续讨论训练健壮的机器学习模型的流行和最新技术，以及可证明这种鲁棒性的方法。从强大的机器学习的这种统一中，我们识别并讨论了该地区未来研究的迫切方向。

对抗性培训（AT）已成为培训强大网络的热门选择。然而，它倾向于牺牲清洁精度，以令人满意的鲁棒性，并且遭受大的概括误差。为了解决这些问题，我们提出了平稳的对抗培训（SAT），以我们对损失令人歉端的损失的终人谱指导。 We find that curriculum learning, a scheme that emphasizes on starting "easy" and gradually ramping up on the "difficulty" of training, smooths the adversarial loss landscape for a suitably chosen difficulty metric.我们展示了对普通环境中的课程学习的一般制定，并提出了一种基于最大Hessian特征值（H-SAT）和软MAX概率（P-SA）的两个难度指标。我们展示SAT稳定网络培训即使是大型扰动规范，并且允许网络以更好的清洁精度运行而与鲁棒性权衡曲线相比。与AT，交易和其他基线相比，这导致清洁精度和鲁棒性的显着改善。为了突出一些结果，我们的最佳模型将分别在CIFAR-100上提高6％和1％的稳健准确性。在Imagenette上，一个十一级想象成的子集，我们的模型分别以正常和强大的准确性达到23％和3％。

在对抗文献中，鲁棒性和准确性之间的权衡得到了广泛的研究。尽管仍然有争议，但普遍的观点是，从经验或理论上，这种权衡是固有的。因此，我们在对抗训练中挖掘了这种权衡的起源，发现它可能源于不当定义的可靠错误，该错误施加了局部不变性的诱导偏见 - 对平稳性的过度校正。鉴于此，我们主张采用局部模棱两可来描述健壮模型的理想行为，从而导致自洽的强大错误称为得分。根据定义，得分有助于稳健性与准确性之间的对帐，同时仍通过稳健优化处理最坏情况的不确定性。通过简单地将KL差异替换为距离指标的变体，得分可以有效地最小化。从经验上讲，我们的模型在AutoAttact下的强力板上实现了最高的性能。此外，得分提供了指导性见解，以解释在健壮模型上观察到的过度拟合现象和语义输入梯度。代码可在https://github.com/p2333/score上找到。

模型归因在深度神经网络中很重要，因为它们可以帮助实践者理解模型，但是最近的研究表明，通过向输入中添加不可察觉的噪声可以轻松扰动归因。非差异性肯德尔的等级相关性是归因保护的关键绩效指数。在本文中，我们首先证明了预期的肯德尔的等级相关性与余弦相似性呈正相关，然后表明归因方向是归因鲁棒性的关键。基于这些发现，我们探索了归因的矢量空间，以使用$ \ ell_p $ norm来解释归因防御方法的缺点，并提出了集成的梯度正常化程序（IGR），从而最大程度地提高了自然和扰动属性之间的余弦相似性。我们的分析进一步公开了IGR鼓励具有相同激活状态的天然样品和相应扰动样品的神经元，这证明可以诱导基于梯度的归因方法的鲁棒性。我们在不同模型和数据集上的实验证实了我们对归因保护的分析，并证明了对抗性鲁棒性的不当改善。

许多最先进的ML模型在各种任务中具有优于图像分类的人类。具有如此出色的性能，ML模型今天被广泛使用。然而，存在对抗性攻击和数据中毒攻击的真正符合ML模型的稳健性。例如，Engstrom等人。证明了最先进的图像分类器可以容易地被任意图像上的小旋转欺骗。由于ML系统越来越纳入安全性和安全敏感的应用，对抗攻击和数据中毒攻击构成了相当大的威胁。本章侧重于ML安全的两个广泛和重要的领域：对抗攻击和数据中毒攻击。

深度神经网络（DNN）的巨大进步导致了各种任务的最先进的性能。然而，最近的研究表明，DNNS容易受到对抗的攻击，这在将这些模型部署到自动驾驶等安全关键型应用时，这使得非常关注。已经提出了不同的防御方法，包括：a）经验防御，通常可以在不提供稳健性认证的情况下再次再次攻击; b）可认真的稳健方法，由稳健性验证组成，提供了在某些条件下的任何攻击和相应的强大培训方法中的稳健准确性的下限。在本文中，我们系统化了可认真的稳健方法和相关的实用和理论意义和调查结果。我们还提供了在不同数据集上现有的稳健验证和培训方法的第一个全面基准。特别是，我们1）为稳健性验证和培训方法提供分类，以及总结代表性算法的方法，2）揭示这些方法中的特征，优势，局限性和基本联系，3）讨论当前的研究进展情况TNN和4的可信稳健方法的理论障碍，主要挑战和未来方向提供了一个开放的统一平台，以评估超过20种代表可认真的稳健方法，用于各种DNN。

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are one of the most prominent technologies of our time, as they achieve state-of-the-art performance in many machine learning tasks, including but not limited to image classification, text mining, and speech processing. However, recent research on DNNs has indicated ever-increasing concern on the robustness to adversarial examples, especially for security-critical tasks such as traffic sign identification for autonomous driving. Studies have unveiled the vulnerability of a well-trained DNN by demonstrating the ability of generating barely noticeable (to both human and machines) adversarial images that lead to misclassification. Furthermore, researchers have shown that these adversarial images are highly transferable by simply training and attacking a substitute model built upon the target model, known as a black-box attack to DNNs.Similar to the setting of training substitute models, in this paper we propose an effective black-box attack that also only has access to the input (images) and the output (confidence scores) of a targeted DNN. However, different from leveraging attack transferability from substitute models, we propose zeroth order optimization (ZOO) based attacks to directly estimate the gradients of the targeted DNN for generating adversarial examples. We use zeroth order stochastic coordinate descent along with dimension reduction, hierarchical attack and importance sampling techniques to * Pin-Yu Chen and Huan Zhang contribute equally to this work.

Adversarial training is widely used to improve the robustness of deep neural networks to adversarial attack. However, adversarial training is prone to overfitting, and the cause is far from clear. This work sheds light on the mechanisms underlying overfitting through analyzing the loss landscape w.r.t. the input. We find that robust overfitting results from standard training, specifically the minimization of the clean loss, and can be mitigated by regularization of the loss gradients. Moreover, we find that robust overfitting turns severer during adversarial training partially because the gradient regularization effect of adversarial training becomes weaker due to the increase in the loss landscapes curvature. To improve robust generalization, we propose a new regularizer to smooth the loss landscape by penalizing the weighted logits variation along the adversarial direction. Our method significantly mitigates robust overfitting and achieves the highest robustness and efficiency compared to similar previous methods. Code is available at https://github.com/TreeLLi/Combating-RO-AdvLC.

While neural networks have achieved high accuracy on standard image classification benchmarks, their accuracy drops to nearly zero in the presence of small adversarial perturbations to test inputs. Defenses based on regularization and adversarial training have been proposed, but often followed by new, stronger attacks that defeat these defenses. Can we somehow end this arms race? In this work, we study this problem for neural networks with one hidden layer. We first propose a method based on a semidefinite relaxation that outputs a certificate that for a given network and test input, no attack can force the error to exceed a certain value. Second, as this certificate is differentiable, we jointly optimize it with the network parameters, providing an adaptive regularizer that encourages robustness against all attacks. On MNIST, our approach produces a network and a certificate that no attack that perturbs each pixel by at most = 0.1 can cause more than 35% test error.

研究神经网络中重量扰动的敏感性及其对模型性能的影响，包括泛化和鲁棒性，是一种积极的研究主题，因为它对模型压缩，泛化差距评估和对抗攻击等诸如模型压缩，泛化差距评估和对抗性攻击的广泛机器学习任务。在本文中，我们在重量扰动下的鲁棒性方面提供了前馈神经网络的第一积分研究和分析及其在体重扰动下的泛化行为。我们进一步设计了一种新的理论驱动损失功能，用于培训互动和强大的神经网络免受重量扰动。进行实证实验以验证我们的理论分析。我们的结果提供了基本洞察，以表征神经网络免受重量扰动的泛化和鲁棒性。

Deep learning algorithms have been shown to perform extremely well on many classical machine learning problems. However, recent studies have shown that deep learning, like other machine learning techniques, is vulnerable to adversarial samples: inputs crafted to force a deep neural network (DNN) to provide adversary-selected outputs. Such attacks can seriously undermine the security of the system supported by the DNN, sometimes with devastating consequences. For example, autonomous vehicles can be crashed, illicit or illegal content can bypass content filters, or biometric authentication systems can be manipulated to allow improper access. In this work, we introduce a defensive mechanism called defensive distillation to reduce the effectiveness of adversarial samples on DNNs. We analytically investigate the generalizability and robustness properties granted by the use of defensive distillation when training DNNs. We also empirically study the effectiveness of our defense mechanisms on two DNNs placed in adversarial settings. The study shows that defensive distillation can reduce effectiveness of sample creation from 95% to less than 0.5% on a studied DNN. Such dramatic gains can be explained by the fact that distillation leads gradients used in adversarial sample creation to be reduced by a factor of 10 30 . We also find that distillation increases the average minimum number of features that need to be modified to create adversarial samples by about 800% on one of the DNNs we tested.

时间序列数据在许多现实世界中（例如，移动健康）和深神经网络（DNNS）中产生，在解决它们方面已取得了巨大的成功。尽管他们成功了，但对他们对对抗性攻击的稳健性知之甚少。在本文中，我们提出了一个通过统计特征（TSA-STAT）}称为时间序列攻击的新型对抗框架}。为了解决时间序列域的独特挑战，TSA-STAT对时间序列数据的统计特征采取限制来构建对抗性示例。优化的多项式转换用于创建比基于加性扰动的攻击（就成功欺骗DNN而言）更有效的攻击。我们还提供有关构建对抗性示例的统计功能规范的认证界限。我们对各种现实世界基准数据集的实验表明，TSA-STAT在欺骗DNN的时间序列域和改善其稳健性方面的有效性。 TSA-STAT算法的源代码可在https://github.com/tahabelkhouja/time-series-series-attacks-via-statity-features上获得