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Aug 15, 2024

View a PDF of the paper titled Ensemble everything everywhere: Multi-scale aggregation for adversarial robustness, by Stanislav Fort and 1 other authors

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Inspired by biology we 1) get adversarial robustness + interpretability for free, 2) turn classifiers into generators & 3) design attacks on vLLMs.

Stanislav Fort, Balaji Lakshminarayanan August 2024 https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2408.


Adversarial examples pose a significant challenge to the robustness, reliability and alignment of deep neural networks. We propose a novel, easy-to-use approach to achieving high-quality representations that lead to adversarial robustness through the use of multi-resolution input representations and dynamic self-ensembling of intermediate layer predictions. We demonstrate that intermediate layer predictions exhibit inherent robustness to adversarial attacks crafted to fool the full classifier, and propose a robust aggregation mechanism based on Vickrey auction that we call \textit{CrossMax} to dynamically ensemble them.

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