Non-Negative Networks Against Adversarial Attacks

06/15/2018

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by   William Fleshman, et al.

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Adversarial attacks against Neural Networks are a problem of considerable importance, for which effective defenses are not yet readily available. We make progress toward this problem by showing that non-negative weight constraints can be used to improve resistance in specific scenarios. In particular, we show that they can provide an effective defense for binary classification problems with asymmetric cost, such as malware or spam detection. We also show how non-negativity can be leveraged to reduce an attacker's ability to perform targeted misclassification attacks in other domains such as image processing.