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Title: Adversarial Examples for k-Nearest Neighbor Classifiers Based on Higher-Order Voronoi Diagrams
Adversarial examples are a widely studied phenomenon in machine learning models. While most of the attention has been focused on neural networks, other practical models also suffer from this issue. In this work, we propose an algorithm for evaluating the adversarial robustness of k-nearest neighbor classification, i.e., finding a minimum-norm adversarial example. Diverging from previous proposals, we propose the first geometric approach by performing a search that expands outwards from a given input point. On a high level, the search radius expands to the nearby higher-order Voronoi cells until we find a cell that classifies differently from the input point. To scale the algorithm to a large k, we introduce approximation steps that find perturbation with smaller norm, compared to the baselines, in a variety of datasets. Furthermore, we analyze the structural properties of a dataset where our approach outperforms the competition.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1909235
NSF-PAR ID:
10347269
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Editor(s):
Ranzato, M.; Beygelzimer, A.; Dauphin, Y; Liang, P. S.; Wortman Vaughan, J.
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 34 (NeurIPS 2021)
Page Range / eLocation ID:
15486-15497
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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