Denoised Internal Models: a Brain-Inspired Autoencoder against Adversarial Attacks

Despite its great success, deep learning severely suffers from robustness; that is, deep neural networks are very vulnerable to adversarial attacks, even the simplest ones. Inspired by recent advances in brain science, we propose the Denoised Internal Models (DIM), a novel generative autoencoder-bas...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2023-03
Main Authors: Liu, Kaiyuan, Li, Xingyu, Lai, Yurui, Zhang, Ge, Su, Hang, Wang, Jiachen, Guo, Chunxu, Guan, Jisong, Zhou, Yi
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Artificial neural networks
Brain
Machine learning
Noise reduction
Robustness
Signal processing
Thalamus
Visual signals
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Summary:Despite its great success, deep learning severely suffers from robustness; that is, deep neural networks are very vulnerable to adversarial attacks, even the simplest ones. Inspired by recent advances in brain science, we propose the Denoised Internal Models (DIM), a novel generative autoencoder-based model to tackle this challenge. Simulating the pipeline in the human brain for visual signal processing, DIM adopts a two-stage approach. In the first stage, DIM uses a denoiser to reduce the noise and the dimensions of inputs, reflecting the information pre-processing in the thalamus. Inspired from the sparse coding of memory-related traces in the primary visual cortex, the second stage produces a set of internal models, one for each category. We evaluate DIM over 42 adversarial attacks, showing that DIM effectively defenses against all the attacks and outperforms the SOTA on the overall robustness.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2111.10844