Affiliation:
1. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
2. University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
3. University of Georgia, Athens, GA
4. Alibaba Group, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Abstract
Metric learning aims at automatically learning a distance metric from data so that the precise similarity between data instances can be faithfully reflected, and its importance has long been recognized in many fields. An implicit assumption in existing metric learning works is that the learned models are performed in a reliable and secure environment. However, the increasingly critical role of metric learning makes it susceptible to a risk of being malicious attacked. To well understand the performance of metric learning models in adversarial environments, in this article, we study the robustness of metric learning to adversarial perturbations, which are also known as the imperceptible changes to the input data that are crafted by an attacker to fool a well-learned model. However, different from traditional classification models, metric learning models take instance pairs rather than individual instances as input, and the perturbation on one instance may not necessarily affect the prediction result for an instance pair, which makes it more difficult to study the robustness of metric learning. To address this challenge, in this article, we first provide a definition of pairwise robustness for metric learning, and then propose a novel projected gradient descent-based attack method (called AckMetric) to evaluate the robustness of metric learning models. To further explore the capability of the attacker to change the prediction results, we also propose a theoretical framework to derive the upper bound of the pairwise adversarial loss. Finally, we incorporate the derived bound into the training process of metric learning and design a novel defense method to make the learned models more robust. Extensive experiments on real-world datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods.
Funder
US National Science Foundation
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
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