The scientific python community has settled on conda and conda-forge as the easiest way to compile and install dependencies that have complicated build recipes:
As long as the Python community thinks of their problems as “Python packaging problems”, and not “legacy C compiler & linker issues from the 1970s which we …
We've been reading through a lot of papers recently about defenses against adversarial attacks on computer vision models. We've got two more to go!
[For now anyway. The pace of machine learning research these days is dizzying]
Here's how wild the pace of #MachineLearning research is these days: a …
In the recent series of blog posts about making computer vision models robust to the presence of adversarial attacks, we have mostly been looking at the classic notion of an adversarial attack on an image model. That is to say, you the attacker are providing a digital image that you …
In the last three posts, we've looked at different ways to defend an image classification algorithm against a "classic" adversarial attack -- a small perturbation added to the image that causes a machine learning model to misclassify it, but is not detectable to a human. The options we've seen so far …
For the last few months, we have been describing defenses against adversarial attacks on computer vision models. That is to say, if I have a model in production, and someone might feed it malicious inputs in order to trick it into generating bad predictions, what are defenses I can put …
When machine learning models get deployed into production, the people who trained the model lose some amount of control over inputs that go into the model. There is a large body of literature on all the natural ways in which the data a model sees at inference time might be …
So far, we have been looking at different ways adversarial machine learning can be applied to attack a machine learning model. We've seen different adversary goals, applied under different threat models, that resulted in giant sunglasses, weird t-shirts, and forehead stickers.
But what if you are the person with a …
In the papers that we have discussed about adversarial patches so far, the motivation has principally involved looking at the security or safety of machine learning models that have been deployed to production. So, these papers typically reference an explicit threat model where some adversary is trying to change the …
At the AIVillage at DEFCON 2022, Justin Hutchens a cybersecurity expert at Set Solutions, gave a presentation on using dating apps as an attack vector.1 The idea goes like this: let's say you want to gain access to a system that normally requires secure logins. Some systems provide a …
A few weeks ago, Meta AI announced Galactica1, a large language model (LLM) built for scientific workflows. The architecture for Galactica is a fairly vanilla transformer model, but with three interesting modifications to the training process.
First, the training corpus itself is comprised of scientific documents. These are mostly …