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Affinity Workshop: Tiny Papers Poster Session 2

SD-NAE: Generating Natural Adversarial Examples with Stable Diffusion

Yueqian Lin · Jingyang Zhang · Yiran Chen · Hai Li

Halle B #349
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Tue 7 May 7:30 a.m. PDT — 9:30 a.m. PDT

Abstract:

Natural Adversarial Examples (NAEs), images arising naturally from the environment and capable of deceiving classifiers, are instrumental in robustly evaluating and identifying vulnerabilities in trained models. In this work, unlike prior works that passively collect NAEs from real images, we propose to actively synthesize NAEs using the state-of-the-art Stable Diffusion. Specifically, our method formulates a controlled optimization process, where we perturb the token embedding that corresponds to a specified class to generate NAEs. This generation process is guided by the gradient of loss from the target classifier, ensuring that the created image closely mimics the ground-truth class yet fools the classifier. Named SD-NAE (Stable Diffusion for Natural Adversarial Examples), our innovative method is effective in producing valid and useful NAEs, which is demonstrated through a meticulously designed experiment. Code is available at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/SD-NAE/.

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