Near-optimal Evasion of Randomized Convex-inducing Classifiers in Adversarial Environments
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Classifiers are often used to detect malicious activities in adversarial environments. Sophisticated adversaries would attempt to find information about deployed classifiers in order to strategise different evasion techniques. It is a widely held belief that randomization of decision boundaries/rules of detection systems would introduce further complexities in attempts made by the adversaries for finding minimal adversarial cost (MAC) evading instances. We have extended the results obtained by Nelson et al. [14] and further presented a novel algorithm that can find optimal evading instances in randomized convex-inducing classifiers using polynomial-many queries. Our results have demonstrated that the complexity introduced through randomization only increases the complexity of finding an optimal evading instance by a constant factor and thus the risk of optimal evasion is still present.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it