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Adversarial Machine Learning. Daniel Lowd, University of Oregon Christopher Meek, Microsoft Research Pedro Domingos, University of Washington. Motivation. Many adversarial problems Spam filtering Malware detection Worm detection New ones every year! Want general-purpose solutions
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Adversarial Machine Learning Daniel Lowd, University of Oregon Christopher Meek, Microsoft Research Pedro Domingos, University of Washington
Motivation • Many adversarial problems • Spam filtering • Malware detection • Worm detection • New ones every year! • Want general-purpose solutions • We can gain much insight by modeling adversarial situations mathematically
Example: Spam Filtering From: spammer@example.com Cheap mortgage now!!! 1. Feature Weights cheap = 1.0 mortgage = 1.5 2. 3. Total score = 2.5 > 1.0 (threshold) Spam
Example: Spammers Adapt From: spammer@example.com Cheap mortgage now!!!Eugene Oregon 1. Feature Weights cheap = 1.0 mortgage = 1.5 Eugene = -1.0 Oregon = -1.0 2. 3. Total score = 0.5 < 1.0 (threshold) OK
Example: Classifier Adapts From: spammer@example.com Cheap mortgage now!!!Eugene Oregon 1. Feature Weights cheap = 1.5 mortgage = 2.0 Eugene = -0.5 Oregon = -0.5 2. 3. Total score = 2.5 > 1.0 (threshold) Spam OK
Outline • Problem definitions • Anticipating adversaries (Dalvi et al., 2004) • Goal: Defeat adaptive adversary • Assume: Perfect information, optimal short-term strategies • Results: Vastly better classifier accuracy • Reverse engineering classifiers (Lowd & Meek, 2005a,b) • Goal: Assess classifier vulnerability • Assume: Membership queries from adversary • Results: Theoretical bounds, practical attacks • Also: How to defeat a spam filter with 30 words or less! • Conclusion
- + X2 X2 x x X1 X1 X2 X1 Definitions Adversarial cost function Instance space Classifier c(x): X {+,} c C, concept class (e.g., linear classifier) a(x): X R a A (e.g., more legible spam is better) X = {X1, X2, …, Xn} Each Xi is a feature (e.g., a word) Instances, x X (e.g., emails)
- + Adversarial scenario - + Defender’s Task:Choose new c’(x) minimize (cost-sensitive) error Adversary’s Task:Choose x to minimize a(x) subject to c(x) =
Cost-sensitive error:Not all errors are equal! “Better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.” -- William Blackstone, 1760 False Positive Rate (FP): Fraction of “good” instances misclassified as “bad” (e.g., good email blocked by filter) False Negative Rate (FN):Fraction of “bad” instances misclassified as “good” (e.g., spam that gets through) Classifier Utility: UC = 1 – cFP FP – cFN FN
This is a game! • Adversary’s actions: {x X} • Defender’s actions: {c C} • Assume perfect information • Finding a Nash equilibrium is triply exponential (at best)! • Instead, we’ll look at optimal myopic strategies:Best action assuming nothing else changes
Initial classifier • Set weights using cost-sensitive naïve Bayes • Assume: training data is untainted Learned weights: cheap = 1.0 mortgage = 1.5 Eugene = -1.0 Oregon = -1.0
Adversary’s strategy From: spammer@ example.com Cheap mortgage now!!!Eugene Oregon From: spammer@ example.com Cheap mortgage now!!! • Use cost: a(x) = Σi w(xi, bi) • Solve knapsack-like problem with dynamic programming • Assume: that the classifier will not modify c(x) cheap = 1.0 mortgage = 1.5 Eugene = -1.0 Oregon = -1.0
Classifier’s strategy • For given x, compute probability it was modified by adversary • Assume: the adversary is using the optimal strategy Learned weights: cheap = 1.0 mortgage = 1.5 Eugene = -1.0 Oregon = -1.0
Classifier’s strategy • For given x, compute probability it was modified by adversary • Assume: the adversary is using the optimal strategy Learned weights: cheap = 1.5 mortgage = 2.0 Eugene = -0.5 Oregon = -0.5
Evaluation: spam Good • Adversarial cost functions • Plain (PL) • Add Words (AW) • Synonyms (SYN) • Add Length (AL) • Classifier strategies • NB: Naïve Bayes (baseline) • AC: Adversarial Classifier • Similar results with one other dataset, ordifferent classifier costs Bad
Repeated game: AC still wins • Adversary responds to new classifier; classifier predicts adversary’s revised response • Oscillations occur as adversaries switch strategiesback and forth.
Outline • Problem definitions • Anticipating adversaries (Dalvi et al., 2004) • Goal: Defeat adaptive adversary • Assume: Perfect information, optimal short-term strategies • Results: Vastly better classifier accuracy • Reverse engineering classifiers (Lowd & Meek, 2005a,b) • Goal: Assess classifier vulnerability • Assume: Membership queries from adversary • Results: Theoretical bounds, practical attacks • Also: How to defeat a spam filter with 30 words or less! • Conclusion
Imperfect information • What can an adversary accomplish with limited knowledge of the classifier? • Goals: • Understand classifier’s vulnerabilities • Understand our adversary’s likely strategies “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.” -- Sun Tzu, 500 BC
Adversarial Classification Reverse Engineering (ACRE) - + Adversary’s Task:Minimize a(x) subject to c(x) = Problem: The adversary doesn’t know c(x)!
? ? ? ? X2 - ? + ? ? ? X1 Adversarial Classification Reverse Engineering (ACRE) • Task: Minimize a(x) subject to c(x) = • Given: Within a factor of k • Full knowledge of a(x) • One positive and one negative instance, x+ and x • A polynomial number of membership queries
Comparison to other theoretical learning methods • Probably Approximately Correct (PAC): accuracy over same distribution • Membership queries: exact classifier • ACRE: single low-cost, negative instance
X2 X1 X2 xa X1 ACRE example Linear classifier: c(x) = +, iff(w x > T) Linear cost function:
X2 xa X1 Linear classifiers withcontinuous features • ACRE learnable within a factor of (1+) under linear cost functions • Proof sketch • Only need to change the highest weight/cost feature • We can efficiently find this feature using line searches in each dimension
x- xa c(x) wi wj wk wl wm Linear classifiers withBoolean features • Harder problem: can’t do line searches • ACRE learnable within a factor of 2if adversary has unit cost per change:
c(x) y x- xa wi wm wj wk wl c(x) y’ xa wi wj wk wl wp Algorithm Iteratively reduce the cost in two ways: • Remove any unnecessary change: O(n) • Replace any two changes with one: O(n3)
c(x) xa y wi wj wk wl wm x wp wr Proof sketch (Contradiction) • Suppose there is some negative instance x with less than half the cost of y: • x’s average change is twice as good as y’s • We can replace y’s two worst changes with x’s single best change • But we already tried every such replacement!
Evaluation: Is O(n3) practical? • Classifiers: Naïve Bayes (NB), Maxent (ME) • Data: 500k Hotmail messages, 276k features • Adversary feature sets: • 23,000 words (Dict) • 1,000 random words (Rand) Answer: Yes
Histogram of Feature Weights “good” “spammy”
Finding features • We can find good features (words) instead of good instances (emails) • Active attacks: Test emails allowed • Passive attacks: No filter access
Active Attacks • Learn which words are best by sending test messages (queries) through the filter • First-N: Find n good words using as few queries as possible • Best-N: Find the best n words
First-N AttackStep 1: Find a “Barely spam” message Original legit. Originalspam “Barely legit.” “Barely spam” Hi, mom! now!!! mortgage now!!! Cheap mortgage now!!! Spam Legitimate Threshold
First-N AttackStep 2: Test each word Good words “Barely spam” message Spam Legitimate Less good words Threshold
Best-N Attack Key idea: use spammy words to sort the good words. Spam Legitimate Better Worse Threshold
Results: Words/queries tradeoff * words added + words removed
Passive Attacks • Heuristics • Select random dictionary words (Dictionary) • Select most frequent English words (Freq. Word) • Select highest ratio: English freq./spam freq. (Freq. Ratio) • Spam corpus: spamarchive.org • English corpora: • Reuters news articles • Written English • Spoken English • 1992 USENET
Comparison of all attacks * words added + words removed
Conclusion • Mathematical modeling is a powerful tool in adversarial situations • Game theory lets us make classifiers aware of and resistant to adversaries • Complexity arguments let us explore the vulnerabilities of our own systems • This is only the beginning… • Can we weaken our assumptions? • Can we expand our scenarios?
X2 X2 xa xa X1 X1 Convex classifiers withcontinuous features? • ACRE learnable under linear cost function? • Proof ideas • For convex spam, only need to change a single feature • For convex non-spam, may need to iteratively approximate the non-spam set using cutting planes x-
Conclusion • Mathematical modeling is a powerful tool in adversarial situations • Game theory lets us make classifiers aware of and resistant to adversaries • Complexity arguments let us explore the vulnerabilities of our own systems • This is only the beginning… • Can we weaken our assumptions? • Can we expand our scenarios?
X2 X1 Example: Trivial cost function • Suppose a small, constant number of instances have cost a(x) = b, and all others have cost a(x) =b’, where b’ >b • Test each of the b-cost instances • If none is negative, choose x - +
Example: Boolean conjunctions • Suppose c is a conjunction of Boolean literals (e.g., x1x3) • Starting with x+, toggle each xi in turn: x+= (x1 = T,x2 = F, x3 = F, x4 = T) Guess: (x1x2x3 x4)
Example: Boolean conjunctions • Suppose c is a conjunction of Boolean literals (e.g., x1x3) • Starting with x+, toggle each xi in turn: x+= (T,F, F, T) Guess: (x1x2x3 x4)
Example: Boolean conjunctions • Suppose c is a conjunction of Boolean literals (e.g., x1x3) • Starting with x+, toggle each xi in turn: x+= (T, F, F, T) x’ = (F, F, F, T) c(x’) = Guess: (x1x2x3 x4)
Example: Boolean conjunctions • Suppose c is a conjunction of Boolean literals (e.g., x1x3) • Starting with x+, toggle each xi in turn: x+= (T, F, F, T) x’ = (T, T, F, T) c(x’) = + Guess: (x1x2x3 x4)
Example: Boolean conjunctions • Suppose c is a conjunction of Boolean literals (e.g., x1x3) • Starting with x+, toggle each xi in turn: x+= (T, F, F, T) x’ = (T, F, T, T) c(x’) = Guess: (x1x2x3 x4)
Example: Boolean conjunctions • Suppose c is a conjunction of Boolean literals (e.g., x1x3) • Starting with x+, toggle each xi in turn: x+= (T, F, F, T) x’ = (T, F, F, F) c(x’) = Guess: (x1x2x3 x4) Final Answer: (x1x3)
Example: Boolean conjunctions • Suppose c is a conjunction of Boolean literals (e.g., x1x3) • Starting with x+, toggle each xi in turn • Exact conjunction is learnable in n queries. • Now we can optimize any cost function. • In general: concepts learnable with membership queries are ACRE 1-learnable