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A Discussion of 'Adversarial Examples Are Not Bugs, They Are Features': Adversarial Examples are Just Bugs, Too
['Nakkiran', 'Harvard']
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We propose a method to construct targeted adversarial examples for a given classifier $f$, which do not transfer to other classifiers trained for the same problem. Note that since PGD steps in the gradient direction towards the target class, we may expect these adversarial examples have feature leakage from the target class. As an addendum, we observe that the “non-robust features” experiment of (Section 3.2) directly implies data-poisoning attacks: An adversary that is allowed to imperceptibly change every image in the training set can destroy the accuracy of the learnt classifier — and can moreover apply an arbitrary permutation to the classifier output labels (e.g. swapping cats and dogs).