Adversarial Robustness in Multi-Task Learning: Promises and Illusions
English
Ghamizi, Salah[University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM) > Department of Computer Science (DCS) >]
Cordy, Maxime[University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > SerVal >]
Papadakis, Mike[University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM) > Department of Computer Science (DCS) >]
Le Traon, Yves[University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > SerVal >]
2022
Proceedings of the thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-22)
Yes
No
International
1-57735-876-7
The Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-22)
from 22-02-2022 to 01-03-2022
AAAI
Virtual
[en] Robustness ; Deep Learning ; Multi-task
[en] Vulnerability to adversarial attacks is a well-known weakness of Deep Neural networks. While most of the studies focus on single-task neural networks with computer vision datasets, very little research has considered complex multi-task models that are common in real applications. In this paper, we evaluate the design choices that impact the robustness of multi-task deep learning networks. We provide evidence that blindly adding auxiliary tasks, or weighing the tasks provides a false sense of robustness. Thereby, we tone down the claim made by previous research and study the different factors which may affect robustness. In particular, we show that the choice of the task to incorporate in the loss function are important factors that can be leveraged to yield more robust models.