Scalable optimization of randomized operational decisions in adversarial classification settings

Bo Li, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

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Abstract

When learning, such as classification, is used in adversarial settings, such as intrusion detection, intelligent adversaries will attempt to evade the resulting policies. The literature on adversarial machine learning aims to develop learning algorithms which are robust to such adversarial evasion, but exhibits two significant limitations: a) failure to account for operational constraints and b) a restriction that decisions are deterministic. To overcome these limitations, we introduce a conceptual separation between learning, used to infer attacker preferences, and operational decisions, which account for adversarial evasion, enforce operational constraints, and naturally admit randomization. Our approach gives rise to an intractably large linear program. To overcome scalability limitations, we introduce a novel method for estimating a compact parity basis representation for the operational decision function. Additionally, we develop an iterative constraint generation approach which embeds adversary's best response calculation, to arrive at a scalable algorithm for computing near-optimal randomized operational decisions. Extensive experiments demonstrate the efficacy of our approach.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)599-607
Number of pages9
JournalJournal of Machine Learning Research
Volume38
StatePublished - 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event18th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, AISTATS 2015 - San Diego, United States
Duration: May 9 2015May 12 2015

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Statistics and Probability

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