Title
Breaking Neural Reasoning Architectures With Metamorphic Relation-Based Adversarial Examples
Abstract
The ability to read, reason, and infer lies at the heart of neural reasoning architectures. After all, the ability to perform logical reasoning over language remains a coveted goal of Artificial Intelligence. To this end, models such as the Turing-complete differentiable neural computer (DNC) boast of real logical reasoning capabilities, along with the ability to reason beyond simple surface-level matching. In this brief, we propose the first probe into DNC’s logical reasoning capabilities with a focus on text-based question answering (QA). More concretely, we propose a conceptually simple but effective adversarial attack based on metamorphic relations. Our proposed adversarial attack reduces DNCs’ state-of-the-art accuracy from 100% to 1.5% in the worst case, exposing weaknesses and susceptibilities in modern neural reasoning architectures. We further empirically explore possibilities to defend against such attacks and demonstrate the utility of our adversarial framework as a simple scalable method to improve model adversarial robustness.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/TNNLS.2021.3072166
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Neural Networks, Computer,Artificial Intelligence,Deep Learning,Machine Learning,Computers
Journal
33
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
11
2162-237X
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
6
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alvin Chan113.39
Lei Ma235734.63
Felix Juefei-Xu316113.32
Yew-Soon Ong44205224.11
Xiaofei Xie520827.13
minhui xue630623.39
Yang Liu72194188.81