Deep generative models as an adversarial attack strategy for tabular machine learning

Published in The Proceedings of International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, 2024

Recommended citation: Salijona Dyrmishi, Mihaela C. Stoian, Eleonora Giunchiglia, Maxime Cordy. Deep generative models as an adversarial attack strategy for tabular machine learning. In Proceedings of International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics 2024. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2409.12642

Deep Generative Models (DGMs) have found application in computer vision for generating adversarial examples to test the robustness of machine learning (ML) systems. Extending these adversarial techniques to tabular ML presents unique challenges due to the distinct nature of tabular data and the necessity to preserve domain constraints in adversarial examples. In this paper, we adapt four popular tabular DGMs into adversarial DGMs (AdvDGMs) and evaluate their effectiveness in generating realistic adversarial examples that conform to domain constraints.

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