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Inspecting adversarial examples using the Fisher information

12 Sep 2019arXiv:1909.05527archive 2025-07-28

Jörg Martin, Clemens Elster

Adversarial examples are slight perturbations that are designed to fool artificial neural networks when fed as an input. In this work the usability of the Fisher information for the detection of such adversarial attacks is studied. We discuss various quantities whose computation scales well with the network size, study their behavior on adversarial examples and show how they can highlight the importance of single input neurons, thereby providing a visual tool for further analyzing (un-)reasonable behavior of a neural network. The potential of our methods is demonstrated by applications to the MNIST, CIFAR10 and Fruits-360 datasets.

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