[CMU AI Seminar] April 4 at 12pm (GHC 6115 & Zoom) -- Rattana Pukdee (CMU) -- Nash Equilibria and Pitfalls of Adversarial Training in Adversarial Robustness Games -- AI Seminar sponsored by SambaNova Systems

[Asher Trockman]

Reminder that this is happening soon.

On Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 9:26 AM Asher Trockman <ashert at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> We look forward to seeing you *this Tuesday (4/4)* from *1**2:00-1:00 PM
> (U.S. Eastern time)* for the next talk of this semester's *CMU AI Seminar*,
> sponsored by SambaNova Systems <https://sambanova.ai/>. The seminar will
> be held in GHC 6115 *with pizza provided *and will be streamed on Zoom.
>
> To learn more about the seminar series or to see the future schedule,
> please visit the seminar website <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aiseminar/>.
>
> This Tuesday (4/4), *Rattana Pukdee* (CMU) will be giving a talk titled
> *"**Nash Equilibria and Pitfalls of Adversarial Training in Adversarial
> Robustness Games**".*
>
> *Title*: Nash Equilibria and Pitfalls of Adversarial Training in
> Adversarial Robustness Games
>
> *Talk Abstract*: In this talk, we will look at the problem of learning
> adversarially robust models from the perspective of a 2-player zero-sum
> game. We will show that even in a simple scenario of a linear classifier
> and a statistical model that abstracts robust vs. non-robust features, the
> alternating best response strategy (which resembles adversarial training)
> of such a game may not converge. On the other hand, a unique pure Nash
> equilibrium of the game exists and is provably robust. We support our
> theoretical results with experiments, showing the non-convergence of
> adversarial training and the robustness of Nash equilibrium.
>
> *Speaker Bio:* Rattana Pukdee is a second-year PhD student in the Machine
> Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University, working with Nina Balcan
> and Pradeep Ravikumar. His current research interests are in learning with
> domain knowledge and reliable machine learning. Previously, he received a
> Master in Mathematics from the University of Oxford.
>
> *In person: *GHC 6115
> *Zoom Link*:
> https://cmu.zoom.us/j/99510233317?pwd=ZGx4aExNZ1FNaGY4SHI3Qlh0YjNWUT09
>
> Thanks,
> Asher Trockman
>
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