根据用户脆弱性动态调整对抗训练强度,提升推荐系统抗攻击能力。
Improving the Shortest Plank: Vulnerability-Aware Adversarial Training for Robust Recommender System
- 按用户脆弱性差异自适应调整对抗扰动幅度
- 在多种攻击下成功降低攻击成功率,同时保持推荐质量
- 适合关注推荐系统安全性的研究人员和工程师
推荐系统在缓解信息过载方面发挥关键作用,但其开放性使其易受投毒攻击——攻击者通过向训练数据中插入虚假用户,操纵特定商品的曝光。对抗训练是应对此类攻击的有效防御机制,但现有方法对所有用户施加相同强度的扰动,难以兼顾脆弱用户保护与非脆弱用户的推荐质量。本文发现,系统对用户训练数据拟合程度越高,用户越易受攻击影响,即越脆弱。基于此,提出脆弱性感知对抗训练(VAT),通过拟合度评估用户脆弱性,并为不同用户自适应分配扰动强度。实验表明,VAT在多种推荐模型和攻击类型下均显著提升防御效果,同时维持甚至提升推荐质量。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Recommender systems play a pivotal role in mitigating information overload in various fields. Nonetheless, the inherent openness of these systems introduces vulnerabilities, allowing attackers to insert fake users into the system's training data to skew the exposure of certain items, known as poisoning attacks. Adversarial training has emerged as a notable defense mechanism against such poisoning attacks within recommender systems. Existing adversarial training methods apply perturbations of the same magnitude across all users to enhance system robustness against attacks. Yet, in reality, we find that attacks often affect only a subset of users who are vulnerable. These perturbations of indiscriminate magnitude make it difficult to balance effective protection for vulnerable users without degrading recommendation quality for those who are not affected. To address this issue, our research delves into understanding user vulnerability. Considering that poisoning attacks pollute the training data, we note that the higher degree to which a recommender system fits users' training data correlates with an increased likelihood of users incorporating attack information, indicating their vulnerability. Leveraging these insights, we introduce the Vulnerability-aware Adversarial Training (VAT), designed to defend against poisoning attacks in recommender systems. VAT employs a novel vulnerability-aware function to estimate users' vulnerability based on the degree to which the system fits them. Guided by this estimation, VAT applies perturbations of adaptive magnitude to each user, not only reducing the success ratio of attacks but also preserving, and potentially enhancing, the quality of recommendations. Comprehensive experiments confirm VAT's superior defensive capabilities across different recommendation models and against various types of attacks.
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