Randomized Message-Interception Smoothing: Gray-box Certificates for Graph Neural NetworksDownload PDF

Published: 31 Oct 2022, Last Modified: 05 Jan 2023NeurIPS 2022 AcceptReaders: Everyone
Keywords: Robustness Certificates, Adversarial Robustness, Randomized Smoothing, Graph Neural Networks
Abstract: Randomized smoothing is one of the most promising frameworks for certifying the adversarial robustness of machine learning models, including Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). Yet, existing randomized smoothing certificates for GNNs are overly pessimistic since they treat the model as a black box, ignoring the underlying architecture. To remedy this, we propose novel gray-box certificates that exploit the message-passing principle of GNNs: We randomly intercept messages and carefully analyze the probability that messages from adversarially controlled nodes reach their target nodes. Compared to existing certificates, we certify robustness to much stronger adversaries that control entire nodes in the graph and can arbitrarily manipulate node features. Our certificates provide stronger guarantees for attacks at larger distances, as messages from farther-away nodes are more likely to get intercepted. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method on various models and datasets. Since our gray-box certificates consider the underlying graph structure, we can significantly improve certifiable robustness by applying graph sparsification.
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TL;DR: Exploiting the message-passing principle of Graph Neural Networks to certify robustness against strong adversaries that can arbitrarily perturb all features of multiple nodes in the graph.
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