RIME Adversarial

Overview

This tutorial showcases will guide you through getting started on RIME Library’s Adversarial Attacks in your Jupyter notebooks. For more granular information, see the RIME Adversarial Jupyter notebook included in the trial bundle.

Be sure to complete the initial setup described in RIME Data and Model Setup before proceeding.

RIME Adversarial Attacks

Besides offering a comprehensive suite of data/model unit tests, RIME Library also offers data scientists and machine learning engineers access to a wide suite of adversarial attacks for tabular data. See below for a brief tutorial on how to use, and then check out the documentation for different types of attacks and their parameters.

To use, first follow instructions to get your model set up in a notebook as described in the library tutorial.

Once you have done that, we can access the components we need from the container as follows:

black_box_model = container.model.base_model
columns = container.data_profile.columns

black_box_model is our model wrapper, which we will be attacking. columns is our profile of the data, which allows our attacks to know how to manipulate data points in order to attack them.

We now import the attack algorithm we want to use. See documentation for different attack algorithms.

from rime.tabular.attacks.combination import TabularCombinationAttack

Next, we initialize the attack algorithm with parameters of our choosing. See documentation for a list of relevant parameters for each attack.

import numpy as np
target_score = .5
max_queries = np.inf
attack = TabularCombinationAttack(black_box_model, target_score, max_queries, columns)

We can now run the attack! In the example below, we loop over the first 10 rows, set a target label equal to the opposite of their true label, and then run the attack algorithm trying to push the score towards that label.

from rime.tabular.attacks.runner import run_attack_loop

sample_size = 10
attack_results, indices = run_attack_loop(attack, container, sample_size)

Finally we can explore the results of the attack. Looking at one attack result, we can see the initial row and its score, the final attacked row and its score, as well as a list of features that were changed.

from rime.tabular.attacks.notebook import parse_attack_result

attack_result = attack_results[0]

parse_attack_result(attack_result)

Output

{'initial_row': Timestamp                           1726190.0
 Product_type                                H
 Card_company                             visa
 Card_type                               debit
 Purchaser_email_domain             icloud.com
 Recipient_email_domain             icloud.com
 Device_operating_system            iOS 11.0.3
 Browser_version            mobile safari 11.0
 Resolution                          2048x1536
 DeviceInfo                         iOS Device
 DeviceType                             mobile
 TransactionAmt                           25.0
 TransactionID                       3067158.0
 addr1                                   264.0
 addr2                                    87.0
 card1                                  5066.0
 card2                                   302.0
 card3                                   150.0
 card5                                   226.0
 dist1                                     NaN
 dist2                                     NaN
 Count_1                                   1.0
 Count_2                                   1.0
 Count_3                                   0.0
 Count_4                                   1.0
 Count_5                                   0.0
 Count_6                                   1.0
 Count_7                                   0.0
 Count_8                                   1.0
 Count_9                                   0.0
 dtype: object,
 'initial_score': 0.01294191171910275,
 'final_row': Timestamp                           1726190.0
 Product_type                                H
 Card_company                             visa
 Card_type                               debit
 Purchaser_email_domain             icloud.com
 Recipient_email_domain             icloud.com
 Device_operating_system            iOS 11.0.3
 Browser_version            mobile safari 11.0
 Resolution                          2048x1536
 DeviceInfo                         iOS Device
 DeviceType                             mobile
 TransactionAmt                           25.0
 TransactionID                       3067158.0
 addr1                                   264.0
 addr2                                    87.0
 card1                                  5066.0
 card2                                   302.0
 card3                                   150.0
 card5                                   226.0
 dist1                                     NaN
 dist2                                     NaN
 Count_1                                4161.0
 Count_2                                   1.0
 Count_3                                   0.0
 Count_4                                   1.0
 Count_5                                   0.0
 Count_6                                   1.0
 Count_7                                   0.0
 Count_8                                   1.0
 Count_9                                   0.0
 dtype: object,
 'final_score': 0.6861326700487259,
 'changes': [{'col': 'Count_1', 'initial_value': 1.0, 'final_value': 4161.0}]}

Improving Adversarial Robustness with Attack Results

Fetching Adversarial Training Examples

RIME Library provides additional training examples that can make your model more robust to adversarial attacks.

After running our attack loop, we can get a dataframe of our attacks and their appropriate labels as training examples. We can then concatenate our new training examples to our old training examples in order to get a new training set for our model.

from rime.tabular.attacks.notebook import get_df_from_attack_results

additional_train_data = get_df_from_attack_results(attack_results)
additional_train_labels = train_labels[indices].reset_index(drop=True)

new_train_data = pd.concat([train_df, additional_train_data]).reset_index(drop=True)
new_train_labels = pd.concat([train_labels, additional_train_labels]).reset_index(drop=True)

Retraining a New Model

Using the new training data, we can train a new model.

new_train_pre = preprocess_df(new_train_data)

categorical_features_indices = np.where(new_train_pre.dtypes != np.float)[0]
new_model = catb.CatBoostClassifier(random_state=0, verbose=0)
new_model.fit(new_train_pre, new_train_labels, cat_features=categorical_features_indices)

Just as we did before, we can define prediction functions for our new model and create new RunContainers.

def predict_dict_new_model(x: dict):
    """Predict dict function."""
    new_x = preprocess(x)
    new_x = pd.DataFrame(new_x, index=[0])
    return new_model.predict_proba(new_x)[0][1]

new_data_container = DataContainer.from_df(new_train_data, model_task=ModelTask.BINARY_CLASSIFICATION, labels=new_train_labels)
test_data_container = DataContainer.from_df(test_df, labels=test_labels, model_task=ModelTask.BINARY_CLASSIFICATION, ref_data_container=data_container)
new_container = TabularRunContainer.from_predict_dict_function(new_data_container, test_data_container, predict_dict_new_model, ModelTask.BINARY_CLASSIFICATION)

Comparing Improvements

To see the improvements to robustness after training a new model with the provided data, we can compare the results of vulnerability tests.

from rime.tabular.tests import VulnerabilityTest
test = VulnerabilityTest('Count_1')
test.run_notebook(container)
new_test = VulnerabilityTest('Count_1')
new_test.run_notebook(new_container)

The corresponding outputs are below:

Original Output

{'status': 'FAIL',
 'severity': 'High',
 'Average Prediction Change': 0.190968872875789,
 'params': {'severity_level_thresholds': (0.01, 0.05, 0.1),
  'col_names': ['Count_1'],
  'l0_constraint': 1,
  'linf_constraint': None,
  'sample_size': 10,
  'search_count': 10,
  'use_tqdm': False,
  'label_range': (0.0, 1.0),
  'scaled_min_impact_threshold': 0.01},
 'columns': ['Count_1'],
 'sample_inds': [3344, 1712, 4970, 4480, 1498, 1581, 3531, 473, 9554, 2929],
 'avg_score_change': 0.190968872875789,
 'normalized_avg_score_change': 0.190968872875789}

Retrained Output

{'status': 'FAIL',
 'severity': 'Low',
 'Average Prediction Change': 0.014846801362378547,
 'params': {'severity_level_thresholds': (0.01, 0.05, 0.1),
  'col_names': ['Count_1'],
  'l0_constraint': 1,
  'linf_constraint': None,
  'sample_size': 10,
  'search_count': 10,
  'use_tqdm': False,
  'label_range': (0.0, 1.0),
  'scaled_min_impact_threshold': 0.01},
 'columns': ['Count_1'],
 'sample_inds': [3344, 1712, 4970, 4480, 1498, 1581, 3531, 473, 9554, 2929],
 'avg_score_change': 0.014846801362378547,
 'normalized_avg_score_change': 0.014846801362378547}

As shown above, the test that failed previously with High severity has a Low severity now, displaying an increased robustness of the retrained model.

Highlighted Extra Features

Validity Function

One of the features that exists for most attacks is the ability to pass in a validity_function, which allows users to constrain the attack to only return “valid” points.

This function should take as input a dictionary representing a row of data (ie keys will be feature names, and values will be feature values). It should return a boolean, which should indicate whether the point is “valid” or not.

Although by default the attack will try to do this as best as possible, there are some higher order dependencies that the attack will not pick up on its own. In order to enforce these dependencies, you can check for them with this function.

Lets say in the example above we wanted to enforce that if the row’s value for the Card_company feature is american express, then the Card_type must be credit. We could enforce by writing a validity check:

def validity_function(x: dict) -> bool:
    if x['Card_company'] == 'american express' and x['Card_type'] == 'credit':
        return True
    return False

We can then pass this function to the attack using the validity_function keyword argument:

attack = TabularCombinationAttack(black_box_model, target_score, max_queries, columns, validity_function=validity_function)