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This argument that it’s pretty easy to construct adversarial examples would be much more convincing if…it were not what PageRank actually is. PageRank itself in
by zamfi 4y ago
This argument that it’s pretty easy to construct adversarial examples would be much more convincing if…it were not what PageRank actually is. PageRank itself initially ran iteratively and would have had exactly this same problem.
In any case, I’m not sure your example is actually adversarial, as there’s not an action that an adversary could take implied by it? Maybe you meant “poorly handled case”? But yes, run it iteratively. 10 steps? 20? Until convergence for some epsilon?
Nothing against theory, but I think they did fine without it.
- hhmc 4y ago> Maybe you meant “poorly handled case”? No, I meant adversarial. It's standard languge (jargon if you wish) from mathematical proofs.
- zamfi 4y agoHuh, interesting. In the ML and CS theory literature I’ve only ever seen “adversarial example” used to mean an input explicitly designed to produce a specific unexpected output, not just a worst-case output that isn’t what you want. Do you have an example use of this sense that I could look at to update myself?