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Correlation in Extensive-Form Games: Saddle-Point Formulation and Benchmarks

Neural Information Processing Systems

While Nash equilibrium in extensive-form games is well understood, very little is known about the properties of extensive-form correlated equilibrium (EFCE), both from a behavioral and from a computational point of view. In this setting, the strategic behavior of players is complemented by an external device that privately recommends moves to agents as the game progresses; players are free to deviate at any time, but will then not receive future recommendations.




Adversarial Deep Learning for Robust Detection of Binary Encoded Malware

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Malware is constantly adapting in order to avoid detection. Model based malware detectors, such as SVM and neural networks, are vulnerable to so-called adversarial examples which are modest changes to detectable malware that allows the resulting malware to evade detection. Continuous-valued methods that are robust to adversarial examples of images have been developed using saddle-point optimization formulations. We are inspired by them to develop similar methods for the discrete, e.g. binary, domain which characterizes the features of malware. A specific extra challenge of malware is that the adversarial examples must be generated in a way that preserves their malicious functionality. We introduce methods capable of generating functionally preserved adversarial malware examples in the binary domain. Using the saddle-point formulation, we incorporate the adversarial examples into the training of models that are robust to them. We evaluate the effectiveness of the methods and others in the literature on a set of Portable Execution~(PE) files. Comparison prompts our introduction of an online measure computed during training to assess general expectation of robustness.