Where and How to Attack? A Causality-Inspired Recipe for Generating Counterfactual Adversarial Examples

1 code implementation • 21 Dec 2023 • Ruichu Cai, Yuxuan Zhu, Jie Qiao, Zefeng Liang, Furui Liu, Zhifeng Hao

By considering the underappreciated causal generating process, first, we pinpoint the source of the vulnerability of DNNs via the lens of causality, then give theoretical results to answer \emph{where to attack}.

Adversarial Attack counterfactual