Examples

We present examples accompaning our USENIX Security'23 paper “No more Reviewer #2: Subverting Automatic Paper-Reviewer Assignment using Adversarial Learning”. We show three representative adversarial papers computed for different scenarios and configurations.

No more Reviewer #2: Subverting Automatic Paper-Reviewer Assignment using Adversarial Learning

ArXiv ID: 2303.14443

Transformations (Budget n/a)

Hidden Box

Selected Reviewer

Reviewer 4, Reviewer 7

Rejected Reviewer

Reviewer 5

Ranking

Original Ranking

Rank Reviewer Score
1 Reviewer 1 1.00
2 Reviewer 2 0.99
3 Reviewer 3 0.95
4 Reviewer 4 0.87
5 Reviewer 5 0.80
6 Reviewer 6 0.73
7 Reviewer 7 0.61
8 Reviewer 8 0.60
9 Reviewer 9 0.58
10 Reviewer 10 0.58

Adversarial Ranking

L1 2280
Linf 31
Rank Reviewer Score
1 Reviewer 2 1.00
2 Reviewer 1 1.00
3 Reviewer 3 0.96
4 Reviewer 4 0.91
5 Reviewer 7 0.89
6 Reviewer 8 0.81
7 Reviewer 5 0.77
8 Reviewer 9 0.75
9 Reviewer 6 0.74
10 Reviewer 10 0.68

Backdooring and Poisoning Neural Networks with Image-Scaling Attacks

ArXiv ID: 2003.08633

Transformations (Budget n/a)

Hidden Box

Selected Reviewer

Reviewer 1, Reviewer 2, Reviewer 4, Reviewer 6, Reviewer 10

Rejected Reviewer

None

Ranking

Original Ranking

Rank Reviewer Score
1 Reviewer 1 1.00
2 Reviewer 2 0.94
3 Reviewer 3 0.93
4 Reviewer 4 0.87
5 Reviewer 5 0.83
6 Reviewer 6 0.68
7 Reviewer 7 0.51
8 Reviewer 8 0.50
9 Reviewer 9 0.45
10 Reviewer 10 0.44

Adversarial Ranking

L1 4444
Linf 91
Rank Reviewer Score
1 Reviewer 10 1.00
2 Reviewer 1 0.99
3 Reviewer 2 0.98
4 Reviewer 4 0.97
5 Reviewer 6 0.97
6 Reviewer 3 0.96
7 Reviewer 5 0.80
8 Reviewer 7 0.79
9 Reviewer 11 0.75
10 Reviewer 12 0.69

Hardening Code Obfuscation Against Automated Attacks

ArXiv ID: 2106.08913

Transformations (Budget 1.00)

Synonym, Language model, Reference addition

Selected Reviewer

Reviewer 7

Rejected Reviewer

Reviewer 5

Ranking

Original Ranking

Rank Reviewer Score
1 Reviewer 1 1.00
2 Reviewer 2 0.93
3 Reviewer 3 0.83
4 Reviewer 4 0.77
5 Reviewer 5 0.76
6 Reviewer 6 0.74
7 Reviewer 7 0.73
8 Reviewer 8 0.72
9 Reviewer 9 0.70
10 Reviewer 10 0.69

Adversarial Ranking

L1 615
Linf 28
Rank Reviewer Score
1 Reviewer 1 1.00
2 Reviewer 2 0.92
3 Reviewer 3 0.82
4 Reviewer 4 0.77
5 Reviewer 7 0.77
6 Reviewer 8 0.74
7 Reviewer 5 0.74
8 Reviewer 6 0.72
9 Reviewer 9 0.71
10 Reviewer 10 0.69