Practice Defensive Distillation (13.5.2) - Privacy-Aware and Robust Machine Learning
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Defensive Distillation

Practice - Defensive Distillation

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

What is defensive distillation?

💡 Hint: Think about training a new model with information from another model.

Question 2 Easy

Why use softened outputs instead of hard labels?

💡 Hint: Consider what additional information probabilities bring compared to binary classifications.

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Question 1

What is the primary goal of defensive distillation?

Increase model accuracy
Improve robustness against adversarial attacks
Reduce training time

💡 Hint: Focus on the concept of security in machine learning.

Question 2

True or False: Defensive distillation uses hard class labels for training a student model.

True
False

💡 Hint: Think about the type of outputs used in the process.

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Challenge 1 Hard

Consider a financial fraud detection model that utilizes defensive distillation. Explain how it could benefit from softened outputs while maintaining clean data accuracy.

💡 Hint: Think about how nuanced understanding assists in both attack robustness and accuracy.

Challenge 2 Hard

If you were to implement defensive distillation in a healthcare monitoring system, discuss potential ethical implications and how you would address them.

💡 Hint: Reflect on both security and ethical practices in sensitive applications.

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