Investigating the Adversarial Robustness of Density Estimation Using the
  Probability Flow ODE
Marius Arvinte Cory Cornelius Jason Martin Nageen Himayat
Beyond their impressive sampling capabilities, score-based diffusion models
offer a powerful analysis tool in the form of unbiased density estimation of a
query sample under the training data distribution. In this work, we investigate
the robustness of density estimation using the probability flow (PF) neural
ordinary differential equation (ODE) model against gradient-based likelihood
maximization attacks and the relation to sample complexity, where the
compressed size of a sample is used as a measure of its complexity. We
introduce and evaluate six gradient-based log-likelihood maximization attacks,
including a novel reverse integration attack. Our experimental evaluations on
CIFAR-10 show that density estimation using the PF ODE is robust against
high-complexity, high-likelihood attacks, and that in some cases adversarial
samples are semantically meaningful, as expected from a robust estimator.