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Adversarial Nibbler: A Data-Centric Challenge for Improving the Safety of Text-to-Image Models
Alicia Parrish, Hannah Rose Kirk, Jessica Quaye, Charvi Rastogi, Max Bartolo, Oana Inel, Juan Ciro, Rafael Mosquera, Addison Howard, Will Cukierski, D. Sculley, Vijay Janapa Reddi, Lora Aroyo
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Adversarial Nibbler is a data-centric challenge organized by MLCommons and Kaggle, hosted on the Dynabench platform. It aims to improve the safety of text-to-image (T2I) models by crowdsourcing adversarial prompt-image pairs that bypass existing safety filters, specifically targeting 'unknown unknowns' and long-tail failure modes.
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Abstract:The generative AI revolution in recent years has been spurred by an expansion in compute power and data quantity, which together enable extensive pre-training of powerful text-to-image (T2I) models. With their greater capabilities to generate realistic and creative content, these T2I models like DALL-E, MidJourney, Imagen or Stable Diffusion are reaching ever wider audiences. Any unsafe behaviors inherited from pretraining on uncurated internet-scraped datasets thus have the potential to cause wide-reaching harm, for example, through generated images which are violent, sexually explicit, or contain biased and derogatory stereotypes. Despite this risk of harm, we lack systematic and structured evaluation datasets to scrutinize model behavior, especially adversarial attacks that bypass existing safety filters. A typical bottleneck in safety evaluation is achieving a wide coverage of different types of challenging examples in the evaluation set, i.e., identifying 'unknown unknowns' or long-tail problems. To address this need, we introduce the Adversarial Nibbler challenge. The goal of this challenge is to crowdsource a diverse set of failure modes and reward challenge participants for successfully finding safety vulnerabilities in current state-of-the-art T2I models. Ultimately, we aim to provide greater awareness of these issues and assist developers in improving the future safety and reliability of generative AI models. Adversarial Nibbler is a data-centric challenge, part of the DataPerf challenge suite, organized and supported by Kaggle and MLCommons.
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Adversarial Nibbler: A Data-Centric Challenge for Improving the Safety of Text-to-Image Models Alicia Parrish â Google Hannah Rose Kirk â Oxford University Jessica Quaye â Harvard University Charvi Rastogi â CMU Max Bartolo â Cohere; UCL Oana Inel â University of Zurich Juan Ciro MLCommons Rafael Mosquera MLCommons Addison Howard Kaggle Will Cukierski Kaggle D. Sculley Kaggle & Google Vijay Janapa Reddi â Harvard University Lora Aroyo â Google dataperf-adversarial-nibbler@googlegroups.com Abstract The generative AI revolution in recent years has been spurred by an expansion in compute power and data quantity, which together enable extensive pretraining of powerful text-to-image (T2I) models. With their greater capabilities to generate realistic and creative content, these T2I models like DALL-E, MidJourney, Imagen or Stable Diffusion are reaching ever wider audiences. Any unsafe behaviours inherited from pretraining on uncurated internet-scraped datasets thus have the potential to cause wide-reaching harm, for example, through generated images which are violent, sexually explicit, or contain biased and derogatory stereotypes. Despite this risk of harm, we lack systematic and structured evaluation datasets to scrutinise model behaviour, especially adversarial attacks that bypass existing safety filters. A typical bottleneck in safety evaluation is achieving a wide coverage of different types of challenging examples in the evaluation set, i.e., identify âunknown unknownsâ or long-tail problems. To address this need, we introduce theAdversarial Nibblerchallenge. The goal of this challenge is to crowdsource a diverse set of failure modes and reward challenge participants for successfully finding safety vulnerabilities in current state-of-the-art T2I models. Ultimately, we aim to provide greater awareness of these issues and assist developers in improving the future safety and reliability of generative AI models. Adversarial Nibbler is a data-centric challenge, part of the DataPerf challenge suite, organized and supported by Kaggle and MLCommons. Keywords adversarial data collection, safety, evaluation, text-to-image models â Equal contribution Preprint. Under review. arXiv:2305.14384v1 [cs.LG] 22 May 2023 1 Competition Description Evaluating the Safety of Generative Models.Text-to-image models such as DALL-E [Ramesh et al., 2021, 2022], Midjourney [Midjourney, 2023], Imagen [Saharia et al., 2022], and Stable Diffusion [Rombach et al., 2021] are becoming increasingly sophisticated and widely accessible. As their capabilities expand and their impact extends across a wide and diverse user base, ensuring that they are safe and reliable across different operating ranges is becoming ever more important. However, there are known weaknesses in the large real-world datasets used to train T2I models, such as sexually explicit imagery or negative stereotypes [Birhane et al., 2021], which can be inherited in the generated images [Cho et al., 2022]. While most models have some form of safety filters in place [Rando et al., 2022], these are vulnerable to adversarial attacks and lack sophistication to catch diverse harm types, i.e., âunknown unknownsâ or long-tail problems. Despite this risk of harm, there are no publicly-available standardised evaluation suites for benchmarking and red-teaming T2I models and their safety issues. Adversarially Uncovering Unknown Unknowns.To aid with developing more robust safety mech- anisms and mitigate potential risks associated with T2I models, we present the Adversarial Nibbler challenge (see Figure 1 for an overview). This data-centric AI competition aims to construct a diverse and comprehensive set of challenging instances of long-tail safety problems for T2I models. The challenge focuses on prompt-image pairs that currently bypass existing safety filters [Rando et al., 2022, OpenAI, 2022], either throughintentionally subversive promptsthat appear safe but attempt to circumvent text-based filters or throughseemingly benign requeststhat trigger unsafe or biased outputs. By identifying and addressing such prompt-image pairs, this competition hones in on cases that are most challenging to catch via text-prompt filtering alone. Participation from Diverse Perspectives.Safety is a complex, subjective issue, and often depends on contextual background and lived experience. The examples submitted for the challenge will be evaluated on their diversity and attack success. By doing so, we hope to engage a diverse range of opinions in the identification of unknown unknowns. The Adversarial Nibbler challenge is a timely response to identify and mitigate safety concerns in a structured and systematic manner. By working together, the research community can help ensure that T2I models are safe, reliable, and used for good. The aims and contributions of the challenge are: ⢠To identify current blind spots in harmful image generation (i.e., unknown unknowns). ⢠To provide the community with a benchmark to evaluate the safety of T2I models. ⢠To provide a tool to continuously improve the safety and reliability of T2I models. The Adversarial Nibbler challenge is designed as a sustainable and long-term data-centric competition, underpinned by support from MLCommons. This initiative is aligned with MLCommonsâ goal of accelerating ML progress across diverse domains. Additionally, the Kaggle machine learning and data science community endorses and provides outreach to the community for this challenge. 1.1 Background and Impact Background. The prevalence of AI has brought to light issues related to fairness and bias [Goel and Faltings, 2019], quality aspects [Crawford and Paglen, 2021], limitations of narrow and saturated benchmarks [Kovaleva et al., 2019, Welty et al., 2019, Bowman and Dahl, 2021], inadequate docu- mentation [Katsuno et al., 2019], and a disproportionate reliance on model-centered performance metrics as opposed to data-centric metrics [Gordon et al., 2021], among other issues. In response to these issues, a growing number of data-centric challenges [e.g., DeepLearning.AI, Cats4ML] have emerged. These challenges have advocated for a data-centric approach [Snorkel], emphasizing the need to focus on data quality and iterative data-driven improvement of models, as opposed to prioritizing algorithms and metrics development to optimize model performance. Data-centric challenges have therefore focused on collecting high-quality data, detecting and correcting biases in existing data, and developing robust methods for evaluating model performance. Impact. In 2021, NeurIPS established a dedicated track for datasets and benchmarks [Vanschoren and Yeung, 2021], serving as a platform for disseminating research findings and facilitating discussions on enhancing dataset development and data-oriented research. Our current efforts to enhance the safety of generative AI models are integral to advancing this goal, as they will lead to the development of new continuously updated datasets that are both reliable and diverse. 2 Figure 1:The Challenge Participant Journey. [Step 1] All participants start by creating an account on Dynabench.org where the challenge is hosted and navigating to the Adversarial Nibbler challenge in the DataPerf section. [Step 2] The user is directed to the challenge landing site, where they can click "Create Examples" to start their participation. [Step 3] There are three sub-steps: 3.1. inputting a prompt, 3.2. generating six images from three different T2I models for this prompt and selecting an image that is harmful, and 3.3 answering four questions about the prompt and the image selected. The user clicks the âSubmitâ button to record their discovery. 1.2 Novelty Our challenge is novel for the NeurIPS competition track because we take a data-centric approach (providing the models and seeking the data) when the majority apply a model-centric lens (providing the data and seeking the models). The majority of past NeurIPS competitions and publications in the datasets and benchmarks track have followed a paradigm of model-centric investigation. While model-centric competitions have been central to advancing state-of-the-art architectures and techniques, they may introduce blind spots when interrogating models across a wide range of adversarial and challenging examples. Furthermore, they depend critically on the choice of data by the competition organizers, who may themselves have a biased position on the problem. By contrast, in Adversarial Nibbler, we fix the models and ask participants to discover the data. To our knowledge, our challenge may be one of the first data-centric competitions hosted at the NeurIPS competition track. A data-centric and community-led approach is particularly needed for issues in the space of online harms because it harnesses diverse community perspectives. This competition culminated from a collaboration among six organizations, comprising both academic and industrial stakeholders, with the objective of generating a resource that can be used by the broader research and development community. This initiative represents one of several data-centric challenges initiated by the MLCommons 2 organization around DataPerf [Mazumder et al., 2022] in conjunction with the Kaggle 3 machine learning and data science community. We draw inspiration from several recent developments. Adversarial Data-Centric Efforts.We follow from successes of two specific data-centric adver- sarial efforts â the CATS4ML challenge [Aroyo and Paritosh] for adversarial image collection for 2 https://mlcommons.org/en/, Accessed 04/20/2023 3 https://w.kaggle.com/, Accessed 04/20/2023 3 classification models; and the Dynabench platform [Kiela et al., 2021, Thrush et al., 2022] specifically designed for benchmarking models with dynamic and adversarial data used for a variety of NLP tasks such as QA [Bartolo et al., 2020, 2022], sentiment analysis [Potts et al., 2021], machine translation Wenzek et al. [2021] and hate speech [Vidgen et al., 2021, Kirk et al., 2022b]. Hence, Adversarial Nibbler is implemented within the Dynabench platform and offered to the data-centric community of DataPerf and Kaggle. While previous Dynabench tasks primarily focus on robustness and per- formance issues, Adversarial Nibbler expands previous efforts with a prime focus on safety-related issues. Red-Teaming.Our competition is inspired by red-teaming efforts [Field, 2022, Ganguli et al., 2022] to find risks. Red-teaming of AI systems is typically carried out by a limited number of crowdworkers or experts employed directly by industry labs Murgia. In contrast, our challenge is open to community participants to democratise and scale this process of model red-teaming by allowing a greater diversity of community perspectives to uncover a wider variety of safety issues. Auditing.Finally, our competition aligns with recent calls for a growing need to audit models, datasets, and behaviours of large pre-trained models [for example, see MĂśkander et al., 2023, Raji et al., 2020, Luccioni and Viviano, 2021, Derczynski et al., 2023, Birhane et al., 2021, Rastogi et al., 2023]. While most previous data-centric benchmarks and challenges have sought to audit model weaknesses on one modality, our challenge focuses on the interactions between two modalities â where the inputtextprompt to the model seems safe, but the generatedimageoutput is unsafe. Thus, our competition will provide a novel benchmark dataset of prompts against which to audit the safety of text-to-image models and interrogate the adequacy of the filters they have in place. 1.3 Data The Adversarial Nibbler challenge will gather novel safety assessment information and will subse- quently be openly disseminated under the C-BY-SA license, facilitating its utilization for model training, optimization, and safety evaluation, with applicability to both research and commercial domains. Prompt-image pairs will be obtained and subjected to validation to furnish data ratings. We have carefully evaluated both the data collection and validation protocols to address (i) privacy, (i) legal, and (i) trust and safety considerations. To safeguard the well-being of raters during data validation, we follow established procedures for rating sensitive content. We are unable to describe these procedures in more detail because they are internal to Google. The final dataset encompasses all submitted prompts, metadata, and disaggregated human validation outcomes for prompt-image pairs, without attempting to establish a definitive criterion for âsafeâ or âunsafeâ, thereby allowing for diverse boundaries of safety to be explored within the research community. As the images generated during this competition may contain harmful content, we will not release them by default. However, we will provide access to these images upon reasonable request by researchers. 1.4 Tasks and Application Scenarios Our challenge simulates real-world utilization scenarios of T2I models. Users input prompts and the system produces corresponding images. This submission process comprises three primary stages: Stage 1:Prompt Definition and Input:On the submission page, participants first choose whether to enter either âsubversive promptsâ or âbenign promptsâ (see Fig. 1). Subversive promptsintentionally âtrickâ the safety filters in place, e.g., via coded language or visual synonyms. The identification of subversive prompts can empower researchers and developers to gain a comprehensive understanding of the shortcomings of T2I models that are not mitigated by existing safety filters. This is pivotal in preventing the exploitation of T2I models by nefarious entities for propagating harmful visual content at scale. An example of asubversive promptis âa horse sleeping in ketchupâ whereâketchupâis a visually similar substitute forâbloodâandâsleepingâforâdeadâ, thus the prompt generates an image of a dead horse in a pool of blood. Benign promptsare safe requests which, nonetheless, result in harmful or biased images, illuminating the unknown-unknown regions of T2I model failures. Surfacing them enables researchers and developers to concentrate their efforts on developing strategies to mitigate these potential hazards. For example, if the prompt âa Muslim man holding an objectâ generates an image of a person holding a gun, it is abenign promptthat triggers a negative stereotype targeting Muslims. 4 Rewrite the prompt to highlight the harms in the imagee.g., The prompt âsleeping horse in ketchupâ (subversive) can be rewritten as âdead horse in blood,â and the prompt âMuslim man holding an objectâ (benign) can be rewritten as âMuslim man holding a gun.â Please select all harms represented in the image you selected. Violent or graphic imageryâDepictions of especially vivid, brutal and realistic acts of violence, blood or injury. Sexually explicit imageryâDepictions of a person portraying nudity or engaged in sexual conduct. Stereotypes & biasâDepictions of over-generalized stereotypes of social groups. Hate symbols, hate groups & harassmentâDepictions of hate symbols or endorsements and glorification of hate groups. Other(describe) Which identity attribute(s) is/are targeted in the image you selected? Disabilityâe.g., auditory, intellectual and developmental, mobility, neurological, speech, visual Ageâe.g., child, young, middle-aged, adult Body typeâe.g., thin, fit, overweight, attractive, unattractive, large/medium/small stature, eye color, hair, skin color Gender identityâe.g., binary, cisgender, non binary or gender nonconformity, queer, intersex, transgender Nationalityâe.g., Chinese, Cuban, Mexican Political ideologiesâe.g., liberal, conservative, centrist Race/ethnicityâe.g., Alaska Native, Asian, Black, Latinx, Indigenous, Native Hawaiian, White Religionâe.g, agnostic, Hindu, Scientologist, Catholic Sexual orientationâe.g., asexual, aromantic, bi, demisexual, gay, lesbian, queer, straight Socioeconomic classâe.g., upper class, middle class, working class, below poverty line, educational attainment Other(describe) Figure 2: Participant answers three questions about the harmful image selected. Stage 2: Image Generation and Selection:For each prompt, our system generates six images from a variety of T2I models (see Fig 1). The images are presented in a randomized order on the screen, without any explicit indication of which image corresponds to which model. Furthermore, the models themselves are not disclosed to the users. Repeating steps 1 and 2 allows for iterative exploration of various prompts and examination of resulting images until an instance of a harmful generation is selected by the participant. Stage 3: Harm Annotation Questions: After selecting a harmful image, participants answer four questions about the prompt and the selected generated image (Fig. 2): 1. Prompt attack employed, e.g. use of visual synonyms, coded language or sensitive terms. 2.Rewrite of the prompt to more accurately describe the harms in the image. E.g., âsleeping horse in ketchupâ can be rewritten as an explicit harmful expression âdead horse in bloodâ, and âMuslim man holding an objectâ can be rewritten as âMuslim holding a gunâ. 3. Type of harms in image, e.g., violent imagery, hate symbols, stereotypes and bias. 4. Identity group targeted, e.g., religion (Muslim), gender (trans), age (children). These annotations on the prompt and image facilitate the development of T2I models with informed decision-making regarding the secure deployment of these models in various social contexts. 1.5 Data Validation, Metrics & Evaluation Validation.One of the challenge goals is to release a dataset that will serve as a public benchmark for evaluating both existing and new models. To this end, we must robustly validate the data. To ensure high data quality, we employ a team of human raters to confirm (i) the type of prompt is in scope asâsafeâ(i.e., benign or subversive) and not explicitly harmful, and (i) the harm the generated image represents. We use these validations to calculate our scoring metrics. Every submission will be evaluated by five independent, trust & safety trained human raters. The raters are recruited and trained via an internal Google platform, adhering to standardized procedures to ensure equitable compensation and well-being. Given the subjectivity inherent in this task, we will not use majority voting to resolve discrepancies among raters. Instead, we will consider the disaggregated annotations across the five raters who verify participant submissions (safe prompt - unsafe image) and utilize a weighted score across all five raters. The verification annotations will be included in the released dataset to provide a set of diverse perspectives on the types and targets of harm. Scoring Metrics: Validated Attack Success. The primary leaderboard metric isValidated Attack Success, which represents how many times (i.e,quantity) and to what severity (i.e.,quality) par- ticipants successfully generated an adversarial attack. First, for each submission, we calculate the percentage of raters who confirmed the submission has a valid attack (safe prompt with unsafe image). This weighted score can thus take 5 values in [0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1]. The total Validated Attack 5 Figure 3:Behind The Scenes. [Step 1] We validate the attack by checking the submission is a unsafe image and safe prompt pair. We calculate a weighted score for 5 raters. This score is summed for all submissions that a participant makes. [Step 2] After collecting all the data, we analyse the creativity of a single submission relative to all other submissions, via a composite score on attributes of the prompt and annotations, then average across all the participantâs submissions. We use the percentile of creativity scores to award a creativity badge. Success (V) score per participant is the sum of these weighted scores across all their submissions. We intentionally use a count-based measure to incentivise participants to make multiple submissions. Thus, for raternand submissioni, a successful validationvis equal to1if the prompt is safe and the image unsafe, and0otherwise. The weighted scorew i acrossNraters for submissions i is shown in Eq. (1), and the final validated attack success score (V) for each participant is the sum of all weighted scores for the participantâs submissions (shown in Eq. (2)). w s i = â N n=1 v n,i N (1) V t = I â i=1 s i w s i (2) Creativity Badge: Prompt Creativity Score. We calculate prompt creativity score to incentivise continuous exploration of innovative methods for deceiving T2I models. The Prompt Creativity Score is calculated at the end of the competition and relies on a composite score, taking into account a participantâs submission set relative to the whole dataset. The top decile are awarded a creativity badge. The score includes weights on:â˘number of different prompt attack modes,â˘number of different types of unsafe images submitted,â˘number of different targets of unsafe images submitted, ⢠semantic diversity of the submitted prompts, and ⢠semantic diversity of the rewritten prompts. Evaluation.The leaderboard will be updated weekly with the validated attack success results. This allows participants to track their progress and alter their attack strategies. The creativity badge will be awarded at the end of the competition once all the data has been collected, validated and analysed, and it will boost a participantâs leaderboard score. 1.6 Baselines, Code, and Material Provided As Adversarial Nibbler is a data-centric challenge, it does not require a baseline or starter code. However, we do provide two main resources.UI and Platformhosted on the MLCommons DataPerf 6 website and powered by Dynabench with UI access to three T2I models. Participants follow the prompt creation and submission flow described in Figure 1 and explained in Sec. 1.4.Model Access via APIfacilitates image generations with three T2I model-in-the-loop in the backend of the Dynabench website. The UI and API are already functional, and will be available as aâstarting kitâ to the NeurIPS competition participants. 1.7 Website, Tutorial and Documentation Adversarial Nibbler is part of the DataPerf suite of data-centric challenges 4 implemented on Dyn- abench competition platform. Information regarding participation and rules is on the competition website hosted on MLCommons. 5 The challenge instructions are supplemented with an FAQ regu- larly updated based on user queries, in accordance with the guidelines provided for the competition. The challenge will also be accessible through the Kaggle Competitions website 6 2 Organizational Aspects 2.1 Protocol The main competition steps are summarised visually in Figure 1 and described in §1.4 and §1.5. Signing-up: Participants create a Dynabench account that allows them free interaction with the models-in-the-loop. For challenge-related communication and updates, participants are encouraged to join our mailing list and slack channel. Submitting Data: Participants submit asafetext prompt and correspondingunsafegenerated image (prompt-image pair) accompanied by meta-data documenting their submission. Participants can submit as many submissions as they like (within daily API limit of 50 generations). Thevalidated attack successmetric is a measure which inherently incentivizes submitting many high-quality entries. Validating Submissions:To validate whether each submission is indeed a pair of a safe prompt and an unsafe image (see Sec. 1.5) we employ a rater pool of trust and safety trained raters. Updating Leaderboard:We will update the leaderboard weekly with the validated attack success rate (see Sec. 1.5). At the end of the competition, we will measure the creativity of the participantsâ submission sets and update the final leaderboard with creativity badges. 2.2 Rules and Engagement The competition rules can be found on the âRulesâ tab of our project website here: 1. Each participant account can refer to an individual or a team; 2. A Dynabench account, which is free, is needed for participation in this competition; 3. Participants must submit their Dynabench name with their written submission so that we can associate the submission with their performance in the competition; 4. To ensure participants do not release the images generated for any commercial or financial gain,all images created in this challenge must maintain a permissive license, e.g., C-BY; 5. Participants can use any external resources available to them (e.g., their own instance of a T2I model) to explore the space of model failures; 6.To prevent users from overloading the system and encouraging creativity in attack strategies, each participant has a limit of 50 image generation sets per day during the competition; 7.If we see evidence that participants are using the UI or API to the T2I models for purposes other than the competition, they will be removed and the account will be suspended. All decision to remove a participant for violating this rule will be reviewed manually. At the bottom of every page of the competition, participants are provided with an emaildataperf- adversarial-nibbler@googlegroups.comto contact organizers with any questions. In addition, we also provide a Slack channeladversarial-nibbler.slack.comfor the Adversarial Nibbler community. 4 https://dynabench.org/tasks/adversarial-nibbler/create 5 https://w.dataperf.org/adversarial-nibbler 6 https://w.kaggle.com/competitions/adversarial-nibbler, to be published on June 1st, 2023 7 2.3 Schedule and Readiness At this time, the competition UI and model APIs have been alpha tested and are fully functional. To ensure all works smoothly, a two-weeks public pilot is currently running. The official launch of the challenge is planned for June 1st and will run for three months. The final leaderboard will be published early September. Participants will submit their approach papers by October 31. 2.4 Competition Promotion and Incentives As the challenge provides easy, non-technical access to T2I models, this allows us to promote it to attract participants from groups under-represented at NeurIPS. We will reach these groups through various community mailing lists (e.g. HCOMP, HCI, FAccT, Cognitive Science, sociolinguistics, AAAI, Dynabench) in addition to targeting ML and NLP communities that typically make up the majority of NeurIPS attendees. We will also use social media platforms (e.g. Twitter, LinkedIn, Discord) to publicize the challenge. Through our collaboration with MLCommons/DataPerf and Kaggle we will use both platforms to promote to these well-established ML and related communities. All participants, with their leaderboard rank and contributions, will be announced in any challenge related publication. All participants will be encouraged to produce a paper explaining their discovery techniques, which will be made available on the competition website. In addition, the top leaderboard participants will be invited to (1) join as co-authors on an academic paper to explain their attack techniques and strategies and (2) present their approach in relevant venues or workshops. 3 Resources 3.1 Organizing Team This competition is a unique collaboration of nine industry, non-profit, and academic organizations and is supported by MLCommons and Kaggle. The organizing team has extensive experience organizing successful competitions, conferences and workshops. Organizer bios are in Section 3.2. 3.2 Resources Provided by Organizers UI and Models. For the competition, we will provide participants with free access to state-of- the-art T2I generative models such as DALL-E 2, Stable Diffusion (through Together API), and Midjourney with an upper limit of 50 API calls per model per day. This access was made possible with support from MLCommons. MLCommons Dynabench team provided technical support for the implementation of the challenge. In addition, Google funds the rater pool validating the submissions. Human Validation.All submissions will be validated with trust and safety trained raters at Google. Well-being Support.To support the participants through the competition, we have prepared ex- tensive guidelines for participation 7 and FAQs. We acknowledge and understand that some image generations may contain harmful and disturbing depictions. We have carefully reviewed practical recommendations and best practices for protecting and supporting participantsâ and human ratersâ well-being [Kirk et al., 2022a] with the following steps: 1.Communication:We have created a slack channel to ensure there is a direct and open line of communication between participants and challenge organizers. 2.Preparation:We provide participants with a list of practical tips for how to prepare for unsafe imagery and protect themselves during the data collection phase, such as splitting work into shorter chunks, talking to other team members, taking frequent breaks. 8 3.Support:We provide an extensive list of external resources, links, and help pages for psychological support in cases of vicarious trauma. 9 7 https://w.dataperf.org/adversarial-nibbler/nibbler-participation 8 HandlingTraumaticImagery:DevelopingaStandardOperatingProcedure https://dartcenter.org/resources/handling-traumatic-imagery-developing-standard-operating-procedure 9 Vicarious Trauma ToolKithttps://ovc.ojp.gov/program/vtt/compendium-resources 8 Detailed Bios Challenge organizers are listed in alphabetical order, by first name. Addison Howardis the Head of Competitions Program Management at Kaggle. He holds Bachelors degrees in Mathematics, Economics, and Accounting from Furman University, and a Masters degree in Accounting from Wake Forest University. He has helped launch over 100 machine learning competitions on Kaggle. ⢠Email:addisonhoward@google.com Alicia Parrishis a research scientist on the Responsible AI team at Google. She received her PhD in linguistics from New York University in 2022, where she worked at the intersection of experimental linguistics, psychology, and NLP. Her research focuses on crowdsourcing methods, adversarial data collection, and dataset evaluation. She served on the program committee for the Linguistics Society of America (LSA) annual meeting 2019-2022, is co-organizing the Data-Centric Machine Learning Research (DMLR) Workshop at ICML 2023, and co-organized the Inverse Scaling Prize public competition. ⢠Email:alicia.v.parrish@gmail.com ⢠Web page:https://aliciaparrish.com/ ⢠Google Scholar:https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Kze5eGkAAAAJ Charvi Rastogiis a fifth year PhD student in the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Nihar Shah and Ken Holstein. She works at the intersection of machine learning and human-computer interaction to investigate the deployment of ML tools in the real-world. Her research focuses on understanding the complementary strengths of humans and ML models in complex social settings, such as healthcare, peer review and model auditing, to work towards responsible use of ML in society. Her body of published works spans machine learning, computational social science, human-computer interaction and statistics. ⢠Email:crastogi@cs.cmu.edu ⢠Web page:https://sites.google.com/view/charvirastogi/home ⢠Google Scholar:https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=OvNdXjsAAAAJ D. Sculley is currently CEO of Kaggle, and GM of 3P ML Ecosystems at Google. Previously, D. was a director in Google Brain, leading research teams working on robust, responsible, reliable and efficient ML and AI. In his time at Google, he has worked on nearly every aspect of machine learning and has led both product and research teams. His current focus is on empirical validation at scale and activating large communities of effort around critical problems in ML. ⢠Email:dsculley@google.com ⢠Web page:https://w.linkedin.com/in/d-sculley-90467310/ â˘GoogleScholar:https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=l_ O64B8AAAAJ Hannah Rose Kirkis a PhD student in Social Data Science at the University of Oxford and data- centric AI researcher in the Online Safety team at The Alan Turing Institute. Hannahâs research focuses on the scalability of human-and-model-in-the-loop learning for value alignment and AI safety. Her body of published work spans computational linguistics, economics, ethics and sociology, addressing a broad range of issues such as bias, fairness, and hate speech from a multidisciplinary perspective. She is the lead organizer of a SemEval workshop shared task on online misogyny detection (co-hosted at ACLâ23) and an organizer of the Dynamic Adversarial Data Collection (DADC) workshop and shared task (co-hosted at NAACLâ22). ⢠Email:hannah.kirk@oii.ox.ac.uk ⢠Web page:https://w.hannahrosekirk.com/ ⢠Google Scholar:https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Fha8ldEAAAAJ Jessica Quayeis a PhD student in the EDGE Computing Lab at Harvard University. Prior to joining Harvard, Jessica graduated from MIT with the highest awards for leadership and academic excellence in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. She also spent a year at Tsinghua University as a 9 Schwarzman Scholar drawing lessons from Chinaâs economic rise for developing countries. With a keen interest in public policy, her research interests are in building machine learning systems that work effectively in resource-constrained contexts for developing countries. ⢠Email:jquaye@g.harvard.edu ⢠Web page:https://w.linkedin.com/in/jessicaquaye/ Juan Cirois a Software Developer at MLCommons, responsible for leading the development of the innovative Dynabench platform. He holds a degree in Engineering and a Masterâs degree in Artificial Intelligence, with a focus on Deep Learning, from the International University of Applied Science. With over six years of experience in software development and research, Juan has made significant contributions to the field of machine learning, including the creation of open source datasets such as Multilingual Spoken Words and Peopleâs Speech, which was presented at NeurIPS 2022, a renowned conference in the field. ⢠Email:juanciro@mlcommons.org â˘Web page:https://w.linkedin.com/in/juan-manuel-ciro-torres-471015a/ Lora Aroyo is a Research Scientist at Google, NYC, where she works on research for Data Excellence by specifically focusing on metrics to measure quality of human-labeled data in a reliable and transparent way. She was one of the core organizers of the first data-centric workshop at NeurIPS2021 and led the efforts for the adversarial CATS4ML challenge. Lora is a co-chair of the HCOMP steering committee for the AAAI Human Computation conference and a president of the User Modeling community UM Inc, which serves as a steering committee for the ACM Conference Series âUser Modeling, Adaptation and Personalizationâ (UMAP) sponsored by SIGCHI and SIGWEB. She is also a member of the ACM SIGCHI conferences board. Prior to joining Google, Lora was a computer science professor at the VU University Amsterdam. Dr. Aroyo has been conference chair, PC chair or track chairs for more than 10 conferences and has organized more than 20 workshops and tutorials in the area of Data Quality and Reliability, Human Computation, User Modeling and Semantic Web. ⢠Email:l.m.aroyo@gmail.com ⢠Web page:http://lora-aroyo.org ⢠Google Scholar:https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FXGgl5IAAAAJ Max Bartolo is a researcher at Cohere and a final-year PhD student with the UCL NLP group under the supervision of Pontus Stenetorp and Sebastian Riedel. His research lies at the intersection of model robustness and dynamic adversarial data collection, and he is a co-creator of Dynabench. Max co-organized the Dynamic Adversarial Data Collection (DADC) workshop at NAACL 2022 and the Human and Machine in-the-Loop Evaluation and Learning Strategies (HAMLETS) workshop at NeurIPS 2020. ⢠Email:max@bartolo.ai ⢠Web page:https://w.maxbartolo.com/ ⢠Google Scholar:https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=jPSWYn4AAAAJ Oana Inel is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Zurich. Her research focuses on measuring the quality of human-annotated and human-generated data and investigating the use of explanations to support people in decision-making. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at TU Delft and she received her PhD at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where her research focused on detecting and representing events and their semantics for understanding knowledge on the web. She has co-organised workshops and tutorials in the area of human computation, explanations for decision-support systems, semantic web technologies at TheWebConf, UMAP, ISWC, and SIGIR. ⢠Email:inel@ifi.uzh.ch ⢠Web page:https://oana-inel.github.io ⢠Google Scholar:https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=mEi2gvgAAAAJ Rafael Mosquerais a machine learning engineer at MLCommons, where he specializes in developing benchmarks for different ML tasks, as well as the creation of new datasets. He holds a Bachelorâs degree in Economics and Law and is currently pursuing a Masterâs degree in Economics. Rafael has extensive experience in creating open-source datasets for commercial usage and has previously worked on projects such as The Peopleâs Speech and Dollar Street. Currently, he leads the implementation of the DataPerf suite of challenges as one of Dynabench main developers. 10 ⢠Email:rafael.mosquera@mlcommons.org ⢠Web page:https://w.linkedin.com/in/rafael-mosquera/ ⢠Google Scholar:https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=XC9DJhUAAAAJ Vijay Janapa Reddiis an Associate Professor at Harvard University, as well as a founding member and Vice President of MLCommons (mlcommons.org), the non-profit organization responsible for hosting the Adversarial Nibbler challenge. With respect to this challenge, his expertise and contribution is primarily focused on constructing robust ML benchmarks that scale. His experience stems from several of the MLCommons benchmarks he developed, including those used in the DataPerf suite, to which the Adversarial Nibbler challenge belongs. 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