New adaptive attacks bypass many defenses to adversarial examples.
problem Adversarial example defenses are not adequately evaluated using adaptive attacks.
method Detailed analysis of thirteen defenses, demonstrating their vulnerabilities to adaptive attacks.
result Adversarial example defenses are more vulnerable to adaptive attacks than previously thought.
Automated discovery of adaptive attacks improves adversarial defense evaluation.
problem Challenges in reliably evaluating adversarial defenses.
method Formalizes adaptive attacks as reusable building blocks in a search space for automatic discovery.
result Our tool discovers significantly stronger attacks than AutoAttack, improving adversarial defense evaluation.
New defense method inspired by encryption improves visual classification accuracy.
problem Conventional defenses reduce accuracy and are defeated by obfuscated gradients.
method Block-wise pixel shuffling with secret key for training and test images.
result Achieves high accuracy (91.55%) on clean images and (89.66%) on adversarial examples.
New research shows many recent defenses against adversarial examples are ineffective against black-box attacks.
problem The robustness of recent defenses against adversarial examples is insufficient, especially against black-box attacks.
method Evaluation of nine defenses on two black-box adversarial models and six attacks on CIFAR-10 and Fashion-MNIST datasets.
result Most recent defenses provide only marginal improvements in security (<25%) compared to undefended networks. Paper examines test-time smoothing defenses against adversarial examples.
problem Adversarial examples can mislead neural networks, compromising robustness.
method Evaluates various test-time smoothing defenses on ImageNet.
result Non-monotonic relation between attacks and defenses, large variance among samples.
Correctly evaluating defenses against adversarial examples has proven to be extremely difficult. Despite the significant amount of recent work attempting to design defenses that withstand adaptive attacks, few have succeeded; most papers that propose defenses are quickly shown to be incorrect. We believe a large contri…
ADAPT improves robustness of Vision Transformers without full model fine-tuning.
problem Vulnerability of Vision Transformers to adversarial attacks.
method Parameter-efficient prompt tuning with ADAPT framework for adaptive adversarial training.
result ADAPT achieves robust accuracy of ~40% w.r.t. SOTA methods using only ~1% of the parameters.
Deep RL enhances cyber security through adaptive, responsive, and scalable defenses.
problem Complex, dynamic cyber attacks require adaptive and scalable security solutions.
method Incorporates deep learning into traditional RL for cyber defense.
result Demonstrates the potential of DRL in solving high-dimensional cyber defense problems.
New research evaluates various perturbation methods for improving neural network robustness.
problem Understanding and improving robustness of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) against adversarial attacks.
method Detailed evaluation of five main perturbation-based defenses, comparing random and deterministic approaches.
result Perturbation-based defenses are equivalent in efficacy, and attacks transfer between them.
DAD++ improves test-time adversarial defense without access to training data.
problem Improving adversarial robustness of pre-trained models without access to training data.
method Test-time Data-free Adversarial Defense (DAD++) with detection and correction schemes.
result DAD++ significantly improves adversarial robustness with minimal clean accuracy drop.
Proposes RPG-RT for red-teaming T2I models without internal access.
problem Evaluating T2I models' security through red-teaming is challenging due to their closed-source nature and unknown defense mechanisms.
method Integrates LLM and rule-based preference modeling to dynamically adapt to unknown defense mechanisms.
result Demonstrates superior and practical approach for red-teaming T2I models.
Paper proposes HRS to improve neural network robustness without significant accuracy loss.
problem Vulnerability of neural networks to adversarial attacks and performance degradation.
method Hierarchical Random Switching (HRS) for robustness without sacrificing accuracy.
result HRS significantly improves adversarial robustness with minimal accuracy loss.
Adaptive Misinformation defends against model stealing attacks by sending incorrect predictions for OOD queries.
problem Model stealing attacks clone target models using black-box query access and a surrogate dataset.
method Selective sending of incorrect predictions for Out-Of-Distribution (OOD) queries to degrade attacker's clone model accuracy.
result Our defense reduces attacker's clone model accuracy by up to 40% while maintaining benign user accuracy under 0.5%.
This work develops agents to learn generalizable policies for dynamic network environments.
problem Real-world network topologies change due to attackers, defenders, or system failures, leading to failures in adaptive ACD systems.
method Developing agents to learn generalizable policies across dynamic network environments.
result Agents can learn robust policies for dynamic network topologies and diverse attackers.
In this appraisal paper, we evaluate the efficacy of SHIELD, a compression-based defense framework for countering adversarial attacks on image classification models, which was published at KDD 2018. Here, we consider alternative threat models not studied in the original work, where we assume that an adaptive adversary …
Users in various web and mobile applications are vulnerable to attribute inference attacks, in which an attacker leverages a machine learning classifier to infer a target user's private attributes (e.g., location, sexual orientation, political view) from its public data (e.g., rating scores, page likes). Existing defen…
This paper improves model robustness against adversarial attacks using optimal transport.
problem Adversarial attacks can mislead deep learning models with imperceptible perturbations.
method Exploits optimal transport theory to align adversarial and original image distributions.
result SAT (Sinkhorn Adversarial Training) leads to more robust models compared to state-of-the-art.
Neural Network classifiers have been used successfully in a wide range of applications. However, their underlying assumption of attack free environment has been defied by adversarial examples. Researchers tried to develop defenses; however, existing approaches are still far from providing effective solutions to this ev…
The existence of adversarial data examples has drawn significant attention in the deep-learning community; such data are seemingly minimally perturbed relative to the original data, but lead to very different outputs from a deep-learning algorithm. Although a significant body of work on developing defensive models has …
ATHENA builds flexible defenses against adversarial attacks.
problem Extensive research on adversarial attacks is domain-specific and cannot be easily extended.
method Designing an extensible framework based on diverse weak defenses.
result Comprehensive empirical study demonstrates the effectiveness of ATHENA.
Graph neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks by manipulating graph structure.
problem Vulnerability of Graph Neural Networks to adversarial attacks.
method Categorization and review of existing attacks and defenses.
result Developed a repository for empirical studies on graph adversarial attacks and defenses.
Adversarial examples pose a threat to deep neural network models in a variety of scenarios, from settings where the adversary has complete knowledge of the model and to the opposite "black box" setting. Black box attacks are particularly threatening as the adversary only needs access to the input and output of the mode…
Paper analyzes adversarial attacks and defenses using game theory.
problem Unclear conditions for optimal attacks and defenses in adversarial learning.
method Game-theoretic framework with locally linear decision boundary model.
result Fast Gradient Method attack and Randomized Smoothing defense form a Nash Equilibrium.
Topology-aware generative models improve manifold-based defenses against adversarial examples.
problem Adversarial examples compromise the reliability of ML models, especially DNNs.
method Investigate if generative models used in manifold-based defenses need to be topology-aware.
result Topology-aware generative models enhance the robustness of manifold-based defenses.
New defense against DNN model stealing attacks by poisoning predictions.
problem Stealing DNN models through black-box access attacks.
method Active perturbation of predictions to mislead attacker's training.
result Effective against a wide range of DNN stealing attacks, reducing attacker's success rate significantly.
Paper presents certified defenses against adversarial patch attacks.
problem Certified defenses against adversarial patch attacks are needed.
method Proposes the first certified defense and faster training methods.
result Demonstrates robustness transfer across different patch shapes.
An adversarial machine learning approach is introduced to launch jamming attacks on wireless communications and a defense strategy is presented. A cognitive transmitter uses a pre-trained classifier to predict the current channel status based on recent sensing results and decides whether to transmit or not, whereas a j…
This study evaluates adversarial attacks and defenses for chest X-ray disease classification.
problem Vulnerability of deep neural networks to adversarial examples in chest X-ray disease detection.
method Detailed introduction and evaluation of various attack and defense methods.
result Attack and defense methods perform poorly with excessive iterations and large perturbations.
Paper presents a defense framework against adversarial examples.
problem Vulnerability of deep neural networks to adversarial examples.
method Cross-layer strategic ensemble defense with input and output transformations.
result Strategic ensemble defense achieves high defense success rates and robustness.
Stochastic defense improves natural classifiers against adversarial attacks.
problem Vulnerability of deep networks to adversarial attacks.
method Long-run MCMC sampling with Energy-Based Model for adversarial purification.
result Balancing memoryless and metastable behavior leads to effective purification and robust classification.
Defense against small image patches using occlusions.
problem Vulnerability of deep learning to small adversarial patches.
method Partially occlude image around each patch location.
result Certified security against patch attacks of a certain size.
Deep neural networks (DNNs) are known vulnerable to adversarial attacks. That is, adversarial examples, obtained by adding delicately crafted distortions onto original legal inputs, can mislead a DNN to classify them as any target labels. This work provides a solution to hardening DNNs under adversarial attacks through…
Defense against ASR attacks using dropout uncertainty.
problem Adversarial attacks on ASR systems.
method Dropout uncertainty in neural networks.
result High detection accuracy across various ASR systems and datasets.
Survey of algorithms to correct past mistakes in prediction.
problem Improving prediction accuracy by correcting past errors.
method Defensive Forecasting as a sequential game theory approach to minimize prediction metrics.
result Simple, near-optimal algorithms for various prediction tasks.
Backdoor attacks can poison federated meta-learning models, even with few examples.
problem Backdoor attacks on federated meta-learning models.
method Proposed a defense mechanism inspired by matching networks.
result Backdoor attacks can be very successful and persist after additional training in federated meta-learning.
This paper evaluates defenses against adversarial attacks on neural networks.
problem Adversarial attacks can trick DNNs into mis-classifying inputs.
method Scientific evaluation methodology for randomized defenses.
result RPENNs outperformed other defenses against adversarial attacks.
This paper benchmarks time-series adversarial defenses and attacks.
problem Adversarial attacks on time-series data.
method Detailed benchmarking of adversarial defense methods in the L∞ threat model. result Adversarial defenses offer robustness against both strong white-box and black-box attacks.
Data poisoning attacks -- where an adversary can modify a small fraction of training data, with the goal of forcing the trained classifier to high loss -- are an important threat for machine learning in many applications. While a body of prior work has developed attacks and defenses, there is not much general understan…
DeepRobust is a PyTorch library for adversarial attacks and defenses.
problem Addressing adversarial attacks and defenses in deep learning.
method Contains over 20 attack and defense algorithms for various deep learning architectures.
result Fosters research in adversarial learning with comprehensive and easy-to-use platform.
New defense method reduces adversarial attacks on neural networks.
problem Vulnerability of deep neural networks to adversarial attacks.
method Sparse coding frontend trained on clean images.
result Significantly attenuates adversarial attacks before reaching classifier.
BlurNet defends against adversarial attacks by filtering feature maps.
problem Adversarial attacks on deep neural networks, especially for image classification.
method BlurNet introduces a depthwise convolution layer with standard blur kernels after the first layer to filter high frequency noise.
result The defense reduces the success rate of adversarial attacks from 90% to 20% with total variation regularization.
VarDetect monitors API queries to detect model extraction attacks.
problem Attackers can extract ML models through API queries.
method VarDetect uses a modified variational autoencoder to track and detect attacker samples.
result VarDetect successfully detects and raises alarms for model extraction attacks.
It has been shown that adversaries can craft example inputs to neural networks which are similar to legitimate inputs but have been created to purposely cause the neural network to misclassify the input. These adversarial examples are crafted, for example, by calculating gradients of a carefully defined loss function w…
Adversarial examples that fool machine learning models, particularly deep neural networks, have been a topic of intense research interest, with attacks and defenses being developed in a tight back-and-forth. Most past defenses are best effort and have been shown to be vulnerable to sophisticated attacks. Recently a set…
BUZz defends images from adversarial attacks using simple transformations.
problem Adversarial attacks on deep neural networks for image classification.
method Combination of deep neural networks and simple image transformations.
result Achieves significant improvement over state-of-the-art defenses with a modest drop in clean accuracy.
Deep Partition Aggregation defends against poisoning attacks with provable certificates.
problem Adversarial poisoning attacks corrupt classifier test-time behavior.
method Deep Partition Aggregation (DPA) is an ensemble method using hash partitions and base models trained on these partitions.
result DPA can certify >= 50% of test images against over 500 poison image insertions on MNIST, and nine insertions on CIFAR-10.
DNCF framework recovers real scenes from imperfect images robustly.
problem Recovering real scenes from imperfect images.
method Nonparametric deep network that learns physical image formation equations.
result DNCF framework robustly defends against adversarial attacks.
Unified framework for analyzing model stealing attacks and defenses.
problem Vulnerability of ML applications to model stealing attacks.
method Developed a rigorous threat model and evaluation criteria, proposed methods to quantify attack and defense strategies.
result Demonstrated the importance of attack-specific perturbations for effective defenses.