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Learning to Generate Image Source-Agnostic Universal Adversarial Perturbations

IJCAI

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07/29/2022

Adversarial perturbations are critical for certifying the robustness of deep learning models. A “universal adversarial perturbation” (UAP) can simultaneously attack multiple images, and thus offers a more unified threat model, obviating an image-wise attack algorithm. However, the existing UAP generator is underdeveloped when images are drawn from different image sources (e.g., with different image resolutions). Towards an authentic universality across image sources, we take a novel view of UAP generation as a customized instance of “few-shot learning”, which leverages bilevel optimization and learning-to-optimize (L2O) techniques for UAP generation with improved attack success rate (ASR). We begin by considering the popular model agnostic meta-learning (MAML) framework to meta-learn a UAP generator. However, we see that the MAML framework does not directly offer the universal attack across image sources, requiring us to integrate it with another meta-learning framework of L2O. The resulting scheme for meta-learning a UAP generator (i) has better performance (50% higher ASR) than baselines such as Projected Gradient Descent, (ii) has better performance (37% faster) than the vanilla L2O and MAML frameworks (when applicable), and (iii) is able to simultaneously handle UAP generation for different victim models and data sources.

Please cite our work using the BibTeX below.

  title     = {Learning to Generate Image Source-Agnostic Universal Adversarial Perturbations},
  author    = {Zhao, Pu and Ram, Parikshit and Lu, Songtao and Yao, Yuguang and Bouneffouf, Djallel and Lin, Xue and Liu, Sijia},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Thirty-First International Joint Conference on
               Artificial Intelligence, {IJCAI-22}},
  publisher = {International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization},
  editor    = {Lud De Raedt},
  pages     = {1714--1720},
  year      = {2022},
  month     = {7},
  note      = {Main Track},
  doi       = {10.24963/ijcai.2022/239},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2022/239},
}
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