Adversarial training is an effective approach to make deep neural networks robust against adversarial attacks. Recently, different adversarial training defenses are proposed that not only maintain a high clean accuracy but also show significant robustness against popular and well studied adversarial attacks such as PGD. High adversarial robustness can also arise if an attack fails to find adversarial gradient directions, a phenomenon known as `gradient masking'. In this work, we analyse the effect of label smoothing on adversarial training as one of the potential causes of gradient masking. We then develop a guided mechanism to avoid local minima during attack optimization, leading to a novel attack dubbed Guided Projected Gradient Attack (G-PGA). Our attack approach is based on a `match and deceive' loss that finds optimal adversarial directions through guidance from a surrogate model. Our modified attack does not require random restarts, large number of attack iterations or search for an optimal step-size. Furthermore, our proposed G-PGA is generic, thus it can be combined with an ensemble attack strategy as we demonstrate for the case of Auto-Attack, leading to efficiency and convergence speed improvements. More than an effective attack, G-PGA can be used as a diagnostic tool to reveal elusive robustness due to gradient masking in adversarial defenses.

深度卷积神经网络（CNN）很容易被输入图像的细微，不可察觉的变化所欺骗。为了解决此漏洞，对抗训练会创建扰动模式，并将其包括在培训设置中以鲁棒性化模型。与仅使用阶级有限信息的现有对抗训练方法（例如，使用交叉渗透损失）相反，我们建议利用功能空间中的其他信息来促进更强的对手，这些信息又用于学习强大的模型。具体来说，我们将使用另一类的目标样本的样式和内容信息以及其班级边界信息来创建对抗性扰动。我们以深入监督的方式应用了我们提出的多任务目标，从而提取了多尺度特征知识，以创建最大程度地分开对手。随后，我们提出了一种最大边缘对抗训练方法，该方法可最大程度地减少源图像与其对手之间的距离，并最大程度地提高对手和目标图像之间的距离。与最先进的防御能力相比，我们的对抗训练方法表明了强大的鲁棒性，可以很好地推广到自然发生的损坏和数据分配变化，并保留了清洁示例的模型准确性。

评估防御模型的稳健性是对抗对抗鲁棒性研究的具有挑战性的任务。僵化的渐变，先前已经发现了一种梯度掩蔽，以许多防御方法存在并导致鲁棒性的错误信号。在本文中，我们确定了一种更细微的情况，称为不平衡梯度，也可能导致过高的对抗性鲁棒性。当边缘损耗的一个术语的梯度主导并将攻击朝向次优化方向推动时，发生不平衡梯度的现象。为了利用不平衡的梯度，我们制定了分解利润率损失的边缘分解（MD）攻击，并通过两阶段过程分别探讨了这些术语的攻击性。我们还提出了一个Multared和Ensemble版本的MD攻击。通过调查自2018年以来提出的17个防御模型，我们发现6种型号易受不平衡梯度的影响，我们的MD攻击可以减少由最佳基线独立攻击评估的鲁棒性另外2％。我们还提供了对不平衡梯度的可能原因和有效对策的深入分析。

Adaptive attacks have (rightfully) become the de facto standard for evaluating defenses to adversarial examples. We find, however, that typical adaptive evaluations are incomplete. We demonstrate that thirteen defenses recently published at ICLR, ICML and NeurIPS-and which illustrate a diverse set of defense strategies-can be circumvented despite attempting to perform evaluations using adaptive attacks. While prior evaluation papers focused mainly on the end result-showing that a defense was ineffective-this paper focuses on laying out the methodology and the approach necessary to perform an adaptive attack. Some of our attack strategies are generalizable, but no single strategy would have been sufficient for all defenses. This underlines our key message that adaptive attacks cannot be automated and always require careful and appropriate tuning to a given defense. We hope that these analyses will serve as guidance on how to properly perform adaptive attacks against defenses to adversarial examples, and thus will allow the community to make further progress in building more robust models.

The field of defense strategies against adversarial attacks has significantly grown over the last years, but progress is hampered as the evaluation of adversarial defenses is often insufficient and thus gives a wrong impression of robustness. Many promising defenses could be broken later on, making it difficult to identify the state-of-the-art. Frequent pitfalls in the evaluation are improper tuning of hyperparameters of the attacks, gradient obfuscation or masking. In this paper we first propose two extensions of the PGD-attack overcoming failures due to suboptimal step size and problems of the objective function. We then combine our novel attacks with two complementary existing ones to form a parameter-free, computationally affordable and user-independent ensemble of attacks to test adversarial robustness. We apply our ensemble to over 50 models from papers published at recent top machine learning and computer vision venues. In all except one of the cases we achieve lower robust test accuracy than reported in these papers, often by more than 10%, identifying several broken defenses.

This paper investigates recently proposed approaches for defending against adversarial examples and evaluating adversarial robustness. We motivate adversarial risk as an objective for achieving models robust to worst-case inputs. We then frame commonly used attacks and evaluation metrics as defining a tractable surrogate objective to the true adversarial risk. This suggests that models may optimize this surrogate rather than the true adversarial risk. We formalize this notion as obscurity to an adversary, and develop tools and heuristics for identifying obscured models and designing transparent models. We demonstrate that this is a significant problem in practice by repurposing gradient-free optimization techniques into adversarial attacks, which we use to decrease the accuracy of several recently proposed defenses to near zero. Our hope is that our formulations and results will help researchers to develop more powerful defenses.

Designing powerful adversarial attacks is of paramount importance for the evaluation of $\ell_p$-bounded adversarial defenses. Projected Gradient Descent (PGD) is one of the most effective and conceptually simple algorithms to generate such adversaries. The search space of PGD is dictated by the steepest ascent directions of an objective. Despite the plethora of objective function choices, there is no universally superior option and robustness overestimation may arise from ill-suited objective selection. Driven by this observation, we postulate that the combination of different objectives through a simple loss alternating scheme renders PGD more robust towards design choices. We experimentally verify this assertion on a synthetic-data example and by evaluating our proposed method across 25 different $\ell_{\infty}$-robust models and 3 datasets. The performance improvement is consistent, when compared to the single loss counterparts. In the CIFAR-10 dataset, our strongest adversarial attack outperforms all of the white-box components of AutoAttack (AA) ensemble, as well as the most powerful attacks existing on the literature, achieving state-of-the-art results in the computational budget of our study ($T=100$, no restarts).

作为反对攻击的最有效的防御方法之一，对抗性训练倾向于学习包容性的决策边界，以提高深度学习模型的鲁棒性。但是，由于沿对抗方向的边缘的大幅度和不必要的增加，对抗性训练会在自然实例和对抗性示例之间引起严重的交叉，这不利于平衡稳健性和自然准确性之间的权衡。在本文中，我们提出了一种新颖的对抗训练计划，以在稳健性和自然准确性之间进行更好的权衡。它旨在学习一个中度包容的决策边界，这意味着决策边界下的自然示例的边缘是中等的。我们称此方案为中等边缘的对抗训练（MMAT），该方案生成更细粒度的对抗示例以减轻交叉问题。我们还利用了经过良好培训的教师模型的逻辑来指导我们的模型学习。最后，MMAT在Black-Box和White-Box攻击下都可以实现高自然的精度和鲁棒性。例如，在SVHN上，实现了最新的鲁棒性和自然精度。

对抗性的鲁棒性已经成为深度学习的核心目标，无论是在理论和实践中。然而，成功的方法来改善对抗的鲁棒性（如逆势训练）在不受干扰的数据上大大伤害了泛化性能。这可能会对对抗性鲁棒性如何影响现实世界系统的影响（即，如果它可以提高未受干扰的数据的准确性），许多人可能选择放弃鲁棒性）。我们提出内插对抗培训，该培训最近雇用了在对抗培训框架内基于插值的基于插值的培训方法。在CiFar -10上，对抗性训练增加了标准测试错误（当没有对手时）从4.43％到12.32％，而我们的内插对抗培训我们保留了对抗性的鲁棒性，同时实现了仅6.45％的标准测试误差。通过我们的技术，强大模型标准误差的相对增加从178.1％降至仅为45.5％。此外，我们提供内插对抗性培训的数学分析，以确认其效率，并在鲁棒性和泛化方面展示其优势。

对抗性培训已被广泛用于增强神经网络模型对抗对抗攻击的鲁棒性。但是，自然准确性与强大的准确性之间仍有一个显着的差距。我们发现其中一个原因是常用的标签，单热量矢量，阻碍了图像识别的学习过程。在本文中，我们提出了一种称为低温蒸馏（LTD）的方法，该方法基于知识蒸馏框架来产生所需的软标记。与以前的工作不同，LTD在教师模型中使用相对较低的温度，采用不同但固定的，温度为教师模型和学生模型。此外，我们已经调查了有限公司协同使用自然数据和对抗性的方法。实验结果表明，在没有额外的未标记数据的情况下，所提出的方法与上一项工作相结合，可以分别在CiFar-10和CiFar-100数据集上实现57.72 \％和30.36 \％的鲁棒精度，这是州的大约1.21 \％通常的方法平均。

在计算机视觉应用中广泛采用深度神经网络引起了对对抗性鲁棒性的重大兴趣。现有的研究表明，专门针对给定模型量身定制的恶意扰动输入（即，对抗性示例）可以成功地转移到另一个受过独立训练的模型中，以引起预测错误。此外，这种对抗性示例的属性归因于数据分布中的预测模式得出的特征。因此，我们有动力调查以下问题：对抗性防御，例如对抗性例子，可以成功地转移到其他受过独立训练的模型中？为此，我们提出了一种基于深度学习的预处理机制，我们将其称为可鲁棒的可转移功能提取器（RTFE）。在研究了理论动机和含义后，我们在实验上表明，我们的方法可以为多个独立训练的分类器提供对抗性的鲁棒性，这些分类器原本是对自适应白盒对手的无效性。此外，我们表明RTFE甚至可以为在不同数据集中独立训练的模型提供单发对手的鲁棒性。

对抗性例子的现象说明了深神经网络最基本的漏洞之一。在推出这一固有的弱点的各种技术中，对抗性训练已成为学习健壮模型的最有效策略。通常，这是通过平衡强大和自然目标来实现的。在这项工作中，我们旨在通过执行域不变的功能表示，进一步优化鲁棒和标准准确性之间的权衡。我们提出了一种新的对抗训练方法，域不变的对手学习（DIAL），该方法学习了一个既健壮又不变的功能表示形式。拨盘使用自然域及其相应的对抗域上的域对抗神经网络（DANN）的变体。在源域由自然示例组成和目标域组成的情况下，是对抗性扰动的示例，我们的方法学习了一个被限制的特征表示，以免区分自然和对抗性示例，因此可以实现更强大的表示。拨盘是一种通用和模块化技术，可以轻松地将其纳入任何对抗训练方法中。我们的实验表明，将拨号纳入对抗训练过程中可以提高鲁棒性和标准精度。

对抗训练（AT）在防御对抗例子方面表现出色。最近的研究表明，示例对于AT期间模型的最终鲁棒性并不同样重要，即，所谓的硬示例可以攻击容易表现出比对最终鲁棒性的鲁棒示例更大的影响。因此，保证硬示例的鲁棒性对于改善模型的最终鲁棒性至关重要。但是，定义有效的启发式方法来寻找辛苦示例仍然很困难。在本文中，受到信息瓶颈（IB）原则的启发，我们发现了一个具有高度共同信息及其相关的潜在表示的例子，更有可能受到攻击。基于此观察，我们提出了一种新颖有效的对抗训练方法（Infoat）。鼓励Infoat找到具有高相互信息的示例，并有效利用它们以提高模型的最终鲁棒性。实验结果表明，与几种最先进的方法相比，Infoat在不同数据集和模型之间达到了最佳的鲁棒性。

在测试时间进行优化的自适应防御能力有望改善对抗性鲁棒性。我们对这种自适应测试时间防御措施进行分类，解释其潜在的好处和缺点，并评估图像分类的最新自适应防御能力的代表性。不幸的是，经过我们仔细的案例研究评估时，没有任何显着改善静态防御。有些甚至削弱了基本静态模型，同时增加了推理计算。尽管这些结果令人失望，但我们仍然认为自适应测试时间防御措施是一项有希望的研究途径，因此，我们为他们的彻底评估提供了建议。我们扩展了Carlini等人的清单。（2019年）通过提供针对自适应防御的具体步骤。

Adversarial training, in which a network is trained on adversarial examples, is one of the few defenses against adversarial attacks that withstands strong attacks. Unfortunately, the high cost of generating strong adversarial examples makes standard adversarial training impractical on large-scale problems like ImageNet. We present an algorithm that eliminates the overhead cost of generating adversarial examples by recycling the gradient information computed when updating model parameters.Our "free" adversarial training algorithm achieves comparable robustness to PGD adversarial training on the CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100 datasets at negligible additional cost compared to natural training, and can be 7 to 30 times faster than other strong adversarial training methods. Using a single workstation with 4 P100 GPUs and 2 days of runtime, we can train a robust model for the large-scale ImageNet classification task that maintains 40% accuracy against PGD attacks. The code is available at https://github.com/ashafahi/free_adv_train.

对抗性训练（AT）已被证明可以通过利用对抗性示例进行训练来有效地改善模型鲁棒性。但是，大多数方法面对昂贵的时间和计算成本，用于在生成对抗性示例的多个步骤中计算梯度。为了提高训练效率，快速梯度符号方法（FGSM）在方法中仅通过计算一次来快速地采用。不幸的是，鲁棒性远非令人满意。初始化的方式可能引起一个原因。现有的快速在通常使用随机的样本不合时宜的初始化，这促进了效率，但会阻碍进一步的稳健性改善。到目前为止，快速AT中的初始化仍未广泛探索。在本文中，我们以样本依赖性的对抗初始化（即，来自良性图像条件的生成网络的输出及其来自目标网络的梯度信息的输出）快速增强。随着生成网络和目标网络在训练阶段共同优化，前者可以适应相对于后者的有效初始化，从而激发了逐渐改善鲁棒性。在四个基准数据库上进行的实验评估证明了我们所提出的方法比在方法上快速的最先进方法的优越性，以及与方法相当的鲁棒性。该代码在https://github.com//jiaxiaojunqaq//fgsm-sdi上发布。

可转移的对抗性攻击优化了从验证的替代模型和已知标签空间中的对手，以欺骗未知的黑盒模型。因此，这些攻击受到有效的替代模型的可用性受到限制。在这项工作中，我们放宽了这一假设，并提出了对抗像素的恢复，作为一种自制的替代方案，可以在无标签和很少的数据样本的条件下从头开始训练有效的替代模型。我们的培训方法是基于一个最小目标的目标，该目标通过对抗目标减少过度拟合，从而为更概括的替代模型进行了优化。我们提出的攻击是对对抗性像素恢复的补充，并且独立于任何特定任务目标，因为它可以以自我监督的方式启动。我们成功地证明了我们对视觉变压器方法的对抗性可传递性以及卷积神经网络，用于分类，对象检测和视频分割的任务。我们的代码和预培训的代理模型可在以下网址找到：https：//github.com/hashmatshadab/apr

由于在量化网络上的按位操作产生的有效存储器消耗和更快的计算，神经网络量化已经变得越来越受欢迎。尽管它们表现出优异的泛化能力，但其鲁棒性属性并不是很好地理解。在这项工作中，我们系统地研究量化网络对基于梯度的对抗性攻击的鲁棒性，并证明这些量化模型遭受梯度消失问题并显示出虚假的鲁棒感。通过归因于培训的网络中的渐变消失到较差的前后信号传播，我们引入了一个简单的温度缩放方法来缓解此问题，同时保留决策边界。尽管对基于梯度的对抗攻击进行了简单的修改，但具有多个网络架构的多个图像分类数据集的实验表明，我们的温度缩放攻击在量化网络上获得了近乎完美的成功率，同时表现出对普遍培训的模型以及浮动的原始攻击以及浮动 - 点网络。代码可在https://github.com/kartikgupta-at-anu/Attack-bnn获得。

In the scenario of black-box adversarial attack, the target model's parameters are unknown, and the attacker aims to find a successful adversarial perturbation based on query feedback under a query budget. Due to the limited feedback information, existing query-based black-box attack methods often require many queries for attacking each benign example. To reduce query cost, we propose to utilize the feedback information across historical attacks, dubbed example-level adversarial transferability. Specifically, by treating the attack on each benign example as one task, we develop a meta-learning framework by training a meta-generator to produce perturbations conditioned on benign examples. When attacking a new benign example, the meta generator can be quickly fine-tuned based on the feedback information of the new task as well as a few historical attacks to produce effective perturbations. Moreover, since the meta-train procedure consumes many queries to learn a generalizable generator, we utilize model-level adversarial transferability to train the meta-generator on a white-box surrogate model, then transfer it to help the attack against the target model. The proposed framework with the two types of adversarial transferability can be naturally combined with any off-the-shelf query-based attack methods to boost their performance, which is verified by extensive experiments.

Recent increases in the computational demands of deep neural networks (DNNs) have sparked interest in efficient deep learning mechanisms, e.g., quantization or pruning. These mechanisms enable the construction of a small, efficient version of commercial-scale models with comparable accuracy, accelerating their deployment to resource-constrained devices. In this paper, we study the security considerations of publishing on-device variants of large-scale models. We first show that an adversary can exploit on-device models to make attacking the large models easier. In evaluations across 19 DNNs, by exploiting the published on-device models as a transfer prior, the adversarial vulnerability of the original commercial-scale models increases by up to 100x. We then show that the vulnerability increases as the similarity between a full-scale and its efficient model increase. Based on the insights, we propose a defense, $similarity$-$unpairing$, that fine-tunes on-device models with the objective of reducing the similarity. We evaluated our defense on all the 19 DNNs and found that it reduces the transferability up to 90% and the number of queries required by a factor of 10-100x. Our results suggest that further research is needed on the security (or even privacy) threats caused by publishing those efficient siblings.