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Boosting the Transferability of Adversarial Attacks with Reverse Adversarial Perturbation
Zeyu Qin · Yanbo Fan · Yi Liu · Li Shen · Yong Zhang · Jue Wang · Baoyuan Wu

Thu Dec 01 02:00 PM -- 04:00 PM (PST) @ Hall J #138
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Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial examples, which can produce erroneous predictions by injecting imperceptible perturbations. In this work, we study the transferability of adversarial examples, which is significant due to its threat to real-world applications where model architecture or parameters are usually unknown. Many existing works reveal that the adversarial examples are likely to overfit the surrogate model that they are generated from, limiting its transfer attack performance against different target models. To mitigate the overfitting of the surrogate model, we propose a novel attack method, dubbed reverse adversarial perturbation (RAP). Specifically, instead of minimizing the loss of a single adversarial point, we advocate seeking adversarial example located at a region with unified low loss value, by injecting the worst-case perturbation (the reverse adversarial perturbation) for each step of the optimization procedure. The adversarial attack with RAP is formulated as a min-max bi-level optimization problem. By integrating RAP into the iterative process for attacks, our method can find more stable adversarial examples which are less sensitive to the changes of decision boundary, mitigating the overfitting of the surrogate model. Comprehensive experimental comparisons demonstrate that RAP can significantly boost adversarial transferability. Furthermore, RAP can be naturally combined with many existing black-box attack techniques, to further boost the transferability. When attacking a real-world image recognition system, Google Cloud Vision API, we obtain 22% performance improvement of targeted attacks over the compared method. Our codes are available at https://github.com/SCLBD/TransferattackRAP.

Keywords: Adversarial examples · Adversarial Transferability · Black-Box Attacks
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Author Information

Zeyu Qin (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Ph.D. student at CSE of HKUST

Yanbo Fan (NLPR, CASIA)
Yi Liu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen)
Li Shen (Tencent AI Lab)
Yong Zhang (CASIA)
Jue Wang (Tencent AI Lab)
Baoyuan Wu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen)

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