Title
Using Intuition from Empirical Properties to Simplify Adversarial Training Defense
Abstract
Due to the surprisingly good representation power of complex distributions, neural network (NN) classifiers are widely used in many tasks which include natural language processing, computer vision and cyber security. In recent works, people noticed the existence of adversarial examples. These adversarial examples break the NN classifiers' underlying assumption that the environment is attack free and can easily mislead fully trained NN classifier without noticeable changes. Among defensive methods, adversarial training is a popular choice. However, original adversarial training with single-step adversarial examples (Single-Adv) can not defend against iterative adversarial examples. Although adversarial training with iterative adversarial examples (Iter-Adv) can defend against iterative adversarial examples, it consumes too much computational power and hence is not scalable. In this paper, we analyze Iter-Adv techniques and identify two of their empirical properties. Based on these properties, we propose modifications which enhance Single-Adv to perform competitively as Iter-Adv. Through preliminary evaluation, we show that the proposed method enhances the test accuracy of state-of-the-art (SOTA) Single-Adv defensive method against iterative adversarial examples by up to 16.93% while reducing its training cost by 28.75%.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/DSN-W.2019.00020
2019 49th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks Workshops (DSN-W)
Keywords
DocType
Volume
adversarial training,adversarial example,neural network classifier
Conference
abs/1906.11729
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2325-6648
978-1-7281-3031-6
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
3
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Guanxiong Liu101.01
Issa Khalil2234.09
Abdallah Khreishah357051.97