Title
Adversarial Retraining Attack Of Asynchronous Advantage Actor-Critic Based Pathfinding
Abstract
Pathfinding becomes an important component in many real-world scenarios, such as popular warehouse systems and autonomous aircraft towing vehicles. With the development of reinforcement learning (RL) especially in the context of asynchronous advantage actor-critic (A3C), pathfinding is undergoing a revolution in terms of efficient parallel learning. Similar to other artificial intelligence-based applications, A3C-based pathfinding is also threatened by the adversarial attack. In this paper, we are the first to study the adversarial attack to A3C, that can unexpectedly wake up longtime retraining mechanism until successful pathfinding. We also discover an attack example generation to launch the attack based on gradient band, in which only one baffle of extremely few unit lengths can successfully perform the attack. Experiments with detailed analysis are conducted to show a high attack success rate of 95% with an average baffle length of 2.95. We also discuss defense suggestions leveraging the insights from our analysis.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1002/int.22380
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
A3C, evasion attack, pathfinding, reinforcement learning, retraining attack
Journal
36
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
5
0884-8173
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
10
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tong Chen100.34
Jiqiang Liu231552.31
Yingxiao Xiang301.35
Wenjia Niu417830.33
Endong Tong556.96
Shuoru Wang600.34
He Li700.34
Liang Chang810.72
Gang Li938162.77
Qi Chen1026124.99