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A Little Robustness Goes a Long Way: Leveraging Robust Features for Targeted Transfer Attacks

NeurIPS 2021 · Adversarial robustness and security › Black-box and transfer attacks · approach: Transferable adversarial examples · 2 citations (OpenAlex)

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What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
Adversarially train the source ResNet50 with small robustness ε=0.1 rather than ε=0TMDI-FGSM targeted attacks · ImageNet classifierstargeted attack success rate: 45.9 -> 77.2 (Xception); 3.9 -> 33.4 (ViT); 0.4 -> 11.2 (CLIP)Helped
Increase source robustness from ε=0.1 to ε=1 (ablation)TMDI-FGSM Logit targeted attacks · ImageNet ViT and CLIPtargeted attack success rate: 33.4 -> 36.0 (ViT); 11.2 -> 26.7 (CLIP)Helped
Increase source robustness from ε=0.1 to ε=1 (ablation)TMDI-FGSM Logit targeted attacks · ImageNet convolutional classifierstargeted attack success rate: 77.2 -> 56.1 (Xception); 78.8 -> 62.4 (VGG16); 84.0 -> 67.0 (DN121)Hurt
Use slightly robust sources, ε=0.1, instead of non-robust sources, ε=0TMDI-FGSM targeted attacks · ImageNet transformer destinations ViT and CLIPtargeted attack success rate: 3.9 -> 33.4 (ViT); 0.4 -> 11.2 (CLIP)Helped
Use slightly robust sources instead of non-robust sourcesTMDI-FGSM targeted attacks · Adversarially trained ImageNet destination classifierstargeted attack success rateHelped
Use slightly robust source ResNet50 modelsRepresentation-targeted attacks · ImageNet destination networkscosine similarity: 0.462 -> 0.594 (Xception); 0.066 -> 0.206 (ViT); 0.529 -> 0.613 (CLIP)Helped
Increase source robustness past the slight-robustness range (ablation)Representation-targeted attacks · ImageNet destination networkscosine similarity: 0.594 -> 0.404 (Xception, ε=0.1 to ε=5); 0.206 -> 0.086 (ViT, ε=0.5 to ε=5)Hurt
Use Logit loss instead of Xent loss (ablation)TMDI-FGSM targeted attacks with ε=0 source · ImageNet destinationstargeted attack success rate: 10.4 -> 45.9 (Xception); 0.8 -> 3.9 (ViT)Helped
Use Logit loss instead of Po+Trip loss (ablation)TMDI-FGSM targeted attacks with ε=0.1 source · ImageNet destinationstargeted attack success rate: 77.2 -> 59.1 (Xception); 84.0 -> 78.4 (DN121)Mixed
Remove the TI gradient-filtering step (ablation)Representation-targeted TMDI-FGSM attacks · ImageNet representation transfertransferabilityHelped
Use slightly robust rather than non-robust source modelsTargeted and untargeted transfer attacks · CIFAR-10 classifierstransferabilityHelped

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