Advanced Adversarial Machine Learning
Chapter 1: Foundations of Adversarial ML Security
Review of Machine Learning Security Vulnerabilities
Threat Models in Machine Learning
Attack Surfaces: Training vs. Inference
Mathematical Formulation of Adversarial Examples
Taxonomy of Adversarial Attacks
Overview of Defense Strategies
Chapter 2: Advanced Evasion Attacks
Gradient-Based Attacks: FGSM, BIM, PGD Analysis
Optimization-Based Attacks: Carlini & Wagner Methods
Score-Based Attack Techniques
Decision-Based Attack Techniques
Transferability of Adversarial Examples
Attacking Ensemble Models
Implementing Evasion Attacks: Hands-on Practical
Chapter 3: Data Poisoning and Backdoor Attacks
Poisoning Attack Strategies: Availability vs Integrity
Targeted Data Poisoning Techniques
Backdoor Attack Mechanisms and Trigger Design
Clean-Label Poisoning Attacks
Analyzing Poisoning Impact on Model Training
Crafting Data Poisoning Attacks: Hands-on Practical
Chapter 4: Model Inference and Privacy Attacks
Membership Inference Attacks: Theory and Methods
Attribute Inference Techniques
Model Inversion and Reconstruction Attacks
Model Stealing: Functionality Extraction Methods
Relationship to Differential Privacy
Implementing Membership Inference: Hands-on Practical
Chapter 5: Robust Defense Mechanisms
Adversarial Training: Principles and Variations
Certified Defenses: Randomized Smoothing
Input Transformation Defenses
Gradient Masking and Obfuscation Issues
Defending Against Poisoning and Backdoors
Implementing Adversarial Training: Hands-on Practical
Chapter 6: Evaluating Model Robustness
Metrics for Adversarial Robustness
Benchmarking Tools and Frameworks
Adaptive Attacks: Evaluating Defenses Properly
Security Evaluations under Different Threat Models
Interpreting Robustness Evaluation Results
Setting up Robustness Benchmarks: Hands-on Practical
Chapter 7: Adversarial Examples in Specific Domains
Adversarial Attacks on Computer Vision Models
Generating Adversarial Text for NLP Models
Attacks on Reinforcement Learning Agents
Physical Adversarial Attacks
Domain-Specific Attack Considerations
Generating Adversarial Text: Practice
Adversarial Training: Principles and Variations
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- Towards Deep Learning Models Resistant to Adversarial Attacks, Aleksander Madry, Aleksandar Makelov, Ludwig Schmidt, Dimitris Tsipras, Adrian Vladu, 2018 International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.1706.06083 - This seminal paper formalizes adversarial training as a minimax optimization problem and introduces Projected Gradient Descent (PGD) based adversarial training, establishing it as a highly effective defense strategy.
- Explaining and Harnessing Adversarial Examples, Ian J. Goodfellow, Jonathon Shlens, Christian Szegedy, 2014 International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.1412.6572 - Introduces the Fast Gradient Sign Method (FGSM) for generating adversarial examples and proposes FGSM adversarial training, a simpler and faster, albeit often less robust, alternative to PGD-AT.
- Theoretically Principled Trade-off between Robustness and Accuracy, Hongyang Zhang, Yaodong Yu, Jiantao Jiao, Eric P. Xing, Laurent El Ghaoui, Michael I. Jordan, 2019 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.1901.08573 - Proposes TRADES, a method that explicitly addresses the accuracy-robustness trade-off in adversarial training by introducing a regularized loss function based on KL divergence.
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