Summary of Robustblack: Challenging Black-box Adversarial Attacks on State-of-the-art Defenses, by Mohamed Djilani et al.
RobustBlack: Challenging Black-Box Adversarial Attacks on State-of-the-Art Defenses
by Mohamed Djilani, Salah Ghamizi, Maxime Cordy
First submitted to arxiv on: 30 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The abstract explores the effectiveness of recent black-box attacks on robust machine learning models. The study evaluates various attacks, including transfer- and query-based approaches, against top-performing and standard defense mechanisms on the ImageNet dataset. The results show that even advanced attacks struggle to succeed against simple adversarially trained models, while robust models optimized for strong white-box attacks also exhibit enhanced resilience against black-box attacks. Additionally, the study highlights the importance of robustness alignment between surrogate models and target models in determining the success rate of transfer-based attacks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper looks at how well new types of cyber attacks work on super-strong computer models that are resistant to other types of attacks. The researchers tested different kinds of attacks against these strong models, as well as some weaker defenses, using a big dataset of images. They found that even the most advanced attacks can’t break through simple, extra-strong models, and that models that were trained to be really good at resisting strong attacks are also hard for black-box attacks to crack. The study also shows that how closely related the training model is to the target model affects how well transfer-based attacks work. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Alignment » Machine learning
