Visible to the public Ensemble of Key-Based Models: Defense Against Black-Box Adversarial Attacks

TitleEnsemble of Key-Based Models: Defense Against Black-Box Adversarial Attacks
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2021
AuthorsMaungMaung, AprilPyone, Kiya, Hitoshi
Conference Name2021 IEEE 10th Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE)
Date Publishedoct
Keywordsadversarial defense, composability, Conferences, Consumer electronics, cryptography, Ensemble, image classification, image encryption, Metrics, pubcrawl, Resiliency, white box cryptography
AbstractWe propose a voting ensemble of models trained by using block-wise transformed images with secret keys against black-box attacks. Although key-based adversarial defenses were effective against gradient-based (white-box) attacks, they cannot defend against gradient-free (black-box) attacks without requiring any secret keys. In the proposed ensemble, a number of models are trained by using images transformed with different keys and block sizes, and then a voting ensemble is applied to the models. Experimental results show that the proposed defense achieves a clean accuracy of 95.56 % and an attack success rate of less than 9 % under attacks with a noise distance of 8/255 on the CIFAR-10 dataset.
DOI10.1109/GCCE53005.2021.9621775
Citation Keymaungmaung_ensemble_2021