Visible to the public HopSkipJumpAttack: A Query-Efficient Decision-Based Attack

TitleHopSkipJumpAttack: A Query-Efficient Decision-Based Attack
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2020
AuthorsChen, Jianbo, Jordan, Michael I., Wainwright, Martin J.
Conference Name2020 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)
KeywordsEstimation, Iterative methods, Measurement, Metrics, Neural networks, Optimization, Perturbation methods, Predictive models, predictive security metrics, pubcrawl
AbstractThe goal of a decision-based adversarial attack on a trained model is to generate adversarial examples based solely on observing output labels returned by the targeted model. We develop HopSkipJumpAttack, a family of algorithms based on a novel estimate of the gradient direction using binary information at the decision boundary. The proposed family includes both untargeted and targeted attacks optimized for $\mathscrl$ and $\mathscrlinfty$ similarity metrics respectively. Theoretical analysis is provided for the proposed algorithms and the gradient direction estimate. Experiments show HopSkipJumpAttack requires significantly fewer model queries than several state-of-the-art decision-based adversarial attacks. It also achieves competitive performance in attacking several widely-used defense mechanisms.
DOI10.1109/SP40000.2020.00045
Citation Keychen_hopskipjumpattack_2020