Sequence Squeezing: A Defense Method against Adversarial Examples for API Call-Based RNN Variants

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Abstract

Adversarial examples are known to mislead deep learning models so that the models will classify them incorrectly, even in domains where such models have achieved state-of-the-art performance. Until recently, research on both adversarial attack and defense methods focused on computer vision, primarily using convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In recent years, adversarial example generation methods for recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have been published, demonstrating that RNN classifiers are also vulnerable to such attacks. In this paper, we present a novel defense method, referred to as sequence squeezing, aimed at making RNN variant (e.g., LSTM) classifiers more robust against such attacks. Our method differs from existing defense methods, which were designed only for non-sequence based models. We also implement three additional defense methods inspired by recently published CNN defense methods as baselines for our method. Using sequence squeezing, we were able to decrease the effectiveness of such adversarial attacks from 99.9% to 15%, outperforming all of the baseline defense methods.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIJCNN 2021 - International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
ISBN (Electronic)9780738133669
DOIs
StatePublished - 18 Jul 2021
Event2021 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2021 - Virtual, Shenzhen, China
Duration: 18 Jul 202122 Jul 2021

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks
Volume2021-July

Conference

Conference2021 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2021
Country/TerritoryChina
CityVirtual, Shenzhen
Period18/07/2122/07/21

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Artificial Intelligence

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