Deep Learning Project 3: Adversarial Attacks on Image Classification

Table of Contents

• Project Overview
• Project Structure
• Setup
• Implementation Details
  • Task 1: Project Setup and Baseline Performance
  • Task 2: Fast Gradient Sign Method (FGSM)
  • Task 3: Improved Attacks
  • Task 4: Adversarial Training
  • Task 5: Transferring Attacks
• Results and Analysis
• Usage
• Dependencies
• Limitations and Discussion
• Future Improvements

Project Overview

This project implements and evaluates various adversarial attacks on pre-trained deep learning models using the ImageNet-1K dataset. The attacks include FGSM, PGD, I-FGSM, and patch-based attacks, with analysis of their effectiveness and transferability.

Project Structure

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├── adversarial_attacks.py    # Main implementation file
├── requirements.txt         # Project dependencies
├── TestDataSet.zip         # Test dataset (ImageNet-1K)
├── adversarially_trained_model.pth  # Trained robust model
└── task3_observations.txt   # Observations and results

Setup

1. Create a virtual environment:

python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate  # On Unix/macOS
# or
.\venv\Scripts\activate  # On Windows

2. Install dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Extract the test dataset:

unzip TestDataSet.zip

Implementation Details

Task 1: Project Setup and Baseline Performance

• Implemented baseline evaluation of ResNet-34 model on ImageNet-1K
• Achieved baseline accuracy of ~76% on clean images

Task 2: Fast Gradient Sign Method (FGSM)

• Implemented FGSM attack with configurable epsilon values
• Key features:
  • Gradient computation using torch.autograd
  • Proper label mapping for ImageNet classes
  • Support for batch processing
  • Visualization of adversarial examples

Task 3: Improved Attacks

Implemented two advanced adversarial attacks:

1. Projected Gradient Descent (PGD)

   • Iterative attack with multiple steps
   • Projection to epsilon ball after each step
   • Configurable parameters:
     • Number of steps
     • Step size
     • Epsilon value

2. Iterative Fast Gradient Sign Method (I-FGSM)

   • Iterative version of FGSM
   • Smaller step sizes for better optimization
   • Configurable parameters:
     • Number of iterations
     • Step size
     • Epsilon value

Task 4: Adversarial Training

Implemented adversarial training to improve model robustness:

1. Training Process

   • Uses PGD attack for generating adversarial examples during training
   • Configurable parameters:
     • Number of epochs
     • Learning rate
     • Epsilon (perturbation size)
     • Alpha (step size)
     • Number of PGD steps

2. Key Features

   • Real-time adversarial example generation
   • Adam optimizer for stable training
   • Progress tracking with loss monitoring
   • Model checkpointing

3. Evaluation

   • Comprehensive evaluation on:
     • Clean images
     • FGSM adversarial examples
     • PGD adversarial examples
     • I-FGSM adversarial examples

Task 5: Transferring Attacks

Results and Analysis

For detailed results and analysis, refer to the following files:

• Task-by-Task Summary: task_summary.txt provides a comprehensive overview of each task, including code explanations, results, and visualizations.
• Visualizations:
  • accuracy_comparison_all_attacks.png: Comparison of all attacks.
  • attack_effectiveness.png: Attack effectiveness (accuracy reduction).
  • patch_attack_examples.png: Examples of patch attacks.
  • attack_parameters.png: Comparison of attack parameters.
  • transfer_attack_accuracy.png: Impact of adversarial attacks on DenseNet-121.

Accuracy Drop Analysis for Task 2 and Task 3

Attack	Top-1 Accuracy	Top-5 Accuracy	Drop from Baseline (Top-1)	Drop from Baseline (Top-5)	Requirement Met?
Baseline	76.0%	94.0%	—	—	—
FGSM	21.6%	44.6%	54.4%	49.4%	Yes
PGD	2.0%	13.6%	74.0%	80.4%	Yes
I-FGSM	1.6%	12.8%	74.4%	81.2%	Yes

• Task 2 (FGSM): With epsilon=0.04, the attack achieves a 54.4% drop in Top-1 accuracy and a 49.4% drop in Top-5 accuracy, both meeting the requirement of at least a 50% drop relative to baseline.
• Task 3 (PGD, I-FGSM): Both attacks achieve over a 74% drop in Top-1 accuracy and over 80% drop in Top-5 accuracy, comfortably exceeding the requirement of at least a 70% drop relative to baseline.

Conclusion:

• The project meets the accuracy drop requirements for both Task 2 and Task 3 as specified in the assignment guidelines.

Usage

Running Attacks

from adversarial_attacks import FGSMAttack, PGDAttack, IFGSMAttack

# FGSM Attack
fgsm = FGSMAttack(model, epsilon=0.03)
adversarial_images = fgsm.attack(images, labels)

# PGD Attack
pgd = PGDAttack(model, epsilon=0.03, steps=10, step_size=0.01)
adversarial_images = pgd.attack(images, labels)

# I-FGSM Attack
ifgsm = IFGSMAttack(model, epsilon=0.03, steps=10, step_size=0.01)
adversarial_images = ifgsm.attack(images, labels)

Running Transfer Attack Evaluation

python transfer_attack_evaluation.py

Expected Outputs

• Adversarial examples will be saved in their respective directories:
  • AdversarialTestSet1/ for FGSM
  • AdversarialTestSet_PGD/ for PGD
  • AdversarialTestSet_IFGSM/ for I-FGSM
  • AdversarialTestSet3/ for Patch-PGD
• Results and visualizations will be generated in the root directory

Dependencies

• PyTorch
• torchvision
• PIL
• numpy
• matplotlib

See requirements.txt for specific versions.

Limitations and Discussion

1. Dataset Limitations

• Using the test set for both training and evaluation
• Small dataset size (100 classes)
• Limited number of images per class

2. Attack Limitations

• Full-Image Attacks:

  • Require access to the entire image
  • May be easily detectable
  • High perturbation budget needed

• Patch Attack:

  • Limited to a small area (32x32 pixels)
  • Requires higher epsilon for effectiveness
  • More realistic but less effective than full-image attacks

3. Adversarial Training Limitations

• Poor performance due to using test set for training
• Overfitting to the small dataset
• Not representative of real-world adversarial training

4. Future Improvements

1. Use a proper training set for adversarial training
2. Implement more sophisticated patch attacks
3. Explore different patch sizes and locations
4. Investigate transferability of attacks
5. Implement defense mechanisms

Future Improvements

1. Use a proper training set for adversarial training
2. Implement more sophisticated patch attacks
3. Explore different patch sizes and locations
4. Investigate transferability of attacks
5. Implement defense mechanisms

For further details, see the code and visualizations in this repository.