
arXiv: 2009.10537
Edge intelligence has played an important role in constructing smart cities, but the vulnerability of edge nodes to adversarial attacks becomes an urgent problem. A so-called adversarial example can fool a deep learning model on an edge node for misclassification. Due to the transferability property of adversarial examples, an adversary can easily fool a black-box model by a local substitute model. Edge nodes in general have limited resources, which cannot afford a complicated defense mechanism like that on a cloud data center. To address the challenge, we propose a dynamic defense mechanism, namely EI-MTD. The mechanism first obtains robust member models of small size through differential knowledge distillation from a complicated teacher model on a cloud data center. Then, a dynamic scheduling policy, which builds on a Bayesian Stackelberg game, is applied to the choice of a target model for service. This dynamic defense mechanism can prohibit the adversary from selecting an optimal substitute model for black-box attacks. We also conduct extensive experiments to evaluate the proposed mechanism, and results show that EI-MTD could protect edge intelligence effectively against adversarial attacks in black-box settings.
FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Machine Learning, Computer Science - Cryptography and Security, Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI), Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence, Statistics - Machine Learning, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV), Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning (stat.ML), Cryptography and Security (cs.CR), Machine Learning (cs.LG)
FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Machine Learning, Computer Science - Cryptography and Security, Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI), Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence, Statistics - Machine Learning, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV), Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning (stat.ML), Cryptography and Security (cs.CR), Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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