Assured Deep Learning: Practical Defense Against Adversarial Attacks

Deep Learning (DL) models have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. In light of the adversarial attacks, it is critical to reliably quantify the confidence of the prediction in a neural network to enable safe adoption of DL models in autonomous sensitive tasks (e.g., unmanned vehicles and drones). This article discusses recent research advances for unsupervised model assurance against the strongest adversarial attacks known to date and quantitatively compare their performance. Given the widespread usage of DL models, it is imperative to provide model assurance by carefully looking into the feature maps automatically learned within D1 models instead of looking back with regret when deep learning systems are compromised by adversaries.