Defense on unrestricted adversarial examples

• Main Author: Sim, Chee Xian
• Other Authors: Jun Zhao
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2023
• Subjects: Engineering::Computer science and engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/165839
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) and Deep Learning (DL) has led to advancements in various fields, including learning algorithms such as Reinforcement Learning (RL). These advancements have led to new algorithms like Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL), which can achieve great performance in fields such as image recognition and playing video games. However, DRL models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks that could lead to catastrophic results. A white-box attack, such as the Fast Gradient Signed Method (FGSM) attack, can significantly affect the performance of models, even with low amounts of perturbations. To defend against such attacks, the most common approach is to perform adversarial training to create robust neural networks against these attacks. In this paper, we explore the use of Bayesian Neural Networks (BNN) on Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) model to defend against adversarial attacks.