Fortify Machine Learning Production Systems: Detect and Classify Adversarial Attacks

Abstract: Production machine learning systems are consistently under attack by adversarial actors. Various deep learning models must be capable of accurately detecting fake or adversarial input while maintaining speed. In this work, we propose one piece of the production protection system: detecting an incoming adversarial attack and its characteristics. Detecting types of adversarial attacks has two primary effects: the underlying model can be trained in a structured manner to be robust from those attacks and the attacks can be potentially filtered out in real-time before causing any downstream damage. The adversarial image classification space is explored for models commonly used in transfer learning.