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HO-FMN: Hyperparameter Optimization for Fast Minimum-Norm Attacks

11 Jul 2024arXiv:2407.08806archive 2025-07-28

Raffaele Mura, Giuseppe Floris, Luca Scionis, Giorgio Piras, Maura Pintor, Ambra Demontis, Giorgio Giacinto, Battista Biggio, Fabio Roli

Gradient-based attacks are a primary tool to evaluate robustness of machine-learning models. However, many attacks tend to provide overly-optimistic evaluations as they use fixed loss functions, optimizers, step-size schedulers, and default hyperparameters. In this work, we tackle these limitations by proposing a parametric variation of the well-known fast minimum-norm attack algorithm, whose loss, optimizer, step-size scheduler, and hyperparameters can be dynamically adjusted. We re-evaluate 12 robust models, showing that our attack finds smaller adversarial perturbations without requiring any additional tuning. This also enables reporting adversarial robustness as a function of the perturbation budget, providing a more complete evaluation than that offered by fixed-budget attacks, while remaining efficient. We release our open-source code at https://github.com/pralab/HO-FMN.

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