Adversarial Attacks: When the Model Itself Is the Target

The four adversarial attack categories, evasion, poisoning, model extraction, and model inversion, three real incidents including Goodfellow's 2014 panda-to-gibbon FGSM result, the FGSM idea itself, a real robustness-collapse chart, and a five-step defensive checklist.

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By the end of this topic, you will

Name the four adversarial attack categories and what each one targets
Summarise Goodfellow's 2014 FGSM result and explain the idea behind the Fast Gradient Sign Method without the full mathematics
List the five items of this unit's minimal defensive checklist

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Adversarial Attacks: When the Model Itself Is the Target

Every classifier in this course assumes the data it sees at prediction time resembles the data it trained on. An adversarial attack breaks that assumption on purpose, and three real incidents in this unit show it is not hypothetical.

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