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DeepRobust

A pytorch adversarial library for attack and defense methods on images and graphs

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Documentation | Paper | Samples

[AAAI 2021] DeepRobust is a PyTorch adversarial library for attack and defense methods on images and graphs.

  • If you are new to DeepRobust, we highly suggest you read the documentation page or the following content in this README to learn how to use it.
  • If you have any questions or suggestions regarding this library, feel free to create an issue here. We will reply as soon as possible :)
<p float="left"> <img src="https://github.com/DSE-MSU/DeepRobust/blob/master/adversary_examples/adversarial.png" width="430" /> <img src="https://github.com/DSE-MSU/DeepRobust/blob/master/adversary_examples/graph_attack_example.png" width="380" /> </p>

List of including algorithms can be found in [Image Package] and [Graph Package].

Environment & Installation

Usage

Acknowledgement

For more details about attacks and defenses, you can read the following papers.

If our work could help your research, please cite:
DeepRobust: A PyTorch Library for Adversarial Attacks and Defenses

@article{li2020deeprobust,
  title={Deeprobust: A pytorch library for adversarial attacks and defenses},
  author={Li, Yaxin and Jin, Wei and Xu, Han and Tang, Jiliang},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.06149},
  year={2020}
}

Changelog

  • [11/2023] Try <span style="color:red"> git clone https://github.com/DSE-MSU/DeepRobust.git; cd DeepRobust; python setup_empty.py install </span> to directly install DeepRobust without installing dependency packages.
  • [11/2023] DeepRobust 0.2.9 Released. Please try pip install deeprobust==0.2.9. We have fixed the OOM issue of metattack on new pytorch versions.
  • [06/2023] We have added a backdoor attack UGBA, WWW'23 to graph package. We can now use UGBA to conduct unnoticeable backdoor attack on large-scale graphs such as ogb-arxiv (see example in test_ugba.py)!
  • [02/2023] DeepRobust 0.2.8 Released. Please try pip install deeprobust==0.2.8! We have added a scalable attack PRBCD, NeurIPS'21 to graph package. We can now use PRBCD to attack large-scale graphs such as ogb-arxiv (see example in test_prbcd.py)!
  • [02/2023] Add a robust model AirGNN, NeurIPS'21 to graph package. Try python examples/graph/test_airgnn.py! See details in test_airgnn.py
  • [11/2022] DeepRobust 0.2.6 Released. Please try pip install deeprobust==0.2.6! We have more updates coming. Please stay tuned!
  • [11/2021] A subpackage that includes popular black box attacks in image domain is released. Find it here. Link
  • [11/2021] DeepRobust 0.2.4 Released. Please try pip install deeprobust==0.2.4!
  • [10/2021] add scalable attack and MedianGCN. Thank Jintang for his contribution!
  • [06/2021] [Image Package] Add preprocessing method: APE-GAN.
  • [05/2021] DeepRobust is published at AAAI 2021. Check here!
  • [05/2021] DeepRobust 0.2.2 Released. Please try pip install deeprobust==0.2.2!
  • [04/2021] [Image Package] Add support for ImageNet. See details in test_ImageNet.py
  • [04/2021] [Graph Package] Add support for OGB datasets. See more details in the tutorial page.
  • [03/2021] [Graph Package] Added node embedding attack and victim models! See this tutorial page.
  • [02/2021] [Graph Package] DeepRobust now provides tools for converting the datasets between Pytorch Geometric and DeepRobust. See more details in the tutorial page! DeepRobust now also support GAT, Chebnet and SGC based on pyg; see details in test_gat.py, test_chebnet.py and test_sgc.py
  • [12/2020] DeepRobust now can be installed via pip! Try pip install deeprobust!
  • [12/2020] [Graph Package] Add four more datasets and one defense algorithm. More details can be found here. More datasets and algorithms will be added later. Stay tuned :)
  • [07/2020] Add documentation page!
  • [06/2020] Add docstring to both image and graph package

Basic Environment

  • python >= 3.6 (python 3.5 should also work)
  • pytorch >= 1.2.0

see setup.py or requirements.txt for more information.

Installation

Install from pip

pip install deeprobust 

Install from source

git clone https://github.com/DSE-MSU/DeepRobust.git
cd DeepRobust
python setup.py install

If you find the dependencies are hard to install, please try the following:
python setup_empty.py install (only install deeprobust without installing other packages)

Test Examples

python examples/image/test_PGD.py
python examples/image/test_pgdtraining.py
python examples/graph/test_gcn_jaccard.py --dataset cora
python examples/graph/test_mettack.py --dataset cora --ptb_rate 0.05

Usage

Image Attack and Defense

  1. Train model

    Example: Train a simple CNN model on MNIST dataset for 20 epoch on gpu.

    python
    import deeprobust.image.netmodels.train_model as trainmodel trainmodel.train('CNN', 'MNIST', 'cuda', 20)

    Model would be saved in deeprobust/trained_models/.

  2. Instantiated attack methods and defense methods.

    Example: Generate adversary example with PGD attack.

    python
    from deeprobust.image.attack.pgd import PGD from deeprobust.image.config import attack_params from deeprobust.image.utils import download_model import torch import deeprobust.image.netmodels.resnet as resnet from torchvision import transforms,datasets URL = "https://github.com/I-am-Bot/deeprobust_model/raw/master/CIFAR10_ResNet18_epoch_20.pt" download_model(URL, "$MODEL_PATH$") model = resnet.ResNet18().to('cuda') model.load_state_dict(torch.load("$MODEL_PATH$")) model.eval() transform_val = transforms.Compose([transforms.ToTensor()]) test_loader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader( datasets.CIFAR10('deeprobust/image/data', train = False, download=True, transform = transform_val), batch_size = 10, shuffle=True) x, y = next(iter(test_loader)) x = x.to('cuda').float() adversary = PGD(model, 'cuda') Adv_img = adversary.generate(x, y, **attack_params['PGD_CIFAR10'])

    Example: Train defense model.

    python
    from deeprobust.image.defense.pgdtraining import PGDtraining from deeprobust.image.config import defense_params from deeprobust.image.netmodels.CNN import Net import torch from torchvision import datasets, transforms model = Net() train_loader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader( datasets.MNIST('deeprobust/image/defense/data', train=True, download=True, transform=transforms.Compose([transforms.ToTensor()])), batch_size=100,shuffle=True) test_loader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader( datasets.MNIST('deeprobust/image/defense/data', train=False, transform=transforms.Compose([transforms.ToTensor()])), batch_size=1000,shuffle=True) defense = PGDtraining(model, 'cuda') defense.generate(train_loader, test_loader, **defense_params["PGDtraining_MNIST"])

    More example code can be found in deeprobust/examples.

  3. Use our evulation program to test attack algorithm against defense.

    Example:

    cd DeepRobust
    python examples/image/test_train.py
    python deeprobust/image/evaluation_attack.py
    

Graph Attack and Defense

Attacking Graph Neural Networks

  1. Load dataset

    python
    import torch import numpy as np from deeprobust.graph.data import Dataset from deeprobust.graph.defense import GCN from deeprobust.graph.global_attack import Metattack data = Dataset(root='/tmp/', name='cora', setting='nettack') adj, features, labels = data.adj, data.features, data.labels idx_train, idx_val, idx_test = data.idx_train, data.idx_val, data.idx_test idx_unlabeled = np.union1d(idx_val, idx_test)
  2. Set up surrogate model

    python
    device = torch.device("cuda:0" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu") surrogate = GCN(nfeat=features.shape[1], nclass=labels.max().item()+1, nhid=16, with_relu=False, device=device) surrogate = surrogate.to(device) surrogate.fit(features, adj, labels, idx_train)
  3. Set up attack model and generate perturbations

    python
    model = Metattack(model=surrogate, nnodes=adj.shape[0], feature_shape=features.shape, device=device) model = model.to(device) perturbations = int(0.05 * (adj.sum() // 2)) model.attack(features, adj, labels, idx_train, idx_unlabeled, perturbations, ll_constraint=False) modified_adj = model.modified_adj

For more details please refer to mettack.py or run
python examples/graph/test_mettack.py --dataset cora --ptb_rate 0.05

Defending Against Graph Attacks

  1. Load dataset
    python
    import torch from deeprobust.graph.data import Dataset, PtbDataset from deeprobust.graph.defense import GCN, GCNJaccard import numpy as np np.random.seed(15) # load clean graph data = Dataset(root='/tmp/', name='cora', setting='nettack') adj, features, labels = data.adj, data.features, data.labels idx_train, idx_val, idx_test = data.idx_train, data.idx_val, data.idx_test # load pre-attacked graph by mettack perturbed_data = PtbDataset(root='/tmp/', name='cora') perturbed_adj = perturbed_data.adj
  2. Test
    python
    # Set up defense model and test performance device = torch.device("cuda:0" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu") model = GCNJaccard(nfeat=features.shape[1], nclass=labels.max()+1, nhid=16, device=device) model = model.to(device) model.fit(features, perturbed_adj, labels, idx_train) model.eval() output = model.test(idx_test) # Test on GCN model = GCN(nfeat=features.shape[1], nclass=labels.max()+1, nhid=16, device=device) model = model.to(device) model.fit(features, perturbed_adj, labels, idx_train) model.eval() output = model.test(idx_test)

For more details please refer to test_gcn_jaccard.py or run
python examples/graph/test_gcn_jaccard.py --dataset cora

Sample Results

adversary examples generated by fgsm:

<div align="center"> <img height=140 src="https://github.com/DSE-MSU/DeepRobust/blob/master/adversary_examples/mnist_advexample_fgsm_ori.png"/><img height=140 src="https://github.com/DSE-MSU/DeepRobust/blob/master/adversary_examples/mnist_advexample_fgsm_adv.png"/> </div> Left:original, classified as 6; Right:adversary, classified as 4.

Serveral trained models can be found here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1uGLiuCyd8zCAQ8tPz9DDUQH6zm-C4tEL

Acknowledgement

Some of the algorithms are referred to paper authors' implementations. References can be found at the top of each file.

Implementation of network structure are referred to weiaicunzai's github. Original code can be found here:
pytorch-cifar100

Thanks to their outstanding works!

<!---- We would be glad if you find our work useful and cite the paper. ''' @misc{jin2020adversarial, title={Adversarial Attacks and Defenses on Graphs: A Review and Empirical Study}, author={Wei Jin and Yaxin Li and Han Xu and Yiqi Wang and Jiliang Tang}, year={2020}, eprint={2003.00653}, archivePrefix={arXiv}, primaryClass={cs.LG} } ''' ``` @article{xu2019adversarial, title={Adversarial attacks and defenses in images, graphs and text: A review}, author={Xu, Han and Ma, Yao and Liu, Haochen and Deb, Debayan and Liu, Hui and Tang, Jiliang and Jain, Anil}, journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.08072}, year={2019} } ``` ---->

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