TITLE: ImageNet-Patch: A Dataset for Benchmarking Machine Learning Robustness against Adversarial Patches 

ABSTRACT: Adversarial patches are optimized contiguous pixel blocks in an input image
that cause a machine-learning model to misclassify it. However, their
optimization is computationally demanding, and requires careful hyperparameter
tuning, potentially leading to suboptimal robustness evaluations. To overcome
these issues, we propose ImageNet-Patch, a dataset to benchmark
machine-learning models against adversarial patches. It consists of a set of
patches, optimized to generalize across different models, and readily
applicable to ImageNet data after preprocessing them with affine
transformations. This process enables an approximate yet faster robustness
evaluation, leveraging the transferability of adversarial perturbations. We
showcase the usefulness of this dataset by testing the effectiveness of the
computed patches against 127 models. We conclude by discussing how our dataset
could be used as a benchmark for robustness, and how our methodology can be
generalized to other domains. We open source our dataset and evaluation code at
https://github.com/pralab/ImageNet-Patch.
Adversarial patches are optimized contiguous pixel blocks in an input image
that cause a machine-learning model to misclassify it. However, their
optimization is computationally demanding, and requires careful hyperparameter
tuning, potentially leading to suboptimal robustness evaluations. To overcome
these issues, we propose ImageNet-Patch, a dataset to benchmark
machine-learning models against adversarial patches. It consists of a set of
patches, optimized to generalize across different models, and readily
applicable to ImageNet data after preprocessing them with affine
transformations. This process enables an approximate yet faster robustness
evaluation, leveraging the transferability of adversarial perturbations. We
showcase the usefulness of this dataset by testing the effectiveness of the
computed patches against 127 models. We conclude by discussing how our dataset
could be used as a benchmark for robustness, and how our methodology can be
generalized to other domains. We open source our dataset and evaluation code at
https://github.com/pralab/ImageNet-Patch.
ImageNet-Patch: A Dataset for Benchmarking Machine Learning Robustness against Adversarial Patches
http://arxiv.org/abs/2203.04412v1