首次研究脉冲神经网络在黑盒环境下的隐私攻击,发现其天然抗逆性更强。
Do Spikes Protect Privacy? Investigating Black-Box Model Inversion Attacks in Spiking Neural Networks
- 将生成对抗框架适配脉冲网络,用发放率编码输入并解码输出。
- 脉冲网络重建效果差、收敛不稳定,攻击成功率显著低于人工网络。
- 脉冲的离散与时序特性破坏模型近似,适合防御隐私泄露场景。
随着机器学习模型在安全敏感应用中的普及,由对抗攻击引发的数据泄露问题日益突出。模型反演(MI)攻击可通过模型输出重构训练数据,构成重大隐私威胁。尽管对人工神经网络(ANNs)的MI攻击已广泛研究,但脉冲神经网络(SNNs)在此领域仍基本未被探索。由于其事件驱动和离散计算特性,SNNs在信息处理上存在根本差异,可能具备内在抗攻击能力。本研究关注黑盒场景下的攻击——攻击者仅通过查询获取输出,无法访问模型参数或梯度,更贴近实际部署环境。我们首次提出针对SNNs的黑盒MI攻击方法,通过引入基于发放率的编码进行输入转换,并设计解码机制处理输出。实验表明,相比ANNs,SNNs表现出更强的抗反演能力:重建图像质量显著下降,攻击收敛过程不稳定,多种评估指标下攻击效果均大幅降低。进一步分析显示,SNN决策边界的离散性和时序分布特性破坏了替代模型的构建,限制了攻击者对目标模型的逼近能力。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
As machine learning models become integral to security-sensitive applications, concerns over data leakage from adversarial attacks continue to rise. Model Inversion (MI) attacks pose a significant privacy threat by enabling adversaries to reconstruct training data from model outputs. While MI attacks on Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have been widely studied, Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) remain largely unexplored in this context. Due to their event-driven and discrete computations, SNNs introduce fundamental differences in information processing that may offer inherent resistance to such attacks. A critical yet underexplored aspect of this threat lies in black-box settings, where attackers operate through queries without direct access to model parameters or gradients-representing a more realistic adversarial scenario in deployed systems. This work presents the first study of black-box MI attacks on SNNs. We adapt a generative adversarial MI framework to the spiking domain by incorporating rate-based encoding for input transformation and decoding mechanisms for output interpretation. Our results show that SNNs exhibit significantly greater resistance to MI attacks than ANNs, as demonstrated by degraded reconstructions, increased instability in attack convergence, and overall reduced attack effectiveness across multiple evaluation metrics. Further analysis suggests that the discrete and temporally distributed nature of SNN decision boundaries disrupts surrogate modeling, limiting the attacker's ability to approximate the target model.
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