arXiv:2510.10140cs.LGcs.CR2025-10被引 1

提出新方法攻击天气模型,让台风路径被悄悄篡改

Adversarial Attacks on Downstream Weather Forecasting Models: Application to Tropical Cyclone Trajectory Prediction

  • 用可微代理模型绕过台风检测黑箱,实现梯度攻击
  • 通过倾斜感知损失函数提升罕见台风攻击成功率
  • 生成更隐蔽的扰动,降低被发现风险,适合安全评估

基于深度学习的天气预报(DLWF)模型利用历史气象观测生成未来预测,支撑包括台风轨迹预测在内的多种下游应用。本文研究其对对抗攻击的脆弱性:上游预报中的微小扰动可改变下游台风路径预测。现有攻击方法面临两大挑战:一是台风检测系统为不可导黑箱,无法使用标准梯度攻击;二是台风事件极端稀少,导致类别严重不平衡,难以生成与目标路径一致且外观真实的扰动预报。为此,我们提出Cyc-Attack,一种针对DLWF上游预报的新型对抗攻击方法。该方法使用可微代理模型近似台风检测器输出,实现梯度攻击;引入带核膨胀策略的偏度感知损失函数缓解类别不平衡问题;并采用基于距离的梯度加权和正则化,约束扰动范围,消除不自然路径,使对抗性上游预报更难被察觉。实验表明,相比传统方法,Cyc-Attack在匹配目标轨迹的真正率更高,误报率更低,扰动更具隐蔽性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Deep learning-based weather forecasting (DLWF) models leverage past weather observations to generate future forecasts, supporting a wide range of downstream applications, including tropical cyclone (TC) prediction. In this paper, we investigate their vulnerability to adversarial attacks, where subtle perturbations to the upstream forecasts can alter the downstream TC trajectory predictions. Although research into adversarial attacks on DLWF models has grown recently, it remains challenging to craft perturbed upstream forecasts that steer the downstream outputs toward attacker-specified trajectories. First, conventional TC detection systems are opaque, non-differentiable black boxes, making standard gradient-based attacks infeasible. Second, the extreme rarity of TC events leads to severe class imbalance problem, making it difficult to develop attack methods for perturbing upstream forecasts that produce realistic-looking cyclone paths aligned with attacker's target trajectories. To overcome these limitations, we propose Cyc-Attack, a novel method for perturbing the upstream forecasts of DLWF models to generate adversarial trajectories. The proposed method uses a differentiable surrogate model to approximate the TC detector's output, enabling the application of gradient-based attacks. Cyc-Attack also employs a skewness-aware loss function with kernel dilation strategy to address the imbalance problem. Finally, a distance-based gradient weighting scheme and regularization are used to constrain the perturbations and eliminate unrealistic-looking trajectories, thereby making the adversarial upstream forecasts less easily detectable. Our experiments show that Cyc-Attack achieves a higher true positive rate in matching the attacker's target trajectories, along with lower false alarm rates and stealthier perturbations than conventional attack methods.

对抗攻击天气预报台风预测

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