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Make your model less vulnerable to exploitation with defensive distillation, an adversarial training strategy that uses a teacher (larger, more efficient) model to learn the critical features of a student (smaller, less efficient) model, then use the teacher model to improve the accuracy of the student model. In this liveProject, you’ll use a pre-trained model to train your student model without distillation, generate malicious input using FGSM, and evaluate the undefended model. Then, you’ll train a teacher model with a pre-trained dataset, train your student model with the same training set and teacher model using distillation, generate malicious input, and evaluate the defended student model, comparing the results with and without distillation.
This project is designed for learning purposes and is not a complete, production-ready application or solution.
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prerequisites
This liveProject is for intermediate Python programmers who know the basics of data science. To begin this liveProject, you’ll need to be familiar with the following:
TOOLS- Intermediate Python
- Jupyter Notebook
- Model classification
- Evaluate model performance
- Basic plotting using Matplotlib
- Computer vision basics (reading and displaying images, and converting and resizing them into feature vectors)
you will learn
In this liveProject, you’ll learn to build student and teacher models, implement a defensive distillation strategy to defend against malicious attacks, and evaluate the performance of your models.
- Load CNN-based image classifier model using Keras
- Visualize images and parts of your model using cv2
- Visualize images and parts of your neural network using Matplotlib
- Perform mathematical operations on images using NumPy
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Defensive Distillation project for free
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