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It has been widely substantiated that deep neural networks (DNNs) are susceptible and vulnerable to adversarial perturbations. Existing studies mainly focus on performing attacks by corrupting targeted objects (physical attack) or images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Jiawei Lian , Shaohui Mei , Xiaofei Wang , Yi Wang , Lefan Wang , Yingjie Lu , Mingyang Ma , Lap-Pui Chau

Recent studies have shown that Deep Leaning models are susceptible to adversarial examples, which are data, in general images, intentionally modified to fool a machine learning classifier. In this paper, we present a multi-objective nested…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 A. E. Baia , G. Di Bari , V. Poggioni

Zeroth-order (ZO) optimization has long been favored for its biological plausibility and its capacity to handle non-differentiable objectives, yet its computational complexity has historically limited its application in deep neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Sansheng Cao , Zhengyu Ma , Yonghong Tian

Although Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), such as the convolutional neural networks (CNN) and Vision Transformers (ViTs), have been successfully applied in the field of computer vision, they are demonstrated to be vulnerable to well-sought…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Fahad Alrasheedi , Xin Zhong

In recent years, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have had a dramatic impact on a variety of problems that were long considered very difficult, e. g., image classification and automatic language translation to name just a few. The accuracy of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Yannik Potdevin , Dirk Nowotka , Vijay Ganesh

Recent work has shown deep neural networks (DNNs) to be highly susceptible to well-designed, small perturbations at the input layer, or so-called adversarial examples. Taking images as an example, such distortions are often imperceptible,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-04-13 Shixiang Gu , Luca Rigazio

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely used in the fields such as natural language processing, computer vision and image recognition. But several studies have been shown that deep neural networks can be easily fooled by artificial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Long Zhang , Xuechao Sun , Yong Li , Zhenyu Zhang

In recent years, the adversarial vulnerability of deep neural networks (DNNs) has raised increasing attention. Among all the threat models, no-box attacks are the most practical but extremely challenging since they neither rely on any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Qilong Zhang , Youheng Sun , Chaoning Zhang , Chaoqun Li , Xuanhan Wang , Jingkuan Song , Lianli Gao

The increasing computational and memory demands in deep learning present significant challenges, especially in resource-constrained environments. We introduce a zero-order quantized optimization (ZOQO) method designed for training models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Noga Bar , Raja Giryes

Transferable adversarial attacks against Deep neural networks (DNNs) have received broad attention in recent years. An adversarial example can be crafted by a surrogate model and then attack the unknown target model successfully, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Yao Zhu , Yuefeng Chen , Xiaodan Li , Kejiang Chen , Yuan He , Xiang Tian , Bolun Zheng , Yaowu Chen , Qingming Huang

Machine learning models have been successfully applied to a wide range of applications including computer vision, natural language processing, and speech recognition. A successful implementation of these models however, usually relies on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Arash Rahnama , Andrew Tseng

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly being applied in malware detection and their robustness has been widely debated. Traditionally an adversarial example generation scheme relies on either detailed model information (gradient-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Sun RuiJin , Guo ShiZe , Guo JinHong , Xing ChangYou , Yang LuMing , Guo Xi , Pan ZhiSong

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been successful in solving real-world tasks in domains such as connected and automated vehicles, disease, and job hiring. However, their implications are far-reaching in critical application areas. Hence,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Yueyang Liu , Yan Huang , Zhipeng Cai

Deep neural networks (DNN) have shown great success in many computer vision applications. However, they are also known to be susceptible to backdoor attacks. When conducting backdoor attacks, most of the existing approaches assume that the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Haoliang Li , Yufei Wang , Xiaofei Xie , Yang Liu , Shiqi Wang , Renjie Wan , Lap-Pui Chau , Alex C. Kot

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are known for their vulnerability to adversarial examples. These are examples that have undergone small, carefully crafted perturbations, and which can easily fool a DNN into making misclassifications at test…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Linxi Jiang , Xingjun Ma , Shaoxiang Chen , James Bailey , Yu-Gang Jiang

The paper develops a new adversarial attack against deep neural networks (DNN), based on applying bio-inspired design to moving physical objects. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work to introduce physical attacks with a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Bowei Xi , Yujie Chen , Fan Fei , Zhan Tu , Xinyan Deng

Despite the efficacy on a variety of computer vision tasks, deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, limiting their applications in security-critical systems. Recent works have shown the possibility of generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-21 Ziang Yan , Yiwen Guo , Changshui Zhang

Zeroth-order (ZO) optimization is a subset of gradient-free optimization that emerges in many signal processing and machine learning applications. It is used for solving optimization problems similarly to gradient-based methods. However, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Sijia Liu , Pin-Yu Chen , Bhavya Kailkhura , Gaoyuan Zhang , Alfred Hero , Pramod K. Varshney

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have revolutionized a wide range of industries, from healthcare and finance to automotive, by offering unparalleled capabilities in data analysis and decision-making. Despite their transforming impact, DNNs face…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Zhenyu Liu , Garrett Gagnon , Swagath Venkataramani , Liu Liu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have long been recognized as vulnerable to backdoor attacks. By providing poisoned training data in the fine-tuning process, the attacker can implant a backdoor into the victim model. This enables input samples…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Abdullah Arafat Miah , Yu Bi