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Despite the enormous performance of deepneural networks (DNNs), recent studies have shown theirvulnerability to adversarial examples (AEs), i.e., care-fully perturbed inputs designed to fool the targetedDNN. Currently, the literature is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Anouar Kherchouche , Sid Ahmed Fezza , Wassim Hamidouche

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated impressive performance on many challenging machine learning tasks. However, DNNs are vulnerable to adversarial inputs generated by adding maliciously crafted perturbations to the benign inputs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Ka-Ho Chow , Wenqi Wei , Yanzhao Wu , Ling Liu

Current text-to-image (T2I) synthesis diffusion models raise misuse concerns, particularly in creating prohibited or not-safe-for-work (NSFW) images. To address this, various safety mechanisms and red teaming attack methods are proposed to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Pucheng Dang , Xing Hu , Dong Li , Rui Zhang , Qi Guo , Kaidi Xu

Due to data dependency and model leakage properties, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) exhibit several security vulnerabilities. Several security attacks exploited them but most of them require the output probability vector. These attacks can be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Faiq Khalid , Hassan Ali , Muhammad Abdullah Hanif , Semeen Rehman , Rehan Ahmed , Muhammad Shafique

Fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) has proven effective for a variety of downstream tasks. However, as LLMs grow in size, the memory demands for backpropagation become increasingly prohibitive. Zeroth-order (ZO) optimization methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Ziming Yu , Pan Zhou , Sike Wang , Jia Li , Mi Tian , Hua Huang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which are crafted by adding imperceptible perturbations to inputs. Recently different attacks and strategies have been proposed, but how to generate adversarial examples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Tao Bai , Jun Zhao , Jinlin Zhu , Shoudong Han , Jiefeng Chen , Bo Li , Alex Kot

In recent years, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have become increasingly integral to IoT-based environments, enabling realtime visual computing. However, the limited computational capacity of these devices has motivated the adoption of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Shima Yousefi , Motahare Mounesan , Saptarshi Debroy

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are known to be susceptible to adversarial examples, leading to significant performance degradation. In black-box attack scenarios, a considerable attack performance gap between the surrogate model and the target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Haijing Guo , Jiafeng Wang , Zhaoyu Chen , Kaixun Jiang , Lingyi Hong , Pinxue Guo , Jinglun Li , Wenqiang Zhang

Deep neural networks for image classification remain vulnerable to adversarial examples -- small, imperceptible perturbations that induce misclassifications. In black-box settings, where only the final prediction is accessible, crafting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Arjhun Swaminathan , Mete Akgün

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to small adversarial perturbations, which are tiny changes to the input data that appear insignificant but cause the model to produce drastically different outputs. Many defense methods require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Sedjro Salomon Hotegni , Sebastian Peitz

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which can fool them by adding minuscule perturbations to the input images. The robustness of existing defenses suffers greatly under white-box attack settings, where an adversary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Aamir Mustafa , Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Roland Goecke , Jianbing Shen , Ling Shao

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial examples-maliciously crafted inputs that cause DNNs to make incorrect predictions. Recent work has shown that these attacks generalize to the physical domain, to create perturbations…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Kevin Eykholt , Ivan Evtimov , Earlence Fernandes , Bo Li , Amir Rahmati , Florian Tramer , Atul Prakash , Tadayoshi Kohno , Dawn Song

While graph neural networks have achieved state-of-the-art performances in many real-world tasks including graph classification and node classification, recent works have demonstrated they are also extremely vulnerable to adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Yu Zhou , Zihao Dong , Guofeng Zhang , Jingchen Tang

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are everywhere, frequently performing a fairly complex task that used to be unimaginable for machines to carry out. In doing so, they do a lot of decision making which, depending on the application, may be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Avriti Chauhan , Mohammad Afzal , Hrishikesh Karmarkar , Yizhak Elboher , Kumar Madhukar , Guy Katz

Although deep neural networks have been very successful in image-classification tasks, they are prone to adversarial attacks. To generate adversarial inputs, there has emerged a wide variety of techniques, such as black- and whitebox…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Fuyuan Zhang , Sankalan Pal Chowdhury , Maria Christakis

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are known to be vulnerable to adversarial images, while their robustness in text classification is rarely studied. Several lines of text attack methods have been proposed in the literature, including…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Xinghao Yang , Weifeng Liu , James Bailey , Dacheng Tao , Wei Liu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success in various tasks (e.g., image classification, speech recognition, and natural language processing (NLP)). However, researchers have demonstrated that DNN-based models are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Wenqi Wang , Run Wang , Lina Wang , Zhibo Wang , Aoshuang Ye

Although deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved a great success in various computer vision tasks, it is recently found that they are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. In this paper, we focus on the so-called \textit{backdoor attack},…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Hao Cheng , Kaidi Xu , Sijia Liu , Pin-Yu Chen , Pu Zhao , Xue Lin

This work studies black-box adversarial attacks against deep neural networks (DNNs), where the attacker can only access the query feedback returned by the attacked DNN model, while other information such as model parameters or the training…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Yan Feng , Baoyuan Wu , Yanbo Fan , Li Liu , Zhifeng Li , Shutao Xia

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved great success in image classification, but can be very vulnerable to adversarial attacks with small perturbations to images. To improve adversarial image generation for DNNs, we develop a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Hai Shu , Ronghua Shi , Qiran Jia , Hongtu Zhu , Ziqi Chen