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Deep learning systems, critical in domains like autonomous vehicles, are vulnerable to adversarial examples (crafted inputs designed to mislead classifiers). This study investigates black-box adversarial attacks in computer vision. This is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Francesco Panebianco , Mario D'Onghia , Stefano Zanero aand Michele Carminati

We study the most practical problem setup for evaluating adversarial robustness of a machine learning system with limited access: the hard-label black-box attack setting for generating adversarial examples, where limited model queries are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Minhao Cheng , Simranjit Singh , Patrick Chen , Pin-Yu Chen , Sijia Liu , Cho-Jui Hsieh

As cloud computing becomes pervasive, deep learning models are deployed on cloud servers and then provided as APIs to end users. However, black-box adversarial attacks can fool image classification models without access to model structure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Han Wu , Sareh Rowlands , Johan Wahlstrom

We study an important and challenging task of attacking natural language processing models in a hard label black box setting. We propose a decision-based attack strategy that crafts high quality adversarial examples on text classification…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Rishabh Maheshwary , Saket Maheshwary , Vikram Pudi

Machine learning (ML) classifiers are vulnerable to adversarial examples. An adversarial example is an input sample which is slightly modified to induce misclassification in an ML classifier. In this work, we investigate white-box and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Yonghong Huang , Utkarsh Verma , Celeste Fralick , Gabriel Infante-Lopez , Brajesh Kumarz , Carl Woodward

We consider data poisoning attacks, a class of adversarial attacks on machine learning where an adversary has the power to alter a small fraction of the training data in order to make the trained classifier satisfy certain objectives. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Yizhen Wang , Kamalika Chaudhuri

In this paper, we present a black-box attack against API call based machine learning malware classifiers, focusing on generating adversarial sequences combining API calls and static features (e.g., printable strings) that will be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Ishai Rosenberg , Asaf Shabtai , Lior Rokach , Yuval Elovici

Binary function classifiers play a crucial role in maintaining the security and integrity of software systems by detecting malicious code and unauthorized modifications. However, machine learning-based classifiers are vulnerable to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Gabriel Sauger , Jean-Yves Marion , Sazzadur Rahaman , Victor Matrat , Vincent Tourneur , Muaz Ali

We demonstrate that model-based derivative free optimisation algorithms can generate adversarial targeted misclassification of deep networks using fewer network queries than non-model-based methods. Specifically, we consider the black-box…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Giuseppe Ughi , Vinayak Abrol , Jared Tanner

Classifiers are often used to detect miscreant activities. We study how an adversary can systematically query a classifier to elicit information that allows the adversary to evade detection while incurring a near-minimal cost of modifying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-07-06 Blaine Nelson , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein , Ling Huang , Anthony D. Joseph , Steven J. Lee , Satish Rao , J. D. Tygar

Many machine learning algorithms and classifiers are available only via API queries as a ``black-box'' -- that is, the downstream user has no ability to change, re-train, or fine-tune the model on a particular target distribution. Indeed,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Siddartha Devic , Nurendra Choudhary , Anirudh Srinivasan , Sahika Genc , Branislav Kveton , Gaurush Hiranandani

Bayesian optimization (BO) aims to minimize a given blackbox function using a model that is updated whenever new evidence about the function becomes available. Here, we address the problem of BO under partially right-censored response data,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-10-09 Frank Hutter , Holger Hoos , Kevin Leyton-Brown

Machine learning models are increasingly used in a wide variety of financial settings. The difficulty of understanding the inner workings of these systems, combined with their wide applicability, has the potential to lead to significant new…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-02-10 Samuel N. Cohen , Derek Snow , Lukasz Szpruch

Bayesian optimisation has proven to be a powerful tool for expensive global black-box optimisation problems. In this paper, we propose new Bayesian optimisation variants of the popular Knowledge Gradient acquisition functions for problems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Xietao Wang Lin , Juan Ungredda , Max Butler , James Town , Alma Rahat , Hemant Singh , Juergen Branke

The diverse world of machine learning applications has given rise to a plethora of algorithms and optimization methods, finely tuned to the specific regression or classification task at hand. We reduce the complexity of algorithm design for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-23 Zeyuan Allen-Zhu , Elad Hazan

The field of adversarial machine learning has experienced a near exponential growth in the amount of papers being produced since 2018. This massive information output has yet to be properly processed and categorized. In this paper, we seek…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Kaleel Mahmood , Rigel Mahmood , Ethan Rathbun , Marten van Dijk

Large language models (LLMs) have been serving as effective backbones for retrieval systems, including Retrieval-Augmentation-Generation (RAG), Dense Information Retriever (IR), and Agent Memory Retrieval. Recent studies have demonstrated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Jiate Li , Defu Cao , Li Li , Wei Yang , Yuehan Qin , Chenxiao Yu , Tiannuo Yang , Ryan A. Rossi , Yan Liu , Xiyang Hu , Yue Zhao

Control policies, trained using the Deep Reinforcement Learning, have been recently shown to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks introducing even very small perturbations to the policy input. The attacks proposed so far have been designed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Alessio Russo , Alexandre Proutiere

We present a novel approach for attacking black-box large language models (LLMs) by exploiting their ability to express confidence in natural language. Existing black-box attacks require either access to continuous model outputs like logits…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Jie Zhang , Meng Ding , Yang Liu , Jue Hong , Florian Tramèr

Machine learning has been applied to a broad range of applications and some of them are available online as application programming interfaces (APIs) with either free (trial) or paid subscriptions. In this paper, we study adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Yi Shi , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Kemal Davaslioglu , Jason H. Li
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