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Adversarial examples for neural network image classifiers are known to be transferable: examples optimized to be misclassified by a source classifier are often misclassified as well by classifiers with different architectures. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Jacob M. Springer , Melanie Mitchell , Garrett T. Kenyon

Adversarial examples are small and often imperceptible perturbations crafted to fool machine learning models. These attacks seriously threaten the reliability of deep neural networks, especially in security-sensitive domains. Evasion…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Francesco Marchiori , Marco Alecci , Luca Pajola , Mauro Conti

Deep Neural Networks have been found vulnerable re-cently. A kind of well-designed inputs, which called adver-sarial examples, can lead the networks to make incorrectpredictions. Depending on the different scenarios, goalsand capabilities,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Junde Wu , Rao Fu

Transfer learning is an important approach that produces pre-trained teacher models which can be used to quickly build specialized student models. However, recent research on transfer learning has found that it is vulnerable to various…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Dayong Ye , Huiqiang Chen , Shuai Zhou , Tianqing Zhu , Wanlei Zhou , Shouling Ji

Class-incremental continual learning addresses catastrophic forgetting by enabling classification models to preserve knowledge of previously learned classes while acquiring new ones. However, the vulnerability of the models against…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Jungwoo Kim , Jong-Seok Lee

Data poisoning is a threat model in which a malicious actor tampers with training data to manipulate outcomes at inference time. A variety of defenses against this threat model have been proposed, but each suffers from at least one of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Jonas Geiping , Liam Fowl , Gowthami Somepalli , Micah Goldblum , Michael Moeller , Tom Goldstein

Recent work has developed optimization procedures to find token sequences, called adversarial triggers, which can elicit unsafe responses from aligned language models. These triggers are believed to be highly transferable, i.e., a trigger…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Nicholas Meade , Arkil Patel , Siva Reddy

In this paper, we study PAC learnability and certification of predictions under instance-targeted poisoning attacks, where the adversary who knows the test instance may change a fraction of the training set with the goal of fooling the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Ji Gao , Amin Karbasi , Mohammad Mahmoody

A prevailing belief in attack and defense community is that the higher flatness of adversarial examples enables their better cross-model transferability, leading to a growing interest in employing sharpness-aware minimization and its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Mingyuan Fan , Xiaodan Li , Cen Chen , Wenmeng Zhou , Yaliang Li

The robustness of deep learning models against adversarial attacks remains a pivotal concern. This study presents, for the first time, an exhaustive review of the transferability aspect of adversarial attacks. It systematically categorizes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Zhibo Jin , Jiayu Zhang , Zhiyu Zhu , Huaming Chen

Discrete optimization-based jailbreaking attacks on large language models aim to generate short, nonsensical suffixes that, when appended onto input prompts, elicit disallowed content. Notably, these suffixes are often transferable --…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Sarah Ball , Niki Hasrati , Alexander Robey , Avi Schwarzschild , Frauke Kreuter , Zico Kolter , Andrej Risteski

Indiscriminate data poisoning attacks aim to decrease a model's test accuracy by injecting a small amount of corrupted training data. Despite significant interest, existing attacks remain relatively ineffective against modern machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Yiwei Lu , Gautam Kamath , Yaoliang Yu

Today, the security of many domains rely on the use of Machine Learning to detect threats, identify vulnerabilities, and safeguard systems from attacks. Recently, transformer architectures have improved the state-of-the-art performance on a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Kunyang Li , Kyle Domico , Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand , Patrick McDaniel

The goal of network representation learning is to learn low-dimensional node embeddings that capture the graph structure and are useful for solving downstream tasks. However, despite the proliferation of such methods, there is currently no…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Aleksandar Bojchevski , Stephan Günnemann

Recent adversarial attack developments have made reinforcement learning more vulnerable, and different approaches exist to deploy attacks against it, where the key is how to choose the right timing of the attack. Some work tries to design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Yang Li , Quan Pan , Erik Cambria

Targeted data poisoning attacks manipulate model predictions on specific test samples by injecting malicious data into training. Yet existing evaluations report average attack success rates over randomly selected targets, obscuring true…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 William Xu , Chenyu Zhang , Yihan Wang , Matthew Y. R. Yang , Zuoqiu Liu , Gautam Kamath , Yaoliang Yu , Yiwei Lu

Neural network models are vulnerable to adversarial examples, and adversarial transferability further increases the risk of adversarial attacks. Current methods based on transferability often rely on substitute models, which can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Minxuan Lv , Chengwei Dai , Kun Li , Wei Zhou , Songlin Hu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are well known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples (AEs). In addition, AEs have adversarial transferability, namely, AEs generated for a source model fool other (target) models. In this paper, we investigate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Miki Tanaka , Isao Echizen , Hitoshi Kiya

The emergence of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has revolutionized various domains by enabling the resolution of complex tasks spanning image recognition, natural language processing, and scientific problem-solving. However, this progress has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Jindong Gu , Xiaojun Jia , Pau de Jorge , Wenqain Yu , Xinwei Liu , Avery Ma , Yuan Xun , Anjun Hu , Ashkan Khakzar , Zhijiang Li , Xiaochun Cao , Philip Torr

In autonomous driving, behavior prediction is fundamental for safe motion planning, hence the security and robustness of prediction models against adversarial attacks are of paramount importance. We propose a novel adversarial backdoor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Mozhgan Pourkeshavarz , Mohammad Sabokrou , Amir Rasouli