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We investigate the dynamic impact of heterogeneous environments on superdiffusive random walks known as L\'evy flights. We devote particular attention to the relative weight of source and target locations on the rates for spatial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-07 Vitaly Belik , Dirk Brockmann

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are susceptible to adversarial examples, which introduce imperceptible perturbations to benign samples, deceiving DNN predictions. While some attack methods excel in the white-box setting, they often struggle in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Jiayang Liu , Siyu Zhu , Siyuan Liang , Jie Zhang , Han Fang , Weiming Zhang , Ee-Chien Chang

Vulnerability of various machine learning methods to adversarial examples has been recently explored in the literature. Power systems which use these vulnerable methods face a huge threat against adversarial examples. To this end, we first…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Jiwei Tian , Buhong Wang , Jing Li , Zhen Wang , Mete Ozay

Recent works have shown that deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples that find samples close to the original image but can make the model misclassify. Even with access only to the model's output, an attacker can employ…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Quang H. Nguyen , Yingjie Lao , Tung Pham , Kok-Seng Wong , Khoa D. Doan

Information-theoretic stealth attacks are data injection attacks that minimize the amount of information acquired by the operator about the state variables, while simultaneously limiting the Kullback-Leibler divergence between the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Ke Sun , Iñaki Esnaola , Antonia M. Tulino , H. Vincent Poor

Generating adversarial examples in a black-box setting retains a significant challenge with vast practical application prospects. In particular, existing black-box attacks suffer from the need for excessive queries, as it is non-trivial to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Jie Li , Rongrong Ji , Hong Liu , Jianzhuang Liu , Bineng Zhong , Cheng Deng , Qi Tian

We consider a stationary prey in a given region of space and we aim at detecting optimal foraging strategies. On the one hand, when the prey is uniformly distributed, the best possible strategy for the forager is to be stationary and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Serena Dipierro , Giovanni Giacomin , Enrico Valdinoci

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

Graph neural networks, a popular class of models effective in a wide range of graph-based learning tasks, have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. While the majority of the literature focuses on such vulnerability in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-05 Xingchen Wan , Henry Kenlay , Binxin Ru , Arno Blaas , Michael A. Osborne , Xiaowen Dong

An efficient searcher needs to balance properly the tradeoff between the exploration of new spatial areas and the exploitation of nearby resources, an idea which is at the core of scale-free L\'evy search strategies. Here we study…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-11-11 Daniel Campos , Frederic Bartumeus , E. P. Raposo , Vicenç Méndez

Traditional decision-based black-box adversarial attacks on image classifiers aim to generate adversarial examples by slightly modifying input images while keeping the number of queries low, where each query involves sending an input to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Mahdi Salmani , Alireza Abdollahpoorrostam , Seyed-Mohsen Moosavi-Dezfooli

L\'evy walks are continuous time random walks with spatio-temporal coupling of jump lengths and waiting times, often used to model superdiffusive spreading processes such as animals searching for food, tracer motion in weakly chaotic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-27 Bartłomiej Dybiec , Karol Capała , Aleksei Chechkin , Ralf Metzler

We study the unique, less-well understood problem of generating sparse adversarial samples simply by observing the score-based replies to model queries. Sparse attacks aim to discover a minimum number-the l0 bounded-perturbations to model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Viet Quoc Vo , Ehsan Abbasnejad , Damith C. Ranasinghe

With the ease of deployment, capabilities of evading the jammers and obscuring their existence, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are one of the most suitable candidates to perform surveillance. There exists a body of literature in which the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-04 Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Ali Rahmati , Do Young Eun , Huaiyu Dai

Adversarial attack algorithms are dominated by penalty methods, which are slow in practice, or more efficient distance-customized methods, which are heavily tailored to the properties of the distance considered. We propose a white-box…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Jérôme Rony , Eric Granger , Marco Pedersoli , Ismail Ben Ayed

In this chapter we review some of the basic attack constructions that exploit a stochastic description of the state variables. We pose the state estimation problem in a Bayesian setting and cast the bad data detection procedure as a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-04 Iñaki Esnaola , Samir M. Perlaza , Ke Sun

Adversarial examples pose a threat to deep neural network models in a variety of scenarios, from settings where the adversary has complete knowledge of the model and to the opposite "black box" setting. Black box attacks are particularly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Haidar Khan , Daniel Park , Azer Khan , Bülent Yener

Random walk is a fundamental concept with applications ranging from quantum physics to econometrics. Remarkably, one specific model of random walks appears to be ubiquitous across many fields as a tool to analyze transport phenomena in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-12 V. Zaburdaev , S. Denisov , J. Klafter

Adversarial attacks on convolutional neural networks (CNN) have gained significant attention and there have been active research efforts on defense mechanisms. Stochastic input transformation methods have been proposed, where the idea is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Connie Kou , Hwee Kuan Lee , Ee-Chien Chang , Teck Khim Ng

In the literature on adversarial examples, white box and black box attacks have received the most attention. The adversary is assumed to have either full (white) or no (black) access to the defender's model. In this work, we focus on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Shi Hu , Eric Nalisnick , Max Welling