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Recent work has explored integrating autoregressive language models with energy-based models (EBMs) to enhance text generation capabilities. However, learning effective EBMs for text is challenged by the discrete nature of language. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Xuwang Yin

Adversarial examples are artificially modified input samples which lead to misclassifications, while not being detectable by humans. These adversarial examples are a challenge for many tasks such as image and text classification, especially…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Marcus Soll , Tobias Hinz , Sven Magg , Stefan Wermter

We propose a novel method for creating adversarial examples. Instead of perturbing pixels, we use an encoder-decoder representation of the input image and perturb intermediate layers in the decoder. This changes the high-level features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Vojtěch Čermák , Lukáš Adam

Deep neural networks for natural language processing tasks are vulnerable to adversarial input perturbations. In this paper, we present a versatile language for programmatically specifying string transformations -- e.g., insertions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Yuhao Zhang , Aws Albarghouthi , Loris D'Antoni

This paper introduces the first gradient-based framework for prompt optimization in text-to-image diffusion models. We formulate prompt engineering as a discrete optimization problem over the language space. Two major challenges arise in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Ruochen Wang , Ting Liu , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Boqing Gong

Adversarial training is the most successful empirical method for increasing the robustness of neural networks against adversarial attacks. However, the most effective approaches, like training with Projected Gradient Descent (PGD) are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Leo Schwinn , René Raab , Björn Eskofier

Recently, with the advancement of deep learning, several applications in text classification have advanced significantly. However, this improvement comes with a cost because deep learning is vulnerable to adversarial examples. This weakness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Korn Sooksatra , Bikram Khanal , Pablo Rivas

We study the problem of grounding distributional representations of texts on the visual domain, namely visual-semantic embeddings (VSE for short). Begin with an insightful adversarial attack on VSE embeddings, we show the limitation of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Haoyue Shi , Jiayuan Mao , Tete Xiao , Yuning Jiang , Jian Sun

It is widely known that convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial examples: images with imperceptible perturbations crafted to fool classifiers. However, interpretability of these perturbations is less explored in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Kaidi Xu , Sijia Liu , Gaoyuan Zhang , Mengshu Sun , Pu Zhao , Quanfu Fan , Chuang Gan , Xue Lin

Modern classification algorithms are susceptible to adversarial examples--perturbations to inputs that cause the algorithm to produce undesirable behavior. In this work, we seek to understand and extend adversarial examples across domains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Volodymyr Kuleshov , Evgenii Nikishin , Shantanu Thakoor , Tingfung Lau , Stefano Ermon

Convolutional neural network-based approaches for semantic segmentation rely on supervision with pixel-level ground truth, but may not generalize well to unseen image domains. As the labeling process is tedious and labor intensive,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Wei-Chih Hung , Samuel Schulter , Kihyuk Sohn , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Manmohan Chandraker

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been found to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. Adversarial examples are malicious images with visually imperceptible perturbations. While these carefully crafted perturbations restricted with tight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Yajie Wang , Shangbo Wu , Wenyi Jiang , Shengang Hao , Yu-an Tan , Quanxin Zhang

Text style transfer is a challenging text generation problem, which aims at altering the style of a given sentence to a target one while keeping its content unchanged. Since there is a natural scarcity of parallel datasets, recent works…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Chenghao Fan , Ziao Li , Wei wei

Recently, semantically constrained adversarial examples (SemanticAE), which are directly generated from natural language instructions, have become a promising avenue for future research due to their flexible attacking forms. To generate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jin Hu , Jiakai Wang , Linna Jing , Haolin Li , Haodong Liu , Haotong Qin , Aishan Liu , Ke Xu , Xianglong Liu

Recently, SimCSE has shown the feasibility of contrastive learning in training sentence embeddings and illustrates its expressiveness in spanning an aligned and uniform embedding space. However, prior studies have shown that dense models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Ruize An , Chen Zhang , Dawei Song

Interpretability methods like Integrated Gradient and LIME are popular choices for explaining natural language model predictions with relative word importance scores. These interpretations need to be robust for trustworthy NLP applications…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Sanchit Sinha , Hanjie Chen , Arshdeep Sekhon , Yangfeng Ji , Yanjun Qi

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which can mislead classifiers by adding imperceptible perturbations. An intriguing property of adversarial examples is their good transferability, making black-box attacks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Yinpeng Dong , Tianyu Pang , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Neural networks have changed the way machines interpret the world. At their core, they learn by following gradients, adjusting their parameters step by step until they identify the most discriminant patterns in the data. This process gives…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Samarup Bhattacharya , Anubhab Bhattacharya , Abir Chakraborty

Despite their promising performance across various natural language processing (NLP) tasks, current NLP systems are vulnerable to textual adversarial attacks. To defend against these attacks, most existing methods apply adversarial training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Junjie Wu , Dit-Yan Yeung

Audio events are quite often overlapping in nature, and more prone to noise than visual signals. There has been increasing evidence for the superior performance of representations learned using sparse dictionaries for applications like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Vaisakh Shaj , Puranjoy Bhattacharya