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Machine learning (ML), especially deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely used in various applications, including several safety-critical ones (e.g. autonomous driving). As a result, recent research about adversarial examples has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Huichen Li , Xiaojun Xu , Xiaolu Zhang , Shuang Yang , Bo Li

We focus on the problem of black-box adversarial attacks, where the aim is to generate adversarial examples using information limited to loss function evaluations of input-output pairs. We use Bayesian optimization~(BO) to specifically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Satya Narayan Shukla , Anit Kumar Sahu , Devin Willmott , J. Zico Kolter

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

Black-Box attacks on machine learning models occur when an attacker, despite having no access to the inner workings of a model, can successfully craft an attack by means of model theft. The attacker will train an own substitute model that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-16 Yannic Kilcher , Thomas Hofmann

Many adversarial attacks have been proposed to investigate the security issues of deep neural networks. In the black-box setting, current model stealing attacks train a substitute model to counterfeit the functionality of the target model.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Chen Ma , Li Chen , Jun-Hai Yong

We propose the first general-purpose gradient-based attack against transformer models. Instead of searching for a single adversarial example, we search for a distribution of adversarial examples parameterized by a continuous-valued matrix,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Chuan Guo , Alexandre Sablayrolles , Hervé Jégou , Douwe Kiela

Deep neural networks are powerful and popular learning models that achieve state-of-the-art pattern recognition performance on many computer vision, speech, and language processing tasks. However, these networks have also been shown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Nina Narodytska , Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan

Sentence-level attacks craft adversarial sentences that are synonymous with correctly-classified sentences but are misclassified by the text classifiers. Under the black-box setting, classifiers are only accessible through their feedback to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Raha Moraffah , Huan Liu

NLP researchers propose different word-substitute black-box attacks that can fool text classification models. In such attack, an adversary keeps sending crafted adversarial queries to the target model until it can successfully achieve the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Tianle Li , Yi Yang

Black-box query attacks, which rely only on the output of the victim model, have proven to be effective in attacking deep learning models. However, existing black-box query attacks show low performance in a novel scenario where only a few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Xiangyuan Yang , Jie Lin , Hanlin Zhang , Xinyu Yang , Peng Zhao

Machine Learning systems are vulnerable to adversarial attacks and will highly likely produce incorrect outputs under these attacks. There are white-box and black-box attacks regarding to adversary's access level to the victim learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Saeid Samizade , Zheng-Hua Tan , Chao Shen , Xiaohong Guan

Adversarial robustness in structured data remains an underexplored frontier compared to vision and language domains. In this work, we introduce a novel black-box, decision-based adversarial attack tailored for tabular data. Our approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Roie Kazoom , Yuval Ratzabi , Etamar Rothstein , Ofer Hadar

There are two main attack models considered in the adversarial robustness literature: black-box and white-box. We consider these threat models as two ends of a fine-grained spectrum, indexed by the number of queries the adversary can ask.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Grzegorz Głuch , Rüdiger Urbanke

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

Adversarial text attack research plays a crucial role in evaluating the robustness of NLP models. However, the increasing complexity of transformer-based architectures has dramatically raised the computational cost of attack testing,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Abhinay Shankar Belde , Rohit Ramkumar , Jonathan Rusert

Machine learning security has recently become a prominent topic in the natural language processing (NLP) area. The existing black-box adversarial attack suffers prohibitively from the high model querying complexity, resulting in easily…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Wenjie Lv , Zhen Wang , Yitao Zheng , Zhehua Zhong , Qi Xuan , Tianyi Chen

In the scenario of black-box adversarial attack, the target model's parameters are unknown, and the attacker aims to find a successful adversarial perturbation based on query feedback under a query budget. Due to the limited feedback…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Fei Yin , Yong Zhang , Baoyuan Wu , Yan Feng , Jingyi Zhang , Yanbo Fan , Yujiu Yang

Deep learning has made significant breakthroughs in many fields, including electroencephalogram (EEG) based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). However, deep learning models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, in which deliberately…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Xue Jiang , Xiao Zhang , Dongrui Wu

Current neural network-based classifiers are susceptible to adversarial examples even in the black-box setting, where the attacker only has query access to the model. In practice, the threat model for real-world systems is often more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Andrew Ilyas , Logan Engstrom , Anish Athalye , Jessy Lin

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