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Blackbox adversarial attacks can be categorized into transfer- and query-based attacks. Transfer methods do not require any feedback from the victim model, but provide lower success rates compared to query-based methods. Query attacks often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Zikui Cai , Chengyu Song , Srikanth Krishnamurthy , Amit Roy-Chowdhury , M. Salman Asif

We study adversarial examples in a black-box setting where the adversary only has API access to the target model and each query is expensive. Prior work on black-box adversarial examples follows one of two main strategies: (1) transfer…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Fnu Suya , Jianfeng Chi , David Evans , Yuan Tian

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, even in the black-box setting, where the attacker is restricted solely to query access. Existing black-box approaches to generating adversarial examples typically require a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Moustafa Alzantot , Yash Sharma , Supriyo Chakraborty , Huan Zhang , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Mani Srivastava

Enhancing our understanding of adversarial examples is crucial for the secure application of machine learning models in real-world scenarios. A prevalent method for analyzing adversarial examples is through a frequency-based approach.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Zhun Zhang , Yi Zeng , Qihe Liu , Shijie Zhou

Deep learning is a powerful weapon to boost application performance in many fields, including face recognition, object detection, image classification, natural language understanding, and recommendation system. With the rapid increase in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Hongchen Cao , Shuai Li , Yuming Zhou , Ming Fan , Xuejiao Zhao , Yutian Tang

Neural networks have demonstrated remarkable success in learning and solving complex tasks in a variety of fields. Nevertheless, the rise of those networks in modern computing has been accompanied by concerns regarding their vulnerability…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Rabiah Al-qudah , Moayad Aloqaily , Bassem Ouni , Mohsen Guizani , Thierry Lestable

We explore the black-box adversarial attack on video recognition models. Attacks are only performed on selected key regions and key frames to reduce the high computation cost of searching adversarial perturbations on a video due to its high…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Zeyuan Wang , Chaofeng Sha , Su Yang

Face recognition has obtained remarkable progress in recent years due to the great improvement of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, deep CNNs are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which can cause fateful consequences in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Yinpeng Dong , Hang Su , Baoyuan Wu , Zhifeng Li , Wei Liu , Tong Zhang , Jun Zhu

In recent years, deep neural networks demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in a large variety of tasks and therefore have been adopted in many applications. On the other hand, the latest studies revealed that neural networks are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Jingyang Zhang , Hsin-Pai Cheng , Chunpeng Wu , Hai Li , Yiran Chen

Black box optimization requires specifying a search space to explore for solutions, e.g. a d-dimensional compact space, and this choice is critical for getting the best results at a reasonable budget. Unfortunately, determining a high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Setareh Ariafar , Justin Gilmer , Zachary Nado , Jasper Snoek , Rodolphe Jenatton , George E. Dahl

Machine learning classifiers are critically prone to evasion attacks. Adversarial examples are slightly modified inputs that are then misclassified, while remaining perceptively close to their originals. Last couple of years have witnessed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Thibault Maho , Teddy Furon , Erwan Le Merrer

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

Despite their impressive performance, deep visual models are susceptible to transferable black-box adversarial attacks. Principally, these attacks craft perturbations in a target model-agnostic manner. However, surprisingly, we find that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Mohammad A. A. K. Jalwana , Naveed Akhtar , Ajmal Mian , Nazanin Rahnavard , Mubarak Shah

A fundamental issue in deep learning has been adversarial robustness. As these systems have scaled, such issues have persisted. Currently, large language models (LLMs) with billions of parameters suffer from adversarial attacks just like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Brian Formento , Chuan Sheng Foo , See-Kiong Ng

Membership inference attacks are designed to determine, using black box access to trained models, whether a particular example was used in training or not. Membership inference can be formalized as a hypothesis testing problem. The most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Martin Bertran , Shuai Tang , Michael Kearns , Jamie Morgenstern , Aaron Roth , Zhiwei Steven Wu

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

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success in diverse fields. However, it has been demonstrated that DNNs are very vulnerable to adversarial examples even in black-box settings. A large number of black-box attack methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Junjie Fu , Jian Sun , Gang Wang

Deep learning models suffer from a phenomenon called adversarial attacks: we can apply minor changes to the model input to fool a classifier for a particular example. The literature mostly considers adversarial attacks on models with images…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Ivan Fursov , Alexey Zaytsev , Nikita Kluchnikov , Andrey Kravchenko , Evgeny Burnaev

Parameter space exploration methods with black-box optimization have recently been shown to outperform state-of-the-art approaches in continuous control reinforcement learning domains. In this paper, we examine reasons why these methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Anirudh Vemula , Wen Sun , J. Andrew Bagnell

We consider adversarial examples for image classification in the black-box decision-based setting. Here, an attacker cannot access confidence scores, but only the final label. Most attacks for this scenario are either unreliable or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-30 Thomas Brunner , Frederik Diehl , Michael Truong Le , Alois Knoll