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The vulnerabilities of deep neural networks against adversarial examples have become a significant concern for deploying these models in sensitive domains. Devising a definitive defense against such attacks is proven to be challenging, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Xuwang Yin , Soheil Kolouri , Gustavo K. Rohde

Many adversarial attacks and defenses have recently been proposed for Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). While most of them are in the white-box setting, which is impractical, a new class of query-based hard-label (QBHL) black-box attacks pose a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Junfeng Guo , Yaswanth Yadlapalli , Thiele Lothar , Ang Li , Cong Liu

Training robust deep learning models for down-stream tasks is a critical challenge. Research has shown that down-stream models can be easily fooled with adversarial inputs that look like the training data, but slightly perturbed, in a way…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Mahmoud Hossam , Trung Le , He Zhao , Dinh Phung

Decision-based attacks (DBA), wherein attackers perturb inputs to spoof learning algorithms by observing solely the output labels, are a type of severe adversarial attacks against Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) requiring minimal knowledge of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Zhuosheng Zhang , Shucheng Yu

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) pose a significant challenge in cybersecurity due to their stealthy and long-term nature. Modern supervised learning methods require extensive labeled data, which is often scarce in real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Sidahmed Benabderrahmane , James Cheney , Talal Rahwan

An adversary who aims to steal a black-box model repeatedly queries the model via a prediction API to learn a function that approximates its decision boundary. Adversarial approximation is non-trivial because of the enormous combinations of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Abdullah Ali , Birhanu Eshete

We study the query-based attack against image retrieval to evaluate its robustness against adversarial examples under the black-box setting, where the adversary only has query access to the top-k ranked unlabeled images from the database.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Xiaodan Li , Jinfeng Li , Yuefeng Chen , Shaokai Ye , Yuan He , Shuhui Wang , Hang Su , Hui Xue

Neural ranking models (NRMs) have attracted considerable attention in information retrieval. Unfortunately, NRMs may inherit the adversarial vulnerabilities of general neural networks, which might be leveraged by black-hat search engine…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Yu-An Liu , Ruqing Zhang , Jiafeng Guo , Maarten de Rijke , Wei Chen , Yixing Fan , Xueqi Cheng

We study black-box attacks on machine learning classifiers where each query to the model incurs some cost or risk of detection to the adversary. We focus explicitly on minimizing the number of queries as a major objective. Specifically, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Fnu Suya , Yuan Tian , David Evans , Paolo Papotti

In this paper, we study oracle-efficient algorithms for beyond worst-case analysis of online learning. We focus on two settings. First, the smoothed analysis setting of [RST11,HRS22] where an adversary is constrained to generating samples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Nika Haghtalab , Yanjun Han , Abhishek Shetty , Kunhe Yang

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which poses security concerns on these algorithms due to the potentially severe consequences. Adversarial attacks serve as an important surrogate to evaluate the robustness of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Yinpeng Dong , Fangzhou Liao , Tianyu Pang , Hang Su , Jun Zhu , Xiaolin Hu , Jianguo Li

Adversarial examples have gained tons of attention in recent years. Many adversarial attacks have been proposed to attack image classifiers, but few work shift attention to object detectors. In this paper, we propose Sparse Adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Jiayu Bao

Deep neural networks for image classification remain vulnerable to adversarial examples -- small, imperceptible perturbations that induce misclassifications. In black-box settings, where only the final prediction is accessible, crafting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Arjhun Swaminathan , Mete Akgün

Recent studies have shown that adversarial examples in state-of-the-art image classifiers trained by deep neural networks (DNN) can be easily generated when the target model is transparent to an attacker, known as the white-box setting.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Chun-Chen Tu , Paishun Ting , Pin-Yu Chen , Sijia Liu , Huan Zhang , Jinfeng Yi , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Shin-Ming Cheng

Adversarial examples of deep neural networks are receiving ever increasing attention because they help in understanding and reducing the sensitivity to their input. This is natural given the increasing applications of deep neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Hanwei Zhang , Yannis Avrithis , Teddy Furon , Laurent Amsaleg

The vulnerability of deep neural networks to adversarial examples has drawn tremendous attention from the community. Three approaches, optimizing standard objective functions, exploiting attention maps, and smoothing decision surfaces, are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Yi Huang , Adams Wai-Kin Kong

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

Adversarial examples are well-known tools to evaluate the vulnerability of deep neural networks (DNNs). Although lots of adversarial attack algorithms have been developed, it's still challenging in the practical scenario that the model's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Meixi Zheng , Xuanchen Yan , Zihao Zhu , Hongrui Chen , Baoyuan Wu

The goal of semi-supervised learning is to improve supervised classifiers by using additional unlabeled training examples. In this work we study a simple self-learning approach to semi-supervised learning applied to the least squares…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-13 Jesse H. Krijthe , Marco Loog

With the development and application of deep learning in signal detection tasks, the vulnerability of neural networks to adversarial attacks has also become a security threat to signal detection networks. This paper defines a signal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Dongyang Li , Linyuan Wang , Guangwei Xiong , Bin Yan , Dekui Ma , Jinxian Peng