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A line of work has shown that natural text processing models are vulnerable to adversarial examples. Correspondingly, various defense methods are proposed to mitigate the threat of textual adversarial examples, eg, adversarial training,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Xiaosen Wang , Yifeng Xiong , Kun He

Adversarial ranking attacks have gained increasing attention due to their success in probing vulnerabilities, and, hence, enhancing the robustness, of neural ranking models. Conventional attack methods employ perturbations at a single…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Yu-An Liu , Ruqing Zhang , Jiafeng Guo , Maarten de Rijke , Yixing Fan , Xueqi Cheng

In social media, neural network models have been applied to hate speech detection, sentiment analysis, etc., but neural network models are susceptible to adversarial attacks. For instance, in a text classification task, the attacker…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Xi Cao , Nuo Qun , Quzong Gesang , Yulei Zhu , Trashi Nyima

In text classification, creating an adversarial example means subtly perturbing a few words in a sentence without changing its meaning, causing it to be misclassified by a classifier. A concerning observation is that a significant portion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Lei Xu , Sarah Alnegheimish , Laure Berti-Equille , Alfredo Cuesta-Infante , Kalyan Veeramachaneni

Modern text classification models are susceptible to adversarial examples, perturbed versions of the original text indiscernible by humans which get misclassified by the model. Recent works in NLP use rule-based synonym replacement…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Siddhant Garg , Goutham Ramakrishnan

Machine learning models are prone to adversarial attacks, where inputs can be manipulated in order to cause misclassifications. While previous research has focused on techniques like Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), there's limited…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Langalibalele Lunga , Suhas Sreehari

To circumvent the alignment of large language models (LLMs), current optimization-based adversarial attacks usually craft adversarial prompts by maximizing the likelihood of a so-called affirmative response. An affirmative response is a…

As machine learning models grow in complexity and increasingly rely on publicly sourced data, such as the human-annotated labels used in training large language models, they become more vulnerable to label poisoning attacks. These attacks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Melis Ilayda Bal , Volkan Cevher , Michael Muehlebach

Discrete adversarial attacks are symbolic perturbations to a language input that preserve the output label but lead to a prediction error. While such attacks have been extensively explored for the purpose of evaluating model robustness,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Maor Ivgi , Jonathan Berant

Textual backdoor attacks present a substantial security risk to Large Language Models (LLM). It embeds carefully chosen triggers into a victim model at the training stage, and makes the model erroneously predict inputs containing the same…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Xinglin Li , Xianwen He , Yao Li , Minhao Cheng

Although pre-trained language models (PrLMs) have achieved significant success, recent studies demonstrate that PrLMs are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. By generating adversarial examples with slight perturbations on different levels…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Jiayi Wang , Rongzhou Bao , Zhuosheng Zhang , Hai Zhao

With the great advancements in large language models (LLMs), adversarial attacks against LLMs have recently attracted increasing attention. We found that pre-existing adversarial attack methodologies exhibit limited transferability and are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Zelin Li , Kehai Chen , Lemao Liu , Xuefeng Bai , Mingming Yang , Yang Xiang , Min Zhang

Recent advancements in natural language processing have highlighted the vulnerability of deep learning models to adversarial attacks. While various defence mechanisms have been proposed, there is a lack of comprehensive benchmarks that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Yang Wang , Chenghua Lin

Targeted adversarial attacks are widely used to evaluate the robustness of neural machine translation systems. Unfortunately, this paper first identifies a critical issue in the existing settings of NMT targeted adversarial attacks, where…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Junjie Wu , Lemao Liu , Wei Bi , Dit-Yan Yeung

Currently, natural language processing (NLP) models are wildly used in various scenarios. However, NLP models, like all deep models, are vulnerable to adversarially generated text. Numerous works have been working on mitigating the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Lujia Shen , Xuhong Zhang , Shouling Ji , Yuwen Pu , Chunpeng Ge , Xing Yang , Yanghe Feng

Crafting adversarial examples has become an important technique to evaluate the robustness of deep neural networks (DNNs). However, most existing works focus on attacking the image classification problem since its input space is continuous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Minhao Cheng , Jinfeng Yi , Pin-Yu Chen , Huan Zhang , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Word-level textual adversarial attacks have demonstrated notable efficacy in misleading Natural Language Processing (NLP) models. Despite their success, the underlying reasons for their effectiveness and the fundamental characteristics of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Ning Lu , Shengcai Liu , Zhirui Zhang , Qi Wang , Haifeng Liu , Ke Tang

For many computer vision applications such as image captioning, visual question answering, and person search, learning discriminative feature representations at both image and text level is an essential yet challenging problem. Its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Nikolaos Sarafianos , Xiang Xu , Ioannis A. Kakadiaris

Harmful fine-tuning attacks pose a major threat to the security of large language models (LLMs), allowing adversaries to compromise safety guardrails with minimal harmful data. While existing defenses attempt to reinforce LLM alignment,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yuhui Wang , Rongyi Zhu , Ting Wang

Adversarial attacks have gained traction in order to identify potential vulnerabilities in neural ranking models (NRMs), but current attack methods often introduce grammatical errors, nonsensical expressions, or incoherent text fragments,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Xuanang Chen , Ben He , Zheng Ye , Le Sun , Yingfei Sun
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