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Deep learning has emerged as a strong and efficient framework that can be applied to a broad spectrum of complex learning problems which were difficult to solve using the traditional machine learning techniques in the past. In the last few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Anirban Chakraborty , Manaar Alam , Vishal Dey , Anupam Chattopadhyay , Debdeep Mukhopadhyay

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

Adversarial training has been shown as an effective approach to improve the robustness of image classifiers against white-box attacks. However, its effectiveness against black-box attacks is more nuanced. In this work, we demonstrate that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Ali Rahmati , Seyed-Mohsen Moosavi-Dezfooli , Huaiyu Dai

Adversarial attacks have become a well-explored domain, frequently serving as evaluation baselines for model robustness. Among these, black-box attacks based on transferability have received significant attention due to their practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Chun Tong Lei , Zhongliang Guo , Hon Chung Lee , Minh Quoc Duong , Chun Pong Lau

While image-to-text models have demonstrated significant advancements in various vision-language tasks, they remain susceptible to adversarial attacks. Existing white-box attacks on image-to-text models require access to the architecture,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Qingyuan Zeng , Zhenzhong Wang , Yiu-ming Cheung , Min Jiang

Neural Networks (NNs) are known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. A malicious agent initiates these attacks by perturbing an input into another one such that the two inputs are classified differently by the NN. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-13 João Batista Pereira Matos Juúnior , Lucas Carvalho Cordeiro , Marcelo d'Amorim , Xiaowei Huang

Machine learning models are critically susceptible to evasion attacks from adversarial examples. Generally, adversarial examples, modified inputs deceptively similar to the original input, are constructed under whitebox settings by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Viet Quoc Vo , Ehsan Abbasnejad , Damith C. Ranasinghe

State-of-the-art deep neural networks are known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples, formed by applying small but malicious perturbations to the original inputs. Moreover, the perturbations can \textit{transfer across models}:…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-28 Lei Wu , Zhanxing Zhu , Cheng Tai , Weinan E

Deep neural networks are susceptible to various inference attacks as they remember information about their training data. We design white-box inference attacks to perform a comprehensive privacy analysis of deep learning models. We measure…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-09 Milad Nasr , Reza Shokri , Amir Houmansadr

Recent research on reinforcement learning (RL) has suggested that trained agents are vulnerable to maliciously crafted adversarial samples. In this work, we show how such samples can be generalised from White-box and Grey-box attacks to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Yiren Zhao , Ilia Shumailov , Han Cui , Xitong Gao , Robert Mullins , Ross Anderson

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in many tasks but have shown extreme vulnerabilities to attacks generated by adversarial examples. Many works go with a white-box attack that assumes total access to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Phoenix Williams , Ke Li

Black-box adversarial attacks are widely used as tools to test the robustness of deep neural networks against malicious perturbations of input data aimed at a specific change in the output of the model. Such methods, although they remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Anna Chistyakova , Mikhail Pautov

Strong adversarial examples are crucial for evaluating and enhancing the robustness of deep neural networks. However, the performance of popular attacks is usually sensitive, for instance, to minor image transformations, stemming from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Zhengwei Fang , Rui Wang , Tao Huang , Liping Jing

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples that mislead the models with imperceptible perturbations. Though adversarial attacks have achieved incredible success rates in the white-box setting, most existing adversaries…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Xiaosen Wang , Kun He

It is widely recognized that deep learning models lack robustness to adversarial examples. An intriguing property of adversarial examples is that they can transfer across different models, which enables black-box attacks without any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Huanran Chen , Yichi Zhang , Yinpeng Dong , Xiao Yang , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Deep learning models are known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples crafted by adding human-imperceptible perturbations on benign images. Many existing adversarial attack methods have achieved great white-box attack performance, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Xiaosen Wang , Jiadong Lin , Han Hu , Jingdong Wang , Kun He

This study investigates behavior-targeted attacks on reinforcement learning and their countermeasures. Behavior-targeted attacks aim to manipulate the victim's behavior as desired by the adversary through adversarial interventions in state…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Shojiro Yamabe , Kazuto Fukuchi , Jun Sakuma

We consider adversarial attacks to a black-box model when no queries are allowed. In this setting, many methods directly attack surrogate models and transfer the obtained adversarial examples to fool the target model. Plenty of previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Yunxiao Qin , Yuanhao Xiong , Jinfeng Yi , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Current black-box adversarial attacks either require multiple queries or diffusion models to produce adversarial samples that can impair the target model performance. However, these methods require training a surrogate loss or diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Joana C. Costa , Tiago Roxo , Hugo Proença , Pedro R. M. Inácio

An established way to improve the transferability of black-box evasion attacks is to craft the adversarial examples on an ensemble-based surrogate to increase diversity. We argue that transferability is fundamentally related to uncertainty.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Martin Gubri , Maxime Cordy , Mike Papadakis , Yves Le Traon , Koushik Sen