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Adversarial attacks have been extensively studied in recent years since they can identify the vulnerability of deep learning models before deployed. In this paper, we consider the black-box adversarial setting, where the adversary needs to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Yinpeng Dong , Shuyu Cheng , Tianyu Pang , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Deep neural networks are highly vulnerable to adversarial examples, which are inputs with small, carefully crafted perturbations that cause misclassification -- making adversarial attacks a critical tool for evaluating robustness. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Hanrui Wang , Ching-Chun Chang , Chun-Shien Lu , Christopher Leckie , Isao Echizen

Researchers have repeatedly shown that it is possible to craft adversarial attacks on deep classifiers (small perturbations that significantly change the class label), even in the "black-box" setting where one only has query access to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Devin Willmott , Anit Kumar Sahu , Fatemeh Sheikholeslami , Filipe Condessa , Zico Kolter

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

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 present a new method for score-based adversarial attack, where the attacker queries the loss-oracle of the target model. Our method employs a parameterized search space with a structure that captures the relationship of the gradient of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Zhichao Huang , Yaowei Huang , Tong Zhang

Existing black-box attacks on deep neural networks (DNNs) so far have largely focused on transferability, where an adversarial instance generated for a locally trained model can "transfer" to attack other learning models. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Arjun Nitin Bhagoji , Warren He , Bo Li , Dawn Song

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

In order to be applicable in real-world scenario, Boundary Attacks (BAs) were proposed and ensured one hundred percent attack success rate with only decision information. However, existing BA methods craft adversarial examples by leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Dan Wang , Jiayu Lin , Yuan-Gen Wang

We focus on the problem of adversarial attacks against models on discrete sequential data in the black-box setting where the attacker aims to craft adversarial examples with limited query access to the victim model. Existing black-box…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Deokjae Lee , Seungyong Moon , Junhyeok Lee , Hyun Oh Song

Adversarial attacks have threatened the application of deep neural networks in security-sensitive scenarios. Most existing black-box attacks fool the target model by interacting with it many times and producing global perturbations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Tao Xiang , Hangcheng Liu , Shangwei Guo , Tianwei Zhang , Xiaofeng Liao

CNN-based face recognition models have brought remarkable performance improvement, but they are vulnerable to adversarial perturbations. Recent studies have shown that adversaries can fool the models even if they can only access the models'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Junyoung Byun , Hyojun Go , Changick Kim

In this paper, we present a generic, query-efficient black-box attack against API call-based machine learning malware classifiers. We generate adversarial examples by modifying the malware's API call sequences and non-sequential features…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Ishai Rosenberg , Asaf Shabtai , Yuval Elovici , Lior Rokach

We propose a novel technique that can generate natural-looking adversarial examples by bounding the variations induced for internal activation values in some deep layer(s), through a distribution quantile bound and a polynomial barrier loss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Qiuling Xu , Guanhong Tao , Xiangyu Zhang

Deep neural networks provide unprecedented performance in all image classification problems, taking advantage of huge amounts of data available for training. Recent studies, however, have shown their vulnerability to adversarial attacks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Diego Gragnaniello , Francesco Marra , Giovanni Poggi , Luisa Verdoliva

We study black-box adversarial attacks for image classifiers in a constrained threat model, where adversaries can only modify a small fraction of pixels in the form of scratches on an image. We show that it is possible for adversaries to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Malhar Jere , Loris Rossi , Briland Hitaj , Gabriela Ciocarlie , Giacomo Boracchi , Farinaz Koushanfar

Many machine learning algorithms are vulnerable to almost imperceptible perturbations of their inputs. So far it was unclear how much risk adversarial perturbations carry for the safety of real-world machine learning applications because…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-19 Wieland Brendel , Jonas Rauber , Matthias Bethge

In the last decade, deep neural networks have proven to be very powerful in computer vision tasks, starting a revolution in the computer vision and machine learning fields. However, deep neural networks, usually, are not robust to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Hao Qiu , Leonardo Lucio Custode , Giovanni Iacca

Adversarial attacks on deep learning models have received increased attention in recent years. Work in this area has mostly focused on gradient-based techniques, so-called 'white-box' attacks, where the attacker has access to the targeted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Raz Lapid , Eylon Mizrahi , Moshe Sipper

Black-box adversarial attacks present a realistic threat to action recognition systems. Existing black-box attacks follow either a query-based approach where an attack is optimized by querying the target model, or a transfer-based approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Rohit Gupta , Naveed Akhtar , Gaurav Kumar Nayak , Ajmal Mian , Mubarak Shah