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Recent works have illustrated that modern NLP models trained for diverse tasks ranging from sentiment analysis to language generation succumb to universal adversarial attacks, a class of input-agnostic attacks where a common trigger…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Benedict Florance Arockiaraj , Alexander Feng , Jianxiong Cai , Xiaoyu Cheng

Natural Language Processing (NLP) models based on Machine Learning (ML) are susceptible to adversarial attacks -- malicious algorithms that imperceptibly modify input text to force models into making incorrect predictions. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Salijona Dyrmishi , Salah Ghamizi , Maxime Cordy

Backdoor attacks pose a new threat to NLP models. A standard strategy to construct poisoned data in backdoor attacks is to insert triggers (e.g., rare words) into selected sentences and alter the original label to a target label. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Leilei Gan , Jiwei Li , Tianwei Zhang , Xiaoya Li , Yuxian Meng , Fei Wu , Yi Yang , Shangwei Guo , Chun Fan

Neural networks are vulnerable to adversarially-constructed perturbations of their inputs. Most research so far has considered perturbations of a fixed magnitude under some $l_p$ norm. Although studying these attacks is valuable, there has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Isaac Dunn , Hadrien Pouget , Tom Melham , Daniel Kroening

Recent studies on adversarial images have shown that they tend to leave the underlying low-dimensional data manifold, making them significantly more challenging for current models to make correct predictions. This so-called off-manifold…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Dang Minh Nguyen , Luu Anh Tuan

Adversarial attacks are a major challenge faced by current machine learning research. These purposely crafted inputs fool even the most advanced models, precluding their deployment in safety-critical applications. Extensive research in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Edoardo Mosca , Shreyash Agarwal , Javier Rando , Georg Groh

The textual adversarial attack refers to an attack method in which the attacker adds imperceptible perturbations to the original texts by elaborate design so that the NLP (natural language processing) model produces false judgments. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Xi Cao , Dolma Dawa , Nuo Qun , Trashi Nyima

With the development of high computational devices, deep neural networks (DNNs), in recent years, have gained significant popularity in many Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications. However, previous efforts have shown that DNNs were…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Wei Emma Zhang , Quan Z. Sheng , Ahoud Alhazmi , Chenliang Li

Due to their complex nature, it is hard to characterize the ways in which machine learning models can misbehave or be exploited when deployed. Recent work on adversarial examples, i.e. inputs with minor perturbations that result in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Zhengli Zhao , Dheeru Dua , Sameer Singh

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

We study an important task of attacking natural language processing models in a black box setting. We propose an attack strategy that crafts semantically similar adversarial examples on text classification and entailment tasks. Our proposed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Rishabh Maheshwary , Saket Maheshwary , Vikram Pudi

While a substantial body of prior work has explored adversarial example generation for natural language understanding tasks, these examples are often unrealistic and diverge from the real-world data distributions. In this work, we introduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Saadia Gabriel , Hamid Palangi , Yejin Choi

Deep transformer neural network models have improved the predictive accuracy of intelligent text processing systems in the biomedical domain. They have obtained state-of-the-art performance scores on a wide variety of biomedical and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Milad Moradi , Matthias Samwald

Neural text detectors are models trained to detect whether a given text was generated by a language model or written by a human. In this paper, we investigate three simple and resource-efficient strategies (parameter tweaking, prompt…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Vitalii Fishchuk , Daniel Braun

This work presents a thorough review concerning recent studies and text generation advancements using Generative Adversarial Networks. The usage of adversarial learning for text generation is promising as it provides alternatives to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Gustavo Henrique de Rosa , João Paulo Papa

Textual adversarial attacks pose a serious security threat to Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems by introducing imperceptible perturbations that mislead deep learning models. While adversarial example detection offers a lightweight…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-16 He Zhu , Yanshu Li , Wen Liu , Haitian Yang

Adversarial attacks against language models(LMs) are a significant concern. In particular, adversarial samples exploit the model's sensitivity to small input changes. While these changes appear insignificant on the semantics of the input…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Aly M. Kassem , Sherif Saad

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, where a small perturbation to an input alters the model prediction. In many cases, malicious inputs intentionally crafted for one model can fool another model. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Liping Yuan , Xiaoqing Zheng , Yi Zhou , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Kai-wei Chang

Adversarially perturbed images of text can cause sophisticated OCR systems to produce misleading or incorrect transcriptions from seemingly invisible changes to humans. Some of these perturbations even survive physical capture, posing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Bhagyesh Kumar , A S Aravinthakashan , Akshat Satyanarayan , Ishaan Gakhar , Ujjwal Verma

Adversarial attacks are a type of attack on machine learning models where an attacker deliberately modifies the inputs to cause the model to make incorrect predictions. Adversarial attacks can have serious consequences, particularly in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Prathyusha Devabhakthini , Sasmita Parida , Raj Mani Shukla , Suvendu Chandan Nayak , Tapadhir Das