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Constructing adversarial examples in a black-box threat model injures the original images by introducing visual distortion. In this paper, we propose a novel black-box attack approach that can directly minimize the induced distortion by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Nannan Li , Zhenzhong Chen

We present a new method for black-box adversarial attack. Unlike previous methods that combined transfer-based and scored-based methods by using the gradient or initialization of a surrogate white-box model, this new method tries to learn a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Zhichao Huang , Tong Zhang

Automated algorithm selection for continuous black-box optimization depends on representing problem information under limited probing and selecting solvers under heavy-tailed performance distributions. This paper proposes a geometric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Jiabao Brad Wang , Xiang Shi , Yiliang Yuan , Mustafa Misir

White box adversarial perturbations are sought via iterative optimization algorithms most often minimizing an adversarial loss on a $l_p$ neighborhood of the original image, the so-called distortion set. Constraining the adversarial search…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Ehsan Kazemi , Thomas Kerdreux , Liqiang Wang

Solving for adversarial examples with projected gradient descent has been demonstrated to be highly effective in fooling the neural network based classifiers. However, in the black-box setting, the attacker is limited only to the query…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Seungyong Moon , Gaon An , Hyun Oh Song

There are two main attack models considered in the adversarial robustness literature: black-box and white-box. We consider these threat models as two ends of a fine-grained spectrum, indexed by the number of queries the adversary can ask.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Grzegorz Głuch , Rüdiger Urbanke

Depending on how much information an adversary can access to, adversarial attacks can be classified as white-box attack and black-box attack. For white-box attack, optimization-based attack algorithms such as projected gradient descent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Jinghui Chen , Dongruo Zhou , Jinfeng Yi , Quanquan Gu

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

Adversarial example generation becomes a viable method for evaluating the robustness of a machine learning model. In this paper, we consider hard-label black-box attacks (a.k.a. decision-based attacks), which is a challenging setting that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Zhenxin Xiao , Puyudi Yang , Yuchen Jiang , Kai-Wei Chang , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Neural networks have been proven to be vulnerable to a variety of adversarial attacks. From a safety perspective, highly sparse adversarial attacks are particularly dangerous. On the other hand the pixelwise perturbations of sparse attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Francesco Croce , Matthias Hein

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

The deep neural network is vulnerable to adversarial examples. Adding imperceptible adversarial perturbations to images is enough to make them fail. Most existing research focuses on attacking image classifiers or anchor-based object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Quanyu Liao , Xin Wang , Bin Kong , Siwei Lyu , Youbing Yin , Qi Song , Xi Wu

Face recognition has obtained remarkable progress in recent years due to the great improvement of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, deep CNNs are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which can cause fateful consequences in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Yinpeng Dong , Hang Su , Baoyuan Wu , Zhifeng Li , Wei Liu , Tong Zhang , Jun Zhu

Adversarial robustness in structured data remains an underexplored frontier compared to vision and language domains. In this work, we introduce a novel black-box, decision-based adversarial attack tailored for tabular data. Our approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Roie Kazoom , Yuval Ratzabi , Etamar Rothstein , Ofer Hadar

Generating adversarial examples is the art of creating a noise that is added to an input signal of a classifying neural network, and thus changing the network's classification, while keeping the noise as tenuous as possible. While the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Roee Ben-Shlomo , Yevgeniy Men , Ido Imanuel

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

Adversarial attack reveals the vulnerability of deep learning models. It is assumed that high curvature may give rise to rough decision boundary and thus result in less robust models. However, the most commonly used \textit{curvature} is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Peiran Sun

It has been observed that deep learning architectures tend to make erroneous decisions with high reliability for particularly designed adversarial instances. In this work, we show that the perturbation analysis of these architectures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Emilio Rafael Balda , Arash Behboodi , Rudolf Mathar

We introduce a grey-box adversarial attack and defence framework for sentiment classification. We address the issues of differentiability, label preservation and input reconstruction for adversarial attack and defence in one unified…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Ying Xu , Xu Zhong , Antonio Jimeno Yepes , Jey Han Lau

Decision-based attack poses a severe threat to real-world applications since it regards the target model as a black box and only accesses the hard prediction label. Great efforts have been made recently to decrease the number of queries;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Xiaosen Wang , Zeliang Zhang , Kangheng Tong , Dihong Gong , Kun He , Zhifeng Li , Wei Liu