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Contextual word embeddings (e.g. GPT, BERT, ELMo, etc.) have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance on various NLP tasks. Recent work with the multilingual version of BERT has shown that the model performs very well in zero-shot and…

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With rapid progress and significant successes in a wide spectrum of applications, deep learning is being applied in many safety-critical environments. However, deep neural networks have been recently found vulnerable to well-designed input…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Xiaoyong Yuan , Pan He , Qile Zhu , Xiaolin Li

As machine learning algorithms continue to improve, there is an increasing need for explaining why a model produces a certain prediction for a certain input. In recent years, several methods for model interpretability have been developed,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Yoel Shoshan , Vadim Ratner

Recent research has found that many families of machine learning models are vulnerable to adversarial examples: inputs that are specifically designed to cause the target model to produce erroneous outputs. In this survey, we focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Rey Reza Wiyatno , Anqi Xu , Ousmane Dia , Archy de Berker

Deep learning has undoubtedly offered tremendous improvements in the performance of state-of-the-art speech emotion recognition (SER) systems. However, recent research on adversarial examples poses enormous challenges on the robustness of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Siddique Latif , Rajib Rana , Junaid Qadir

Deep learning (DL) has significantly transformed cybersecurity, enabling advancements in malware detection, botnet identification, intrusion detection, user authentication, and encrypted traffic analysis. However, the rise of adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Li Li

This paper presents the experiments and results for the CheckThat! Lab at CLEF 2024 Task 6: Robustness of Credibility Assessment with Adversarial Examples (InCrediblAE). The primary objective of this task was to generate adversarial…

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown huge superiority over humans in image recognition, speech processing, autonomous vehicles and medical diagnosis. However, recent studies indicate that DNNs are vulnerable to adversarial examples (AEs),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Jiliang Zhang , Chen Li

Traditional adversarial examples are typically generated by adding perturbation noise to the input image within a small matrix norm. In practice, un-restricted adversarial attack has raised great concern and presented a new threat to the AI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Wenzhao Xiang , Chang Liu , Shibao Zheng

Recent work shows that deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples. Much work studies adversarial example generation, while very little work focuses on more critical adversarial defense. Existing adversarial detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Bin Zhu , Zhaoquan Gu , Le Wang , Zhihong Tian

Current multi-task adversarial text attacks rely on abundant access to shared internal features and numerous queries, often limited to a single task type. As a result, these attacks are less effective against practical scenarios involving…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Wenqiang Wang , Yan Xiao , Hao Lin , Yangshijie Zhang , Xiaochun Cao

Transformer-based text classifiers such as BERT, RoBERTa, T5, and GPT have shown strong performance in natural language processing tasks but remain vulnerable to adversarial examples. These vulnerabilities raise significant security…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Bushra Sabir , Yansong Gao , Alsharif Abuadbba , M. Ali Babar

Despite the impressive performances reported by deep neural networks in different application domains, they remain largely vulnerable to adversarial examples, i.e., input samples that are carefully perturbed to cause misclassification at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Angelo Sotgiu , Ambra Demontis , Marco Melis , Battista Biggio , Giorgio Fumera , Xiaoyi Feng , Fabio Roli

Recent work has shown it is possible to construct adversarial examples that cause an aligned language model to emit harmful strings or perform harmful behavior. Existing attacks work either in the white-box setting (with full access to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Jonathan Hayase , Ema Borevkovic , Nicholas Carlini , Florian Tramèr , Milad Nasr

Adversarial examples are inputs to machine learning models designed to cause the model to make a mistake. They are useful for understanding the shortcomings of machine learning models, interpreting their results, and for regularisation. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Pasquale Minervini , Sebastian Riedel

We propose to generate adversarial samples by modifying activations of upper layers encoding semantically meaningful concepts. The original sample is shifted towards a target sample, yielding an adversarial sample, by using the modified…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Johannes Schneider , Giovanni Apruzzese

Recently it has been shown that state-of-the-art NLP models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, where the predictions of a model can be drastically altered by slight modifications to the input (such as synonym substitutions). While…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Yahan Yang , Soham Dan , Dan Roth , Insup Lee

Neural ranking models (NRMs) have undergone significant development and have become integral components of information retrieval (IR) systems. Unfortunately, recent research has unveiled the vulnerability of NRMs to adversarial document…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Xuanang Chen , Ben He , Le Sun , Yingfei Sun

Adversarial examples (AEs) are images that can mislead deep neural network (DNN) classifiers via introducing slight perturbations into original images. This security vulnerability has led to vast research in recent years because it can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Ruqi Bai , Saurabh Bagchi , David I. Inouye

Machine learning classifiers are known to be vulnerable to inputs maliciously constructed by adversaries to force misclassification. Such adversarial examples have been extensively studied in the context of computer vision applications. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Sandy Huang , Nicolas Papernot , Ian Goodfellow , Yan Duan , Pieter Abbeel