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The rapid evolution towards the sixth-generation (6G) networks demands advanced beamforming techniques to address challenges in dynamic, high-mobility scenarios, such as vehicular communications. Vision-based beam prediction utilizing RGB…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Avi Deb Raha , Kitae Kim , Mrityunjoy Gain , Apurba Adhikary , Zhu Han , Eui-Nam Huh , Choong Seon Hong

We study the problem of attacking video recognition models in the black-box setting, where the model information is unknown and the adversary can only make queries to detect the predicted top-1 class and its probability. Compared with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Zhipeng Wei , Jingjing Chen , Xingxing Wei , Linxi Jiang , Tat-Seng Chua , Fengfeng Zhou , Yu-Gang Jiang

Adversarial transferability enables black-box attacks on unknown victim deep neural networks (DNNs), rendering attacks viable in real-world scenarios. Current transferable attacks create adversarial perturbation over the entire image,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Shangbo Wu , Yu-an Tan , Yajie Wang , Ruinan Ma , Wencong Ma , Yuanzhang Li

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

Clustering algorithms play a fundamental role as tools in decision-making and sensible automation processes. Due to the widespread use of these applications, a robustness analysis of this family of algorithms against adversarial noise has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Antonio Emanuele Cinà , Alessandro Torcinovich , Marcello Pelillo

We consider the hard label based black box adversarial attack setting which solely observes predicted classes from the target model. Most of the attack methods in this setting suffer from impractical number of queries required to achieve a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Jeonghwan Park , Paul Miller , Niall McLaughlin

This paper studies the challenging black-box adversarial attack that aims to generate adversarial examples against a black-box model by only using output feedback of the model to input queries. Some previous methods improve the query…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Shuyu Cheng , Yibo Miao , Yinpeng Dong , Xiao Yang , Xiao-Shan Gao , 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

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

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, even in the black-box setting where the attacker is only accessible to the model output. Recent studies have devised effective black-box attacks with high query efficiency.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Zeyu Dai , Shengcai Liu , Ke Tang , Qing Li

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

With the growing deployment of sequential recommender systems in e-commerce and other fields, their black-box interfaces raise security concerns: models are vulnerable to extraction and subsequent adversarial manipulation. Existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Hongyue Zhang , Mingming Li , Dongqin Liu , Hui Wang , Yaning Zhang , Xi Zhou , Honglei Lv , Jiao Dai , Jizhong Han

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

When gradient-based methods are impractical, black-box optimization (BBO) provides a valuable alternative. However, BBO often struggles with high-dimensional problems and limited trial budgets. In this work, we propose a novel approach…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-03 Riccardo Busetto , Manas Mejari , Marco Forgione , Alberto Bemporad , Dario Piga

Black-box adversarial attacks have demonstrated strong potential to compromise machine learning models by iteratively querying the target model or leveraging transferability from a local surrogate model. Recently, such attacks can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Hanbin Hong , Xinyu Zhang , Binghui Wang , Zhongjie Ba , Yuan Hong

Collaborative multi-agent reinforcement learning has rapidly evolved, offering state-of-the-art algorithms for real-world applications, including sensitive domains. However, a key challenge to its widespread adoption is the lack of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Amine Andam , Jamal Bentahar , Mustapha Hedabou

Black-box optimization is a powerful approach for discovering global optima in noisy and expensive black-box functions, a problem widely encountered in real-world scenarios. Recently, there has been a growing interest in leveraging domain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Dat Phan-Trong , Hung The Tran , Alistair Shilton , Sunil Gupta

Parameter space exploration methods with black-box optimization have recently been shown to outperform state-of-the-art approaches in continuous control reinforcement learning domains. In this paper, we examine reasons why these methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Anirudh Vemula , Wen Sun , J. Andrew Bagnell

Although deep neural networks have been very successful in image-classification tasks, they are prone to adversarial attacks. To generate adversarial inputs, there has emerged a wide variety of techniques, such as black- and whitebox…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Fuyuan Zhang , Sankalan Pal Chowdhury , Maria Christakis

Many studies have been done to prove the vulnerability of neural networks to adversarial example. A trained and well-behaved model can be fooled by a visually imperceptible perturbation, i.e., an originally correctly classified image could…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-24 YiGui Luo , RuiJia Yang , Wei Sha , WeiYi Ding , YouTeng Sun , YiSi Wang