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While vision and multimodal foundation models underpin critical tasks from perception to complex reasoning, they remain highly vulnerable to adversarial attacks. However, traditional adversarial attacks are typically limited to single,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Ye Sun , Xin Wang , Jiaming Zhang , Yifeng Gao , Yixu Wang , Yifan Ding , Qixian Zhang , Henghui Ding , Xingjun Ma , Yu-Gang Jiang

We present an openly documented methodology for fine-tuning language models to detect temporal attack patterns in multi-agent AI workflows using OpenTelemetry trace analysis. We curate a dataset of 80,851 examples from 18 public…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Ron F. Del Rosario

Adversarial training (AT) is a prominent technique employed by deep learning models to defend against adversarial attacks, and to some extent, enhance model robustness. However, there are three main drawbacks of the existing AT-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 X. Peng , D. Zhou , G. Sun , J. Shi , L. Wu

We construct targeted audio adversarial examples on automatic speech recognition. Given any audio waveform, we can produce another that is over 99.9% similar, but transcribes as any phrase we choose (recognizing up to 50 characters per…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Nicholas Carlini , David Wagner

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

Fast Adversarial Training (FastAT) seeks to achieve adversarial robustness at a fraction of the computational cost incurred by standard multi-step methods such as PGD-AT. Although numerous FastAT techniques have been proposed in recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Chao Pan , Xin Yao

The adversarial attack literature contains a myriad of algorithms for crafting perturbations which yield pathological behavior in neural networks. In many cases, multiple algorithms target the same tasks and even enforce the same…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Hossein Souri , Pirazh Khorramshahi , Chun Pong Lau , Micah Goldblum , Rama Chellappa

Currently, natural language processing (NLP) models are wildly used in various scenarios. However, NLP models, like all deep models, are vulnerable to adversarially generated text. Numerous works have been working on mitigating the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Lujia Shen , Xuhong Zhang , Shouling Ji , Yuwen Pu , Chunpeng Ge , Xing Yang , Yanghe Feng

Following the principle of to set one's own spear against one's own shield, we study how to design adversarial CAPTCHAs in this paper. We first identify the similarity and difference between adversarial CAPTCHA generation and existing hot…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Chenghui Shi , Xiaogang Xu , Shouling Ji , Kai Bu , Jianhai Chen , Raheem Beyah , Ting Wang

Recently, advanced NLP models have seen a surge in the usage of various applications. This raises the security threats of the released models. In addition to the clean models' unintentional weaknesses, {\em i.e.,} adversarial attacks, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Lichao Sun

Deep learning models have been used widely for various purposes in recent years in object recognition, self-driving cars, face recognition, speech recognition, sentiment analysis, and many others. However, in recent years it has been shown…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Aminul Huq , Mst. Tasnim Pervin

Adversarial attacks pose significant challenges for detecting adversarial attacks at an early stage. We propose attack-agnostic detection on reinforcement learning-based interactive recommendation systems. We first craft adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Yuanjiang Cao , Xiaocong Chen , Lina Yao , Xianzhi Wang , Wei Emma Zhang

Vision-language pre-training (VLP) models demonstrate impressive abilities in processing both images and text. However, they are vulnerable to multi-modal adversarial examples (AEs). Investigating the generation of high-transferability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Dongchen Han , Xiaojun Jia , Yang Bai , Jindong Gu , Yang Liu , Xiaochun Cao

Current research on defending against adversarial examples focuses primarily on achieving robustness against a single attack type such as $\ell_2$ or $\ell_{\infty}$-bounded attacks. However, the space of possible perturbations is much…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Sihui Dai , Chong Xiang , Tong Wu , Prateek Mittal

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into sensitive workflows, raising the stakes for adversarial robustness and safety. This paper introduces Transient Turn Injection(TTI), a new multi-turn attack technique that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Naheed Rayhan , Sohely Jahan

Text classifiers are vulnerable to adversarial examples -- correctly-classified examples that are deliberately transformed to be misclassified while satisfying acceptability constraints. The conventional approach to finding adversarial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Tom Roth , Inigo Jauregi Unanue , Alsharif Abuadbba , Massimo Piccardi

Many adversarial defense methods have been proposed to enhance the adversarial robustness of natural language processing models. However, most of them introduce additional pre-set linguistic knowledge and assume that the synonym candidates…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Yichen Yang , Xin Liu , Kun He

Adversarial attacks present a significant security risk to image recognition tasks. Defending against these attacks in a real-life setting can be compared to the way antivirus software works, with a key consideration being how well the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Haibo Zhang , Zhihua Yao , Kouichi Sakurai

Adversarial attacks are widely used to evaluate model robustness, and in black-box scenarios, the transferability of these attacks becomes crucial. Existing generator-based attacks have excellent generalization and transferability due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yixiao Chen , Shikun Sun , Jianshu Li , Ruoyu Li , Zhe Li , Junliang Xing

The combination of pre-trained speech encoders with large language models has enabled the development of speech LLMs that can handle a wide range of spoken language processing tasks. While these models are powerful and flexible, this very…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Rao Ma , Mengjie Qian , Vyas Raina , Mark Gales , Kate Knill