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Strong adversarial examples are crucial for evaluating and enhancing the robustness of deep neural networks. However, the performance of popular attacks is usually sensitive, for instance, to minor image transformations, stemming from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Zhengwei Fang , Rui Wang , Tao Huang , Liping Jing

In physics and engineering, many processes are modeled using non-differentiable black-box simulators, making the optimization of such functions particularly challenging. To address such cases, inspired by the Gradient Theorem, we propose…

Thanks to their versatility, ease of deployment and high-performance, surrogate models have become staple tools in the arsenal of uncertainty quantification (UQ). From local interpolants to global spectral decompositions, surrogates are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-12 C. Lataniotis , S. Marelli , B. Sudret

Transfer-based adversarial example is one of the most important classes of black-box attacks. However, there is a trade-off between transferability and imperceptibility of the adversarial perturbation. Prior work in this direction often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Fangcheng Liu , Chao Zhang , Hongyang Zhang

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

Skeletal motion plays a pivotal role in human activity recognition (HAR). Recently, attack methods have been proposed to identify the universal vulnerability of skeleton-based HAR(S-HAR). However, the research of adversarial transferability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Yunfeng Diao , Baiqi Wu , Ruixuan Zhang , Xun Yang , Meng Wang , He Wang

Survival analysis (SA) models have been widely studied in mining electronic health records (EHRs), particularly in forecasting the risk of critical conditions for prioritizing high-risk patients. However, their vulnerability to adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Mohsen Nayebi Kerdabadi , Arya Hadizadeh Moghaddam , Bin Liu , Mei Liu , Zijun Yao

Transfer-based targeted adversarial attacks against black-box deep neural networks (DNNs) have been proven to be significantly more challenging than untargeted ones. The impressive transferability of current SOTA, the generative methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Bowen Peng , Li Liu , Tianpeng Liu , Zhen Liu , Yongxiang Liu

Decision support systems often rely on solving complex optimization problems that may require to estimate uncertain parameters beforehand. Recent studies have shown how using traditionally trained estimators for this task can lead to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Gaetano Signorelli , Michele Lombardi

Surrogate-Assisted Evolutionary Algorithms (SAEAs) are widely used for expensive Black-Box Optimization. However, their reliance on rigid, manually designed components such as infill criteria and evolutionary strategies during the search…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Yukun Du , Haiyue Yu , Xiaotong Xie , Yan Zheng , Lixin Zhan , Yudong Du , Chongshuang Hu , Boxuan Wang , Jiang Jiang

We propose a novel method for gradient-based optimization of black-box simulators using differentiable local surrogate models. In fields such as physics and engineering, many processes are modeled with non-differentiable simulators with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Sergey Shirobokov , Vladislav Belavin , Michael Kagan , Andrey Ustyuzhanin , Atılım Güneş Baydin

Transfer-based attack adopts the adversarial examples generated on the surrogate model to attack various models, making it applicable in the physical world and attracting increasing interest. Recently, various adversarial attacks have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Zhijin Ge , Hongying Liu , Xiaosen Wang , Fanhua Shang , Yuanyuan Liu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial examples, which can produce erroneous predictions by injecting imperceptible perturbations. In this work, we study the transferability of adversarial examples,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Zeyu Qin , Yanbo Fan , Yi Liu , Li Shen , Yong Zhang , Jue Wang , Baoyuan Wu

The vulnerability of deep neural networks (DNNs) to adversarial examples has drawn great attention from the community. In this paper, we study the transferability of such examples, which lays the foundation of many black-box attacks on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Yiwen Guo , Qizhang Li , Hao Chen

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which are crafted by adding human-imperceptible perturbations to original images. Most existing adversarial attack methods achieve nearly 100% attack success rates under the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Guoqiu Wang , Huanqian Yan , Ying Guo , Xingxing Wei

We introduce a surrogate-based black-box optimization method, termed Polynomial-model-based optimization (PMBO). The algorithm alternates polynomial approximation with Bayesian optimization steps, using Gaussian processes to model the error…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-13 Janina Schreiber , Pau Batlle , Damar Wicaksono , Michael Hecht

Black box attacks, where adversaries have limited knowledge of the target model, pose a significant threat to machine learning systems. Adversarial examples generated with a substitute model often suffer from limited transferability to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Bar Avraham , Yisroel Mirsky

Existing black-box attacks on deep neural networks (DNNs) so far have largely focused on transferability, where an adversarial instance generated for a locally trained model can "transfer" to attack other learning models. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Arjun Nitin Bhagoji , Warren He , Bo Li , Dawn Song

Previous work has shown that 3D point cloud classifiers can be vulnerable to adversarial examples. However, most of the existing methods are aimed at white-box attacks, where the parameters and other information of the classifiers are known…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Jinali Zhang , Yinpeng Dong , Jun Zhu , Jihong Zhu , Minchi Kuang , Xiaming Yuan
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