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In the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence, machine learning emerges as a key technology characterized by its vast potential and inherent risks. The stability and reliability of these models are important, as they are frequent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Haibo Zhang , Zhihua Yao , Kouichi Sakurai , Takeshi Saitoh

Deep learning models suffer from a phenomenon called adversarial attacks: we can apply minor changes to the model input to fool a classifier for a particular example. The literature mostly considers adversarial attacks on models with images…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Ivan Fursov , Alexey Zaytsev , Nikita Kluchnikov , Andrey Kravchenko , Evgeny Burnaev

An increasingly common expression of online hate speech is multimodal in nature and comes in the form of memes. Designing systems to automatically detect hateful content is of paramount importance if we are to mitigate its undesirable…

A fundamental issue in deep learning has been adversarial robustness. As these systems have scaled, such issues have persisted. Currently, large language models (LLMs) with billions of parameters suffer from adversarial attacks just like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Brian Formento , Chuan Sheng Foo , See-Kiong Ng

There exists a vast number of adversarial attacks and defences for machine learning algorithms of various types which makes assessing the robustness of algorithms a daunting task. To make matters worse, there is an intrinsic bias in these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Shashank Kotyan , Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas

Although adversarial robustness has been extensively studied in white-box settings, recent advances in black-box attacks (including transfer- and query-based approaches) are primarily benchmarked against weak defenses, leaving a significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Mohamed Djilani , Salah Ghamizi , Maxime Cordy

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated exceptional performance in artificial intelligence by facilitating integrated understanding across diverse modalities, including text, images, video, audio, and speech. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Chengze Jiang , Zhuangzhuang Wang , Minjing Dong , Jie Gui

As real-world images come in varying sizes, the machine learning model is part of a larger system that includes an upstream image scaling algorithm. In this paper, we investigate the interplay between vulnerabilities of the image scaling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Yue Gao , Ilia Shumailov , Kassem Fawaz

Previous work has suggested that preprocessing images through lossy compression can defend against adversarial perturbations, but comprehensive attack evaluations have been lacking. In this paper, we construct strong white-box and adaptive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Samuel Räber , Till Aczel , Andreas Plesner , Roger Wattenhofer

Transferable adversarial images raise critical security concerns for computer vision systems in real-world, black-box attack scenarios. Although many transfer attacks have been proposed, existing research lacks a systematic and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Zhengyu Zhao , Hanwei Zhang , Renjue Li , Ronan Sicre , Laurent Amsaleg , Michael Backes , Qi Li , Qian Wang , Chao Shen

This paper delves into the formidable challenge of cross-domain generalization in multimodal hate meme detection, presenting compelling findings. We provide enough pieces of evidence supporting the hypothesis that only the textual component…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Piush Aggarwal , Jawar Mehrabanian , Weigang Huang , Özge Alacam , Torsten Zesch

Adversarial robustness evaluates the worst-case performance scenario of a machine learning model to ensure its safety and reliability. This study is the first to investigate the robustness of visually grounded dialog models towards textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Lu Yu , Verena Rieser

Multi-modal foundation models align images, text, and other modalities in a shared embedding space but remain vulnerable to adversarial illusions [35], where imperceptible perturbations disrupt cross-modal alignment and mislead downstream…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Fatemeh Akbarian , Anahita Baninajjar , Yingyi Zhang , Ananth Balashankar , Amir Aminifar

The recently introduced hateful meme challenge demonstrates the difficulty of determining whether a meme is hateful or not. Specifically, both unimodal language models and multimodal vision-language models cannot reach the human level of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Efrat Blaier , Itzik Malkiel , Lior Wolf

Machine learning models are prone to adversarial attacks, where inputs can be manipulated in order to cause misclassifications. While previous research has focused on techniques like Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), there's limited…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Langalibalele Lunga , Suhas Sreehari

Growing at a fast pace, modern autonomous systems will soon be deployed at scale, opening up the possibility for cooperative multi-agent systems. Sharing information and distributing workloads allow autonomous agents to better perform tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-13 James Tu , Tsunhsuan Wang , Jingkang Wang , Sivabalan Manivasagam , Mengye Ren , Raquel Urtasun

With further development in the fields of computer vision, network security, natural language processing and so on so forth, deep learning technology gradually exposed certain security risks. The existing deep learning algorithms cannot…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Rui Zhao

In the literature on adversarial examples, white box and black box attacks have received the most attention. The adversary is assumed to have either full (white) or no (black) access to the defender's model. In this work, we focus on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Shi Hu , Eric Nalisnick , Max Welling

Modern self-driving perception systems have been shown to improve upon processing complementary inputs such as LiDAR with images. In isolation, 2D images have been found to be extremely vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Yet, there have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-10 James Tu , Huichen Li , Xinchen Yan , Mengye Ren , Yun Chen , Ming Liang , Eilyan Bitar , Ersin Yumer , Raquel Urtasun

Hateful meme detection is a new multimodal task that has gained significant traction in academic and industry research communities. Recently, researchers have applied pre-trained visual-linguistic models to perform the multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Ming Shan Hee , Roy Ka-Wei Lee , Wen-Haw Chong