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We propose a simple and highly query-efficient black-box adversarial attack named SWITCH, which has a state-of-the-art performance in the score-based setting. SWITCH features a highly efficient and effective utilization of the gradient of a…

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This paper addresses the challenging black-box adversarial attack problem, where only classification confidence of a victim model is available. Inspired by consistency of visual saliency between different vision models, a surrogate model is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Jiancheng Yang , Yangzhou Jiang , Xiaoyang Huang , Bingbing Ni , Chenglong Zhao

Multi-vector dense retrieval methods like ColBERT systematically use a single-layer linear projection to reduce the dimensionality of individual vectors. In this study, we explore the implications of the MaxSim operator on the gradient…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Benjamin Clavié , Sean Lee , Rikiya Takehi , Aamir Shakir , Makoto P. Kato

With the maturity of depth sensors in various 3D safety-critical applications, 3D point cloud models have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Almost all existing 3D attackers simply follow the white-box or black-box setting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Daizong Liu , Yunbo Tao , Junhao Dong , Keke Tang , Pan Zhou , Wei Hu , Yew-Soon Ong

In recent years, research on adversarial attacks has become a hot spot. Although current literature on the transfer-based adversarial attack has achieved promising results for improving the transferability to unseen black-box models, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Zheng Yuan , Jie Zhang , Yunpei Jia , Chuanqi Tan , Tao Xue , Shiguang Shan

In recent years, visual tracking methods based on convolutional neural networks and Transformers have achieved remarkable performance and have been successfully applied in fields such as autonomous driving. However, the numerous security…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Wei-Long Tian , Peng Gao , Xiao Liu , Long Xu , Hamido Fujita , Hanan Aljuai , Mao-Li Wang

The paper introduces a white-box attack on computer vision models using SHAP values. It demonstrates how adversarial evasion attacks can compromise the performance of deep learning models by reducing output confidence or inducing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Frank Mollard , Marcus Becker , Florian Roehrbein

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

The realm of Weakly Supervised Instance Segmentation (WSIS) under box supervision has garnered substantial attention, showcasing remarkable advancements in recent years. However, the limitations of box supervision become apparent in its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Xinyi Yu , Ling Yan , Pengtao Jiang , Hao Chen , Bo Li , Lin Yuanbo Wu , Linlin Ou

Neural networks with low-precision weights and activations offer compelling efficiency advantages over their full-precision equivalents. The two most frequently discussed benefits of quantization are reduced memory consumption, and a faster…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Angus Galloway , Graham W. Taylor , Medhat Moussa

Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) is a fundamental classification and dimension reduction method that achieves Bayes optimality under Gaussian mixture, but often struggles in high-dimensional settings where the covariance matrix cannot be…

Computation · Statistics 2026-04-06 Cencheng Shen , Yuexiao Dong

Adversarial machine learning is an emerging area showing the vulnerability of deep learning models. Exploring attack methods to challenge state of the art artificial intelligence (A.I.) models is an area of critical concern. The reliability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Samet Bayram , Kenneth Barner

Black-box variational inference is widely used in situations where there is no proof that its stochastic optimization succeeds. We suggest this is due to a theoretical gap in existing stochastic optimization proofs: namely the challenge of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Justin Domke , Guillaume Garrigos , Robert Gower

The present paper introduces a new representation-driven approach to per-instance algorithm selection, applied to black-box optimization, for automatically choosing the most promising solver from a fixed portfolio. Prior work in continuous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Yiliang Yuan , Xiang Shi , Mustafa Misir

Local optimization presents a promising approach to expensive, high-dimensional black-box optimization by sidestepping the need to globally explore the search space. For objective functions whose gradient cannot be evaluated directly,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Quan Nguyen , Kaiwen Wu , Jacob R. Gardner , Roman Garnett

We propose an intriguingly simple method for the construction of adversarial images in the black-box setting. In constrast to the white-box scenario, constructing black-box adversarial images has the additional constraint on query budget,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Chuan Guo , Jacob R. Gardner , Yurong You , Andrew Gordon Wilson , Kilian Q. Weinberger

Recent research in Meta-Black-Box Optimization (MetaBBO) have shown that meta-trained neural networks can effectively guide the design of black-box optimizers, significantly reducing the need for expert tuning and delivering robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Zeyuan Ma , Jiacheng Chen , Hongshu Guo , Yue-Jiao Gong

We consider the black-box adversarial setting, where the adversary has to generate adversarial perturbations without access to the target models to compute gradients. Previous methods tried to approximate the gradient either by using a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Shuyu Cheng , Yinpeng Dong , Tianyu Pang , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Visual reinforcement learning has achieved remarkable progress in visual control and robotics, but its vulnerability to adversarial perturbations remains underexplored. Most existing black-box attacks focus on vector-based or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Tairan Huang , Yulin Jin , Junxu Liu , Qingqing Ye , Haibo Hu

Cutting plane methods, particularly outer approximation, are a well-established approach for solving nonlinear discrete optimization problems without relaxing the integrality of decision variables. While powerful in theory, their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Hòa T. Bùi , Alberto De Marchi