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Recent work has demonstrated the vulnerability of modern text classifiers to universal adversarial attacks, which are input-agnostic sequences of words added to text processed by classifiers. Despite being successful, the word sequences…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Liwei Song , Xinwei Yu , Hsuan-Tung Peng , Karthik Narasimhan

Adversarial attack research in natural language processing (NLP) has made significant progress in designing powerful attack methods and defence approaches. However, few efforts have sought to identify which source samples are the most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Vyas Raina , Mark Gales

Recent studies show that text-to-image (T2I) models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, especially with noun perturbations in text prompts. In this study, we investigate the impact of adversarial attacks on different POS tags within text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-25 G M Shahariar , Jia Chen , Jiachen Li , Yue Dong

Adversarial attacks are a type of attack on machine learning models where an attacker deliberately modifies the inputs to cause the model to make incorrect predictions. Adversarial attacks can have serious consequences, particularly in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Prathyusha Devabhakthini , Sasmita Parida , Raj Mani Shukla , Suvendu Chandan Nayak , Tapadhir Das

Deep neural networks have been shown to exhibit an intriguing vulnerability to adversarial input images corrupted with imperceptible perturbations. However, the majority of adversarial attacks assume global, fine-grained control over the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Ameya Joshi , Amitangshu Mukherjee , Soumik Sarkar , Chinmay Hegde

Adversarial attacks and backdoor attacks are two common security threats that hang over deep learning. Both of them harness task-irrelevant features of data in their implementation. Text style is a feature that is naturally irrelevant to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Fanchao Qi , Yangyi Chen , Xurui Zhang , Mukai Li , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

Research of adversarial attacks is important for AI security because it shows the vulnerability of deep learning models and helps to build more robust models. Adversarial attacks on images are most widely studied, which include noise-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Xiaopei Zhu , Peiyang Xu , Guanning Zeng , Yingpeng Dong , Xiaolin Hu

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) have become vital tools in software development tasks such as code generation, completion, and analysis. As their integration into workflows deepens, ensuring robustness against vulnerabilities especially those…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yang Liu , Armstrong Foundjem , Foutse Khomh , Heng Li

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

Adversarial purification is a successful defense mechanism against adversarial attacks without requiring knowledge of the form of the incoming attack. Generally, adversarial purification aims to remove the adversarial perturbations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Linyang Li , Demin Song , Xipeng Qiu

Adversarial attacks expose vulnerabilities of deep learning models by introducing minor perturbations to the input, which lead to substantial alterations in the output. Our research focuses on the impact of such adversarial attacks on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Pavel Burnyshev , Elizaveta Kostenok , Alexey Zaytsev

Despite the great success of deep neural networks, the adversarial attack can cheat some well-trained classifiers by small permutations. In this paper, we propose another type of adversarial attack that can cheat classifiers by significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Sanli Tang , Xiaolin Huang , Mingjian Chen , Chengjin Sun , Jie Yang

Recent work has demonstrated that natural language processing techniques can support consumer protection by automatically detecting unfair clauses in the Terms of Service (ToS) Agreement. This work demonstrates that transformer-based ToS…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Shanshan Xu , Irina Broda , Rashid Haddad , Marco Negrini , Matthias Grabmair

With the advent of deep learning methods, Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems have become increasingly powerful. However, deep learning based systems are susceptible to adversarial attacks, where imperceptible changes to the input can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Vyas Raina , Mark Gales

Targeted adversarial attacks are widely used to evaluate the robustness of neural machine translation systems. Unfortunately, this paper first identifies a critical issue in the existing settings of NMT targeted adversarial attacks, where…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Junjie Wu , Lemao Liu , Wei Bi , Dit-Yan Yeung

Deep learning based systems are susceptible to adversarial attacks, where a small, imperceptible change at the input alters the model prediction. However, to date the majority of the approaches to detect these attacks have been designed for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Vyas Raina , Mark Gales

There has been recently a growing interest in studying adversarial examples on natural language models in the black-box setting. These methods attack natural language classifiers by perturbing certain important words until the classifier…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Mahmoud Hossam , Trung Le , He Zhao , Viet Huynh , Dinh Phung

Many word-level adversarial attack approaches for textual data have been proposed in recent studies. However, due to the massive search space consisting of combinations of candidate words, the existing approaches face the problem of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Xingyi Zhao , Lu Zhang , Depeng Xu , Shuhan Yuan

This paper presents a framework which enables a user to more easily make corrections to adversarial texts. While attack algorithms have been demonstrated to automatically build adversaries, changes made by the algorithms can often have poor…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Brandon Laughlin , Christopher Collins , Karthik Sankaranarayanan , Khalil El-Khatib