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Deep learning is becoming increasingly popular in real-life applications, especially in natural language processing (NLP). Users often choose training outsourcing or adopt third-party data and models due to data and computation resources…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Xuan Sheng , Zhaoyang Han , Piji Li , Xiangmao Chang

We study an important and challenging task of attacking natural language processing models in a hard label black box setting. We propose a decision-based attack strategy that crafts high quality adversarial examples on text classification…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Rishabh Maheshwary , Saket Maheshwary , Vikram Pudi

Large Language Models (LLMs) have become a cornerstone in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), offering transformative capabilities in understanding and generating human-like text. However, with their rising prominence, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Arijit Ghosh Chowdhury , Md Mofijul Islam , Vaibhav Kumar , Faysal Hossain Shezan , Vaibhav Kumar , Vinija Jain , Aman Chadha

We introduce the Adversarial Confusion Attack, a new class of threats against multimodal large language models (MLLMs). Unlike jailbreaks or targeted misclassification, the goal is to induce systematic disruption that makes the model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jakub Hoscilowicz , Artur Janicki

Large Language Models (LLMs) are valuable for text classification, but their vulnerabilities must not be disregarded. They lack robustness against adversarial examples, so it is pertinent to understand the impacts of different types of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-13 João Vitorino , Eva Maia , Isabel Praça

In this work, we study the robustness of a CNN+RNN based image captioning system being subjected to adversarial noises. We propose to fool an image captioning system to generate some targeted partial captions for an image polluted by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Yan Xu , Baoyuan Wu , Fumin Shen , Yanbo Fan , Yong Zhang , Heng Tao Shen , Wei Liu

Despite outstanding performance in a variety of NLP tasks, recent studies have revealed that NLP models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks that slightly perturb the input to cause the models to misbehave. Among these attacks, adversarial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Duy C. Hoang , Quang H. Nguyen , Saurav Manchanda , MinLong Peng , Kok-Seng Wong , Khoa D. Doan

The field of textual adversarial defenses has gained considerable attention in recent years due to the increasing vulnerability of natural language processing (NLP) models to adversarial attacks, which exploit subtle perturbations in input…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Wangli Yang , Jie Yang , Yi Guo , Johan Barthelemy

Adversarial examples --- perturbations to the input of a model that elicit large changes in the output --- have been shown to be an effective way of assessing the robustness of sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) models. However, these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Paul Michel , Xian Li , Graham Neubig , Juan Miguel Pino

Deep neural networks for natural language processing tasks are vulnerable to adversarial input perturbations. In this paper, we present a versatile language for programmatically specifying string transformations -- e.g., insertions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Yuhao Zhang , Aws Albarghouthi , Loris D'Antoni

Adversarial attacks refer to a set of methods that perturb the input to a classification model in order to fool the classifier. In this paper we apply different gradient based adversarial attack algorithms on five deep learning models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Vinod Subramanian , Emmanouil Benetos , Ning Xu , SKoT McDonald , Mark Sandler

Adversarial examples are carefully constructed modifications to an input that completely change the output of a classifier but are imperceptible to humans. Despite these successful attacks for continuous data (such as image and audio…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Qi Lei , Lingfei Wu , Pin-Yu Chen , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Inderjit S. Dhillon , Michael Witbrock

An Adversarial System to attack and an Authorship Attribution System (AAS) to defend itself against the attacks are analyzed. Defending a system against attacks from an adversarial machine learner can be done by randomly switching between…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Alison Jenkins

In text classification, creating an adversarial example means subtly perturbing a few words in a sentence without changing its meaning, causing it to be misclassified by a classifier. A concerning observation is that a significant portion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Lei Xu , Sarah Alnegheimish , Laure Berti-Equille , Alfredo Cuesta-Infante , Kalyan Veeramachaneni

Production machine learning systems are consistently under attack by adversarial actors. Various deep learning models must be capable of accurately detecting fake or adversarial input while maintaining speed. In this work, we propose one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Matthew Ciolino , Josh Kalin , David Noever

With the development of large language models (LLMs), detecting whether text is generated by a machine becomes increasingly challenging in the face of malicious use cases like the spread of false information, protection of intellectual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Ying Zhou , Ben He , Le Sun

Visual modifications to text are often used to obfuscate offensive comments in social media (e.g., "!d10t") or as a writing style ("1337" in "leet speak"), among other scenarios. We consider this as a new type of adversarial attack in NLP,…

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

Despite recent success on various tasks, deep learning techniques still perform poorly on adversarial examples with small perturbations. While optimization-based methods for adversarial attacks are well-explored in the field of computer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Lifan Yuan , Yichi Zhang , Yangyi Chen , Wei Wei

In this paper, we present an effective method to craft text adversarial samples, revealing one important yet underestimated fact that DNN-based text classifiers are also prone to adversarial sample attack. Specifically, confronted with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Bin Liang , Hongcheng Li , Miaoqiang Su , Pan Bian , Xirong Li , Wenchang Shi