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Machine Learning systems are vulnerable to adversarial attacks and will highly likely produce incorrect outputs under these attacks. There are white-box and black-box attacks regarding to adversary's access level to the victim learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Saeid Samizade , Zheng-Hua Tan , Chao Shen , Xiaohong Guan

This paper studies how a stochastic gradient algorithm (SG) can be controlled to hide the estimate of the local stationary point from an eavesdropper. Such problems are of significant interest in distributed optimization settings like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Adit Jain , Vikram Krishnamurthy

Deep learning (DL) is becoming popular as a new tool for many applications in wireless communication systems. However, for many classification tasks (e.g., modulation classification) it has been shown that DL-based wireless systems are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-29 B. R. Manoj , Meysam Sadeghi , Erik G. Larsson

One of the most practical and challenging types of black-box adversarial attacks is the hard-label attack, where only the top-1 predicted label is available. One effective approach is to search for the optimal ray direction from the benign…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Chen Ma , Xinjie Xu , Shuyu Cheng , Qi Xuan

We present MS-GAGA (Metric-Selective Guided Adversarial Generation Attack), a two-stage framework for crafting transferable and visually imperceptible adversarial examples against deepfake detectors in black-box settings. In Stage 1, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Dion J. X. Ho , Gabriel Lee Jun Rong , Niharika Shrivastava , Harshavardhan Abichandani , Pai Chet Ng , Xiaoxiao Miao

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are being used in various daily tasks such as object detection, speech processing, and machine translation. However, it is known that DNNs suffer from robustness problems -- perturbed inputs called adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Junyu Lin , Lei Xu , Yingqi Liu , Xiangyu Zhang

There has been a concurrent significant improvement in the medical images used to facilitate diagnosis and the performance of machine learning techniques to perform tasks such as classification, detection, and segmentation in recent years.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Vinay Jogani , Joy Purohit , Ishaan Shivhare , Samina Attari , Shraddha Surtkar

With the great advancements in large language models (LLMs), adversarial attacks against LLMs have recently attracted increasing attention. We found that pre-existing adversarial attack methodologies exhibit limited transferability and are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Zelin Li , Kehai Chen , Lemao Liu , Xuefeng Bai , Mingming Yang , Yang Xiang , Min Zhang

We propose a scheme for defending against adversarial attacks by suppressing the largest eigenvalue of the Fisher information matrix (FIM). Our starting point is one explanation on the rationale of adversarial examples. Based on the idea of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Chaomin Shen , Yaxin Peng , Guixu Zhang , Jinsong Fan

Large, fine-grained image segmentation datasets, annotated at pixel-level, are difficult to obtain, particularly in medical imaging, where annotations also require expert knowledge. Weakly-supervised learning can train models by relying on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Gabriele Valvano , Andrea Leo , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

This paper investigates a family of methods for defending against adversarial attacks that owe part of their success to creating a noisy, discontinuous, or otherwise rugged loss landscape that adversaries find difficult to navigate. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Panagiotis Eustratiadis , Henry Gouk , Da Li , Timothy Hospedales

Most machine learning models are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which poses security concerns on these models. Adversarial examples are crafted by applying subtle but intentionally worst-case modifications to examples from the dataset,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Xingyang Nie , Guojie Xiao , Su Pan , Biao Wang , Huilin Ge , Tao Fang

In recent years, deep neural networks have demonstrated outstanding performance in many machine learning tasks. However, researchers have discovered that these state-of-the-art models are vulnerable to adversarial examples: legitimate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Ting-Jui Chang , Yukun He , Peng Li

Evaluating the robustness of a defense model is a challenging task in adversarial robustness research. Obfuscated gradients have previously been found to exist in many defense methods and cause a false signal of robustness. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Xingjun Ma , Linxi Jiang , Hanxun Huang , Zejia Weng , James Bailey , Yu-Gang Jiang

Image classifiers often suffer from adversarial examples, which are generated by strategically adding a small amount of noise to input images to trick classifiers into misclassification. Over the years, many defense mechanisms have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Huangyi Ge , Sze Yiu Chau , Bruno Ribeiro , Ninghui Li

Adversarial training is the most empirically successful approach in improving the robustness of deep neural networks for image classification.For text classification, however, existing synonym substitution based adversarial attacks are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Xiaosen Wang , Yichen Yang , Yihe Deng , Kun He

Transferable adversarial examples highlight the vulnerability of deep neural networks (DNNs) to imperceptible perturbations across various real-world applications. While there have been notable advancements in untargeted transferable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Teng Li , Xingjun Ma , Yu-Gang Jiang

Estimating the risk level of adversarial examples is essential for safely deploying machine learning models in the real world. One popular approach for physical-world attacks is to adopt the "sticker-pasting" strategy, which however suffers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Yiqi Zhong , Xianming Liu , Deming Zhai , Junjun Jiang , Xiangyang Ji

Recent development of adversarial attacks has proven that ensemble-based methods outperform traditional, non-ensemble ones in black-box attack. However, as it is computationally prohibitive to acquire a family of diverse models, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Yingwei Li , Song Bai , Yuyin Zhou , Cihang Xie , Zhishuai Zhang , Alan Yuille

Adversarial input detection has emerged as a prominent technique to harden Deep Neural Networks(DNNs) against adversarial attacks. Most prior works use neural network-based detectors or complex statistical analysis for adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Abhishek Moitra , Priyadarshini Panda