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Over the past few years, various word-level textual attack approaches have been proposed to reveal the vulnerability of deep neural networks used in natural language processing. Typically, these approaches involve an important optimization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Shengcai Liu , Ning Lu , Cheng Chen , Ke Tang

While a substantial body of prior work has explored adversarial example generation for natural language understanding tasks, these examples are often unrealistic and diverge from the real-world data distributions. In this work, we introduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Saadia Gabriel , Hamid Palangi , Yejin Choi

Word-level adversarial attacks have shown success in NLP models, drastically decreasing the performance of transformer-based models in recent years. As a countermeasure, adversarial defense has been explored, but relatively few efforts have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-04 KiYoon Yoo , Jangho Kim , Jiho Jang , Nojun Kwak

Adversarial robustness in structured data remains an underexplored frontier compared to vision and language domains. In this work, we introduce a novel black-box, decision-based adversarial attack tailored for tabular data. Our approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Roie Kazoom , Yuval Ratzabi , Etamar Rothstein , Ofer Hadar

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

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which poses security concerns on these algorithms due to the potentially severe consequences. Adversarial attacks serve as an important surrogate to evaluate the robustness of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Yinpeng Dong , Fangzhou Liao , Tianyu Pang , Hang Su , Jun Zhu , Xiaolin Hu , Jianguo Li

We investigate how an adversary can optimally use its query budget for targeted evasion attacks against deep neural networks in a black-box setting. We formalize the problem setting and systematically evaluate what benefits the adversary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Mika Juuti , Buse Gul Atli , N. Asokan

Studies have shown that machine learning systems are vulnerable to adversarial examples in theory and practice. Where previous attacks have focused mainly on visual models that exploit the difference between human and machine perception,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Eldor Abdukhamidov , Tamer Abuhmed , Joanna C. S. Santos , Mohammed Abuhamad

Black-box adversarial attack has attracted a lot of research interests for its practical use in AI safety. Compared with the white-box attack, a black-box setting is more difficult for less available information related to the attacked…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Linjun Zhou , Peng Cui , Yinan Jiang , Shiqiang Yang

As machine learning systems become more widely used, especially for safety critical applications, there is a growing need to ensure that these systems behave as intended, even in the face of adversarial examples. Adversarial examples are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Anahita Samadi , Allison Sullivan

Task oriented language understanding in dialog systems is often modeled using intents (task of a query) and slots (parameters for that task). Intent detection and slot tagging are, in turn, modeled using sentence classification and word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Arash Einolghozati , Sonal Gupta , Mrinal Mohit , Rushin Shah

Text-based adversarial attacks are becoming more commonplace and accessible to general internet users. As these attacks proliferate, the need to address the gap in model robustness becomes imminent. While retraining on adversarial data may…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Joanna Bitton , Maya Pavlova , Ivan Evtimov

Deep learning underpins most of the currently advanced natural language processing (NLP) tasks such as textual classification, neural machine translation (NMT), abstractive summarization and question-answering (QA). However, the robustness…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Jiyao Li , Mingze Ni , Yongshun Gong , Wei Liu

While image-to-text models have demonstrated significant advancements in various vision-language tasks, they remain susceptible to adversarial attacks. Existing white-box attacks on image-to-text models require access to the architecture,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Qingyuan Zeng , Zhenzhong Wang , Yiu-ming Cheung , Min Jiang

To guarantee safe and robust deployment of large language models (LLMs) at scale, it is critical to accurately assess their adversarial robustness. Existing adversarial attacks typically target harmful responses in single-point greedy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Tim Beyer , Yan Scholten , Leo Schwinn , Stephan Günnemann

Neural ranking models (NRMs) have been shown to be highly effective in terms of retrieval performance. Unfortunately, they have also displayed a higher degree of sensitivity to attacks than previous generation models. To help expose and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Yu-An Liu , Ruqing Zhang , Jiafeng Guo , Maarten de Rijke , Yixing Fan , Xueqi Cheng

Many adversarial attacks target natural language processing systems, most of which succeed through modifying the individual tokens of a document. Despite the apparent uniqueness of each of these attacks, fundamentally they are simply a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Tom Roth , Yansong Gao , Alsharif Abuadbba , Surya Nepal , Wei Liu

Social media platforms are deploying machine learning based offensive language classification systems to combat hateful, racist, and other forms of offensive speech at scale. However, despite their real-world deployment, we do not yet…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Jonathan Rusert , Zubair Shafiq , Padmini Srinivasan

Adversarial attacks on machine learning algorithms have been a key deterrent to the adoption of AI in many real-world use cases. They significantly undermine the ability of high-performance neural networks by forcing misclassifications.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Nandish Chattopadhyay , Atreya Goswami , Anupam Chattopadhyay

Deep neural networks are susceptible to adversarial inputs and various methods have been proposed to defend these models against adversarial attacks under different perturbation models. The robustness of models to adversarial attacks has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Jian Vora , Pranay Reddy Samala