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We study the problem of attacking a machine learning model in the hard-label black-box setting, where no model information is revealed except that the attacker can make queries to probe the corresponding hard-label decisions. This is a very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Minhao Cheng , Thong Le , Pin-Yu Chen , Jinfeng Yi , Huan Zhang , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which can mislead classifiers by adding imperceptible perturbations. An intriguing property of adversarial examples is their good transferability, making black-box attacks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Yinpeng Dong , Tianyu Pang , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

The popularity of Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) has led to increased concerns about Model Stealing Attacks (MSA), which aim to craft a clone model by querying MLaaS. Currently, most research on MSA assumes that MLaaS can provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Xiaojian Yuan , Kejiang Chen , Wen Huang , Jie Zhang , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

The goal in extreme multi-label classification is to learn a classifier which can assign a small subset of relevant labels to an instance from an extremely large set of target labels. Datasets in extreme classification exhibit a long tail…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-06 Rohit Babbar , Bernhard Schölkopf

Self-supervised representation learning techniques have been developing rapidly to make full use of unlabeled images. They encode images into rich features that are oblivious to downstream tasks. Behind their revolutionary representation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Zeyang Sha , Xinlei He , Ning Yu , Michael Backes , Yang Zhang

Given a deep neural network image classification model that we treat as a black box, and an unlabeled evaluation dataset, we develop an efficient strategy by which the classifier can be evaluated. Randomly sampling and labeling instances…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Walter Bennette , Karsten Maurer , Sean Sisti

This paper investigates a class of attacks targeting the confidentiality aspect of security in Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) policies. Recent research have established the vulnerability of supervised machine learning models (e.g.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Vahid Behzadan , William Hsu

Adversarial attacks have become a well-explored domain, frequently serving as evaluation baselines for model robustness. Among these, black-box attacks based on transferability have received significant attention due to their practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Chun Tong Lei , Zhongliang Guo , Hon Chung Lee , Minh Quoc Duong , Chun Pong Lau

Ultra-fine entity typing (UFET) is the task of inferring the semantic types, from a large set of fine-grained candidates, that apply to a given entity mention. This task is especially challenging because we only have a small number of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Na Li , Zied Bouraoui , Steven Schockaert

Many software engineering tasks, such as testing, and anomaly detection can benefit from the ability to infer a behavioral model of the software.Most existing inference approaches assume access to code to collect execution sequences. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Foozhan Ataiefard , Mohammad Jafar Mashhadi , Hadi Hemmati , Niel Walkinshaw

Deep models are state-of-the-art for many computer vision tasks including image classification and object detection. However, it has been shown that deep models are vulnerable to adversarial examples. We highlight how one-hot encoding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Donghyun Kim , Sarah Adel Bargal , Jianming Zhang , Stan Sclaroff

Membership inference (MI) attacks exploit the fact that machine learning algorithms sometimes leak information about their training data through the learned model. In this work, we study membership inference in the white-box setting in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Klas Leino , Matt Fredrikson

Adversarial attacks have threatened the application of deep neural networks in security-sensitive scenarios. Most existing black-box attacks fool the target model by interacting with it many times and producing global perturbations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Tao Xiang , Hangcheng Liu , Shangwei Guo , Tianwei Zhang , Xiaofeng Liao

In the domain of black-box model extraction, conventional methods reliant on soft labels or surrogate datasets struggle with scaling to high-dimensional input spaces and managing the complexity of an extensive array of interrelated classes.…

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While face recognition (FR) models have brought remarkable convenience in face verification and identification, they also pose substantial privacy risks to the public. Existing facial privacy protection schemes usually adopt adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Sipeng Shen , Yunming Zhang , Dengpan Ye , Xiuwen Shi , Long Tang , Haoran Duan , Yueyun Shang , Zhihong Tian

Developing robust models against adversarial perturbations has been an active area of research and many algorithms have been proposed to train individual robust models. Taking these pretrained robust models, we aim to study whether it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Devvrit , Minhao Cheng , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Inderjit Dhillon

The rapid advancement of deep learning has turned models into highly valuable assets due to their reliance on massive data and costly training processes. However, these models are increasingly vulnerable to leakage and theft, highlighting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Yunfei Yang , Xiaojun Chen , Zhendong Zhao , Yu Zhou , Xiaoyan Gu , Juan Cao

Upon deployment to edge devices, it is often desirable for a model to further learn from streaming data to improve accuracy. However, extracting representative features from such data is challenging because it is typically unlabeled,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Gelei Xu , Ningzhi Tang , Jun Xia , Wei Jin , Yiyu Shi

Hard-label black-box attacks, relying solely on top-1 predictions, represent one of the most challenging yet practically threat models. Despite recent progress, existing approaches face two key limitations: (1) they overlook the critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Jun Liu , Leo Yu Zhang , Fengpeng Li , Isao Echizen , Jiantao Zhou

The deep learning approach to detecting malicious software (malware) is promising but has yet to tackle the problem of dataset shift, namely that the joint distribution of examples and their labels associated with the test set is different…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Deqiang Li , Tian Qiu , Shuo Chen , Qianmu Li , Shouhuai Xu