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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

espite being widely used in network intrusion detection systems (NIDSs), machine learning (ML) has proven to be highly vulnerable to adversarial attacks. White-box and black-box adversarial attacks of NIDS have been explored in several…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Hangsheng Zhang , Dongqi Han , Yinlong Liu , Zhiliang Wang , Jiyan Sun , Shangyuan Zhuang , Jiqiang Liu , Jinsong Dong

We study adversarial examples in a black-box setting where the adversary only has API access to the target model and each query is expensive. Prior work on black-box adversarial examples follows one of two main strategies: (1) transfer…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Fnu Suya , Jianfeng Chi , David Evans , Yuan Tian

Large language models (LLMs) have been serving as effective backbones for retrieval systems, including Retrieval-Augmentation-Generation (RAG), Dense Information Retriever (IR), and Agent Memory Retrieval. Recent studies have demonstrated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Jiate Li , Defu Cao , Li Li , Wei Yang , Yuehan Qin , Chenxiao Yu , Tiannuo Yang , Ryan A. Rossi , Yan Liu , Xiyang Hu , Yue Zhao

Transfer learning facilitates the training of task-specific classifiers using pre-trained models as feature extractors. We present a family of transferable adversarial attacks against such classifiers, generated without access to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Ahmed Abdelkader , Michael J. Curry , Liam Fowl , Tom Goldstein , Avi Schwarzschild , Manli Shu , Christoph Studer , Chen Zhu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated excellent performance on various tasks, however they are under the risk of adversarial examples that can be easily generated when the target model is accessible to an attacker (white-box…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Yang Bai , Yuyuan Zeng , Yong Jiang , Yisen Wang , Shu-Tao Xia , Weiwei Guo

Adversarial attacks on deep neural networks traditionally rely on a constrained optimization paradigm, where an optimization procedure is used to obtain a single adversarial perturbation for a given input example. In this work we frame the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Avishek Joey Bose , Andre Cianflone , William L. Hamilton

Despite the remarkable performance and generalization levels of deep learning models in a wide range of artificial intelligence tasks, it has been demonstrated that these models can be easily fooled by the addition of imperceptible yet…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Jon Vadillo , Roberto Santana , Jose A. Lozano

The robustness of deep learning models against adversarial attacks remains a pivotal concern. This study presents, for the first time, an exhaustive review of the transferability aspect of adversarial attacks. It systematically categorizes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Zhibo Jin , Jiayu Zhang , Zhiyu Zhu , Huaming Chen

Adversarial attacks against deep learning models represent a major threat to the security and reliability of natural language processing (NLP) systems. In this paper, we propose a modification to the BERT-Attack framework, integrating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Hetvi Waghela , Jaydip Sen , Sneha Rakshit

Language models can be manipulated by adversarial attacks, which introduce subtle perturbations to input data. While recent attack methods can achieve a relatively high attack success rate (ASR), we've observed that the generated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Yibo Wang , Xiangjue Dong , James Caverlee , Philip S. Yu

Adversarial attacks have been extensively studied in recent years since they can identify the vulnerability of deep learning models before deployed. In this paper, we consider the black-box adversarial setting, where the adversary needs to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Yinpeng Dong , Shuyu Cheng , Tianyu Pang , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Deep neural network (DNN) as a popular machine learning model is found to be vulnerable to adversarial attack. This attack constructs adversarial examples by adding small perturbations to the raw input, while appearing unmodified to human…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Pengcheng Li , Jinfeng Yi , Lijun Zhang

A significant number of machine learning models are vulnerable to model extraction attacks, which focus on stealing the models by using specially curated queries against the target model. This task is well accomplished by using part of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Harshit Shah , Aravindhan G , Pavan Kulkarni , Yuvaraj Govidarajulu , Manojkumar Parmar

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems are used in various applications. However, it has been shown that they are vulnerable to very small perturbations of their inputs, known as adversarial attacks. In this paper, we propose a new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Sahar Sadrizadeh , AmirHossein Dabiri Aghdam , Ljiljana Dolamic , Pascal Frossard

Adversarial attacks against Deep Neural Networks have been widely studied. One significant feature that makes such attacks particularly powerful is transferability, where the adversarial examples generated from one model can be effective…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Renzhi Wang , Tianwei Zhang , Xiaofei Xie , Lei Ma , Cong Tian , Felix Juefei-Xu , Yang Liu

Traditional decision-based black-box adversarial attacks on image classifiers aim to generate adversarial examples by slightly modifying input images while keeping the number of queries low, where each query involves sending an input to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Mahdi Salmani , Alireza Abdollahpoorrostam , Seyed-Mohsen Moosavi-Dezfooli

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

Transformer-based text classifiers such as BERT, RoBERTa, T5, and GPT have shown strong performance in natural language processing tasks but remain vulnerable to adversarial examples. These vulnerabilities raise significant security…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Bushra Sabir , Yansong Gao , Alsharif Abuadbba , M. Ali Babar

Almost all current adversarial attacks of CNN classifiers rely on information derived from the output layer of the network. This work presents a new adversarial attack based on the modeling and exploitation of class-wise and layer-wise deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Nathan Inkawhich , Kevin J Liang , Lawrence Carin , Yiran Chen