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Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, where a small perturbation to an input alters the model prediction. In many cases, malicious inputs intentionally crafted for one model can fool another model. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Liping Yuan , Xiaoqing Zheng , Yi Zhou , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Kai-wei Chang

The transfer-based black-box adversarial attack setting poses the challenge of crafting an adversarial example (AE) on known surrogate models that remain effective against unseen target models. Due to the practical importance of this task,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Meixi Zheng , Kehan Wu , Yanbo Fan , Rui Huang , Baoyuan Wu

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which are crafted by applying small, human-imperceptible perturbations on the original images, so as to mislead deep neural networks to output inaccurate predictions. Adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Bo Yang , Hengwei Zhang , Yuchen Zhang , Kaiyong Xu , Jindong Wang

Transfer-based attacks craft adversarial examples on white-box surrogate models and directly deploy them against black-box target models, offering model-agnostic and query-free threat scenarios. While flatness-enhanced methods have recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Chunlin Qiu , Ang Li , Yiheng Duan , Shenyi Zhang , Yuanjie Zhang , Lingchen Zhao , Qian Wang

The vulnerability of artificial neural networks to adversarial perturbations in the black-box setting is widely studied in the literature. The majority of attack methods to construct these perturbations suffer from an impractically large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Kirill Lukyanov , Andrew Perminov , Denis Turdakov , Mikhail Pautov

While the transferability property of adversarial examples allows the adversary to perform black-box attacks (i.e., the attacker has no knowledge about the target model), the transfer-based adversarial attacks have gained great attention.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Bin Chen , Jia-Li Yin , Shukai Chen , Bo-Hao Chen , Ximeng Liu

Adversarial attacks are widely used to evaluate model robustness, and in black-box scenarios, the transferability of these attacks becomes crucial. Existing generator-based attacks have excellent generalization and transferability due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yixiao Chen , Shikun Sun , Jianshu Li , Ruoyu Li , Zhe Li , Junliang Xing

Previous work has shown that 3D point cloud classifiers can be vulnerable to adversarial examples. However, most of the existing methods are aimed at white-box attacks, where the parameters and other information of the classifiers are known…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Jinali Zhang , Yinpeng Dong , Jun Zhu , Jihong Zhu , Minchi Kuang , Xiaming Yuan

It is widely recognized that deep learning models lack robustness to adversarial examples. An intriguing property of adversarial examples is that they can transfer across different models, which enables black-box attacks without any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Huanran Chen , Yichi Zhang , Yinpeng Dong , Xiao Yang , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

In this paper, we explore transferability in learning between different attack classes in a network intrusion detection setup. We evaluate transferability of attack classes by training a deep learning model with a specific attack class and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Shreya Ghosh , Abu Shafin Mohammad Mahdee Jameel , Aly El Gamal

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

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are well known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples (AEs). In addition, AEs have adversarial transferability, namely, AEs generated for a source model fool other (target) models. In this paper, we investigate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Miki Tanaka , Isao Echizen , Hitoshi Kiya

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples that exhibit transferability across various models. Numerous approaches are proposed to enhance the transferability of adversarial examples, including advanced optimization, data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Zhaoyu Chen , Haijing Guo , Kaixun Jiang , Jiyuan Fu , Xinyu Zhou , Dingkang Yang , Hao Tang , Bo Li , Wenqiang Zhang

The vulnerability of deep neural networks (DNNs) to adversarial examples has drawn great attention from the community. In this paper, we study the transferability of such examples, which lays the foundation of many black-box attacks on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Yiwen Guo , Qizhang Li , Hao Chen

Strong adversarial examples are crucial for evaluating and enhancing the robustness of deep neural networks. However, the performance of popular attacks is usually sensitive, for instance, to minor image transformations, stemming from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Zhengwei Fang , Rui Wang , Tao Huang , Liping Jing

Adversarial attacks provide a good way to study the robustness of deep learning models. One category of methods in transfer-based black-box attack utilizes several image transformation operations to improve the transferability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Zheng Yuan , Jie Zhang , Shiguang Shan

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence within the realm of cybersecurity raises significant security concerns. The vulnerability of deep learning models in adversarial attacks is one of the major issues. In adversarial machine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Khushnaseeb Roshan , Aasim Zafar

We investigate whether knowledge distillation (KD) from multiple heterogeneous teacher models can enhance the generation of transferable adversarial examples. A lightweight student model is trained using two KD strategies: curriculum-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Siddhartha Pradhan , Shikshya Shiwakoti , Neha Bathuri

Advanced text-to-image diffusion models raise safety concerns regarding identity privacy violation, copyright infringement, and Not Safe For Work content generation. Towards this, unlearning methods have been developed to erase these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Xiaoxuan Han , Songlin Yang , Wei Wang , Yang Li , Jing Dong

Despite the success of input transformation-based attacks on boosting adversarial transferability, the performance is unsatisfying due to the ignorance of the discrepancy across models. In this paper, we propose a simple but effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Donghua Wang , Wen Yao , Tingsong Jiang , Xiaohu Zheng , Junqi Wu , Xiaoqian Chen