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Transferability of adversarial examples is of critical importance to launch black-box adversarial attacks, where attackers are only allowed to access the output of the target model. However, under such a challenging but practical setting,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Mingyuan Fan , Wenzhong Guo , Shengxing Yu , Zuobin Ying , Ximeng Liu

We investigate the role of transferability of adversarial attacks in the observed vulnerabilities of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). We demonstrate that introducing randomness to the DNN models is sufficient to defeat adversarial attacks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Yan Zhou , Murat Kantarcioglu , Bowei Xi

The idea of style transfer has largely only been explored in image-based tasks, which we attribute in part to the specific nature of loss functions used for style transfer. We propose a general formulation of style transfer as an extension…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Muthuraman Chidambaram , Yanjun Qi

While deep neural networks have achieved remarkable success in various computer vision tasks, they often fail to generalize to new domains and subtle variations of input images. Several defenses have been proposed to improve the robustness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Omid Poursaeed , Tianxing Jiang , Harry Yang , Serge Belongie , SerNam Lim

The application of deep recurrent networks to audio transcription has led to impressive gains in automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Many have demonstrated that small adversarial perturbations can fool deep neural networks into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Rohan Taori , Amog Kamsetty , Brenton Chu , Nikita Vemuri

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, posing significant security threats to their deployment in remote sensing applications. Research on adversarial attacks not only reveals model vulnerabilities but also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Chun Liu , Hailong Wang , Bingqian Zhu , Panpan Ding , Zheng Zheng , Tao Xu , Zhigang Han , Jiayao Wang

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

Understanding adversarial examples is crucial for improving model robustness, as they introduce imperceptible perturbations to deceive models. Effective adversarial examples, therefore, offer the potential to train more robust models by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Xinheng Xie , Yue Wu , Cuiyu He

For black-box attacks, the gap between the substitute model and the victim model is usually large, which manifests as a weak attack performance. Motivated by the observation that the transferability of adversarial examples can be improved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Yuyang Long , Qilong Zhang , Boheng Zeng , Lianli Gao , Xianglong Liu , Jian Zhang , Jingkuan Song

Adversarial attacks have verified the existence of the vulnerability of neural networks. By adding small perturbations to a benign example, adversarial attacks successfully generate adversarial examples that lead misclassification of deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Hoki Kim , Jinseong Park , Jaewook Lee

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. Moreover, the transferability of the adversarial examples has received broad attention in recent years, which means that adversarial examples crafted by a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Dingcheng Yang , Wenjian Yu , Zihao Xiao , Jiaqi Luo

Transfer attacks optimize on a surrogate and deploy to a black-box target. While iterative optimization attacks in this paradigm are limited by their per-input cost limits efficiency and scalability due to multistep gradient updates for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Jongoh Jeong , Hunmin Yang , Jaeseok Jeong , Kuk-Jin Yoon

Adversarial examples (AEs) have been extensively studied due to their potential for privacy protection and inspiring robust neural networks. Yet, making a targeted AE transferable across unknown models remains challenging. In this paper, to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Hui Zeng , Biwei Chen , Anjie Peng

Note that this paper is superceded by "Black-Box Adversarial Attacks with Limited Queries and Information." Current neural network-based image classifiers are susceptible to adversarial examples, even in the black-box setting, where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Andrew Ilyas , Logan Engstrom , Anish Athalye , Jessy Lin

Adversarial examples are maliciously tweaked images that can easily fool machine learning techniques, such as neural networks, but they are normally not visually distinguishable for human beings. One of the main approaches to solve this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Zukang Liao

The vulnerabilities of deep neural networks against adversarial examples have become a significant concern for deploying these models in sensitive domains. Devising a definitive defense against such attacks is proven to be challenging, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Xuwang Yin , Soheil Kolouri , Gustavo K. Rohde

Deep learning-based image denoising models demonstrate remarkable performance, but their lack of robustness analysis remains a significant concern. A major issue is that these models are susceptible to adversarial attacks, where small,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Jie Ning , Jiebao Sun , Shengzhu Shi , Zhichang Guo , Yao Li , Hongwei Li , Boying Wu

To help adversarial examples generalize from surrogate machine-learning (ML) models to targets, certain transferability-based black-box evasion attacks incorporate data augmentations (e.g., random resizing). Yet, prior work has explored…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Zebin Yun , Achi-Or Weingarten , Eyal Ronen , Mahmood Sharif

Adversarial examples, characterized by imperceptible perturbations, pose significant threats to deep neural networks by misleading their predictions. A critical aspect of these examples is their transferability, allowing them to deceive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Yi Yu , Song Xia , Xun Lin , Chenqi Kong , Wenhan Yang , Shijian Lu , Yap-Peng Tan , Alex C. Kot

Despite significant improvements in natural language understanding models with the advent of models like BERT and XLNet, these neural-network based classifiers are vulnerable to blackbox adversarial attacks, where the attacker is only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Jatin Chauhan , Karan Bhukar , Manohar Kaul