English
Related papers

Related papers: EvoBA: An Evolution Strategy as a Strong Baseline …

200 papers

Adversarial attack reveals the vulnerability of deep learning models. It is assumed that high curvature may give rise to rough decision boundary and thus result in less robust models. However, the most commonly used \textit{curvature} is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Peiran Sun

Deep learning classifiers are susceptible to well-crafted, imperceptible variations of their inputs, known as adversarial attacks. In this regard, the study of powerful attack models sheds light on the sources of vulnerability in these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Hadi M. Dolatabadi , Sarah Erfani , Christopher Leckie

The evaluation of robustness against adversarial manipulation of neural networks-based classifiers is mainly tested with empirical attacks as methods for the exact computation, even when available, do not scale to large networks. We propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Francesco Croce , Matthias Hein

Many attack techniques have been proposed to explore the vulnerability of DNNs and further help to improve their robustness. Despite the significant progress made recently, existing black-box attack methods still suffer from unsatisfactory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Renyang Liu , Kwok-Yan Lam , Wei Zhou , Sixing Wu , Jun Zhao , Dongting Hu , Mingming Gong

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

Deep neural networks for image classification remain vulnerable to adversarial examples -- small, imperceptible perturbations that induce misclassifications. In black-box settings, where only the final prediction is accessible, crafting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Arjhun Swaminathan , Mete Akgün

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

Decision-based attacks (DBA), wherein attackers perturb inputs to spoof learning algorithms by observing solely the output labels, are a type of severe adversarial attacks against Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) requiring minimal knowledge of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Zhuosheng Zhang , Shucheng Yu

Deep Learning has been shown to be particularly vulnerable to adversarial samples. To combat adversarial strategies, numerous defensive techniques have been proposed. Among these, a promising approach is to use randomness in order to make…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Kumar Sharad , Giorgia Azzurra Marson , Hien Thi Thu Truong , Ghassan Karame

Recent studies have highlighted that deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, even in a black-box scenario. However, most of the existing black-box attack algorithms need to make a huge amount of queries to perform…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-11 Yali Du , Meng Fang , Jinfeng Yi , Jun Cheng , Dacheng Tao

Machine learning (ML), especially deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely used in various applications, including several safety-critical ones (e.g. autonomous driving). As a result, recent research about adversarial examples has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Huichen Li , Xiaojun Xu , Xiaolu Zhang , Shuang Yang , Bo Li

In this paper, we study the problem of how to defend classifiers against adversarial attacks that fool the classifiers using subtly modified input data. In contrast to previous works, here we focus on the white-box adversarial defense where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Zudi Lin , Hanspeter Pfister , Ziming Zhang

This paper proposes a black-box adversarial attack method to automatic speech recognition systems. Some studies have attempted to attack neural networks for speech recognition; however, these methods did not consider the robustness of…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Shoma Ishida , Satoshi Ono

Black-box adversarial attacks have demonstrated strong potential to compromise machine learning models by iteratively querying the target model or leveraging transferability from a local surrogate model. Recently, such attacks can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Hanbin Hong , Xinyu Zhang , Binghui Wang , Zhongjie Ba , Yuan Hong

In this work, we propose a novel adversarial defence mechanism for image classification - CARSO - blending the paradigms of adversarial training and adversarial purification in a synergistic robustness-enhancing way. The method builds upon…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Emanuele Ballarin , Alessio Ansuini , Luca Bortolussi

Deep Learning has become popular due to its vast applications in almost all domains. However, models trained using deep learning are prone to failure for adversarial samples and carry a considerable risk in sensitive applications. Most of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Satyadwyoom Kumar , Saurabh Gupta , Arun Balaji Buduru

Depending on how much information an adversary can access to, adversarial attacks can be classified as white-box attack and black-box attack. For white-box attack, optimization-based attack algorithms such as projected gradient descent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Jinghui Chen , Dongruo Zhou , Jinfeng Yi , Quanquan Gu

Recent works have shown that deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples that find samples close to the original image but can make the model misclassify. Even with access only to the model's output, an attacker can employ…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Quang H. Nguyen , Yingjie Lao , Tung Pham , Kok-Seng Wong , Khoa D. Doan

The vulnerability of the high-performance machine learning models implies a security risk in applications with real-world consequences. Research on adversarial attacks is beneficial in guiding the development of machine learning models on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Yiran Huang , Yexu Zhou , Michael Hefenbrock , Till Riedel , Likun Fang , Michael Beigl

Deep Learning (DL) is rapidly maturing to the point that it can be used in safety- and security-crucial applications. However, adversarial samples, which are undetectable to the human eye, pose a serious threat that can cause the model to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Firuz Juraev , Mohammed Abuhamad , Eric Chan-Tin , George K. Thiruvathukal , Tamer Abuhmed