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Overfitting widely exists in adversarial robust training of deep networks. An effective remedy is adversarial weight perturbation, which injects the worst-case weight perturbation during network training by maximizing the classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Chaojian Yu , Bo Han , Mingming Gong , Li Shen , Shiming Ge , Bo Du , Tongliang Liu

Robustness of huge Transformer-based models for natural language processing is an important issue due to their capabilities and wide adoption. One way to understand and improve robustness of these models is an exploration of an adversarial…

The safety and robustness of learning-based decision-making systems are under threats from adversarial examples, as imperceptible perturbations can mislead neural networks to completely different outputs. In this paper, we present an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Chao Tang , Yifei Fan , Anthony Yezzi

For years, adversarial training has been extensively studied in natural language processing (NLP) settings. The main goal is to make models robust so that similar inputs derive in semantically similar outcomes, which is not a trivial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Daniela N. Rim , DongNyeong Heo , Heeyoul Choi

The fine-tuning of pre-trained language models has a great success in many NLP fields. Yet, it is strikingly vulnerable to adversarial examples, e.g., word substitution attacks using only synonyms can easily fool a BERT-based sentiment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Xinhsuai Dong , Luu Anh Tuan , Min Lin , Shuicheng Yan , Hanwang Zhang

Adversarial training (AT) and its variants have spearheaded progress in improving neural network robustness to adversarial perturbations and common corruptions in the last few years. Algorithm design of AT and its variants are focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Kaustubh Sridhar , Souradeep Dutta , Ramneet Kaur , James Weimer , Oleg Sokolsky , Insup Lee

Recent studies have revealed that grammatical error correction methods in the sequence-to-sequence paradigm are vulnerable to adversarial attack, and simply utilizing adversarial examples in the pre-training or post-training process can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Zecheng Tang , Kaifeng Qi , Juntao Li , Min Zhang

In the realm of spoken language understanding (SLU), numerous natural language understanding (NLU) methodologies have been adapted by supplying large language models (LLMs) with transcribed speech instead of conventional written text. In…

The fact that deep neural networks are susceptible to crafted perturbations severely impacts the use of deep learning in certain domains of application. Among many developed defense models against such attacks, adversarial training emerges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Anh Bui , Trung Le , He Zhao , Paul Montague , Olivier deVel , Tamas Abraham , Dinh Phung

Pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP have demonstrated strong zero-shot capabilities across diverse domains, yet remain highly vulnerable to adversarial perturbations that disrupt image-text alignment and compromise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jiaxiang Liu , Jiawei Du , Xiao Liu , Prayag Tiwari , Mingkun Xu

Recent works have shown that the input domain of any machine learning classifier is bound to contain adversarial examples. Thus we can no longer hope to immune classifiers against adversarial examples and instead can only aim to achieve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Gil Fidel , Ron Bitton , Ziv Katzir , Asaf Shabtai

Previous approaches to robustness in natural language processing usually treat deviant input by relaxing grammatical constraints whenever a successful analysis cannot be provided by ``normal'' means. This schema implies, that error…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Wolfgang Menzel

Adversarial robustness corresponds to the susceptibility of deep neural networks to imperceptible perturbations made at test time. In the context of image tasks, many algorithms have been proposed to make neural networks robust to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Pranjal Awasthi , George Yu , Chun-Sung Ferng , Andrew Tomkins , Da-Cheng Juan

Attacks on deep learning models are often difficult to identify and therefore are difficult to protect against. This problem is exacerbated by the use of public datasets that typically are not manually inspected before use. In this paper,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Abigail Swenor , Jugal Kalita

Word-level adversarial attacks have shown success in NLP models, drastically decreasing the performance of transformer-based models in recent years. As a countermeasure, adversarial defense has been explored, but relatively few efforts have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-04 KiYoon Yoo , Jangho Kim , Jiho Jang , Nojun Kwak

This paper introduces a novel adversarial attack method targeting text classification models, termed the Modified Word Saliency-based Adversarial At-tack (MWSAA). The technique builds upon the concept of word saliency to strategically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Hetvi Waghela , Sneha Rakshit , Jaydip Sen

Although pre-trained language models (PrLMs) have achieved significant success, recent studies demonstrate that PrLMs are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. By generating adversarial examples with slight perturbations on different levels…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Jiayi Wang , Rongzhou Bao , Zhuosheng Zhang , Hai Zhao

Though Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have surpassed human-level performance on tasks such as object classification and face verification, they can easily be fooled by adversarial attacks. These attacks add a small perturbation to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Rajeev Ranjan , Swami Sankaranarayanan , Carlos D. Castillo , Rama Chellappa

Despite recent success of self-supervised based contrastive learning model for 3D point clouds representation, the adversarial robustness of such pre-trained models raised concerns. Adversarial contrastive learning (ACL) is considered an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Junxuan Huang , Yatong An , Lu cheng , Bai Chen , Junsong Yuan , Chunming Qiao

Neural ranking models have achieved remarkable progress and are now widely deployed in real-world applications such as Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). However, like other neural architectures, they remain vulnerable to adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Jiawei Liu , Zhuo Chen , Rui Zhu , Miaokun Chen , Yuyang Gong , Wei Lu , Xiaofeng Wang