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Adversarial training for neural networks has been in the limelight in recent years. The advancement in neural network architectures over the last decade has led to significant improvement in their performance. It sparked an interest in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Abhijith Sharma , Apurva Narayan

Deep neural networks for natural language processing tasks are vulnerable to adversarial input perturbations. In this paper, we present a versatile language for programmatically specifying string transformations -- e.g., insertions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Yuhao Zhang , Aws Albarghouthi , Loris D'Antoni

The surge of state-of-the-art Transformer-based models has undoubtedly pushed the limits of NLP model performance, excelling in a variety of tasks. We cast the spotlight on the underexplored task of Natural Language Inference (NLI), since…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Alexandros Koulakos , Maria Lymperaiou , Giorgos Filandrianos , Giorgos Stamou

Research on improving the robustness of neural networks to adversarial noise - imperceptible malicious perturbations of the data - has received significant attention. The currently uncontested state-of-the-art defense to obtain robust deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Jingtong Su , Julia Kempe

Adversarial training (AT) has shown excellent high performance in defending against adversarial examples. Recent studies demonstrate that examples are not equally important to the final robustness of models during AT, that is, the so-called…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Mengting Xu , Tao Zhang , Zhongnian Li , Daoqiang Zhang

As a new programming paradigm, deep learning has expanded its application to many real-world problems. At the same time, deep learning based software are found to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Though various defense mechanisms have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Zhe Zhao , Guangke Chen , Jingyi Wang , Yiwei Yang , Fu Song , Jun Sun

In this paper, drawing intuition from the Turing test, we propose using adversarial training for open-domain dialogue generation: the system is trained to produce sequences that are indistinguishable from human-generated dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Jiwei Li , Will Monroe , Tianlin Shi , Sébastien Jean , Alan Ritter , Dan Jurafsky

The vulnerability of deep neural networks (DNNs) to adversarial attack, which is an attack that can mislead state-of-the-art classifiers into making an incorrect classification with high confidence by deliberately perturbing the original…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Lina Wang , Rui Tang , Yawei Yue , Xingshu Chen , Wei Wang , Yi Zhu , Xuemei Zeng

Deep neural networks can be easily fooled into making incorrect predictions through corruption of the input by adversarial perturbations: human-imperceptible artificial noise. So far adversarial training has been the most successful defense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Lin Li , Michael Spratling

Generating adversarial examples for Neural Machine Translation (NMT) with single Round-Trip Translation (RTT) has achieved promising results by releasing the meaning-preserving restriction. However, a potential pitfall for this approach is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Siyu Lai , Zhen Yang , Fandong Meng , Xue Zhang , Yufeng Chen , Jinan Xu , Jie Zhou

DL-based automatic modulation classification (AMC) models are highly susceptible to adversarial attacks, where even minimal input perturbations can cause severe misclassifications. While adversarially training an AMC model based on an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Amirmohammad Bamdad , Ali Owfi , Fatemeh Afghah

Many adversarial defense methods have been proposed to enhance the adversarial robustness of natural language processing models. However, most of them introduce additional pre-set linguistic knowledge and assume that the synonym candidates…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Yichen Yang , Xin Liu , Kun He

This paper proposes a classification framework with a rejection option to mitigate the performance deterioration caused by adversarial examples. While recent machine learning algorithms achieve high prediction performance, they are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Masahiro Kato , Zhenghang Cui , Yoshihiro Fukuhara

Adversarial training has become one of the most effective methods for improving robustness of neural networks. However, it often suffers from poor generalization on both clean and perturbed data. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Minhao Cheng , Qi Lei , Pin-Yu Chen , Inderjit Dhillon , Cho-Jui Hsieh

With the rapid advancement of multimodal learning, pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as CLIP have demonstrated remarkable capacities in bridging the gap between visual and language modalities. However, these models remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Jiaming Zhang , Xingjun Ma , Xin Wang , Lingyu Qiu , Jiaqi Wang , Yu-Gang Jiang , Jitao Sang

Sensitivity to adversarial noise hinders deployment of machine learning algorithms in security-critical applications. Although many adversarial defenses have been proposed, robustness to adversarial noise remains an open problem. The most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Alex Serban , Erik Poll , Joost Visser

DNN-based language models excel across various NLP tasks but remain highly vulnerable to textual adversarial attacks. While adversarial text generation is crucial for NLP security, explainability, evaluation, and data augmentation, related…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Xi Cao , Yuan Sun , Jiajun Li , Quzong Gesang , Nuo Qun , Tashi Nyima

Context: Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are increasingly deployed in critical applications, where resilience against adversarial inputs is paramount. However, whether coverage-based or confidence-based, existing test prioritization methods…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Sheikh Md Mushfiqur Rahman , Nasir Eisty

Adversarial Training (AT) has been demonstrated as one of the most effective methods against adversarial examples. While most existing works focus on AT with a single type of perturbation e.g., the $\ell_\infty$ attacks), DNNs are facing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Jiancong Xiao , Zeyu Qin , Yanbo Fan , Baoyuan Wu , Jue Wang , Zhi-Quan Luo

Vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have gained significant popularity as foundation models, with numerous fine-tuning methods developed to enhance performance on downstream tasks. However, due to their inherent vulnerability and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Lijun Sheng , Jian Liang , Zilei Wang , Ran He