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Previous studies have shown the vulnerability of vision transformers to adversarial patches, but these studies all rely on a critical assumption: the attack patches must be perfectly aligned with the patches used for linear projection in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Mingzhen Shao

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved remarkable success across vision tasks, yet recent studies show they remain vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Existing patch-wise attacks typically assume a single fixed trigger location during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Dazhuang Liu , Yanqi Qiao , Rui Wang , Kaitai Liang , Georgios Smaragdakis

Neural architectures based on attention such as vision transformers are revolutionizing image recognition. Their main benefit is that attention allows reasoning about all parts of a scene jointly. In this paper, we show how the global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Giulio Lovisotto , Nicole Finnie , Mauricio Munoz , Chaithanya Kumar Mummadi , Jan Hendrik Metzen

Vision transformers (ViTs) have been successfully deployed in a variety of computer vision tasks, but they are still vulnerable to adversarial samples. Transfer-based attacks use a local model to generate adversarial samples and directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Jianping Zhang , Yizhan Huang , Weibin Wu , Michael R. Lyu

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have been widely applied in various computer vision and vision-language tasks. To gain insights into their robustness in practical scenarios, transferable adversarial examples on ViTs have been extensively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Yuchen Ren , Zhengyu Zhao , Chenhao Lin , Bo Yang , Lu Zhou , Zhe Liu , Chao Shen

Understanding the mechanisms behind Vision Transformer (ViT), particularly its vulnerability to adversarial perturba tions, is crucial for addressing challenges in its real-world applications. Existing ViT adversarial attackers rely on la…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Chenxing Gao , Hang Zhou , Junqing Yu , YuTeng Ye , Jiale Cai , Junle Wang , Wei Yang

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have recently achieved competitive performance in broad vision tasks. Unfortunately, on popular threat models, naturally trained ViTs are shown to provide no more adversarial robustness than convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Yichuan Mo , Dongxian Wu , Yifei Wang , Yiwen Guo , Yisen Wang

Vision transformers rely on a patch token based self attention mechanism, in contrast to convolutional networks. We investigate fundamental differences between these two families of models, by designing a block sparsity based adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Ameya Joshi , Gauri Jagatap , Chinmay Hegde

Ensemble-based attacks have been proven to be effective in enhancing adversarial transferability by aggregating the outputs of models with various architectures. However, existing research primarily focuses on refining ensemble weights or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Hanwen Cao , Haobo Lu , Xiaosen Wang , Kun He

Though CNNs have achieved the state-of-the-art performance on various vision tasks, they are vulnerable to adversarial examples --- crafted by adding human-imperceptible perturbations to clean images. However, most of the existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Cihang Xie , Zhishuai Zhang , Yuyin Zhou , Song Bai , Jianyu Wang , Zhou Ren , Alan Yuille

Quantized neural networks (QNNs) are increasingly used for efficient deployment of deep learning models on resource-constrained platforms, such as mobile devices and edge computing systems. While quantization reduces model size and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Amira Guesmi , Bassem Ouni , Muhammad Shafique

Although great progress has been made on adversarial attacks for deep neural networks (DNNs), their transferability is still unsatisfactory, especially for targeted attacks. There are two problems behind that have been long overlooked: 1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Lianli Gao , Qilong Zhang , Jingkuan Song , Heng Tao Shen

Adversarial training (AT) can help improve the robustness of Vision Transformers (ViT) against adversarial attacks by intentionally injecting adversarial examples into the training data. However, this way of adversarial injection inevitably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Fudong Lin , Jiadong Lou , Xu Yuan , Nian-Feng Tzeng

Since their inception, Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as a compelling alternative to Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) across a wide spectrum of tasks. ViTs exhibit notable characteristics, including global attention, resilience…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Hanan Gani , Nada Saadi , Noor Hussein , Karthik Nandakumar

The ability of deep neural networks (DNNs) come from extracting and interpreting features from the data provided. By exploiting intermediate features in DNNs instead of relying on hard labels, we craft adversarial perturbation that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Shangbo Wu , Yu-an Tan , Ruinan Ma , Wencong Ma , Dehua Zhu , Yuanzhang Li

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are highly susceptible to adversarial examples--subtle perturbations applied to inputs that are often imperceptible to humans yet lead to incorrect model predictions. In black-box scenarios, however, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Qing Wan , Shilong Deng , Xun Wang

The generation of transferable adversarial perturbations typically involves training a generator to maximize embedding separation between clean and adversarial images at a single mid-layer of a source model. In this work, we build on this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Krishna Kanth Nakka , Alexandre Alahi

In recent years, there has been a significant trend in deep neural networks (DNNs), particularly transformer-based models, of developing ever-larger and more capable models. While they demonstrate state-of-the-art performance, their growing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Amit Baras , Alon Zolfi , Yuval Elovici , Asaf Shabtai

Adversarial transferability remains a critical challenge in evaluating the robustness of deep neural networks. In security-critical applications, transferability enables black-box attacks without access to model internals, making it a key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Amira Guesmi , Bassem Ouni , Muhammad Shafique

Neural network models are vulnerable to adversarial examples, and adversarial transferability further increases the risk of adversarial attacks. Current methods based on transferability often rely on substitute models, which can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Minxuan Lv , Chengwei Dai , Kun Li , Wei Zhou , Songlin Hu