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Generating high-quality textual adversarial examples is critical for investigating the pitfalls of natural language processing (NLP) models and further promoting their robustness. Existing attacks are usually realized through word-level or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Yibin Lei , Yu Cao , Dianqi Li , Tianyi Zhou , Meng Fang , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable performance across vision-language tasks. Recent advancements allow these models to process multiple images as inputs. However, the vulnerabilities of multi-image MLLMs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Alvi Md Ishmam , Najibul Haque Sarker , Zaber Ibn Abdul Hakim , Chris Thomas

Neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, malicious inputs crafted to fool trained models. Adversarial examples often exhibit black-box transfer, meaning that adversarial examples for one model can fool another model. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Qian Huang , Zeqi Gu , Isay Katsman , Horace He , Pian Pawakapan , Zhiqiu Lin , Serge Belongie , Ser-Nam Lim

Model inversion attacks (MIAs) seek to infer the private training data of a target classifier by generating synthetic images that reflect the characteristics of the target class through querying the model. However, prior studies have relied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Xinhao Liu , Yingzhao Jiang , Zetao Lin

Black-box textual adversarial attacks are challenging due to the lack of model information and the discrete, non-differentiable nature of text. Existing methods often lack versatility for attacking different models, suffer from limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Mingze Ni , Yongshun Gong , Wei Liu

Word-level textual adversarial attacks have demonstrated notable efficacy in misleading Natural Language Processing (NLP) models. Despite their success, the underlying reasons for their effectiveness and the fundamental characteristics of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Ning Lu , Shengcai Liu , Zhirui Zhang , Qi Wang , Haifeng Liu , Ke Tang

Membership inference attack (MIA) has become one of the most widely used and effective methods for evaluating the privacy risks of machine learning models. These attacks aim to determine whether a specific sample is part of the model's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Jing Xue , Zhishen Sun , Haishan Ye , Luo Luo , Xiangyu Chang , Ivor Tsang , Guang Dai

Strong adversarial examples are crucial for evaluating and enhancing the robustness of deep neural networks. However, the performance of popular attacks is usually sensitive, for instance, to minor image transformations, stemming from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Zhengwei Fang , Rui Wang , Tao Huang , Liping Jing

Membership Inference Attack (MIA) aims to determine whether a specific data sample was included in the training dataset of a target model. Traditional MIA approaches rely on shadow models to mimic target model behavior, but their…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Li Cuihong , Huang Xiaowen , Yin Chuanhuan , Sang Jitao

While there has been substantial research using adversarial attacks to analyze NLP models, each attack is implemented in its own code repository. It remains challenging to develop NLP attacks and utilize them to improve model performance.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 John X. Morris , Eli Lifland , Jin Yong Yoo , Jake Grigsby , Di Jin , Yanjun Qi

Adversarial examples, which are inputs deliberately perturbed with imperceptible changes to induce model errors, have raised serious concerns for the reliability and security of deep neural networks (DNNs). While adversarial attacks have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Xiaoyin Yi , Jiacheng Huang

While the transferability property of adversarial examples allows the adversary to perform black-box attacks (i.e., the attacker has no knowledge about the target model), the transfer-based adversarial attacks have gained great attention.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Bin Chen , Jia-Li Yin , Shukai Chen , Bo-Hao Chen , Ximeng Liu

We study an important task of attacking natural language processing models in a black box setting. We propose an attack strategy that crafts semantically similar adversarial examples on text classification and entailment tasks. Our proposed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Rishabh Maheshwary , Saket Maheshwary , Vikram Pudi

Attacks on machine learning models have been extensively studied through stateless optimization. In this paper, we demonstrate how a reinforcement learning (RL) agent can learn a new class of attack algorithms that generate adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Kyle Domico , Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand , Ryan Sheatsley , Eric Pauley , Josiah Hanna , Patrick McDaniel

Today text classification models have been widely used. However, these classifiers are found to be easily fooled by adversarial examples. Fortunately, standard attacking methods generate adversarial texts in a pair-wise way, that is, an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Yankun Ren , Jianbin Lin , Siliang Tang , Jun Zhou , Shuang Yang , Yuan Qi , Xiang Ren

Machine learning (ML) models have been widely applied to various applications, including image classification, text generation, audio recognition, and graph data analysis. However, recent studies have shown that ML models are vulnerable to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Hongsheng Hu , Zoran Salcic , Lichao Sun , Gillian Dobbie , Philip S. Yu , Xuyun Zhang

A Membership Inference Attack (MIA) assesses how much a target machine learning model reveals about its training data by determining whether specific query instances were part of the training set. State-of-the-art MIAs rely on training…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Yuntao Du , Yuetian Chen , Hanshen Xiao , Bruno Ribeiro , Ninghui Li

Text classification systems have been proven vulnerable to adversarial text examples, modified versions of the original text examples that are often unnoticed by human eyes, yet can force text classification models to alter their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Norah Alshahrani , Saied Alshahrani , Esma Wali , Jeanna Matthews

In recent years, binary analysis gained traction as a fundamental approach to inspect software and guarantee its security. Due to the exponential increase of devices running software, much research is now moving towards new autonomous…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Gianluca Capozzi , Daniele Cono D'Elia , Giuseppe Antonio Di Luna , Leonardo Querzoni

There has been recently a growing interest in studying adversarial examples on natural language models in the black-box setting. These methods attack natural language classifiers by perturbing certain important words until the classifier…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Mahmoud Hossam , Trung Le , He Zhao , Viet Huynh , Dinh Phung