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Deep learning models are known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples that are elaborately designed for malicious purposes and are imperceptible to the human perceptual system. Autoencoder, when trained solely over benign examples, has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Zhaoxi Zhang , Leo Yu Zhang , Xufei Zheng , Jinyu Tian , Jiantao Zhou

Existing methods for generating adversarial code examples face several challenges: limted availability of substitute variables, high verification costs for these substitutes, and the creation of adversarial samples with noticeable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Jie Zhang , Wei Ma , Qiang Hu , Shangqing Liu , Xiaofei Xie , Yves Le Traon , Yang Liu

Authorship analysis is an important subject in the field of natural language processing. It allows the detection of the most likely writer of articles, news, books, or messages. This technique has multiple uses in tasks related to…

Adversarial attack serves as a major challenge for neural network models in NLP, which precludes the model's deployment in safety-critical applications. A recent line of work, detection-based defense, aims to distinguish adversarial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Lingfeng Shen , Ze Zhang , Haiyun Jiang , Ying Chen

Over the last few years, the phenomenon of adversarial examples --- maliciously constructed inputs that fool trained machine learning models --- has captured the attention of the research community, especially when the adversary is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Nic Ford , Justin Gilmer , Nicolas Carlini , Dogus Cubuk

With the rapid development of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the problem of AI security has gradually emerged. Most existing machine learning algorithms may be attacked by adversarial examples. An adversarial example is a slightly modified…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Yingdi Wang , Wenjia Niu , Tong Chen , Yingxiao Xiang , Jingjing Liu , Gang Li , Jiqiang Liu

In this paper, we introduce an enhanced textual adversarial attack method, known as Saliency Attention and Semantic Similarity driven adversarial Perturbation (SASSP). The proposed scheme is designed to improve the effectiveness of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Hetvi Waghela , Jaydip Sen , Sneha Rakshit

In spam and malware detection, attackers exploit randomization to obfuscate malicious data and increase their chances of evading detection at test time; e.g., malware code is typically obfuscated using random strings or byte sequences to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-09-07 Samuel Rota Bulò , Battista Biggio , Ignazio Pillai , Marcello Pelillo , Fabio Roli

It is known that neural networks are subject to attacks through adversarial perturbations, i.e., inputs which are maliciously crafted through perturbations to induce wrong predictions. Furthermore, such attacks are impossible to eliminate,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Guoliang Dong , Jingyi Wang , Jun Sun , Sudipta Chattopadhyay , Xinyu Wang , Ting Dai , Jie Shi , Jin Song Dong

Analysis of vision-and-language models has revealed their brittleness under linguistic phenomena such as paraphrasing, negation, textual entailment, and word substitutions with synonyms or antonyms. While data augmentation techniques have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Tejas Gokhale , Abhishek Chaudhary , Pratyay Banerjee , Chitta Baral , Yezhou Yang

Recently, reinforcement learning (RL) has become a common choice in enhancing the reasoning capabilities of vision-language models (VLMs). Considering existing RL-based finetuning methods, entropy intervention turns out to be an effective…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-13 Yang Yu , Zhuangzhuang Chen , Siqi Wang , Lanqing Li , Xiaomeng Li

We study the problem of grounding distributional representations of texts on the visual domain, namely visual-semantic embeddings (VSE for short). Begin with an insightful adversarial attack on VSE embeddings, we show the limitation of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Haoyue Shi , Jiayuan Mao , Tete Xiao , Yuning Jiang , Jian Sun

Typical methods for unsupervised text style transfer often rely on two key ingredients: 1) seeking the explicit disentanglement of the content and the attributes, and 2) troublesome adversarial learning. In this paper, we show that neither…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Dayiheng Liu , Jie Fu , Yidan Zhang , Chris Pal , Jiancheng Lv

Natural language processing models are vulnerable to adversarial examples. Previous textual adversarial attacks adopt gradients or confidence scores to calculate word importance ranking and generate adversarial examples. However, this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Hai Zhu , Zhaoqing Yang , Weiwei Shang , Yuren Wu

Current adversarial attack algorithms, where an adversary changes a text to fool a victim model, have been repeatedly shown to be effective against text classifiers. These attacks, however, generally assume that the victim model is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Tom Roth , Inigo Jauregi Unanue , Alsharif Abuadbba , Massimo Piccardi

With the development of high computational devices, deep neural networks (DNNs), in recent years, have gained significant popularity in many Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications. However, previous efforts have shown that DNNs were…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Wei Emma Zhang , Quan Z. Sheng , Ahoud Alhazmi , Chenliang Li

We propose a novel genetic-algorithm technique that generates black-box adversarial examples which successfully fool neural network based text classifiers. We perform a genetic search with multi-objective optimization guided by deep…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Alex Mathai , Shreya Khare , Srikanth Tamilselvam , Senthil Mani

Neural machine translation systems tend to fail on less decent inputs despite its significant efficacy, which may significantly harm the credibility of this systems-fathoming how and when neural-based systems fail in such cases is critical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Wei Zou , Shujian Huang , Jun Xie , Xinyu Dai , Jiajun Chen

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

Adversarial examples are inputs to machine learning models designed by an adversary to cause an incorrect output. So far, adversarial examples have been studied most extensively in the image domain. In this domain, adversarial examples can…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-10 Yao Qin , Nicholas Carlini , Ian Goodfellow , Garrison Cottrell , Colin Raffel