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In this paper, we present the first detailed analysis of how training hyperparameters -- such as learning rate, weight decay, momentum, and batch size -- influence robustness against both transfer-based and query-based attacks. Supported by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Pascal Zimmer , Ghassan Karame

Adversarial examples represent a serious issue for the application of machine learning models in many sensitive domains. For generating adversarial examples, decision based black-box attacks are one of the most practical techniques as they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Nicole Meng , Caleb Manicke , David Chen , Yingjie Lao , Caiwen Ding , Pengyu Hong , Kaleel Mahmood

Black-box adversarial attack has attracted a lot of research interests for its practical use in AI safety. Compared with the white-box attack, a black-box setting is more difficult for less available information related to the attacked…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Linjun Zhou , Peng Cui , Yinan Jiang , Shiqiang Yang

A distribution inference attack aims to infer statistical properties of data used to train machine learning models. These attacks are sometimes surprisingly potent, but the factors that impact distribution inference risk are not well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Anshuman Suri , Yifu Lu , Yanjin Chen , David Evans

Adversarial example generation becomes a viable method for evaluating the robustness of a machine learning model. In this paper, we consider hard-label black-box attacks (a.k.a. decision-based attacks), which is a challenging setting that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Zhenxin Xiao , Puyudi Yang , Yuchen Jiang , Kai-Wei Chang , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Adversarial attacks on deep neural networks traditionally rely on a constrained optimization paradigm, where an optimization procedure is used to obtain a single adversarial perturbation for a given input example. In this work we frame the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Avishek Joey Bose , Andre Cianflone , William L. Hamilton

Adversarial robustness in structured data remains an underexplored frontier compared to vision and language domains. In this work, we introduce a novel black-box, decision-based adversarial attack tailored for tabular data. Our approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Roie Kazoom , Yuval Ratzabi , Etamar Rothstein , Ofer Hadar

We study offline meta-reinforcement learning, a practical reinforcement learning paradigm that learns from offline data to adapt to new tasks. The distribution of offline data is determined jointly by the behavior policy and the task.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Haoqi Yuan , Zongqing Lu

Although promising, existing defenses against query-based attacks share a common limitation: they offer increased robustness against attacks at the price of a considerable accuracy drop on clean samples. In this work, we show how to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Pascal Zimmer , Sébastien Andreina , Giorgia Azzurra Marson , Ghassan Karame

In this paper, we present a generic, query-efficient black-box attack against API call-based machine learning malware classifiers. We generate adversarial examples by modifying the malware's API call sequences and non-sequential features…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Ishai Rosenberg , Asaf Shabtai , Yuval Elovici , Lior Rokach

Deep Learning (DL) is rapidly maturing to the point that it can be used in safety- and security-crucial applications. However, adversarial samples, which are undetectable to the human eye, pose a serious threat that can cause the model to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Firuz Juraev , Mohammed Abuhamad , Eric Chan-Tin , George K. Thiruvathukal , Tamer Abuhmed

Adversarial attacks, wherein slight inputs are carefully crafted to mislead intelligent models, have attracted increasing attention. However, a critical gap persists between theoretical advancements and practical application, particularly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Sabrine Ennaji , Elhadj Benkhelifa , Luigi V. Mancini

Complex autonomous control systems are subjected to sensor failures, cyber-attacks, sensor noise, communication channel failures, etc. that introduce errors in the measurements. The corrupted information, if used for making decisions, can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Abhishek Gupta , Zhaoyuan Yang

Despite remarkable achievements in deep learning across various domains, its inherent vulnerability to adversarial examples still remains a critical concern for practical deployment. Adversarial training has emerged as one of the most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Junhao Dong , Xinghua Qu , Z. Jane Wang , Yew-Soon Ong

Recent adversarial attack developments have made reinforcement learning more vulnerable, and different approaches exist to deploy attacks against it, where the key is how to choose the right timing of the attack. Some work tries to design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Yang Li , Quan Pan , Erik Cambria

Existing black-box attacks on deep neural networks (DNNs) so far have largely focused on transferability, where an adversarial instance generated for a locally trained model can "transfer" to attack other learning models. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Arjun Nitin Bhagoji , Warren He , Bo Li , Dawn Song

Adversarial patch is an important form of real-world adversarial attack that brings serious risks to the robustness of deep neural networks. Previous methods generate adversarial patches by either optimizing their perturbation values while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Xingxing Wei , Ying Guo , Jie Yu , Bo Zhang

This study investigates behavior-targeted attacks on reinforcement learning and their countermeasures. Behavior-targeted attacks aim to manipulate the victim's behavior as desired by the adversary through adversarial interventions in state…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Shojiro Yamabe , Kazuto Fukuchi , Jun Sakuma

Neural networks are vulnerable to small adversarial perturbations. Existing literature largely focused on understanding and mitigating the vulnerability of learned models. In this paper, we demonstrate an intriguing phenomenon about the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Gavin Weiguang Ding , Kry Yik Chau Lui , Xiaomeng Jin , Luyu Wang , Ruitong Huang

Neural networks are getting deeper and more computation-intensive nowadays. Quantization is a useful technique in deploying neural networks on hardware platforms and saving computation costs with negligible performance loss. However, recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Chang Song , Elias Fallon , Hai Li