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Transfer learning leverages knowledge from other domains and has been successful in many applications. Transfer learning methods rely on the overall similarity of the source and target domains. However, in some cases, it is impossible to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Yifu Zhang , Hongru Li , Shimeng Shi , Youqi Li , Jiansong Zhang

Research has shown that widely used deep neural networks are vulnerable to carefully crafted adversarial perturbations. Moreover, these adversarial perturbations often transfer across models. We hypothesize that adversarial weakness is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-24 Horace He , Aaron Lou , Qingxuan Jiang , Isay Katsman , Serge Belongie , Ser-Nam Lim

Transferable adversarial examples cause practical security risks since they can mislead a target model without knowing its internal knowledge. A conventional recipe for maximizing transferability is to keep only the optimal adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Bo Yang , Hengwei Zhang , Jindong Wang , Yulong Yang , Chenhao Lin , Chao Shen , Zhengyu Zhao

We design blackbox transfer-based targeted adversarial attacks for an environment where the attacker's source model and the target blackbox model may have disjoint label spaces and training datasets. This scenario significantly differs from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Nathan Inkawhich , Kevin J Liang , Jingyang Zhang , Huanrui Yang , Hai Li , Yiran Chen

Though deep neural networks perform challenging tasks excellently, they are susceptible to adversarial examples, which mislead classifiers by applying human-imperceptible perturbations on clean inputs. Under the query-free black-box…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Zifei Zhang , Kai Qiao , Jian Chen , Ningning Liang

We consider the question of learnability of distribution classes in the presence of adaptive adversaries -- that is, adversaries capable of intercepting the samples requested by a learner and applying manipulations with full knowledge of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Tosca Lechner , Alex Bie , Gautam Kamath

As machine learning systems become more widely used, especially for safety critical applications, there is a growing need to ensure that these systems behave as intended, even in the face of adversarial examples. Adversarial examples are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Anahita Samadi , Allison Sullivan

We investigate the role of transferability of adversarial attacks in the observed vulnerabilities of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). We demonstrate that introducing randomness to the DNN models is sufficient to defeat adversarial attacks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Yan Zhou , Murat Kantarcioglu , Bowei Xi

Adversarial examples are maliciously modified inputs created to fool deep neural networks (DNN). The discovery of such inputs presents a major issue to the expansion of DNN-based solutions. Many researchers have already contributed to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Alessandro Cennamo , Ido Freeman , Anton Kummert

Deep neural networks have been demonstrated to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks: subtle perturbation can completely change prediction result. The vulnerability has led to a surge of research in this direction, including adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Quanyu Liao , Xin Wang , Bin Kong , Siwei Lyu , Bin Zhu , Youbing Yin , Qi Song , Xi Wu

Adversarial attacks, e.g., adversarial perturbations of the input and adversarial samples, pose significant challenges to machine learning and deep learning techniques, including interactive recommendation systems. The latent embedding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Siyu Wang , Yuanjiang Cao , Xiaocong Chen , Lina Yao , Xianzhi Wang , Quan Z. Sheng

With the ever-increasing reliance on data for data-driven applications in power grids, such as event cause analysis, the authenticity of data streams has become crucially important. The data can be prone to adversarial stealthy attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Iman Niazazari , Hanif Livani

Adversarial examples reveal the blind spots of deep neural networks (DNNs) and represent a major concern for security-critical applications. The transferability of adversarial examples makes real-world attacks possible in black-box…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Muzammal Naseer , Salman H. Khan , Harris Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Fatih Porikli

Adversarial attacks and backdoor attacks are two common security threats that hang over deep learning. Both of them harness task-irrelevant features of data in their implementation. Text style is a feature that is naturally irrelevant to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Fanchao Qi , Yangyi Chen , Xurui Zhang , Mukai Li , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been widely applied in various recognition tasks. However, recently DNNs have been shown to be vulnerable against adversarial examples, which can mislead DNNs to make arbitrary incorrect predictions. While…

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With the recent advancements in machine learning (ML), numerous ML-based approaches have been extensively applied in software analytics tasks to streamline software development and maintenance processes. Nevertheless, studies indicate that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-15 MD Abdul Awal , Mrigank Rochan , Chanchal K. Roy

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. Further, these adversarial examples are found to be transferable from the source network in which they are crafted to a black-box target network. As the trend…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Abhishek Shrestha , Jürgen Großmann

The existence of adversarial examples has been a mystery for years and attracted much interest. A well-known theory by \citet{ilyas2019adversarial} explains adversarial vulnerability from a data perspective by showing that one can extract…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Ang Li , Yifei Wang , Yiwen Guo , Yisen Wang

Production machine learning systems are consistently under attack by adversarial actors. Various deep learning models must be capable of accurately detecting fake or adversarial input while maintaining speed. In this work, we propose one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Matthew Ciolino , Josh Kalin , David Noever

Signature-based malware detectors have proven to be insufficient as even a small change in malignant executable code can bypass these signature-based detectors. Many machine learning-based models have been proposed to efficiently detect a…

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