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We study the black-box attacks on graph neural networks (GNNs) under a novel and realistic constraint: attackers have access to only a subset of nodes in the network, and they can only attack a small number of them. A node selection step is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Jiaqi Ma , Shuangrui Ding , Qiaozhu Mei

We propose the first general-purpose gradient-based attack against transformer models. Instead of searching for a single adversarial example, we search for a distribution of adversarial examples parameterized by a continuous-valued matrix,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Chuan Guo , Alexandre Sablayrolles , Hervé Jégou , Douwe Kiela

Deep neural networks are known to be extremely vulnerable to adversarial examples under white-box setting. Moreover, the malicious adversaries crafted on the surrogate (source) model often exhibit black-box transferability on other models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Xiaosen Wang , Xuanran He , Jingdong Wang , Kun He

Adversarial transferability in black-box scenarios presents a unique challenge: while attackers can employ surrogate models to craft adversarial examples, they lack assurance on whether these examples will successfully compromise the target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Mosh Levy , Guy Amit , Yuval Elovici , Yisroel Mirsky

While deep neural networks show unprecedented performance in various tasks, the vulnerability to adversarial examples hinders their deployment in safety-critical systems. Many studies have shown that attacks are also possible even in a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Junyoung Byun , Hyojun Go , Changick Kim

NLP researchers propose different word-substitute black-box attacks that can fool text classification models. In such attack, an adversary keeps sending crafted adversarial queries to the target model until it can successfully achieve the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Tianle Li , Yi Yang

Many adversarial attack approaches are proposed to verify the vulnerability of language models. However, they require numerous queries and the information on the target model. Even black-box attack methods also require the target model's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-21 CheolWon Na , YunSeok Choi , Jee-Hyong Lee

We focus on the problem of adversarial attacks against models on discrete sequential data in the black-box setting where the attacker aims to craft adversarial examples with limited query access to the victim model. Existing black-box…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Deokjae Lee , Seungyong Moon , Junhyeok Lee , Hyun Oh Song

We study adversarial examples in a black-box setting where the adversary only has API access to the target model and each query is expensive. Prior work on black-box adversarial examples follows one of two main strategies: (1) transfer…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Fnu Suya , Jianfeng Chi , David Evans , Yuan Tian

Neural networks have become pervasive across various applications, including security-related products. However, their widespread adoption has heightened concerns regarding vulnerability to adversarial attacks. With emerging regulations and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Disesdi Susanna Cox , Niklas Bunzel

We propose a simple and highly query-efficient black-box adversarial attack named SWITCH, which has a state-of-the-art performance in the score-based setting. SWITCH features a highly efficient and effective utilization of the gradient of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Chen Ma , Shuyu Cheng , Li Chen , Jun Zhu , Junhai Yong

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 attacks have become a well-explored domain, frequently serving as evaluation baselines for model robustness. Among these, black-box attacks based on transferability have received significant attention due to their practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Chun Tong Lei , Zhongliang Guo , Hon Chung Lee , Minh Quoc Duong , Chun Pong Lau

We focus on the problem of black-box adversarial attacks, where the aim is to generate adversarial examples for deep learning models solely based on information limited to output label~(hard label) to a queried data input. We propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Satya Narayan Shukla , Anit Kumar Sahu , Devin Willmott , J. Zico Kolter

The transfer-based black-box adversarial attack setting poses the challenge of crafting an adversarial example (AE) on known surrogate models that remain effective against unseen target models. Due to the practical importance of this task,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Meixi Zheng , Kehan Wu , Yanbo Fan , Rui Huang , Baoyuan Wu

Researchers have repeatedly shown that it is possible to craft adversarial attacks on deep classifiers (small perturbations that significantly change the class label), even in the "black-box" setting where one only has query access to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Devin Willmott , Anit Kumar Sahu , Fatemeh Sheikholeslami , Filipe Condessa , Zico Kolter

Despite their impressive performance, deep visual models are susceptible to transferable black-box adversarial attacks. Principally, these attacks craft perturbations in a target model-agnostic manner. However, surprisingly, we find that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Mohammad A. A. K. Jalwana , Naveed Akhtar , Ajmal Mian , Nazanin Rahnavard , Mubarak Shah

Traffic state prediction is necessary for many Intelligent Transportation Systems applications. Recent developments of the topic have focused on network-wide, multi-step prediction, where state of the art performance is achieved via deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Bibek Poudel , Weizi Li

Depending on how much information an adversary can access to, adversarial attacks can be classified as white-box attack and black-box attack. For white-box attack, optimization-based attack algorithms such as projected gradient descent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Jinghui Chen , Dongruo Zhou , Jinfeng Yi , Quanquan Gu

Though deep neural networks have achieved state-of-the-art performance in visual classification, recent studies have shown that they are all vulnerable to the attack of adversarial examples. Small and often imperceptible perturbations to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Pinlong Zhao , Zhouyu Fu , Ou wu , Qinghua Hu , Jun Wang