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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

Deep neural network based face recognition models have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. However, many of the past attacks require the adversary to solve an input-dependent optimization problem using gradient descent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Shehzeen Hussain , Todd Huster , Chris Mesterharm , Paarth Neekhara , Kevin An , Malhar Jere , Harshvardhan Sikka , Farinaz Koushanfar

We propose a new, simple framework for crafting adversarial examples for black box attacks. The idea is to simulate the substitution model with a non-trainable model compounded of just one layer of handcrafted convolutional kernels and then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Petr Dvořáček , Petr Hurtik , Petra Števuliáková

Deep learning models are known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. A practical adversarial attack should require as little as possible knowledge of attacked models. Current substitute attacks need pre-trained models to generate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Mingyi Zhou , Jing Wu , Yipeng Liu , Xiaolin Huang , Shuaicheng Liu , Xiang Zhang , Ce Zhu

Deep neural networks learn fragile "shortcut" features, rendering them difficult to interpret (black box) and vulnerable to adversarial attacks. This paper proposes semantic features as a general architectural solution to this problem. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Maciej Satkiewicz

Black-box adversarial attacks generate adversarial samples via iterative optimizations using repeated queries. Defending deep neural networks against such attacks has been challenging. In this paper, we propose an efficient Boundary Defense…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Manjushree B. Aithal , Xiaohua Li

Existing black box search methods have achieved high success rate in generating adversarial attacks against NLP models. However, such search methods are inefficient as they do not consider the amount of queries required to generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Rishabh Maheshwary , Saket Maheshwary , Vikram Pudi

Deep neural networks currently dominate many fields of the artificial intelligence landscape, achieving state-of-the-art results on numerous tasks while remaining hard to understand and exhibiting surprising weaknesses. An active area of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Sebastian-Vasile Echim , Andrei-Alexandru Preda , Dumitru-Clementin Cercel , Florin Pop

This paper concerns corpus poisoning attacks in dense information retrieval, where an adversary attempts to compromise the ranking performance of a search algorithm by injecting a small number of maliciously generated documents into the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yongkang Li , Panagiotis Eustratiadis , Simon Lupart , Evangelos Kanoulas

This paper studies the challenging black-box adversarial attack that aims to generate adversarial examples against a black-box model by only using output feedback of the model to input queries. Some previous methods improve the query…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Shuyu Cheng , Yibo Miao , Yinpeng Dong , Xiao Yang , Xiao-Shan Gao , Jun Zhu

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, posing significant security threats to their deployment in remote sensing applications. Research on adversarial attacks not only reveals model vulnerabilities but also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Chun Liu , Hailong Wang , Bingqian Zhu , Panpan Ding , Zheng Zheng , Tao Xu , Zhigang Han , Jiayao Wang

Deep neural networks are known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples crafted by adding human-imperceptible perturbations to the benign input. After achieving nearly 100% attack success rates in white-box setting, more focus is shifted to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Xu Han , Anmin Liu , Chenxuan Yao , Yanbo Fan , Kun He

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, posing a threat to the models' applications and raising security concerns. An intriguing property of adversarial examples is their strong transferability. Several methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Shuo Zhang , Ziruo Wang , Zikai Zhou , Huanran Chen

We study the most practical problem setup for evaluating adversarial robustness of a machine learning system with limited access: the hard-label black-box attack setting for generating adversarial examples, where limited model queries are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Minhao Cheng , Simranjit Singh , Patrick Chen , Pin-Yu Chen , Sijia Liu , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Explainable AI is a strong strategy implemented to understand complex black-box model predictions in a human interpretable language. It provides the evidence required to execute the use of trustworthy and reliable AI systems. On the other…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Esther Chiramal , Kelvin Soh Boon Kai

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, dictating the imperativeness to test the model's robustness before deployment. Transfer-based attackers craft adversarial examples against surrogate models and transfer them to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Zhuoer Xu , Zhangxuan Gu , Jianping Zhang , Shiwen Cui , Changhua Meng , Weiqiang Wang

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which poses security concerns on these algorithms due to the potentially severe consequences. Adversarial attacks serve as an important surrogate to evaluate the robustness of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Yinpeng Dong , Fangzhou Liao , Tianyu Pang , Hang Su , Jun Zhu , Xiaolin Hu , Jianguo Li

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved widespread success yet remain prone to adversarial attacks. Typically, such attacks either involve frequent queries to the target model or rely on surrogate models closely mirroring the target model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Binyan Xu , Xilin Dai , Di Tang , Kehuan Zhang

Deep models have shown their vulnerability when processing adversarial samples. As for the black-box attack, without access to the architecture and weights of the attacked model, training a substitute model for adversarial attacks has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Wenxuan Wang , Bangjie Yin , Taiping Yao , Li Zhang , Yanwei Fu , Shouhong Ding , Jilin Li , Feiyue Huang , Xiangyang Xue

Adversarial images aim to change a target model's decision by minimally perturbing a target image. In the black-box setting, the absence of gradient information often renders this search problem costly in terms of query complexity. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Chuan Guo , Jared S. Frank , Kilian Q. Weinberger