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Traditional adversarial attacks typically aim to alter the predicted labels of input images by generating perturbations that are imperceptible to the human eye. However, these approaches often lack explainability. Moreover, most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Akram Heidarizadeh , Connor Hatfield , Lorenzo Lazzarotto , HanQin Cai , George Atia

Deep neural networks (DNNs) can be easily fooled by adding human imperceptible perturbations to the images. These perturbed images are known as `adversarial examples' and pose a serious threat to security and safety critical systems. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Muzammal Naseer , Salman H. Khan , Shafin Rahman , Fatih Porikli

Model Inversion attacks aim to reconstruct information from private training data by exploiting access to a target model. Nearly all recent MI studies evaluate attack success using a standard framework that computes attack accuracy through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Sy-Tuyen Ho , Koh Jun Hao , Ngoc-Bao Nguyen , Alexander Binder , Ngai-Man Cheung

We introduce a transfer learning framework for regression that leverages heterogeneous source domains to improve predictive performance in a data-scarce target domain. Our approach learns a conditional generative model separately for each…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-03 Yikun Zhang , Steven Wilkins-Reeves , Wesley Lee , Aude Hofleitner

It is by now well-known that small adversarial perturbations can induce classification errors in deep neural networks. In this paper, we take a bottom-up signal processing perspective to this problem and show that a systematic exploitation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-26 Soorya Gopalakrishnan , Zhinus Marzi , Metehan Cekic , Upamanyu Madhow , Ramtin Pedarsani

Deep Neural Networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks even in settings where the attacker has no direct access to the model being attacked. Such attacks usually rely on the principle of transferability, whereby an attack crafted on a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-30 Sanjay Kariyappa , Moinuddin K. Qureshi

Despite many proposed algorithms to provide robustness to deep learning (DL) models, DL models remain susceptible to adversarial attacks. We hypothesize that the adversarial vulnerability of DL models stems from two factors. The first…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Mahsa Paknezhad , Cuong Phuc Ngo , Amadeus Aristo Winarto , Alistair Cheong , Chuen Yang Beh , Jiayang Wu , Hwee Kuan Lee

An adversarial attack paradigm explores various scenarios for the vulnerability of deep learning models: minor changes of the input can force a model failure. Most of the state of the art frameworks focus on adversarial attacks for images…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-22 I. Fursov , A. Zaytsev , N. Kluchnikov , A. Kravchenko , E. Burnaev

Adversarial examples --- perturbations to the input of a model that elicit large changes in the output --- have been shown to be an effective way of assessing the robustness of sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) models. However, these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Paul Michel , Xian Li , Graham Neubig , Juan Miguel Pino

Deep learning has been a popular topic and has achieved success in many areas. It has drawn the attention of researchers and machine learning practitioners alike, with developed models deployed to a variety of settings. Along with its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Daniel Steinberg , Paul Munro

Fundamental questions remain about when and why adversarial examples arise in neural networks, with competing views characterising them either as artifacts of the irregularities in the decision landscape or as products of sensitivity to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Edward Stevinson , Lucas Prieto , Melih Barsbey , Tolga Birdal

Neural networks are known to be vulnerable to carefully crafted adversarial examples, and these malicious samples often transfer, i.e., they remain adversarial even against other models. Although great efforts have been delved into the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-27 Yantao Lu , Yunhan Jia , Jianyu Wang , Bai Li , Weiheng Chai , Lawrence Carin , Senem Velipasalar

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. It is thus imperative to devise effective attack algorithms to identify the deficiencies of DNNs beforehand in security-sensitive applications. To efficiently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Jianping Zhang , Weibin Wu , Jen-tse Huang , Yizhan Huang , Wenxuan Wang , Yuxin Su , Michael R. Lyu

Adversarial attacks are widely used to evaluate model robustness, and in black-box scenarios, the transferability of these attacks becomes crucial. Existing generator-based attacks have excellent generalization and transferability due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yixiao Chen , Shikun Sun , Jianshu Li , Ruoyu Li , Zhe Li , Junliang Xing

Modern applications of artificial neural networks have yielded remarkable performance gains in a wide range of tasks. However, recent studies have discovered that such modelling strategy is vulnerable to Adversarial Examples, i.e. examples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-24 João Monteiro , Isabela Albuquerque , Zahid Akhtar , Tiago H. Falk

Transfer learning aims to improve performance on a target task by leveraging information from related source tasks. We propose a nonparametric regression transfer learning framework that explicitly models heterogeneity in the source-target…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Hélène Halconruy , Benjamin Bobbia , Paul Lejamtel

Transfer learning facilitates the training of task-specific classifiers using pre-trained models as feature extractors. We present a family of transferable adversarial attacks against such classifiers, generated without access to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Ahmed Abdelkader , Michael J. Curry , Liam Fowl , Tom Goldstein , Avi Schwarzschild , Manli Shu , Christoph Studer , Chen Zhu

One intriguing property of adversarial attacks is their "transferability" -- an adversarial example crafted with respect to one deep neural network (DNN) model is often found effective against other DNNs as well. Intensive research has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Yuhao Mao , Chong Fu , Saizhuo Wang , Shouling Ji , Xuhong Zhang , Zhenguang Liu , Jun Zhou , Alex X. Liu , Raheem Beyah , Ting Wang

The transferability of adversarial examples across deep neural networks (DNNs) is the crux of many black-box attacks. Many prior efforts have been devoted to improving the transferability via increasing the diversity in inputs of some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Qizhang Li , Yiwen Guo , Wangmeng Zuo , Hao Chen

This paper focuses on an important type of black-box attacks, i.e., transfer-based adversarial attacks, where the adversary generates adversarial examples by a substitute (source) model and utilize them to attack an unseen target model,…

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