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The objective of active level set estimation for a black-box function is to precisely identify regions where the function values exceed or fall below a specified threshold by iteratively performing function evaluations to gather more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Giang Ngo , Dang Nguyen , Sunil Gupta

Many adversarial attack methods achieve satisfactory attack success rates under the white-box setting, but they usually show poor transferability when attacking other DNN models. Momentum-based attack is one effective method to improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Guoqiu Wang , Huanqian Yan , Xingxing Wei

Adversarial examples are of wide concern due to their impact on the reliability of contemporary machine learning systems. Effective adversarial examples are mostly found via white-box attacks. However, in some cases they can be transferred…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Deyan Petrov , Timothy M. Hospedales

In this paper, we study the problem of how to defend classifiers against adversarial attacks that fool the classifiers using subtly modified input data. In contrast to previous works, here we focus on the white-box adversarial defense where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Zudi Lin , Hanspeter Pfister , Ziming Zhang

Adversarial examples for neural network image classifiers are known to be transferable: examples optimized to be misclassified by a source classifier are often misclassified as well by classifiers with different architectures. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Jacob M. Springer , Melanie Mitchell , Garrett T. Kenyon

The vulnerability of deep neural networks (DNNs) to adversarial examples has drawn great attention from the community. In this paper, we study the transferability of such examples, which lays the foundation of many black-box attacks on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Yiwen Guo , Qizhang Li , Hao Chen

In the scenario of black-box adversarial attack, the target model's parameters are unknown, and the attacker aims to find a successful adversarial perturbation based on query feedback under a query budget. Due to the limited feedback…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Fei Yin , Yong Zhang , Baoyuan Wu , Yan Feng , Jingyi Zhang , Yanbo Fan , Yujiu Yang

One of the most practical and challenging types of black-box adversarial attacks is the hard-label attack, where only the top-1 predicted label is available. One effective approach is to search for the optimal ray direction from the benign…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Chen Ma , Xinjie Xu , Shuyu Cheng , Qi Xuan

Attack Success Rate (ASR) evaluates each jailbreak with a single yes/no label at the end of generation, telling us whether a failure happened but not how it unfolded. Two attacks that produce equally harmful outputs may have followed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Junyoung Park , Sunghwan Park , Seongyong Ju , Jaewoo Lee

Adversarial examples (AE) with good transferability enable practical black-box attacks on diverse target models, where insider knowledge about the target models is not required. Previous methods often generate AE with no or very limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Tao Wu , Tie Luo , Donald C. Wunsch

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

Adversarial attack algorithms are dominated by penalty methods, which are slow in practice, or more efficient distance-customized methods, which are heavily tailored to the properties of the distance considered. We propose a white-box…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Jérôme Rony , Eric Granger , Marco Pedersoli , Ismail Ben Ayed

An established way to improve the transferability of black-box evasion attacks is to craft the adversarial examples on an ensemble-based surrogate to increase diversity. We argue that transferability is fundamentally related to uncertainty.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Martin Gubri , Maxime Cordy , Mike Papadakis , Yves Le Traon , Koushik Sen

Robustness of huge Transformer-based models for natural language processing is an important issue due to their capabilities and wide adoption. One way to understand and improve robustness of these models is an exploration of an adversarial…

Unlike the white-box counterparts that are widely studied and readily accessible, adversarial examples in black-box settings are generally more Herculean on account of the difficulty of estimating gradients. Many methods achieve the task by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Ziang Yan , Yiwen Guo , Changshui Zhang

Transfer-based targeted adversarial attacks against black-box deep neural networks (DNNs) have been proven to be significantly more challenging than untargeted ones. The impressive transferability of current SOTA, the generative methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Bowen Peng , Li Liu , Tianpeng Liu , Zhen Liu , Yongxiang Liu

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) models are one of the most frequently used deep learning networks, and extensively used in both academia and industry. Recent studies demonstrated that adversarial attacks against such models can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Ehsan Nowroozi , Yassine Mekdad , Mohammad Hajian Berenjestanaki , Mauro Conti , Abdeslam EL Fergougui

Transferable adversarial attacks pose significant threats to deep neural networks, particularly in black-box scenarios where internal model information is inaccessible. Studying adversarial attack methods helps advance the performance of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Zhibo Jin , Jiayu Zhang , Zhiyu Zhu , Chenyu Zhang , Jiahao Huang , Jianlong Zhou , Fang Chen

Deep neural networks could be fooled by adversarial examples with trivial differences to original samples. To keep the difference imperceptible in human eyes, researchers bound the adversarial perturbations by the $\ell_\infty$ norm, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Sizhe Chen , Qinghua Tao , Zhixing Ye , Xiaolin Huang

Existing transfer attack methods commonly assume that the attacker knows the training set (e.g., the label set, the input size) of the black-box victim models, which is usually unrealistic because in some cases the attacker cannot know this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Yunxiao Qin , Yuanhao Xiong , Jinfeng Yi , Lihong Cao , Cho-Jui Hsieh