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Adversarial transferability remains a critical challenge in evaluating the robustness of deep neural networks. In security-critical applications, transferability enables black-box attacks without access to model internals, making it a key…

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Vision Transformer (ViT) has recently demonstrated promise in computer vision problems. However, unlike Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), it is known that the performance of ViT saturates quickly with depth increasing, due to the…

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Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved remarkable success across vision tasks, yet recent studies show they remain vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Existing patch-wise attacks typically assume a single fixed trigger location during…

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Deep neural networks (DNNs) are well known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples (AEs). In previous studies, the use of models encrypted with a secret key was demonstrated to be robust against white-box attacks, but not against black-box…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Ryota Iijima , Sayaka Shiota , Hitoshi Kiya

Vision Transformer (ViT) has become a leading tool in various computer vision tasks, owing to its unique self-attention mechanism that learns visual representations explicitly through cross-patch information interactions. Despite having…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Jie Ma , Yalong Bai , Bineng Zhong , Wei Zhang , Ting Yao , Tao Mei

Neural architectures based on attention such as vision transformers are revolutionizing image recognition. Their main benefit is that attention allows reasoning about all parts of a scene jointly. In this paper, we show how the global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Giulio Lovisotto , Nicole Finnie , Mauricio Munoz , Chaithanya Kumar Mummadi , Jan Hendrik Metzen

Vision transformers (ViTs) have become essential backbones in advanced computer vision applications and multi-modal foundation models. Despite their strengths, ViTs remain vulnerable to adversarial perturbations, comparable to or even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Bhavna Gopal , Huanrui Yang , Mark Horton , Yiran Chen

Vision Transformers (ViTs) enabled the use of the transformer architecture on vision tasks showing impressive performances when trained on big datasets. However, on relatively small datasets, ViTs are less accurate given their lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Guglielmo Camporese , Elena Izzo , Lamberto Ballan

Vision transformers (ViTs) have been successfully applied in image classification tasks recently. In this paper, we show that, unlike convolution neural networks (CNNs)that can be improved by stacking more convolutional layers, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Daquan Zhou , Bingyi Kang , Xiaojie Jin , Linjie Yang , Xiaochen Lian , Zihang Jiang , Qibin Hou , Jiashi Feng

Adversarial attacks pose a significant threat to deep learning models, particularly in safety-critical applications like healthcare and autonomous driving. Recently, patch based attacks have demonstrated effectiveness in real-time inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Prashant Shekhar , Bidur Devkota , Dumindu Samaraweera , Laxima Niure Kandel , Manoj Babu

The ability of deep neural networks (DNNs) come from extracting and interpreting features from the data provided. By exploiting intermediate features in DNNs instead of relying on hard labels, we craft adversarial perturbation that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Shangbo Wu , Yu-an Tan , Ruinan Ma , Wencong Ma , Dehua Zhu , Yuanzhang Li

Since their inception, Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as a compelling alternative to Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) across a wide spectrum of tasks. ViTs exhibit notable characteristics, including global attention, resilience…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Hanan Gani , Nada Saadi , Noor Hussein , Karthik Nandakumar

Vision transformers (ViTs) have recently set off a new wave in neural architecture design thanks to their record-breaking performance in various vision tasks. In parallel, to fulfill the goal of deploying ViTs into real-world vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yonggan Fu , Shunyao Zhang , Shang Wu , Cheng Wan , Yingyan Celine Lin

Ensemble-based attacks have been proven to be effective in enhancing adversarial transferability by aggregating the outputs of models with various architectures. However, existing research primarily focuses on refining ensemble weights or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Hanwen Cao , Haobo Lu , Xiaosen Wang , Kun He

Recent advances in attention-based networks have shown that Vision Transformers can achieve state-of-the-art or near state-of-the-art results on many image classification tasks. This puts transformers in the unique position of being a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Kaleel Mahmood , Rigel Mahmood , Marten van Dijk

Vision Transformers (ViT) have recently demonstrated exemplary performance on a variety of vision tasks and are being used as an alternative to CNNs. Their design is based on a self-attention mechanism that processes images as a sequence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Akshayvarun Subramanya , Aniruddha Saha , Soroush Abbasi Koohpayegani , Ajinkya Tejankar , Hamed Pirsiavash

Vision transformer (ViT) expands the success of transformer models from sequential data to images. The model decomposes an image into many smaller patches and arranges them into a sequence. Multi-head self-attentions are then applied to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Yiran Li , Junpeng Wang , Xin Dai , Liang Wang , Chin-Chia Michael Yeh , Yan Zheng , Wei Zhang , Kwan-Liu Ma

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as a fundamental architecture and serve as the backbone of modern vision-language models. Despite their impressive performance, ViTs exhibit notable vulnerability to evasion attacks, necessitating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Xiaoyun Xu , Shujian Yu , Zhuoran Liu , Stjepan Picek

Deep learning models have shown remarkable success in dermatological image analysis, offering potential for automated skin disease diagnosis. Previously, convolutional neural network(CNN) based architectures have achieved immense popularity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Rifat Sadik , Tanvir Rahman , Arpan Bhattacharjee , Bikash Chandra Halder , Ismail Hossain , Mridul Banik , Jia Uddin

Recent studies show that Vision Transformers(ViTs) exhibit strong robustness against various corruptions. Although this property is partly attributed to the self-attention mechanism, there is still a lack of systematic understanding. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Daquan Zhou , Zhiding Yu , Enze Xie , Chaowei Xiao , Anima Anandkumar , Jiashi Feng , Jose M. Alvarez