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Deep neural networks are vulnerable to universal adversarial perturbation (UAP), an instance-agnostic perturbation capable of fooling the target model for most samples. Compared to instance-specific adversarial examples, UAP is more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Xuannan Liu , Yaoyao Zhong , Yuhang Zhang , Lixiong Qin , Weihong Deng

Network embedding maps a network into a low-dimensional Euclidean space, and thus facilitate many network analysis tasks, such as node classification, link prediction and community detection etc, by utilizing machine learning methods. In…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-09-18 Jinyin Chen , Yangyang Wu , Xuanheng Xu , Yixian Chen , Haibin Zheng , Qi Xuan

While the transferability property of adversarial examples allows the adversary to perform black-box attacks (i.e., the attacker has no knowledge about the target model), the transfer-based adversarial attacks have gained great attention.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Bin Chen , Jia-Li Yin , Shukai Chen , Bo-Hao Chen , Ximeng Liu

One of the training strategies of generative models is to minimize the Jensen--Shannon divergence between the model distribution and the data distribution. Since data distribution is unknown, generative adversarial networks (GANs) formulate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Hiroki Naganuma , Hideaki Iiduka

Model inversion attacks (MIAs) aim to reconstruct class-representative samples from trained models. Recent generative MIAs utilize generative adversarial networks to learn image priors that guide the inversion process, yielding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Xiong Peng , Bo Han , Fengfei Yu , Tongliang Liu , Feng Liu , Mingyuan Zhou

Model inversion (MI) attacks have raised increasing concerns about privacy, which can reconstruct training data from public models. Indeed, MI attacks can be formalized as an optimization problem that seeks private data in a certain space.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Xiaojian Yuan , Kejiang Chen , Jie Zhang , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu , Yang Zhang

Model inversion attacks (MIAs) seek to infer the private training data of a target classifier by generating synthetic images that reflect the characteristics of the target class through querying the model. However, prior studies have relied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Xinhao Liu , Yingzhao Jiang , Zetao Lin

Adversarial attacks on deep learning models have compromised their performance considerably. As remedies, a lot of defense methods were proposed, which however, have been circumvented by newer attacking strategies. In the midst of this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Vignesh Srinivasan , Arturo Marban , Klaus-Robert Müller , Wojciech Samek , Shinichi Nakajima

Quantized neural networks (QNNs) have received increasing attention in resource-constrained scenarios due to their exceptional generalizability. However, their robustness against realistic black-box adversarial attacks has not been…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Yulong Yang , Chenhao Lin , Qian Li , Zhengyu Zhao , Haoran Fan , Dawei Zhou , Nannan Wang , Tongliang Liu , Chao Shen

State-of-the-art adversarial attacks are aimed at neural network classifiers. By default, neural networks use gradient descent to minimize their loss function. The gradient of a classifier's loss function is used by gradient-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Blerta Lindqvist , Rauf Izmailov

Transferable attacks generate adversarial examples on surrogate models to fool unknown victim models, posing real-world threats and growing research interest. Despite focusing on flat losses for transferable adversarial examples, recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Zhixuan Zhang , Pingyu Wang , Xingjian Zheng , Linbo Qing , Qi Liu

Deep neural networks often suffer from poor performance or even training failure due to the ill-conditioned problem, the vanishing/exploding gradient problem, and the saddle point problem. In this paper, a novel method by acting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Mei Liu , Liangming Chen , Xiaohao Du , Long Jin , Mingsheng Shang

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

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, and adversarial attacks that generate adversarial examples have been studied in this context. Existing studies imply that increasing the diversity of model outputs contributes to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Keiichiro Yamamura , Issa Oe , Hiroki Ishikura , Katsuki Fujisawa

Transfer-based attack adopts the adversarial examples generated on the surrogate model to attack various models, making it applicable in the physical world and attracting increasing interest. Recently, various adversarial attacks have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Zhijin Ge , Hongying Liu , Xiaosen Wang , Fanhua Shang , Yuanyuan Liu

Deep learning (DL) is becoming popular as a new tool for many applications in wireless communication systems. However, for many classification tasks (e.g., modulation classification) it has been shown that DL-based wireless systems are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-29 B. R. Manoj , Meysam Sadeghi , Erik G. Larsson

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) in Computer Vision (CV) are well-known to be vulnerable to Adversarial Examples (AEs), namely imperceptible perturbations added maliciously to cause wrong classification results. Such variability has been a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Yi Zeng , Han Qiu , Gerard Memmi , Meikang Qiu

Black-box adversarial attacks on Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) are challenging due to missing gradients and complex multimodal boundaries. While prior state-of-the-art transfer-based approaches like M-Attack perform well using local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Xiaohan Zhao , Zhaoyi Li , Yaxin Luo , Jiacheng Cui , Zhiqiang Shen

No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) models play an important role in various real-world applications. Recently, adversarial attacks against NR-IQA models have attracted increasing attention, as they provide valuable insights for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Yujia Liu , Dingquan Li , Zhixuan Li , Tiejun Huang

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