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Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples -- minor perturbations added to a model's input which cause the model to output an incorrect prediction. We introduce a new method for improving the efficacy of adversarial attacks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Chris Miller , Soroush Vosoughi

Deep learning models are used in safety-critical tasks such as automated driving and face recognition. However, small perturbations in the model input can significantly change the predictions. Adversarial attacks are used to identify small…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Issa Oe , Keiichiro Yamamura , Hiroki Ishikura , Ryo Hamahira , Katsuki Fujisawa

Current black-box adversarial attacks either require multiple queries or diffusion models to produce adversarial samples that can impair the target model performance. However, these methods require training a surrogate loss or diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Joana C. Costa , Tiago Roxo , Hugo Proença , Pedro R. M. Inácio

Solving for adversarial examples with projected gradient descent has been demonstrated to be highly effective in fooling the neural network based classifiers. However, in the black-box setting, the attacker is limited only to the query…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Seungyong Moon , Gaon An , Hyun Oh Song

Decision-based attacks construct adversarial examples against a machine learning (ML) model by making only hard-label queries. These attacks have mainly been applied directly to standalone neural networks. However, in practice, ML models…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Chawin Sitawarin , Florian Tramèr , Nicholas Carlini

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

We propose a novel gradient-based attack against transformer-based language models that searches for an adversarial example in a continuous space of token probabilities. Our algorithm mitigates the gap between adversarial loss for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Piotr Gaiński , Klaudia Bałazy

Many word-level adversarial attack approaches for textual data have been proposed in recent studies. However, due to the massive search space consisting of combinations of candidate words, the existing approaches face the problem of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Xingyi Zhao , Lu Zhang , Depeng Xu , Shuhan Yuan

Deep neural networks have been shown to perform well in many classical machine learning problems, especially in image classification tasks. However, researchers have found that neural networks can be easily fooled, and they are surprisingly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Huaxia Wang , Chun-Nam Yu

Adversarial black-box attacks aim to craft adversarial perturbations by querying input-output pairs of machine learning models. They are widely used to evaluate the robustness of pre-trained models. However, black-box attacks often suffer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Lu Wang , Huan Zhang , Jinfeng Yi , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Yuan Jiang

We study adversarial examples in a black-box setting where the adversary only has API access to the target model and each query is expensive. Prior work on black-box adversarial examples follows one of two main strategies: (1) transfer…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Fnu Suya , Jianfeng Chi , David Evans , Yuan Tian

Almost all adversarial attacks are formulated to add an imperceptible perturbation to an image in order to fool a model. Here, we consider the opposite which is adversarial examples that can fool a human but not a model. A large enough and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Ali Borji

We now have a rich and growing set of modeling tools and algorithms for inducing linguistic structure from text that is less than fully annotated. In this paper, we discuss some of the weaknesses of our current methodology. We present a new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2012-07-17 Noah A. Smith

With the boom of Large Language Models (LLMs), the research of solving Math Word Problem (MWP) has recently made great progress. However, there are few studies to examine the security of LLMs in math solving ability. Instead of attacking…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Zihao Zhou , Qiufeng Wang , Mingyu Jin , Jie Yao , Jianan Ye , Wei Liu , Wei Wang , Xiaowei Huang , Kaizhu Huang

Adversarial attack research in natural language processing (NLP) has made significant progress in designing powerful attack methods and defence approaches. However, few efforts have sought to identify which source samples are the most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Vyas Raina , Mark Gales

With the development of large language models (LLMs), detecting whether text is generated by a machine becomes increasingly challenging in the face of malicious use cases like the spread of false information, protection of intellectual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Ying Zhou , Ben He , Le Sun

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

Neural ranking models (NRMs) have attracted considerable attention in information retrieval. Unfortunately, NRMs may inherit the adversarial vulnerabilities of general neural networks, which might be leveraged by black-hat search engine…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Yu-An Liu , Ruqing Zhang , Jiafeng Guo , Maarten de Rijke , Wei Chen , Yixing Fan , Xueqi Cheng

Many optimization methods for generating black-box adversarial examples have been proposed, but the aspect of initializing said optimizers has not been considered in much detail. We show that the choice of starting points is indeed crucial,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Thomas Brunner , Frederik Diehl , Alois Knoll

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