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The increasing capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) have raised concerns about their misuse in AI-generated plagiarism and social engineering. While various AI-generated text detectors have been proposed to mitigate these risks,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Yize Cheng , Vinu Sankar Sadasivan , Mehrdad Saberi , Shoumik Saha , Soheil Feizi

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial examples which would inveigle neural networks to make prediction errors with small perturbations on the input images. Researchers have been devoted to promoting the research on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Jun Yan , Xiaoyang Deng , Huilin Yin , Wancheng Ge

We propose to generate adversarial samples by modifying activations of upper layers encoding semantically meaningful concepts. The original sample is shifted towards a target sample, yielding an adversarial sample, by using the modified…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Johannes Schneider , Giovanni Apruzzese

Adversarial training is an approach of increasing the robustness of models to adversarial attacks by including adversarial examples in the training set. One major challenge of producing adversarial examples is to contain sufficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Tianjin Huang , Vlado Menkovski , Yulong Pei , Mykola Pechenizkiy

While a substantial body of prior work has explored adversarial example generation for natural language understanding tasks, these examples are often unrealistic and diverge from the real-world data distributions. In this work, we introduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Saadia Gabriel , Hamid Palangi , Yejin Choi

Adversarial training is a common approach for bias mitigation in natural language processing. Although most work on debiasing is motivated by equal opportunity, it is not explicitly captured in standard adversarial training. In this paper,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Xudong Han , Timothy Baldwin , Trevor Cohn

Machine learning classifiers are vulnerable to adversarial examples -- input-specific perturbations that manipulate models' output. Universal Adversarial Perturbations (UAPs), which identify noisy patterns that generalize across the input…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Raphael Labaca-Castro , Luis Muñoz-González , Feargus Pendlebury , Gabi Dreo Rodosek , Fabio Pierazzi , Lorenzo Cavallaro

Adversarial attacks reveal important vulnerabilities and flaws of trained models. One potent type of attack are universal adversarial triggers, which are individual n-grams that, when appended to instances of a class under attack, can trick…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Pepa Atanasova , Dustin Wright , Isabelle Augenstein

Quantum classifiers are vulnerable to adversarial attacks that manipulate their input classical or quantum data. A promising countermeasure is adversarial training, where quantum classifiers are trained by using an attack-aware, adversarial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-25 Petros Georgiou , Aaron Mark Thomas , Sharu Theresa Jose , Osvaldo Simeone

Deep neural networks have achieved remarkable success in a wide range of classification tasks. However, they remain highly susceptible to adversarial examples - inputs that are subtly perturbed to induce misclassification while appearing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Virendra Nishad , Bhaskar Mukhoty , Hilal AlQuabeh , Sandeep K. Shukla , Sayak Ray Chowdhury

Generating high-quality textual adversarial examples is critical for investigating the pitfalls of natural language processing (NLP) models and further promoting their robustness. Existing attacks are usually realized through word-level or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Yibin Lei , Yu Cao , Dianqi Li , Tianyi Zhou , Meng Fang , Mykola Pechenizkiy

While recent progress has spawned very powerful machine learning systems, those agents remain extremely specialized and fail to transfer the knowledge they gain to similar yet unseen tasks. In this paper, we study a simple reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Remi Tachet , Philip Bachman , Harm van Seijen

Deep Neural Networks have been widely used in many fields. However, studies have shown that DNNs are easily attacked by adversarial examples, which have tiny perturbations and greatly mislead the correct judgment of DNNs. Furthermore, even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Shaowei Zhu , Wanli Lyu , Bin Li , Zhaoxia Yin , Bin Luo

Recently, deep learning based natural language processing techniques are being extensively used to deal with spam mail, censorship evaluation in social networks, among others. However, there is only a couple of works evaluating the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Di Li , Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas , Sakurai Kouichi

Generating high-quality and interpretable adversarial examples in the text domain is a much more daunting task than it is in the image domain. This is due partly to the discrete nature of text, partly to the problem of ensuring that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Samuel Barham , Soheil Feizi

Research of adversarial attacks is important for AI security because it shows the vulnerability of deep learning models and helps to build more robust models. Adversarial attacks on images are most widely studied, which include noise-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Xiaopei Zhu , Peiyang Xu , Guanning Zeng , Yingpeng Dong , Xiaolin Hu

We provide a complete characterisation of the phenomenon of adversarial examples - inputs intentionally crafted to fool machine learning models. We aim to cover all the important concerns in this field of study: (1) the conjectures on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Alexandru Constantin Serban , Erik Poll , Joost Visser

Recently, empowered with the powerful capabilities of neural networks, reinforcement learning (RL) has successfully tackled numerous challenging tasks. However, while these models demonstrate enhanced decision-making abilities, they are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Zhengpeng Xie , Yulong Zhang

Neural networks are known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples: inputs that are close to natural inputs but classified incorrectly. In order to better understand the space of adversarial examples, we survey ten recent proposals that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Nicholas Carlini , David Wagner

Adversarial examples are malicious inputs crafted to induce misclassification. Commonly studied sensitivity-based adversarial examples introduce semantically-small changes to an input that result in a different model prediction. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Florian Tramèr , Jens Behrmann , Nicholas Carlini , Nicolas Papernot , Jörn-Henrik Jacobsen