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This paper addresses the challenging black-box adversarial attack problem, where only classification confidence of a victim model is available. Inspired by consistency of visual saliency between different vision models, a surrogate model is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Jiancheng Yang , Yangzhou Jiang , Xiaoyang Huang , Bingbing Ni , Chenglong Zhao

Machine learning models are critically susceptible to evasion attacks from adversarial examples. Generally, adversarial examples, modified inputs deceptively similar to the original input, are constructed under whitebox settings by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Viet Quoc Vo , Ehsan Abbasnejad , Damith C. Ranasinghe

Existing language model safety evaluations focus on overt attacks and low-stakes tasks. In reality, an attacker can easily subvert existing safeguards by requesting help on small, benign-seeming tasks across many independent queries.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Davis Brown , Mahdi Sabbaghi , Luze Sun , Alexander Robey , George J. Pappas , Eric Wong , Hamed Hassani

Adversarial examples have gained tons of attention in recent years. Many adversarial attacks have been proposed to attack image classifiers, but few work shift attention to object detectors. In this paper, we propose Sparse Adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Jiayu Bao

Space-filling designs such as scrambled-Hammersley, Latin Hypercube Sampling and Jittered Sampling have been proposed for fully parallel hyperparameter search, and were shown to be more effective than random or grid search. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-22 M. -L. Cauwet , C. Couprie , J. Dehos , P. Luc , J. Rapin , M. Riviere , F. Teytaud , O. Teytaud

We study the most practical problem setup for evaluating adversarial robustness of a machine learning system with limited access: the hard-label black-box attack setting for generating adversarial examples, where limited model queries are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Minhao Cheng , Simranjit Singh , Patrick Chen , Pin-Yu Chen , Sijia Liu , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Existing score-based adversarial attacks mainly focus on crafting $top$-1 adversarial examples against classifiers with single-label classification. Their attack success rate and query efficiency are often less than satisfactory,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Md Farhamdur Reza , Richeng Jin , Tianfu Wu , Huaiyu Dai

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has emerged as a promising technique for automatic neural network design. However, existing MCTS based NAS approaches often utilize manually designed action space, which is not directly related to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Linnan Wang , Saining Xie , Teng Li , Rodrigo Fonseca , Yuandong Tian

Deep neural network models are used today in various applications of artificial intelligence, the strengthening of which, in the face of adversarial attacks is of particular importance. An appropriate solution to adversarial attacks is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Mohammad Khalooei , Mohammad Mehdi Homayounpour , Maryam Amirmazlaghani

Generative large language models are crucial in natural language processing, but they are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where subtle triggers compromise their behavior. Although backdoor attacks against LLMs are constantly emerging,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Xuxu Liu , Siyuan Liang , Mengya Han , Yong Luo , Aishan Liu , Xiantao Cai , Zheng He , Dacheng Tao

Analytical join queries over unstructured data are increasingly prevalent in data analytics. Applying machine learning (ML) models to label every pair in the cross product of tables can achieve state-of-the-art accuracy, but the cost of…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Yuxuan Zhu , Tengjun Jin , Chenghao Mo , Daniel Kang

Cosmological emulators of observables such as the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) spectra and matter power spectra commonly use training data sampled from a Latin hypercube. This method often incurs high computational costs by covering…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-03 Andreas Nygaard , Emil Brinch Holm , Steen Hannestad , Thomas Tram

Language models can be manipulated by adversarial attacks, which introduce subtle perturbations to input data. While recent attack methods can achieve a relatively high attack success rate (ASR), we've observed that the generated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Yibo Wang , Xiangjue Dong , James Caverlee , Philip S. Yu

Many machine learning algorithms are vulnerable to almost imperceptible perturbations of their inputs. So far it was unclear how much risk adversarial perturbations carry for the safety of real-world machine learning applications because…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-19 Wieland Brendel , Jonas Rauber , Matthias Bethge

We focus on the problem of adversarial attacks against models on discrete sequential data in the black-box setting where the attacker aims to craft adversarial examples with limited query access to the victim model. Existing black-box…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Deokjae Lee , Seungyong Moon , Junhyeok Lee , Hyun Oh Song

Textual adversarial attacks expose the vulnerabilities of text classifiers and can be used to improve their robustness. Existing context-aware methods solely consider the gold label probability and use the greedy search when searching an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Huijun Liu , Jie Yu , Shasha Li , Jun Ma , Bin Ji

As powerful Large Language Models (LLMs) are now widely used for numerous practical applications, their safety is of critical importance. While alignment techniques have significantly improved overall safety, LLMs remain vulnerable to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Samuel Jacob Chacko , Sajib Biswas , Chashi Mahiul Islam , Fatema Tabassum Liza , Xiuwen Liu

Current adversarial attack research reveals the vulnerability of learning-based classifiers against carefully crafted perturbations. However, most existing attack methods have inherent limitations in cross-dataset generalization as they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Cheng Luo , Qinliang Lin , Weicheng Xie , Bizhu Wu , Jinheng Xie , Linlin Shen

Backdoor attacks pose a significant threat to the integrity of text classification models used in natural language processing. While several dirty-label attacks that achieve high attack success rates (ASR) have been proposed, clean-label…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Onur Alp Kirci , M. Emre Gursoy

Training modern neural networks or models typically requires averaging over a sample of high-dimensional vectors. Poisoning attacks can skew or bias the average vectors used to train the model, forcing the model to learn specific patterns…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Sarthak Choudhary , Aashish Kolluri , Prateek Saxena