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Neural networks play an increasingly important role in the field of machine learning and are included in many applications in society. Unfortunately, neural networks suffer from adversarial samples generated to attack them. However, most of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Xiaolei Liu , Yuheng Luo , Xiaosong Zhang , Qingxin Zhu

Though CNNs have achieved the state-of-the-art performance on various vision tasks, they are vulnerable to adversarial examples --- crafted by adding human-imperceptible perturbations to clean images. However, most of the existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Cihang Xie , Zhishuai Zhang , Yuyin Zhou , Song Bai , Jianyu Wang , Zhou Ren , Alan Yuille

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which are crafted by adding small, human-imperceptible perturbations to the original images, but make the model output inaccurate predictions. Before deep neural networks are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Bo Yang , Kaiyong Xu , Hengjun Wang , Hengwei Zhang

Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks (HGNNs) are increasingly recognized for their performance in areas like the web and e-commerce, where resilience against adversarial attacks is crucial. However, existing adversarial attack methods, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-19 He Zhao , Zhiwei Zeng , Yongwei Wang , Deheng Ye , Chunyan Miao

Surrogate algorithms such as Bayesian optimisation are especially designed for black-box optimisation problems with expensive objectives, such as hyperparameter tuning or simulation-based optimisation. In the literature, these algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Laurens Bliek , Arthur Guijt , Rickard Karlsson , Sicco Verwer , Mathijs de Weerdt

This work investigates efficient score-based black-box adversarial attacks with a high Attack Success Rate (ASR) and good generalizability. We design a novel attack method based on a Disentangled Feature space, called DifAttack, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Liu Jun , Zhou Jiantao , Zeng Jiandian , Jinyu Tian

In this paper, we propose a novel transfer-based targeted attack method that optimizes the adversarial perturbations without any extra training efforts for auxiliary networks on training data. Our new attack method is proposed based on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Zhipeng Wei , Jingjing Chen , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

We propose a new randomized ensemble technique with a provable security guarantee against black-box transfer attacks. Our proof constructs a new security problem for random binary classifiers which is easier to empirically verify and a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Kevin Shi , Daniel Hsu , Allison Bishop

Neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which are malicious inputs crafted to fool pre-trained models. Adversarial examples often exhibit black-box attacking transferability, which allows that adversarial examples crafted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-04 ZhaoXin Huan , Yulong Wang , Xiaolu Zhang , Lin Shang , Chilin Fu , Jun Zhou

Black-box adversarial attacks have demonstrated strong potential to compromise machine learning models by iteratively querying the target model or leveraging transferability from a local surrogate model. Recently, such attacks can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Hanbin Hong , Xinyu Zhang , Binghui Wang , Zhongjie Ba , Yuan Hong

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples crafted by applying human-imperceptible perturbations on clean inputs. Although many attack methods can achieve high success rates in the white-box setting, they also exhibit weak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Zhijin Ge , Fanhua Shang , Hongying Liu , Yuanyuan Liu , Liang Wan , Wei Feng , Xiaosen Wang

Adversarial examples generated from surrogate models often possess the ability to deceive other black-box models, a property known as transferability. Recent research has focused on enhancing adversarial transferability, with input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Tao Wang , Zijian Ying , Qianmu Li , zhichao Lian

Deep neural networks (DNNs) can be easily fooled by adding human imperceptible perturbations to the images. These perturbed images are known as `adversarial examples' and pose a serious threat to security and safety critical systems. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Muzammal Naseer , Salman H. Khan , Shafin Rahman , Fatih Porikli

Neural text ranking models have witnessed significant advancement and are increasingly being deployed in practice. Unfortunately, they also inherit adversarial vulnerabilities of general neural models, which have been detected but remain…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Jiawei Liu , Yangyang Kang , Di Tang , Kaisong Song , Changlong Sun , Xiaofeng Wang , Wei Lu , Xiaozhong Liu

Adversarial transferability refers to the capacity of adversarial examples generated on the surrogate model to deceive alternate, unexposed victim models. This property eliminates the need for direct access to the victim model during an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Xiaosen Wang , Zhijin Ge , Bohan Liu , Zheng Fang , Fengfan Zhou , Ruixuan Zhang , Shaokang Wang , Yuyang Luo

When a black-box optimization objective can only be evaluated with costly or noisy measurements, most standard optimization algorithms are unsuited to find the optimal solution. Specialized algorithms that deal with exactly this situation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Laurens Bliek , Sicco Verwer , Mathijs de Weerdt

Adversarial robustness in structured data remains an underexplored frontier compared to vision and language domains. In this work, we introduce a novel black-box, decision-based adversarial attack tailored for tabular data. Our approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Roie Kazoom , Yuval Ratzabi , Etamar Rothstein , Ofer Hadar

Deep hashing improves retrieval efficiency through compact binary codes, yet it introduces severe and often overlooked privacy risks. The ability to reconstruct original training data from hash codes could lead to serious threats such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Dongdong Zhao , Qiben Xu , Ranxin Fang , Baogang Song

Adversarial attacks against Deep Neural Networks have been widely studied. One significant feature that makes such attacks particularly powerful is transferability, where the adversarial examples generated from one model can be effective…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Renzhi Wang , Tianwei Zhang , Xiaofei Xie , Lei Ma , Cong Tian , Felix Juefei-Xu , Yang Liu

Watermarking approaches are widely used to identify if images being circulated are authentic or AI-generated. Determining the robustness of image watermarking methods in the ``no-box'' setting, where the attacker is assumed to have no…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Qilong Wu , Varun Chandrasekaran