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Adversarial attacks remain a significant threat that can jeopardize the integrity of Machine Learning (ML) models. In particular, query-based black-box attacks can generate malicious noise without having access to the victim model's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Jeonghwan Park , Niall McLaughlin , Ihsen Alouani

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

Adversarial examples threaten the integrity of machine learning systems with alarming success rates even under constrained black-box conditions. Stateful defenses have emerged as an effective countermeasure, detecting potential attacks by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Ashish Hooda , Neal Mangaokar , Ryan Feng , Kassem Fawaz , Somesh Jha , Atul Prakash

In this paper, we formulate the new multi-objective coverage (MOC) problem where our goal is to identify a small set of representative samples whose predicted outcomes broadly cover the feasible multi-objective space. This problem is of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Zakaria Shams Siam , Xuefeng Liu , Chong Liu

We study the problem of efficient adversarial attacks on tree based ensembles such as gradient boosting decision trees (GBDTs) and random forests (RFs). Since these models are non-continuous step functions and gradient does not exist, most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Chong Zhang , Huan Zhang , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Feature selection for predictive analytics is the problem of identifying a minimal-size subset of features that is maximally predictive of an outcome of interest. To apply to molecular data, feature selection algorithms need to be scalable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-02 Michail Tsagris , Zacharias Papadovasilakis , Kleanthi Lakiotaki , Ioannis Tsamardinos

Hard-label black-box attacks, relying solely on top-1 predictions, represent one of the most challenging yet practically threat models. Despite recent progress, existing approaches face two key limitations: (1) they overlook the critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Jun Liu , Leo Yu Zhang , Fengpeng Li , Isao Echizen , Jiantao Zhou

Powerful adversarial attack methods are vital for understanding how to construct robust deep neural networks (DNNs) and for thoroughly testing defense techniques. In this paper, we propose a black-box adversarial attack algorithm that can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Yandong Li , Lijun Li , Liqiang Wang , Tong Zhang , Boqing Gong

Current high-quality object detection approaches use the scheme of salience-based object proposal methods followed by post-classification using deep convolutional features. This spurred recent research in improving object proposal methods.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-10 Christian Szegedy , Scott Reed , Dumitru Erhan , Dragomir Anguelov , Sergey Ioffe

Adversarial attacks on deep-learning models pose a serious threat to their reliability and security. Existing defense mechanisms are narrow addressing a specific type of attack or being vulnerable to sophisticated attacks. We propose a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Mouna Rabhi , Roberto Di Pietro

A significant number of machine learning models are vulnerable to model extraction attacks, which focus on stealing the models by using specially curated queries against the target model. This task is well accomplished by using part of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Harshit Shah , Aravindhan G , Pavan Kulkarni , Yuvaraj Govidarajulu , Manojkumar Parmar

Most black-box adversarial attack schemes for object detectors mainly face two shortcomings: requiring access to the target model and generating inefficient adversarial examples (failing to make objects disappear in large numbers). To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Hui Xia , Rui Zhang , Zi Kang , Shuliang Jiang

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

In this paper, we propose in our novel generative framework the use of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to generate features that provide robustness for object detection on reduced quality images. The proposed GAN-based Detection of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Charan D. Prakash , Lina J. Karam

The deep neural network is vulnerable to adversarial examples. Adding imperceptible adversarial perturbations to images is enough to make them fail. Most existing research focuses on attacking image classifiers or anchor-based object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Quanyu Liao , Xin Wang , Bin Kong , Siwei Lyu , Youbing Yin , Qi Song , Xi Wu

This paper focuses on high-transferable adversarial attacks on detectors, which are hard to attack in a black-box manner, because of their multiple-output characteristics and the diversity across architectures. To pursue a high attack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Sizhe Chen , Fan He , Xiaolin Huang , Kun Zhang

With the great success of graph embedding model on both academic and industry area, the robustness of graph embedding against adversarial attack inevitably becomes a central problem in graph learning domain. Regardless of the fruitful…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Heng Chang , Yu Rong , Tingyang Xu , Wenbing Huang , Honglei Zhang , Peng Cui , Wenwu Zhu , Junzhou Huang

Recent studies have shown that Deep Leaning models are susceptible to adversarial examples, which are data, in general images, intentionally modified to fool a machine learning classifier. In this paper, we present a multi-objective nested…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 A. E. Baia , G. Di Bari , V. Poggioni

Face recognition has obtained remarkable progress in recent years due to the great improvement of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, deep CNNs are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which can cause fateful consequences in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Yinpeng Dong , Hang Su , Baoyuan Wu , Zhifeng Li , Wei Liu , Tong Zhang , Jun Zhu

We consider adversarial examples for image classification in the black-box decision-based setting. Here, an attacker cannot access confidence scores, but only the final label. Most attacks for this scenario are either unreliable or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-30 Thomas Brunner , Frederik Diehl , Michael Truong Le , Alois Knoll