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The textual adversarial attack refers to an attack method in which the attacker adds imperceptible perturbations to the original texts by elaborate design so that the NLP (natural language processing) model produces false judgments. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Xi Cao , Dolma Dawa , Nuo Qun , Trashi Nyima

Machine learning has been applied to a broad range of applications and some of them are available online as application programming interfaces (APIs) with either free (trial) or paid subscriptions. In this paper, we study adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Yi Shi , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Kemal Davaslioglu , Jason H. Li

We study an important and challenging task of attacking natural language processing models in a hard label black box setting. We propose a decision-based attack strategy that crafts high quality adversarial examples on text classification…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Rishabh Maheshwary , Saket Maheshwary , Vikram Pudi

While there has been substantial research using adversarial attacks to analyze NLP models, each attack is implemented in its own code repository. It remains challenging to develop NLP attacks and utilize them to improve model performance.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 John X. Morris , Eli Lifland , Jin Yong Yoo , Jake Grigsby , Di Jin , Yanjun Qi

Textual adversarial attacking has received wide and increasing attention in recent years. Various attack models have been proposed, which are enormously distinct and implemented with different programming frameworks and settings. These…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Guoyang Zeng , Fanchao Qi , Qianrui Zhou , Tingji Zhang , Zixian Ma , Bairu Hou , Yuan Zang , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

Backdoor attacks manipulate model predictions by inserting innocuous triggers into training and test data. We focus on more realistic and more challenging clean-label attacks where the adversarial training examples are correctly labeled.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Wencong You , Zayd Hammoudeh , Daniel Lowd

In this research, we use user defined labels from three internet text sources (Reddit, Stackexchange, Arxiv) to train 21 different machine learning models for the topic classification task of detecting cybersecurity discussions in natural…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Elijah Pelofske , Lorie M. Liebrock , Vincent Urias

Despite their promising performance across various natural language processing (NLP) tasks, current NLP systems are vulnerable to textual adversarial attacks. To defend against these attacks, most existing methods apply adversarial training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Junjie Wu , Dit-Yan Yeung

Recent advancements in natural language processing have highlighted the vulnerability of deep learning models to adversarial attacks. While various defence mechanisms have been proposed, there is a lack of comprehensive benchmarks that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Yang Wang , Chenghua Lin

An adversarial attack paradigm explores various scenarios for the vulnerability of deep learning models: minor changes of the input can force a model failure. Most of the state of the art frameworks focus on adversarial attacks for images…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-22 I. Fursov , A. Zaytsev , N. Kluchnikov , A. Kravchenko , E. Burnaev

Adversarial attacks pose a significant threat to machine learning models by inducing incorrect predictions through imperceptible perturbations to input data. While these attacks are well studied in unstructured domains such as images, their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Zhipeng He , Chun Ouyang , Lijie Wen , Cong Liu , Catarina Moreira

Object detection is the foundation of various critical computer-vision tasks such as segmentation, object tracking, and event detection. To train an object detector with satisfactory accuracy, a large amount of data is required. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Hua Ma , Yinshan Li , Yansong Gao , Zhi Zhang , Alsharif Abuadbba , Anmin Fu , Said F. Al-Sarawi , Nepal Surya , Derek Abbott

Adversarial attacking aims to fool deep neural networks with adversarial examples. In the field of natural language processing, various textual adversarial attack models have been proposed, varying in the accessibility to the victim model.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Yuan Zang , Bairu Hou , Fanchao Qi , Zhiyuan Liu , Xiaojun Meng , Maosong Sun

Transferable targeted adversarial attacks aim to mislead models into outputting adversary-specified predictions in black-box scenarios. Recent studies have introduced \textit{single-target} generative attacks that train a generator for each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Hao Fang , Jiawei Kong , Bin Chen , Tao Dai , Hao Wu , Shu-Tao Xia

Adversarial attacks against machine learning models have threatened various real-world applications such as spam filtering and sentiment analysis. In this paper, we propose a novel framework, learning to DIScriminate Perturbations (DISP),…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Yichao Zhou , Jyun-Yu Jiang , Kai-Wei Chang , Wei Wang

Although various techniques have been proposed to generate adversarial samples for white-box attacks on text, little attention has been paid to black-box attacks, which are more realistic scenarios. In this paper, we present a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Ji Gao , Jack Lanchantin , Mary Lou Soffa , Yanjun Qi

There has been recently a growing interest in studying adversarial examples on natural language models in the black-box setting. These methods attack natural language classifiers by perturbing certain important words until the classifier…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Mahmoud Hossam , Trung Le , He Zhao , Viet Huynh , Dinh Phung

Current adversarial attack algorithms, where an adversary changes a text to fool a victim model, have been repeatedly shown to be effective against text classifiers. These attacks, however, generally assume that the victim model is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Tom Roth , Inigo Jauregi Unanue , Alsharif Abuadbba , Massimo Piccardi

In this paper, we present an effective method to craft text adversarial samples, revealing one important yet underestimated fact that DNN-based text classifiers are also prone to adversarial sample attack. Specifically, confronted with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Bin Liang , Hongcheng Li , Miaoqiang Su , Pan Bian , Xirong Li , Wenchang Shi

Despite of the pervasive existence of multi-label evasion attack, it is an open yet essential problem to characterize the origin of the adversarial vulnerability of a multi-label learning system and assess its attackability. In this study,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Zhuo Yang , Yufei Han , Xiangliang Zhang