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Growing at a fast pace, modern autonomous systems will soon be deployed at scale, opening up the possibility for cooperative multi-agent systems. Sharing information and distributing workloads allow autonomous agents to better perform tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-13 James Tu , Tsunhsuan Wang , Jingkang Wang , Sivabalan Manivasagam , Mengye Ren , Raquel Urtasun

Image classification currently faces significant security challenges due to adversarial attacks, which consist of intentional alterations designed to deceive classification models based on artificial intelligence. This article explores an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Sergio Nesmachnow , Jamal Toutouh

Control policies, trained using the Deep Reinforcement Learning, have been recently shown to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks introducing even very small perturbations to the policy input. The attacks proposed so far have been designed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Alessio Russo , Alexandre Proutiere

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to the black-box adversarial attack that is highly transferable. This threat comes from the distribution gap between adversarial and clean samples in feature space of the target DNNs. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Xiaogang Xu , Hengshuang Zhao , Philip Torr , Jiaya Jia

Deep neural networks are powerful and popular learning models that achieve state-of-the-art pattern recognition performance on many computer vision, speech, and language processing tasks. However, these networks have also been shown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Nina Narodytska , Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan

Existing black-box attacks on deep neural networks (DNNs) so far have largely focused on transferability, where an adversarial instance generated for a locally trained model can "transfer" to attack other learning models. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Arjun Nitin Bhagoji , Warren He , Bo Li , Dawn Song

Machine learning models are now widely deployed in real-world applications. However, the existence of adversarial examples has been long considered a real threat to such models. While numerous defenses aiming to improve the robustness have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Sahar Abdelnabi , Mario Fritz

This study investigates behavior-targeted attacks on reinforcement learning and their countermeasures. Behavior-targeted attacks aim to manipulate the victim's behavior as desired by the adversary through adversarial interventions in state…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Shojiro Yamabe , Kazuto Fukuchi , Jun Sakuma

We consider the theoretical problem of designing an optimal adversarial attack on a decision system that maximally degrades the achievable performance of the system as measured by the mutual information between the degraded signal and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Jirong Yi , Raghu Mudumbai , Weiyu Xu

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

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) suffers from uncertainties and inaccuracies in the observation signal in realworld applications. Adversarial attack is an effective method for evaluating the robustness of DRL agents. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Tianyang Duan , Zongyuan Zhang , Zheng Lin , Yue Gao , Ling Xiong , Yong Cui , Hongbin Liang , Xianhao Chen , Heming Cui , Dong Huang

While modern day web applications aim to create impact at the civilization level, they have become vulnerable to adversarial activity, where the next cyber-attack can take any shape and can originate from anywhere. The increasing scale and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-28 Tegjyot Singh Sethi , Mehmed Kantardzic

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

Deep Learning has been shown to be particularly vulnerable to adversarial samples. To combat adversarial strategies, numerous defensive techniques have been proposed. Among these, a promising approach is to use randomness in order to make…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Kumar Sharad , Giorgia Azzurra Marson , Hien Thi Thu Truong , Ghassan Karame

Deep Learning has become popular due to its vast applications in almost all domains. However, models trained using deep learning are prone to failure for adversarial samples and carry a considerable risk in sensitive applications. Most of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Satyadwyoom Kumar , Saurabh Gupta , Arun Balaji Buduru

This work studies black-box adversarial attacks against deep neural networks (DNNs), where the attacker can only access the query feedback returned by the attacked DNN model, while other information such as model parameters or the training…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Yan Feng , Baoyuan Wu , Yanbo Fan , Li Liu , Zhifeng Li , Shutao Xia

Distributed learning frameworks, which partition neural network models across multiple computing nodes, enhance efficiency in collaborative edge-cloud systems, but may also introduce new vulnerabilities to evasion attacks, often in the form…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Giulio Rossolini , Tommaso Baldi , Alessandro Biondi , Giorgio Buttazzo

Robust machine learning is currently one of the most prominent topics which could potentially help shaping a future of advanced AI platforms that not only perform well in average cases but also in worst cases or adverse situations. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Pu Zhao , Sijia Liu , Pin-Yu Chen , Nghia Hoang , Kaidi Xu , Bhavya Kailkhura , Xue Lin

Recent studies show that Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which attack DRL models by adding small perturbations to the observations. However, some attacks assume full availability of the victim…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Xinlei Pan , Chaowei Xiao , Warren He , Shuang Yang , Jian Peng , Mingjie Sun , Jinfeng Yi , Zijiang Yang , Mingyan Liu , Bo Li , Dawn Song

Adversarial attacks based on randomized search schemes have obtained state-of-the-art results in black-box robustness evaluation recently. However, as we demonstrate in this work, their efficiency in different query budget regimes depends…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Maksym Yatsura , Jan Hendrik Metzen , Matthias Hein