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The fine-tuning of pre-trained language models has a great success in many NLP fields. Yet, it is strikingly vulnerable to adversarial examples, e.g., word substitution attacks using only synonyms can easily fool a BERT-based sentiment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Xinhsuai Dong , Luu Anh Tuan , Min Lin , Shuicheng Yan , Hanwang Zhang

Adversarial attack is commonly regarded as a huge threat to neural networks because of misleading behavior. This paper presents an opposite perspective: adversarial attacks can be harnessed to improve neural models if amended correctly.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Chong Yu , Tao Chen , Zhongxue Gan

Attacks on machine learning models have been extensively studied through stateless optimization. In this paper, we demonstrate how a reinforcement learning (RL) agent can learn a new class of attack algorithms that generate adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Kyle Domico , Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand , Ryan Sheatsley , Eric Pauley , Josiah Hanna , Patrick McDaniel

This paper proposes adversarial attacks for Reinforcement Learning (RL) and then improves the robustness of Deep Reinforcement Learning algorithms (DRL) to parameter uncertainties with the help of these attacks. We show that even a naively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Anay Pattanaik , Zhenyi Tang , Shuijing Liu , Gautham Bommannan , Girish Chowdhary

This chapter studies emerging cyber-attacks on reinforcement learning (RL) and introduces a quantitative approach to analyze the vulnerabilities of RL. Focusing on adversarial manipulation on the cost signals, we analyze the performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Yunhan Huang , Quanyan Zhu

We study reward poisoning attacks on online deep reinforcement learning (DRL), where the attacker is oblivious to the learning algorithm used by the agent and the dynamics of the environment. We demonstrate the intrinsic vulnerability of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Yinglun Xu , Qi Zeng , Gagandeep Singh

We study reward poisoning attacks in reinforcement learning (RL), where an adversary manipulates rewards within constrained budgets to force the target RL agent to adopt a policy that aligns with the attacker's objectives. Prior works on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Jose Efraim Aguilar Escamilla , Haoyang Hong , Jiawei Li , Haoyu Zhao , Xuezhou Zhang , Sanghyun Hong , Huazheng Wang

Clean-label (CL) attack is a form of data poisoning attack where an adversary modifies only the textual input of the training data, without requiring access to the labeling function. CL attacks are relatively unexplored in NLP, as compared…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Ashim Gupta , Amrith Krishna

Adversarial machine learning concerns situations in which learners face attacks from active adversaries. Such scenarios arise in applications such as spam email filtering, malware detection and fake image generation, where security methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 David Benfield , Stefano Coniglio , Phan Tu Vuong , Alain Zemkoho

Adversarial training is an approach of increasing the robustness of models to adversarial attacks by including adversarial examples in the training set. One major challenge of producing adversarial examples is to contain sufficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Tianjin Huang , Vlado Menkovski , Yulong Pei , Mykola Pechenizkiy

By injecting adversarial examples into training data, adversarial training is promising for improving the robustness of deep learning models. However, most existing adversarial training approaches are based on a specific type of adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Chuanbiao Song , Kun He , Liwei Wang , John E. Hopcroft

This paper examines the robustness of deployed few-shot meta-learning systems when they are fed an imperceptibly perturbed few-shot dataset. We attack amortized meta-learners, which allows us to craft colluding sets of inputs that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Elre T. Oldewage , John Bronskill , Richard E. Turner

Most existing works focus on direct perturbations to the victim's state/action or the underlying transition dynamics to demonstrate the vulnerability of reinforcement learning agents to adversarial attacks. However, such direct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Xiangyu Liu , Souradip Chakraborty , Yanchao Sun , Furong Huang

Adversarial attacks refer to a set of methods that perturb the input to a classification model in order to fool the classifier. In this paper we apply different gradient based adversarial attack algorithms on five deep learning models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Vinod Subramanian , Emmanouil Benetos , Ning Xu , SKoT McDonald , Mark Sandler

By enabling agents to communicate, recent cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) methods have demonstrated better task performance and more coordinated behavior. Most existing approaches facilitate inter-agent communication…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Yat Long Lo , Christian Schroeder de Witt , Samuel Sokota , Jakob Nicolaus Foerster , Shimon Whiteson

Asynchronous Advantage Actor Critic (A3C) is an effective Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithm for a wide range of tasks, such as Atari games and robot control. The agent learns policies and value function through trial-and-error…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Zhaoyuan Gu , Zhenzhong Jia , Howie Choset

Despite the remarkable performance and generalization levels of deep learning models in a wide range of artificial intelligence tasks, it has been demonstrated that these models can be easily fooled by the addition of imperceptible yet…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Jon Vadillo , Roberto Santana , Jose A. Lozano

Adversarial training enhances the robustness of Machine Learning (ML) models against adversarial attacks. However, obtaining labeled training and adversarial training data in network/cybersecurity domains is challenging and costly.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Mohamed elShehaby , Aditya Kotha , Ashraf Matrawy

The wide-ranging applications of large language models (LLMs), especially in safety-critical domains, necessitate the proper evaluation of the LLM's adversarial robustness. This paper proposes an efficient tool to audit the LLM's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Xilie Xu , Keyi Kong , Ning Liu , Lizhen Cui , Di Wang , Jingfeng Zhang , Mohan Kankanhalli

Although attention mechanisms have been applied to a variety of deep learning models and have been shown to improve the prediction performance, it has been reported to be vulnerable to perturbations to the mechanism. To overcome the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Shunsuke Kitada , Hitoshi Iyatomi