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Adversarial training (AT) is a prominent technique employed by deep learning models to defend against adversarial attacks, and to some extent, enhance model robustness. However, there are three main drawbacks of the existing AT-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 X. Peng , D. Zhou , G. Sun , J. Shi , L. Wu

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

Security Games employ game theoretical tools to derive resource allocation strategies in security domains. Recent works considered the presence of alarm systems, even suffering various forms of uncertainty, and showed that disregarding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-06-08 Nicola Basilico , Giuseppe De Nittis , Nicola Gatti

We consider a variant of the target defense problem where a single defender is tasked to capture a sequence of incoming intruders. Both the defender and the intruders have non-holonomic dynamics. The intruders' objective is to breach the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Arman Pourghorban , Dipankar Maity

Multi-targeted adversarial attacks aim to mislead classifiers toward specific target classes using a single perturbation generator with a conditional input specifying the desired target class. Existing methods face two key limitations: (1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Taïga Gonçalves , Tomo Miyazaki , Shinichiro Omachi

Deep learning has achieved remarkable success in direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation. However, recent studies have shown that adversarial perturbations can severely compromise the performance of such models. To address this vulnerability,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-12 Shilian Zheng , Xiaoxiang Wu , Luxin Zhang , Keqiang Yue , Peihan Qi , Zhijin Zhao

While Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) excel in many tasks, the huge training resources they require become an obstacle for practitioners to develop their own models. It has become common to collect data from the Internet or hire a third party…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Pengfei Xia , Hongjing Niu , Ziqiang Li , Bin Li

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attack which is maliciously implemented by adding human-imperceptible perturbation to images and thus leads to incorrect prediction. Existing studies have proposed various methods to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Chen Ma , Chenxu Zhao , Hailin Shi , Li Chen , Junhai Yong , Dan Zeng

Adversarial attacks against stochastic multi-armed bandit (MAB) algorithms have been extensively studied in the literature. In this work, we focus on reward poisoning attacks and find most existing attacks can be easily detected by our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Zhiwei Wang , Huazheng Wang , Hongning Wang

In the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence, machine learning emerges as a key technology characterized by its vast potential and inherent risks. The stability and reliability of these models are important, as they are frequent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Haibo Zhang , Zhihua Yao , Kouichi Sakurai , Takeshi Saitoh

In this paper, we consider a novel variant of the multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem, MAB with cost subsidy, which models many real-life applications where the learning agent has to pay to select an arm and is concerned about optimizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Deeksha Sinha , Karthik Abinav Sankararama , Abbas Kazerouni , Vashist Avadhanula

This paper addresses the active target defense differential game where an Attacker missile pursues a Target aircraft. A Defender missile is fired by the Target's wingman in order to intercept the Attacker before it reaches the aircraft.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-02-11 Eloy Garcia , David W. Casbeer , Meir Pachter

The robustness and security of large language models (LLMs) has become a prominent research area. One notable vulnerability is the ability to bypass LLM safeguards by translating harmful queries into rare or underrepresented languages, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Hongliang Li , Jinan Xu , Gengping Cui , Changhao Guan , Fengran Mo , Kaiyu Huang

This paper studies defense mechanisms against model inversion (MI) attacks -- a type of privacy attacks aimed at inferring information about the training data distribution given the access to a target machine learning model. Existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Tianhao Wang , Yuheng Zhang , Ruoxi Jia

We consider a variant of the target defense problem where a single defender is tasked to capture a sequence of incoming intruders. The intruders' objective is to breach the target boundary without being captured by the defender. As soon as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Arman Pourghorban , Michael Dorothy , Daigo Shishika , Alexander Von Moll , Dipankar Maity

Determining what experience to generate to best facilitate learning (i.e. exploration) is one of the distinguishing features and open challenges in reinforcement learning. The advent of distributed agents that interact with parallel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Tom Schaul , Diana Borsa , David Ding , David Szepesvari , Georg Ostrovski , Will Dabney , Simon Osindero

I study adversarial attacks against stochastic bandit algorithms. At each round, the learner chooses an arm, and a stochastic reward is generated. The adversary strategically adds corruption to the reward, and the learner is only able to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Shiliang Zuo

Targeted adversarial attacks are widely used to evaluate the robustness of neural machine translation systems. Unfortunately, this paper first identifies a critical issue in the existing settings of NMT targeted adversarial attacks, where…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Junjie Wu , Lemao Liu , Wei Bi , Dit-Yan Yeung

The multi-agent reinforcement learning systems (MARL) based on the Markov decision process (MDP) have emerged in many critical applications. To improve the robustness/defense of MARL systems against adversarial attacks, the study of various…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Ziqing Lu , Guanlin Liu , Lifeng Lai , Weiyu Xu

The state-of-the-art predictive maintenance (PdM) techniques have shown great success in reducing maintenance costs and downtime of complicated machines while increasing overall productivity through extensive utilization of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Ayesha Siddique , Ripan Kumar Kundu , Gautam Raj Mode , Khaza Anuarul Hoque