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Adversarial samples for images have been extensively studied in the literature. Among many of the attacking methods, gradient-based methods are both effective and easy to compute. In this work, we propose a framework to adapt the gradient…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Zhitao Gong , Wenlu Wang , Bo Li , Dawn Song , Wei-Shinn Ku

Generating adversarial examples is an intriguing problem and an important way of understanding the working mechanism of deep neural networks. Most existing approaches generated perturbations in the image space, i.e., each pixel can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Xiaohui Zeng , Chenxi Liu , Yu-Siang Wang , Weichao Qiu , Lingxi Xie , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi Keung Tang , Alan L. Yuille

Many machine learning models can be attacked with adversarial examples, i.e. inputs close to correctly classified examples that are classified incorrectly. However, most research on adversarial attacks to date is limited to vectorial data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Benjamin Paaßen

Given a state-of-the-art deep neural network text classifier, we show the existence of a universal and very small perturbation vector (in the embedding space) that causes natural text to be misclassified with high probability. Unlike images…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Hang Gao , Tim Oates

Text-based machine learning models are vulnerable to an emerging class of Unicode-based adversarial examples capable of tricking a model into misreading text with potentially disastrous effects. The primary existing defense against these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Nicholas Boucher , Jenny Blessing , Ilia Shumailov , Ross Anderson , Nicolas Papernot

We propose a new adversarial attack to Deep Neural Networks for image classification. Different from most existing attacks that directly perturb input pixels, our attack focuses on perturbing abstract features, more specifically, features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Qiuling Xu , Guanhong Tao , Siyuan Cheng , Xiangyu Zhang

Recent advances in natural language generation have introduced powerful language models with high-quality output text. However, this raises concerns about the potential misuse of such models for malicious purposes. In this paper, we study…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Sahar Abdelnabi , Mario Fritz

Adversarial attacks on Natural Language Processing (NLP) models expose vulnerabilities by introducing subtle perturbations to input text, often leading to misclassification while maintaining human readability. Existing methods typically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Hetvi Waghela , Jaydip Sen , Sneha Rakshit , Subhasis Dasgupta

Natural images are virtually surrounded by low-density misclassified regions that can be efficiently discovered by gradient-guided search --- enabling the generation of adversarial images. While many techniques for detecting these attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Tao Yu , Shengyuan Hu , Chuan Guo , Wei-Lun Chao , Kilian Q. Weinberger

Production machine learning systems are consistently under attack by adversarial actors. Various deep learning models must be capable of accurately detecting fake or adversarial input while maintaining speed. In this work, we propose one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Matthew Ciolino , Josh Kalin , David Noever

The incremental diffusion of machine learning algorithms in supporting cybersecurity is creating novel defensive opportunities but also new types of risks. Multiple researches have shown that machine learning methods are vulnerable to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Giovanni Apruzzese , Mauro Andreolini , Luca Ferretti , Mirco Marchetti , Michele Colajanni

Many existing deep learning models are vulnerable to adversarial examples that are imperceptible to humans. To address this issue, various methods have been proposed to design network architectures that are robust to one particular type of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Jia Liu , Yaochu Jin

Traditional adversarial attacks concentrate on manipulating clean examples in the pixel space by adding adversarial perturbations. By contrast, semantic adversarial attacks focus on changing semantic attributes of clean examples, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Chenan Wang , Jinhao Duan , Chaowei Xiao , Edward Kim , Matthew Stamm , Kaidi Xu

The existence of adversarial attacks (or adversarial examples) brings huge concern about the machine learning (ML) model's safety issues. For many safety-critical ML tasks, such as financial forecasting, fraudulent detection, and anomaly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Han Xu , Menghai Pan , Zhimeng Jiang , Huiyuan Chen , Xiaoting Li , Mahashweta Das , Hao Yang

The field of computer vision has witnessed phenomenal progress in recent years partially due to the development of deep convolutional neural networks. However, deep learning models are notoriously sensitive to adversarial examples which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Haofeng Li , Yirui Zeng , Guanbin Li , Liang Lin , Yizhou Yu

Deep neural networks have been proven to be vulnerable to adversarial examples and various methods have been proposed to defend against adversarial attacks for natural language processing tasks. However, previous defense methods have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Fangyuan Zhang , Huichi Zhou , Shuangjiao Li , Hongtao Wang

Adversarial attacks can generate adversarial inputs by applying small but intentionally worst-case perturbations to samples from the dataset, which leads to even state-of-the-art deep neural networks outputting incorrect answers with high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Shorya Sharma

We propose an approach to distinguish between correct and incorrect image classifications. Our approach can detect misclassifications which either occur $\it{unintentionally}$ ("natural errors"), or due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Yuval Bahat , Michal Irani , Gregory Shakhnarovich

Word-level adversarial attacks have shown success in NLP models, drastically decreasing the performance of transformer-based models in recent years. As a countermeasure, adversarial defense has been explored, but relatively few efforts have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-04 KiYoon Yoo , Jangho Kim , Jiho Jang , Nojun Kwak

Adversarial perturbations aim to deceive neural networks into predicting inaccurate results. For visual object trackers, adversarial attacks have been developed to generate perturbations by manipulating the outputs. However, transformer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Fatemeh Nourilenjan Nokabadi , Jean-Francois Lalonde , Christian Gagné