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Neural network models are vulnerable to adversarial examples, and adversarial transferability further increases the risk of adversarial attacks. Current methods based on transferability often rely on substitute models, which can be…

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Neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, malicious inputs crafted to fool trained models. Adversarial examples often exhibit black-box transfer, meaning that adversarial examples for one model can fool another model. However,…

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Adversarial training is wildly considered as one of the most effective way to defend against adversarial examples. However, existing adversarial training methods consume unbearable time, due to the fact that they need to generate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Yaguan Qian , Qiqi Shao , Tengteng Yao , Bin Wang , Shouling Ji , Shaoning Zeng , Zhaoquan Gu , Wassim Swaileh

The transfer-based black-box adversarial attack setting poses the challenge of crafting an adversarial example (AE) on known surrogate models that remain effective against unseen target models. Due to the practical importance of this task,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Meixi Zheng , Kehan Wu , Yanbo Fan , Rui Huang , Baoyuan Wu

Due to the gap between a substitute model and a victim model, the gradient-based noise generated from a substitute model may have low transferability for a victim model since their gradients are different. Inspired by the fact that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Boheng Zeng , LianLi Gao , QiLong Zhang , ChaoQun Li , JingKuan Song , ShuaiQi Jing

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 generative models, such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), are widely applied for generating various types of data, i.e., images, text, and audio. Accordingly, its promising performance has led to the GAN-based…

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Adversarial Transferability is an intriguing property - adversarial perturbation crafted against one model is also effective against another model, while these models are from different model families or training processes. To better…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Zhuolin Yang , Linyi Li , Xiaojun Xu , Shiliang Zuo , Qian Chen , Benjamin Rubinstein , Pan Zhou , Ce Zhang , Bo Li

It is significant to evaluate the security of existing digital image tampering localization algorithms in real-world applications. In this paper, we propose an adversarial attack scheme to reveal the reliability of such tampering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Yuqi Wang , Gang Cao , Zijie Lou , Haochen Zhu

Black-box adversarial attacks on Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) are challenging due to missing gradients and complex multimodal boundaries. While prior state-of-the-art transfer-based approaches like M-Attack perform well using local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Xiaohan Zhao , Zhaoyi Li , Yaxin Luo , Jiacheng Cui , Zhiqiang Shen

Neural networks are susceptible to adversarial perturbations that are transferable across different models. In this paper, we introduce a novel model alignment technique aimed at improving a given source model's ability in generating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Avery Ma , Amir-massoud Farahmand , Yangchen Pan , Philip Torr , Jindong Gu

Adversarial examples (AE) with good transferability enable practical black-box attacks on diverse target models, where insider knowledge about the target models is not required. Previous methods often generate AE with no or very limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Tao Wu , Tie Luo , Donald C. Wunsch

In this work, we study the black-box targeted attack problem from the model discrepancy perspective. On the theoretical side, we present a generalization error bound for black-box targeted attacks, which gives a rigorous theoretical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Anqi Zhao , Tong Chu , Yahao Liu , Wen Li , Jingjing Li , Lixin Duan

We propose a method for improving adversarial robustness by addition of a new bounded function just before softmax. Recent studies hypothesize that small logits (inputs of softmax) by logit regularization can improve adversarial robustness…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-07 Sekitoshi Kanai , Masanori Yamada , Shin'ya Yamaguchi , Hiroshi Takahashi , Yasutoshi Ida

The transferability of adversarial examples allows the deception on black-box models, and transfer-based targeted attacks have attracted a lot of interest due to their practical applicability. To maximize the transfer success rate,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Junyoung Byun , Seungju Cho , Myung-Joon Kwon , Hee-Seon Kim , Changick Kim

We propose transferability from Large Geometric Vicinity (LGV), a new technique to increase the transferability of black-box adversarial attacks. LGV starts from a pretrained surrogate model and collects multiple weight sets from a few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Martin Gubri , Maxime Cordy , Mike Papadakis , Yves Le Traon , Koushik Sen

Segmentation models exhibit significant vulnerability to adversarial examples in white-box settings, but existing adversarial attack methods often show poor transferability across different segmentation models. While some researchers have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Yufei Song , Ziqi Zhou , Qi Lu , Hangtao Zhang , Yifan Hu , Lulu Xue , Shengshan Hu , Minghui Li , Leo Yu Zhang

Robust training methods typically defend against specific attack types, such as Lp attacks with fixed budgets, and rarely account for the fact that defenders may encounter new attacks over time. A natural solution is to adapt the defended…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Sihui Dai , Christian Cianfarani , Arjun Bhagoji , Vikash Sehwag , Prateek Mittal

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples that exhibit transferability across various models. Numerous approaches are proposed to enhance the transferability of adversarial examples, including advanced optimization, data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Zhaoyu Chen , Haijing Guo , Kaixun Jiang , Jiyuan Fu , Xinyu Zhou , Dingkang Yang , Hao Tang , Bo Li , Wenqiang Zhang

Although deep-learning based video recognition models have achieved remarkable success, they are vulnerable to adversarial examples that are generated by adding human-imperceptible perturbations on clean video samples. As indicated in…

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