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Adversarial prompts generated using gradient-based methods exhibit outstanding performance in performing automatic jailbreak attacks against safety-aligned LLMs. Nevertheless, due to the discrete nature of texts, the input gradient of LLMs…

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Adversarial training is an effective defense method to protect classification models against adversarial attacks. However, one limitation of this approach is that it can require orders of magnitude additional training time due to high cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Haizhong Zheng , Ziqi Zhang , Juncheng Gu , Honglak Lee , Atul Prakash

Transfer learning has become a common practice for training deep learning models with limited labeled data in a target domain. On the other hand, deep models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Though transfer learning has been widely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Yinghua Zhang , Yangqiu Song , Jian Liang , Kun Bai , Qiang Yang

Transfer-based attacks generate adversarial examples on the surrogate model, which can mislead other black-box models without access, making it promising to attack real-world applications. Recently, several works have been proposed to boost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Xiaosen Wang , Kangheng Tong , Kun He

Transferable adversarial attacks pose significant threats to deep neural networks, particularly in black-box scenarios where internal model information is inaccessible. Studying adversarial attack methods helps advance the performance of…

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We present a general framework for matching with transferable utility (TU) that accommodates arbitrary heterogeneity without relying on the logit structure. The optimal assignment problem is characterized by tractable linear programming…

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Deep neural networks (DNNs) are known to be susceptible to adversarial examples, leading to significant performance degradation. In black-box attack scenarios, a considerable attack performance gap between the surrogate model and the target…

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The logit transform is arguably the most widely-employed link function beyond linear settings. This transformation routinely appears in regression models for binary data and provides a central building-block in popular methods for both…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-13 Niccolò Anceschi , Cristian Castiglione , Tommaso Rigon , Giacomo Zanella , Daniele Durante

In recent years, research on adversarial attacks has become a hot spot. Although current literature on the transfer-based adversarial attack has achieved promising results for improving the transferability to unseen black-box models, it…

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The adversarial vulnerability of deep neural networks (DNNs) has been actively investigated in the past several years. This paper investigates the scale-variant property of cross-entropy loss, which is the most commonly used loss function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Ziquan Liu , Antoni B. Chan

Deep neural networks can be easily fooled into making incorrect predictions through corruption of the input by adversarial perturbations: human-imperceptible artificial noise. So far adversarial training has been the most successful defense…

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Deep neural networks have been applied in many computer vision tasks and achieved state-of-the-art performance. However, misclassification will occur when DNN predicts adversarial examples which add human-imperceptible adversarial noise to…

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espite being widely used in network intrusion detection systems (NIDSs), machine learning (ML) has proven to be highly vulnerable to adversarial attacks. White-box and black-box adversarial attacks of NIDS have been explored in several…

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Deep neural networks can be vulnerable to adversarially crafted examples, presenting significant risks to practical applications. A prevalent approach for adversarial attacks relies on the transferability of adversarial examples, which are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Shanjun Xu , Linghui Li , Kaiguo Yuan , Bingyu Li

Transferability-based adversarial attacks exploit the ability of adversarial examples, crafted to deceive a specific source Intrusion Detection System (IDS) model, to also mislead a target IDS model without requiring access to the training…

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Deep Neural Networks are susceptible to adversarial perturbations. Adversarial training and adversarial purification are among the most widely recognized defense strategies. Although these methods have different underlying logic, both rely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Hao Xuan , Peican Zhu , Xingyu Li

Metric learning aims to learn a distance metric such that semantically similar instances are pulled together while dissimilar instances are pushed away. Many existing methods consider maximizing or at least constraining a distance margin in…

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Adversarial attacks present a critical challenge to deep neural networks' robustness, particularly in transfer scenarios across different model architectures. However, the transferability of adversarial attacks faces a fundamental dilemma…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Zenghao Niu , Weicheng Xie , Siyang Song , Zitong Yu , Feng Liu , Linlin Shen

Model calibration aims to align confidence with prediction correctness. The Cross-Entropy (CE) loss is widely used for calibrator training, which enforces the model to increase confidence on the ground truth class. However, we find the CE…

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