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Transferable attacks generate adversarial examples on surrogate models to fool unknown victim models, posing real-world threats and growing research interest. Despite focusing on flat losses for transferable adversarial examples, recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Zhixuan Zhang , Pingyu Wang , Xingjian Zheng , Linbo Qing , Qi Liu

The utilization of large foundational models has a dilemma: while fine-tuning downstream tasks from them holds promise for making use of the well-generalized knowledge in practical applications, their open accessibility also poses threats…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Song Xia , Wenhan Yang , Yi Yu , Xun Lin , Henghui Ding , Ling-Yu Duan , Xudong Jiang

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

Action recognition models using deep learning are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which are transferable across other models trained on the same data modality. Existing transferable attack methods face two major challenges: 1) they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Ping Li , Jianan Ni , Bo Pang

Adversarial training has shown promise in building robust models against adversarial examples. A major drawback of adversarial training is the computational overhead introduced by the generation of adversarial examples. To overcome this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Xiaojun Jia , Jianshu Li , Jindong Gu , Yang Bai , Xiaochun Cao

Standard adversarial training approaches suffer from robust overfitting where the robust accuracy decreases when models are adversarially trained for too long. The origin of this problem is still unclear and conflicting explanations have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Muhammad Zaid Hameed , Beat Buesser

Transferability of adversarial examples is a key issue to apply this kind of attacks against multimedia forensics (MMF) techniques based on Deep Learning (DL) in a real-life setting. Adversarial example transferability, in fact, would open…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Wenjie Li , Benedetta Tondi , Rongrong Ni , Mauro Barni

This paper revisits the robust overfitting phenomenon of adversarial training. Observing that models with better robust generalization performance are less certain in predicting adversarially generated training inputs, we argue that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Minxing Zhang , Michael Backes , Xiao Zhang

Machine learning systems based on deep neural networks, being able to produce state-of-the-art results on various perception tasks, have gained mainstream adoption in many applications. However, they are shown to be vulnerable to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Bo Luo , Yannan Liu , Lingxiao Wei , Qiang Xu

Transferability captures the ability of an attack against a machine-learning model to be effective against a different, potentially unknown, model. Empirical evidence for transferability has been shown in previous work, but the underlying…

Diffusion Models (DMs) have empowered great success in artificial-intelligence-generated content, especially in artwork creation, yet raising new concerns in intellectual properties and copyright. For example, infringers can make profits by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Chumeng Liang , Xiaoyu Wu

Efforts to address declining accuracy as a result of data shifts often involve various data-augmentation strategies. Adversarial training is one such method, designed to improve robustness to worst-case distribution shifts caused by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Fatemeh Amerehi , Patrick Healy

Adversarial examples have been demonstrated to threaten many computer vision tasks including object detection. However, the existing attacking methods for object detection have two limitations: poor transferability, which denotes that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Xingxing Wei , Siyuan Liang , Ning Chen , Xiaochun Cao

While the transferability property of adversarial examples allows the adversary to perform black-box attacks (i.e., the attacker has no knowledge about the target model), the transfer-based adversarial attacks have gained great attention.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Bin Chen , Jia-Li Yin , Shukai Chen , Bo-Hao Chen , Ximeng Liu

Discrete adversarial attacks are symbolic perturbations to a language input that preserve the output label but lead to a prediction error. While such attacks have been extensively explored for the purpose of evaluating model robustness,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Maor Ivgi , Jonathan Berant

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which are crafted by adding human-imperceptible perturbations to original images. Most existing adversarial attack methods achieve nearly 100% attack success rates under the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Guoqiu Wang , Huanqian Yan , Ying Guo , Xingxing Wei

Malicious attackers can generate targeted adversarial examples by imposing tiny noises, forcing neural networks to produce specific incorrect outputs. With cross-model transferability, network models remain vulnerable even in black-box…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Hung-Jui Wang , Yu-Yu Wu , Shang-Tse Chen

Current neural-network-based classifiers are susceptible to adversarial examples. The most empirically successful approach to defending against such adversarial examples is adversarial training, which incorporates a strong self-attack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Bai Li , Shiqi Wang , Suman Jana , Lawrence Carin

Deep neural networks have achieved unprecedented success on diverse vision tasks. However, they are vulnerable to adversarial noise that is imperceptible to humans. This phenomenon negatively affects their deployment in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Jianping Zhang , Jen-tse Huang , Wenxuan Wang , Yichen Li , Weibin Wu , Xiaosen Wang , Yuxin Su , Michael R. Lyu

The presence of adversarial examples poses a significant threat to deep learning models and their applications. Existing defense methods provide certain resilience against adversarial examples, but often suffer from decreased accuracy and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Jiahao Chen , Diqun Yan , Li Dong