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Adversarial attack is commonly regarded as a huge threat to neural networks because of misleading behavior. This paper presents an opposite perspective: adversarial attacks can be harnessed to improve neural models if amended correctly.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Chong Yu , Tao Chen , Zhongxue Gan

Adversarial fine-tuning methods enhance adversarial robustness via fine-tuning the pre-trained model in an adversarial training manner. However, we identify that some specific latent features of adversarial samples are confused by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Nuoyan Zhou , Dawei Zhou , Decheng Liu , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao

Neural networks are known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks -- slight but carefully constructed perturbations of the inputs which can drastically impair the network's performance. Many defense methods have been proposed for improving…

The existing generative adversarial fusion methods generally concatenate source images and extract local features through convolution operation, without considering their global characteristics, which tends to produce an unbalanced result…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Zhishe Wang , Wenyu Shao , Yanlin Chen , Jiawei Xu , Xiaoqin Zhang

The rapid progress of Multi-Modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has significantly advanced downstream applications. However, this progress also exposes serious transferable adversarial vulnerabilities. In general, existing adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yuanbo Li , Tianyang Xu , Cong Hu , Tao Zhou , Xiao-Jun Wu , Josef Kittler

Autonomous agents deployed in the real world need to be robust against adversarial attacks on sensory inputs. Robustifying agent policies requires anticipating the strongest attacks possible. We demonstrate that existing observation-space…

Adversarial attacks and backdoor attacks are two common security threats that hang over deep learning. Both of them harness task-irrelevant features of data in their implementation. Text style is a feature that is naturally irrelevant to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Fanchao Qi , Yangyi Chen , Xurui Zhang , Mukai Li , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

Adversarial machine learning has been both a major concern and a hot topic recently, especially with the ubiquitous use of deep neural networks in the current landscape. Adversarial attacks and defenses are usually likened to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Ngoc N. Tran , Anh Tuan Bui , Dinh Phung , Trung Le

Despite modifying only a small localized input region, adversarial patches can drastically change the prediction of computer vision models. However, prior methods either cannot perform satisfactorily under targeted attack scenarios or fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Subrat Kishore Dutta , Xiao Zhang

Modern deep neural networks(DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial samples. Sparse adversarial samples are a special branch of adversarial samples that can fool the target model by only perturbing a few pixels. The existence of the sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Xiaoyi Dong , Dongdong Chen , Jianmin Bao , Chuan Qin , Lu Yuan , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu , Dong Chen

Deep neural networks are found to be prone to adversarial examples which could deliberately fool the model to make mistakes. Recently, a few of works expand this task from 2D image to 3D point cloud by using global point cloud optimization.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Yiming Sun , Feng Chen , Zhiyu Chen , Mingjie Wang

Recently, a multitude of methods for image-to-image translation have demonstrated impressive results on problems such as multi-domain or multi-attribute transfer. The vast majority of such works leverages the strengths of adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 James Oldfield , Yannis Panagakis , Mihalis A. Nicolaou

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

We introduce a feature scattering-based adversarial training approach for improving model robustness against adversarial attacks. Conventional adversarial training approaches leverage a supervised scheme (either targeted or non-targeted) in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Haichao Zhang , Jianyu Wang

Given the great threat of adversarial attacks against Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), numerous works have been proposed to boost transferability to attack real-world applications. However, existing attacks often utilize advanced gradient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Zhiyuan Wang , Zeliang Zhang , Siyuan Liang , Xiaosen Wang

Designing powerful adversarial attacks is of paramount importance for the evaluation of $\ell_p$-bounded adversarial defenses. Projected Gradient Descent (PGD) is one of the most effective and conceptually simple algorithms to generate such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Nikolaos Antoniou , Efthymios Georgiou , Alexandros Potamianos

Adversarial attacks meticulously generate minuscule, imperceptible perturbations to images to deceive neural networks. Counteracting these, adversarial purification methods seek to transform adversarial input samples into clean output…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Sitong Liu , Zhichao Lian , Shuangquan Zhang , Liang Xiao

Adversarial examples are one critical security threat to various visual applications, where injected human-imperceptible perturbations can confuse the output.Generating transferable adversarial examples in the black-box setting is crucial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Junlin Liu , Xinchen Lyu

We investigate adversarial-sample generation methods from a frequency domain perspective and extend standard $l_{\infty}$ Projected Gradient Descent (PGD) to the frequency domain. The resulting method, which we call Spectral Projected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Hans Shih-Han Wang , Cory Cornelius , Brandon Edwards , Jason Martin

We present a new method for black-box adversarial attack. Unlike previous methods that combined transfer-based and scored-based methods by using the gradient or initialization of a surrogate white-box model, this new method tries to learn a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Zhichao Huang , Tong Zhang