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Neural ranking models (NRMs) have undergone significant development and have become integral components of information retrieval (IR) systems. Unfortunately, recent research has unveiled the vulnerability of NRMs to adversarial document…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Xuanang Chen , Ben He , Le Sun , Yingfei Sun

Neural ranking models (NRMs) have shown remarkable success in recent years, especially with pre-trained language models. However, deep neural models are notorious for their vulnerability to adversarial examples. Adversarial attacks may…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Chen Wu , Ruqing Zhang , Jiafeng Guo , Maarten de Rijke , Yixing Fan , Xueqi Cheng

Neural text ranking models have witnessed significant advancement and are increasingly being deployed in practice. Unfortunately, they also inherit adversarial vulnerabilities of general neural models, which have been detected but remain…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Jiawei Liu , Yangyang Kang , Di Tang , Kaisong Song , Changlong Sun , Xiaofeng Wang , Wei Lu , Xiaozhong Liu

Neural ranking models (NRMs) and dense retrieval (DR) models have given rise to substantial improvements in overall retrieval performance. In addition to their effectiveness, and motivated by the proven lack of robustness of deep…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Yu-An Liu , Ruqing Zhang , Jiafeng Guo , Maarten de Rijke , Wei Chen , Yixing Fan , Xueqi Cheng

Recent research has shown that neural information retrieval techniques may be susceptible to adversarial attacks. Adversarial attacks seek to manipulate the ranking of documents, with the intention of exposing users to targeted content. In…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Amin Bigdeli , Negar Arabzadeh , Ebrahim Bagheri , Charles L. A. Clarke

Adversarial ranking attacks have gained increasing attention due to their success in probing vulnerabilities, and, hence, enhancing the robustness, of neural ranking models. Conventional attack methods employ perturbations at a single…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Yu-An Liu , Ruqing Zhang , Jiafeng Guo , Maarten de Rijke , Yixing Fan , Xueqi Cheng

Neural ranking models (NRMs) have been shown to be highly effective in terms of retrieval performance. Unfortunately, they have also displayed a higher degree of sensitivity to attacks than previous generation models. To help expose and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Yu-An Liu , Ruqing Zhang , Jiafeng Guo , Maarten de Rijke , Yixing Fan , Xueqi Cheng

Neural ranking models (NRMs) have shown great success in information retrieval (IR). But their predictions can easily be manipulated using adversarial examples, which are crafted by adding imperceptible perturbations to legitimate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Yu-An Liu , Ruqing Zhang , Mingkun Zhang , Wei Chen , Maarten de Rijke , Jiafeng Guo , Xueqi Cheng

Deep Neural Network (DNN) classifiers are vulnerable to adversarial attack, where an imperceptible perturbation could result in misclassification. However, the vulnerability of DNN-based image ranking systems remains under-explored. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Mo Zhou , Zhenxing Niu , Le Wang , Qilin Zhang , Gang Hua

Deep Neural Network classifiers are vulnerable to adversarial attack, where an imperceptible perturbation could result in misclassification. However, the vulnerability of DNN-based image ranking systems remains under-explored. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Mo Zhou , Le Wang , Zhenxing Niu , Qilin Zhang , Nanning Zheng , Gang Hua

There has been recently a growing interest in studying adversarial examples on natural language models in the black-box setting. These methods attack natural language classifiers by perturbing certain important words until the classifier…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Mahmoud Hossam , Trung Le , He Zhao , Viet Huynh , Dinh Phung

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which poses security concerns on these algorithms due to the potentially severe consequences. Adversarial attacks serve as an important surrogate to evaluate the robustness of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Yinpeng Dong , Fangzhou Liao , Tianyu Pang , Hang Su , Jun Zhu , Xiaolin Hu , Jianguo Li

Neural Ranking Models (NRMs) are central to modern information retrieval but remain highly vulnerable to adversarial manipulation. Existing attacks often rely on heuristics or surrogate models, limiting effectiveness and transferability. We…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Amin Bigdeli , Amir Khosrojerdi , Radin Hamidi Rad , Morteza Zihayat , Charles L. A. Clarke , Ebrahim Bagheri

Benchmarking outcomes increasingly govern trust, selection, and deployment of LLMs, yet these evaluations remain vulnerable to semantically equivalent adversarial perturbations. Prior work on adversarial robustness in NLP has emphasized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Ivan Dubrovsky , Anastasia Orlova , Illarion Iov , Nina Gubina , Irena Gureeva , Alexey Zaytsev

Adversarial attacks have gained traction in order to identify potential vulnerabilities in neural ranking models (NRMs), but current attack methods often introduce grammatical errors, nonsensical expressions, or incoherent text fragments,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Xuanang Chen , Ben He , Zheng Ye , Le Sun , Yingfei Sun

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated excellent performance on various tasks, however they are under the risk of adversarial examples that can be easily generated when the target model is accessible to an attacker (white-box…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Yang Bai , Yuyuan Zeng , Yong Jiang , Yisen Wang , Shu-Tao Xia , Weiwei Guo

We study the behavior of several black-box search algorithms used for generating adversarial examples for natural language processing (NLP) tasks. We perform a fine-grained analysis of three elements relevant to search: search algorithm,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Jin Yong Yoo , John X. Morris , Eli Lifland , Yanjun Qi

Building an effective adversarial attacker and elaborating on countermeasures for adversarial attacks for natural language processing (NLP) have attracted a lot of research in recent years. However, most of the existing approaches focus on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Wenjuan Han , Liwen Zhang , Yong Jiang , Kewei Tu

Adversarial examples are delicately perturbed inputs, which aim to mislead machine learning models towards incorrect outputs. While most of the existing work focuses on generating adversarial perturbations in multi-class classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Qingquan Song , Haifeng Jin , Xiao Huang , Xia Hu

While neural ranking models (NRMs) have shown high effectiveness, they remain susceptible to adversarial manipulation. In this work, we introduce Few-Shot Adversarial Prompting (FSAP), a novel black-box attack framework that leverages the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Amin Bigdeli , Negar Arabzadeh , Ebrahim Bagheri , Charles L. A. Clarke
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