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The emergence of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has revolutionized various domains by enabling the resolution of complex tasks spanning image recognition, natural language processing, and scientific problem-solving. However, this progress has…

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Machine learning is used for inference and decision making in wearable sensor systems. However, recent studies have found that machine learning algorithms are easily fooled by the addition of adversarial perturbations to their inputs. What…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Ramesh Kumar Sah , Hassan Ghasemzadeh

This work studies black-box adversarial attacks against deep neural networks (DNNs), where the attacker can only access the query feedback returned by the attacked DNN model, while other information such as model parameters or the training…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Yan Feng , Baoyuan Wu , Yanbo Fan , Li Liu , Zhifeng Li , Shutao Xia

Adversarial examples (AEs) for DNNs have been shown to be transferable: AEs that successfully fool white-box surrogate models can also deceive other black-box models with different architectures. Although a bunch of empirical studies have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Yechao Zhang , Shengshan Hu , Leo Yu Zhang , Junyu Shi , Minghui Li , Xiaogeng Liu , Wei Wan , Hai Jin

Today, the security of many domains rely on the use of Machine Learning to detect threats, identify vulnerabilities, and safeguard systems from attacks. Recently, transformer architectures have improved the state-of-the-art performance on a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Kunyang Li , Kyle Domico , Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand , Patrick McDaniel

Adversarial examples reveal the blind spots of deep neural networks (DNNs) and represent a major concern for security-critical applications. The transferability of adversarial examples makes real-world attacks possible in black-box…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Muzammal Naseer , Salman H. Khan , Harris Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Fatih Porikli

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples (AEs), which have adversarial transferability: AEs generated for the source model can mislead another (target) model's predictions. However, the transferability has not been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Futa Waseda , Sosuke Nishikawa , Trung-Nghia Le , Huy H. Nguyen , Isao Echizen

We investigate the role of transferability of adversarial attacks in the observed vulnerabilities of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). We demonstrate that introducing randomness to the DNN models is sufficient to defeat adversarial attacks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Yan Zhou , Murat Kantarcioglu , Bowei Xi

Recently, many studies utilized adversarial examples (AEs) to raise the cost of malicious image editing and copyright violation powered by latent diffusion models (LDMs). Despite their successes, a few have studied the surrogate model they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Junxi Chen , Junhao Dong , Xiaohua Xie

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial examples. And, the adversarial examples have transferability, which means that an adversarial example for a DNN model can fool another model with a non-trivial probability. This gave…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Dingcheng Yang , Zihao Xiao , Wenjian Yu

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

The transferability of adversarial examples allows for the attack on unknown deep neural networks (DNNs), posing a serious threat to many applications and attracting great attention. In this paper, we improve the transferability of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Qizhang Li , Yiwen Guo , Xiaochen Yang , Wangmeng Zuo , Hao Chen

Transferability of adversarial examples is of critical importance to launch black-box adversarial attacks, where attackers are only allowed to access the output of the target model. However, under such a challenging but practical setting,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Mingyuan Fan , Wenzhong Guo , Shengxing Yu , Zuobin Ying , Ximeng Liu

Transferability is the property of adversarial examples to be misclassified by other models than the surrogate model for which they were crafted. Previous research has shown that early stopping the training of the surrogate model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Martin Gubri , Maxime Cordy , Yves Le Traon

While machine learning has significantly advanced Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS), particularly within IoT environments where devices generate large volumes of data and are increasingly susceptible to cyber threats, these models…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Anass Grini , Oumaima Taheri , Btissam El Khamlichi , Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are well known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples (AEs). In addition, AEs have adversarial transferability, namely, AEs generated for a source model fool other (target) models. In this paper, we investigate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Miki Tanaka , Isao Echizen , Hitoshi Kiya

Jailbreak transferability is the surprising phenomenon when an adversarial attack compromising one model also elicits harmful responses from other models. Despite widespread demonstrations, there is little consensus on why transfer is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Rico Angell , Jannik Brinkmann , He He

In the past decades, the rise of artificial intelligence has given us the capabilities to solve the most challenging problems in our day-to-day lives, such as cancer prediction and autonomous navigation. However, these applications might…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Ehsan Nowroozi , Mohammadreza Mohammadi , Pargol Golmohammadi , Yassine Mekdad , Mauro Conti , Selcuk Uluagac

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

We consider availability data poisoning attacks, where an adversary aims to degrade the overall test accuracy of a machine learning model by crafting small perturbations to its training data. Existing poisoning strategies can achieve the…

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