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Adversarial examples pose a significant challenge to deep neural networks (DNNs) across both image and text domains, with the intent to degrade model performance through meticulously altered inputs. Adversarial texts, however, are distinct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Shakila Mahjabin Tonni , Pedro Faustini , Mark Dras

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated with graph-structured data for tasks like node classification, a domain traditionally dominated by Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). While this integration leverages rich relational…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Iyiola E. Olatunji , Franziska Boenisch , Jing Xu , Adam Dziedzic

AI systems can take harmful actions and are highly vulnerable to adversarial attacks. We present an approach, inspired by recent advances in representation engineering, that interrupts the models as they respond with harmful outputs with…

In this paper, we propose novel generative models for creating adversarial examples, slightly perturbed images resembling natural images but maliciously crafted to fool pre-trained models. We present trainable deep neural networks for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Omid Poursaeed , Isay Katsman , Bicheng Gao , Serge Belongie

As Large Language Models (LLMs) become increasingly integrated into real-world decision-making systems, understanding their behavioural vulnerabilities remains a critical challenge for AI safety and alignment. While existing evaluation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Lili Zhang , Haomiaomiao Wang , Long Cheng , Libao Deng , Tomas Ward

Adversarial attacks dramatically change the output of an otherwise accurate learning system using a seemingly inconsequential modification to a piece of input data. Paradoxically, empirical evidence indicates that even systems which are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Oliver J. Sutton , Qinghua Zhou , Ivan Y. Tyukin , Alexander N. Gorban , Alexander Bastounis , Desmond J. Higham

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in applications where the model selects from competing third-party content, such as in LLM-powered search engines or chatbot plugins. In this paper, we introduce Preference Manipulation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Fredrik Nestaas , Edoardo Debenedetti , Florian Tramèr

Large Language Models (LLMs) are becoming vital tools that help us solve and understand complex problems by acting as digital assistants. LLMs can generate convincing explanations, even when only given the inputs and outputs of these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Rohan Ajwani , Shashidhar Reddy Javaji , Frank Rudzicz , Zining Zhu

The holy grail of networking is to create \textit{cognitive networks} that organize, manage, and drive themselves. Such a vision now seems attainable thanks in large part to the progress in the field of machine learning (ML), which has now…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Muhammad Usama , Junaid Qadir , Ala Al-Fuqaha , Mounir Hamdi

Language Models today provide a high accuracy across a large number of downstream tasks. However, they remain susceptible to adversarial attacks, particularly against those where the adversarial examples maintain considerable similarity to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Neel Bhandari , Pin-Yu Chen

Large Language Models (LLMs) have excelled at language understanding and generating human-level text. However, even with supervised training and human alignment, these LLMs are susceptible to adversarial attacks where malicious users can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Shachi H Kumar , Saurav Sahay , Sahisnu Mazumder , Eda Okur , Ramesh Manuvinakurike , Nicole Beckage , Hsuan Su , Hung-yi Lee , Lama Nachman

Adversarial training is widely acknowledged as the most effective defense against adversarial attacks. However, it is also well established that achieving both robustness and generalization in adversarially trained models involves a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Enes Altinisik , Hassan Sajjad , Husrev Taha Sencar , Safa Messaoud , Sanjay Chawla

Machine learning models using transaction records as inputs are popular among financial institutions. The most efficient models use deep-learning architectures similar to those in the NLP community, posing a challenge due to their…

Large Language Models (LLMs) have become vital tools in software development tasks such as code generation, completion, and analysis. As their integration into workflows deepens, ensuring robustness against vulnerabilities especially those…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yang Liu , Armstrong Foundjem , Foutse Khomh , Heng Li

Large language models (LLMs) are known to exhibit brittle behavior under adversarial prompts and jailbreak attacks, even after extensive alignment and fine-tuning. This fragility reflects a broader challenge of modern neural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Patrick Cooper , Alireza Nadali , Ashutosh Trivedi , Alvaro Velasquez

Deep Neural Networks have been widely used in many fields. However, studies have shown that DNNs are easily attacked by adversarial examples, which have tiny perturbations and greatly mislead the correct judgment of DNNs. Furthermore, even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Shaowei Zhu , Wanli Lyu , Bin Li , Zhaoxia Yin , Bin Luo

Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) models have achieved state-of-the-art performance on multiple learning tasks, from vision to natural language modelling. With the growing adoption of ML and DL to many areas of computer science,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Anshuman Chhabra , Abhishek Roy , Prasant Mohapatra

The adversarial attack literature contains a myriad of algorithms for crafting perturbations which yield pathological behavior in neural networks. In many cases, multiple algorithms target the same tasks and even enforce the same…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Hossein Souri , Pirazh Khorramshahi , Chun Pong Lau , Micah Goldblum , Rama Chellappa

Machine learning based solutions have been very helpful in solving problems that deal with immense amounts of data, such as malware detection and classification. However, deep neural networks have been found to be vulnerable to adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Daniel Park , Bülent Yener

Warning: This paper contains examples of harmful language, and reader discretion is recommended. The increasing open release of powerful large language models (LLMs) has facilitated the development of downstream applications by reducing the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Xianjun Yang , Xiao Wang , Qi Zhang , Linda Petzold , William Yang Wang , Xun Zhao , Dahua Lin