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Transferable adversarial examples cause practical security risks since they can mislead a target model without knowing its internal knowledge. A conventional recipe for maximizing transferability is to keep only the optimal adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Bo Yang , Hengwei Zhang , Jindong Wang , Yulong Yang , Chenhao Lin , Chao Shen , Zhengyu Zhao

Many machine learning models are vulnerable to adversarial examples: inputs that are specially crafted to cause a machine learning model to produce an incorrect output. Adversarial examples that affect one model often affect another model,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-05-25 Nicolas Papernot , Patrick McDaniel , Ian Goodfellow

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are acknowledged as vulnerable to adversarial attacks, while the existing black-box attacks require extensive queries on the victim DNN to achieve high success rates. For query-efficiency, surrogate models of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Sizhe Chen , Zhehao Huang , Qinghua Tao , Xiaolin Huang

Despite the recent advancements in deploying neural networks for image classification, it has been found that adversarial examples are able to fool these models leading them to misclassify the images. Since these models are now being widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Raghav Gurbaxani , Shivank Mishra

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have made significant advancement, however, they are widely known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Adversarial training is the most widely used technique for improving adversarial robustness to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Philipp Benz , Chaoning Zhang , Adil Karjauv , In So Kweon

Despite their great success, deep neural networks rely on high-dimensional, non-robust representations, making them vulnerable to imperceptible perturbations, even in transfer scenarios. To address this, both training-time defenses (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Jiaming Liang , Chi-Man Pun

Over the past decade, numerous theories have been proposed to explain the widespread vulnerability of deep neural networks to adversarial evasion attacks. Among these, the theory of non-robust features proposed by Ilyas et al. has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Jennifer Crawford , Amol Khanna , Fred Lu , Amy R. Wagoner , Stella Biderman , Andre T. Nguyen , Edward Raff

The ability to transfer adversarial attacks from one model (the surrogate) to another model (the victim) has been an issue of concern within the machine learning (ML) community. The ability to successfully evade unseen models represents an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Luke E. Richards , André Nguyen , Ryan Capps , Steven Forsythe , Cynthia Matuszek , Edward Raff

Transfer learning across domains with distribution shift remains a fundamental challenge in building robust and adaptable machine learning systems. While adversarial perturbations are traditionally viewed as threats that expose model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Hana Satou , Alan Mitkiy

The vulnerability to slight input perturbations is a worrying yet intriguing property of deep neural networks (DNNs). Despite many previous works studying the reason behind such adversarial behavior, the relationship between the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-07 Yujun Shi , Benben Liao , Guangyong Chen , Yun Liu , Ming-Ming Cheng , Jiashi Feng

In this work, we evaluate adversarial robustness in the context of transfer learning from a source trained on CIFAR 100 to a target network trained on CIFAR 10. Specifically, we study the effects of using robust optimisation in the source…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-11 Todor Davchev , Timos Korres , Stathi Fotiadis , Nick Antonopoulos , Subramanian Ramamoorthy

The remarkable performance of deep learning models and their applications in consequential domains (e.g., facial recognition) introduces important challenges at the intersection of equity and security. Fairness and robustness are two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Cuong Tran , Keyu Zhu , Ferdinando Fioretto , Pascal Van Hentenryck

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are well known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples (AEs). In addition, AEs have adversarial transferability, which means AEs generated for a source model can fool another black-box model (target model) with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Ryota Iijima , Miki Tanaka , Sayaka Shiota , Hitoshi Kiya

Adversarial examples add imperceptible alterations to inputs with the objective to induce misclassification in machine learning models. They have been demonstrated to pose significant challenges in domains like image classification, with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Muhammad Salman , Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao , Hassan Jameel Asghar , Muhammad Ikram , Sidharth Kaushik , Mohamed Ali Kaafar

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

Adversarial examples' (AE) transferability refers to the phenomenon that AEs crafted with one surrogate model can also fool other models. Notwithstanding remarkable progress in untargeted transferability, its targeted counterpart remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Hui Zeng , Sanshuai Cui , Biwei Chen , Anjie Peng

Recently, large pre-trained foundation models have become widely adopted by machine learning practitioners for a multitude of tasks. Given that such models are publicly available, relying on their use as backbone models for downstream tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Brian Pulfer , Yury Belousov , Slava Voloshynovskiy

Adversarial generative models, such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), are widely applied for generating various types of data, i.e., images, text, and audio. Accordingly, its promising performance has led to the GAN-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Zhiyu Zhu , Huaming Chen , Xinyi Wang , Jiayu Zhang , Zhibo Jin , Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo , Jun Shen , Dong Yuan

Ensemble-based adversarial training is a principled approach to achieve robustness against adversarial attacks. An important technique of this approach is to control the transferability of adversarial examples among ensemble members. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Anh Bui , Trung Le , He Zhao , Paul Montague , Olivier deVel , Tamas Abraham , Dinh Phung

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are known to have a fundamental sensitivity to adversarial attacks, perturbations of the input that are imperceptible to humans yet powerful enough to change the visual decision of a model. Adversarial attacks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Drew Linsley , Pinyuan Feng , Thibaut Boissin , Alekh Karkada Ashok , Thomas Fel , Stephanie Olaiya , Thomas Serre