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Although it has been demonstrated that Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithms are vulnerable to deliberate attacks, the question of whether such weaknesses can lead to software security threats is under-explored. To bridge this gap,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Xutan Peng , Yipeng Zhang , Jingfeng Yang , Mark Stevenson

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…

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Top-k predictions are used in many real-world applications such as machine learning as a service, recommender systems, and web searches. $\ell_0$-norm adversarial perturbation characterizes an attack that arbitrarily modifies some features…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Jinyuan Jia , Binghui Wang , Xiaoyu Cao , Hongbin Liu , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Even though the large-scale language models have achieved excellent performances, they suffer from various adversarial attacks. A large body of defense methods has been proposed. However, they are still limited due to redundant attack…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Lan Jiang , Hao Zhou , Yankai Lin , Peng Li , Jie Zhou , Rui Jiang

Neural ranking models (NRMs) achieve strong retrieval effectiveness, yet prior work has shown they are vulnerable to adversarial perturbations. We revisit this robustness question with a minimal, query-aware attack that promotes a target…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Tanmay Karmakar , Sourav Saha , Debapriyo Majumdar , Surjyanee Halder

Text classification models, especially neural networks based models, have reached very high accuracy on many popular benchmark datasets. Yet, such models when deployed in real world applications, tend to perform badly. The primary reason is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Utkarsh Desai , Srikanth Tamilselvam , Jassimran Kaur , Senthil Mani , Shreya Khare

Large-scale language models achieved state-of-the-art performance over a number of language tasks. However, they fail on adversarial language examples, which are sentences optimized to fool the language models but with similar semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Noah Thomas McDermott , Junfeng Yang , Chengzhi Mao

Image classifiers often suffer from adversarial examples, which are generated by strategically adding a small amount of noise to input images to trick classifiers into misclassification. Over the years, many defense mechanisms have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Huangyi Ge , Sze Yiu Chau , Bruno Ribeiro , Ninghui Li

A line of work has shown that natural text processing models are vulnerable to adversarial examples. Correspondingly, various defense methods are proposed to mitigate the threat of textual adversarial examples, eg, adversarial training,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Xiaosen Wang , Yifeng Xiong , Kun He

The robustness of deep neural networks (DNNs) against adversarial example attacks has raised wide attention. For smoothed classifiers, we propose the worst-case adversarial loss over input distributions as a robustness certificate. Compared…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Jungang Yang , Liyao Xiang , Ruidong Chen , Yukun Wang , Wei Wang , Xinbing Wang

Despite their impressive performance on diverse tasks, neural networks fail catastrophically in the presence of adversarial inputs---imperceptibly but adversarially perturbed versions of natural inputs. We have witnessed an arms race…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Aditi Raghunathan , Jacob Steinhardt , Percy Liang

Text classification is fundamental in Natural Language Processing (NLP), and the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) has revolutionized the field. This paper introduces an adaptable and reliable text classification paradigm, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Zhiqiang Wang , Yiran Pang , Yanbin Lin , Xingquan Zhu

Prompt injection attacks exploit vulnerabilities in large language models (LLMs) to manipulate the model into unintended actions or generate malicious content. As LLM integrated applications gain wider adoption, they face growing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Daniel Wankit Yip , Aysan Esmradi , Chun Fai Chan

The increasing reliance on Large Language Models (LLMs) across academia and industry necessitates a comprehensive understanding of their robustness to prompts. In response to this vital need, we introduce PromptRobust, a robustness…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized natural language processing, but their robustness against adversarial attacks remains a critical concern. We presents a novel white-box style attack approach that exposes vulnerabilities in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Zeyu Yang , Zhao Meng , Xiaochen Zheng , Roger Wattenhofer

Generating high-quality textual adversarial examples is critical for investigating the pitfalls of natural language processing (NLP) models and further promoting their robustness. Existing attacks are usually realized through word-level or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Yibin Lei , Yu Cao , Dianqi Li , Tianyi Zhou , Meng Fang , Mykola Pechenizkiy

As neural language models achieve human-comparable performance on Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) and see widespread adoption, ensuring their robustness in real-world scenarios has become increasingly important. Current robustness…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Yulong Wu , Viktor Schlegel , Riza Batista-Navarro

Textual adversarial attacks pose a serious security threat to Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems by introducing imperceptible perturbations that mislead deep learning models. While adversarial example detection offers a lightweight…

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The growing integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into critical societal domains has raised concerns about embedded biases that can perpetuate stereotypes and undermine fairness. Such biases may stem from historical inequalities in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Riccardo Cantini , Alessio Orsino , Massimo Ruggiero , Domenico Talia

Graph classification has practical applications in diverse fields. Recent studies show that graph-based machine learning models are especially vulnerable to adversarial perturbations due to the non i.i.d nature of graph data. By adding or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Zhidong Gao , Rui Hu , Yanmin Gong