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Offline Reinforcement Learning (RL) enables policy optimization from static datasets but is inherently vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Existing attack strategies typically struggle against safety-constrained algorithms (e.g., CQL) due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Yuanjie Zhao , Junnan Qiu , Yue Ding , Jie Li

Machine learning classifiers are critically prone to evasion attacks. Adversarial examples are slightly modified inputs that are then misclassified, while remaining perceptively close to their originals. Last couple of years have witnessed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Thibault Maho , Teddy Furon , Erwan Le Merrer

When compared to the image classification models, black-box adversarial attacks against video classification models have been largely understudied. This could be possible because, with video, the temporal dimension poses significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Shasha Li , Abhishek Aich , Shitong Zhu , M. Salman Asif , Chengyu Song , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury , Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy

Solving for adversarial examples with projected gradient descent has been demonstrated to be highly effective in fooling the neural network based classifiers. However, in the black-box setting, the attacker is limited only to the query…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Seungyong Moon , Gaon An , Hyun Oh Song

Deep neural networks provide unprecedented performance in all image classification problems, taking advantage of huge amounts of data available for training. Recent studies, however, have shown their vulnerability to adversarial attacks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Diego Gragnaniello , Francesco Marra , Giovanni Poggi , Luisa Verdoliva

Adversarial examples are well-known tools to evaluate the vulnerability of deep neural networks (DNNs). Although lots of adversarial attack algorithms have been developed, it's still challenging in the practical scenario that the model's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Meixi Zheng , Xuanchen Yan , Zihao Zhu , Hongrui Chen , Baoyuan Wu

We consider adversarial examples for image classification in the black-box decision-based setting. Here, an attacker cannot access confidence scores, but only the final label. Most attacks for this scenario are either unreliable or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-30 Thomas Brunner , Frederik Diehl , Michael Truong Le , Alois Knoll

In recent years, research on adversarial attacks has become a hot spot. Although current literature on the transfer-based adversarial attack has achieved promising results for improving the transferability to unseen black-box models, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Zheng Yuan , Jie Zhang , Yunpei Jia , Chuanqi Tan , Tao Xue , Shiguang Shan

Existing black-box attacks have demonstrated promising potential in creating adversarial examples (AE) to deceive deep learning models. Most of these attacks need to handle a vast optimization space and require a large number of queries,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Renyang Liu , Wei Zhou , Tianwei Zhang , Kangjie Chen , Jun Zhao , Kwok-Yan Lam

Object detection has been widely used in many safety-critical tasks, such as autonomous driving. However, its vulnerability to adversarial examples has not been sufficiently studied, especially under the practical scenario of black-box…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Siyuan Liang , Baoyuan Wu , Yanbo Fan , Xingxing Wei , Xiaochun Cao

Traditional decision-based black-box adversarial attacks on image classifiers aim to generate adversarial examples by slightly modifying input images while keeping the number of queries low, where each query involves sending an input to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Mahdi Salmani , Alireza Abdollahpoorrostam , Seyed-Mohsen Moosavi-Dezfooli

Query-based black-box attacks have emerged as a significant threat to machine learning systems, where adversaries can manipulate the input queries to generate adversarial examples that can cause misclassification of the model. To counter…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Shaofei Li , Ziqi Zhang , Haomin Jia , Ding Li , Yao Guo , Xiangqun Chen

Recent advances in natural language processing and the increased use of large language models have exposed new security vulnerabilities, such as backdoor attacks. Previous backdoor attacks require input manipulation after model distribution…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Minkyoo Song , Hanna Kim , Jaehan Kim , Youngjin Jin , Seungwon Shin

Deep learning has made significant breakthroughs in many fields, including electroencephalogram (EEG) based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). However, deep learning models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, in which deliberately…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Xue Jiang , Xiao Zhang , Dongrui Wu

Black-box adversarial attack has attracted a lot of research interests for its practical use in AI safety. Compared with the white-box attack, a black-box setting is more difficult for less available information related to the attacked…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Linjun Zhou , Peng Cui , Yinan Jiang , Shiqiang Yang

One major problem in black-box adversarial attacks is the high query complexity in the hard-label attack setting, where only the top-1 predicted label is available. In this paper, we propose a novel geometric-based approach called Tangent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Chen Ma , Xiangyu Guo , Li Chen , Jun-Hai Yong , Yisen Wang

Adversarial perturbations are a useful way to expose vulnerabilities in object detectors. Existing perturbation methods are frequently white-box, architecture specific and use a loss function. More importantly, while they are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Melane Navaratnarajah , David A. Kelly , Hana Chockler

Clustering algorithms play a fundamental role as tools in decision-making and sensible automation processes. Due to the widespread use of these applications, a robustness analysis of this family of algorithms against adversarial noise has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Antonio Emanuele Cinà , Alessandro Torcinovich , Marcello Pelillo

Automated algorithm selection for continuous black-box optimization depends on representing problem information under limited probing and selecting solvers under heavy-tailed performance distributions. This paper proposes a geometric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Jiabao Brad Wang , Xiang Shi , Yiliang Yuan , Mustafa Misir

Deep neural networks are facing severe threats from adversarial attacks. Most existing black-box attacks fool target model by generating either global perturbations or local patches. However, both global perturbations and local patches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Chao Zhou , Yuan-Gen Wang , Guopu Zhu