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Adversarial text attack research plays a crucial role in evaluating the robustness of NLP models. However, the increasing complexity of transformer-based architectures has dramatically raised the computational cost of attack testing,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Abhinay Shankar Belde , Rohit Ramkumar , Jonathan Rusert

Surrogate-based black-box attacks have exposed the heightened vulnerability of DNNs. These attacks are designed to craft adversarial examples for any samples with black-box target feedback for only a given set of samples. State-of-the-art…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Raha Moraffah , Huan Liu

Backdoors on federated learning will be diluted by subsequent benign updates. This is reflected in the significant reduction of attack success rate as iterations increase, ultimately failing. We use a new metric to quantify the degree of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Tao Liu , Yuhang Zhang , Zhu Feng , Zhiqin Yang , Chen Xu , Dapeng Man , Wu Yang

With the growing deployment of sequential recommender systems in e-commerce and other fields, their black-box interfaces raise security concerns: models are vulnerable to extraction and subsequent adversarial manipulation. Existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Hongyue Zhang , Mingming Li , Dongqin Liu , Hui Wang , Yaning Zhang , Xi Zhou , Honglei Lv , Jiao Dai , Jizhong Han

A single perturbation can pose the most natural images to be misclassified by classifiers. In black-box setting, current universal adversarial attack methods utilize substitute models to generate the perturbation, then apply the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Jing Wu , Mingyi Zhou , Shuaicheng Liu , Yipeng Liu , Ce Zhu

We investigate how an adversary can optimally use its query budget for targeted evasion attacks against deep neural networks in a black-box setting. We formalize the problem setting and systematically evaluate what benefits the adversary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Mika Juuti , Buse Gul Atli , N. Asokan

Visual reinforcement learning has achieved remarkable progress in visual control and robotics, but its vulnerability to adversarial perturbations remains underexplored. Most existing black-box attacks focus on vector-based or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Tairan Huang , Yulin Jin , Junxu Liu , Qingqing Ye , Haibo Hu

In the last decade, deep neural networks have proven to be very powerful in computer vision tasks, starting a revolution in the computer vision and machine learning fields. However, deep neural networks, usually, are not robust to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Hao Qiu , Leonardo Lucio Custode , Giovanni Iacca

Research in adversarial learning has primarily focused on homogeneous unstructured datasets, which often map into the problem space naturally. Inverting a feature space attack on heterogeneous datasets into the problem space is much more…

Adversarial attacks on deep learning models have received increased attention in recent years. Work in this area has mostly focused on gradient-based techniques, so-called 'white-box' attacks, where the attacker has access to the targeted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Raz Lapid , Eylon Mizrahi , Moshe Sipper

Image segmentation is an important problem in many safety-critical applications. Recent studies show that modern image segmentation models are vulnerable to adversarial perturbations, while existing attack methods mainly follow the idea of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Wenjie Qu , Youqi Li , Binghui Wang

A recent line of work on black-box adversarial attacks has revived the use of transfer from surrogate models by integrating it into query-based search. However, we find that existing approaches of this type underperform their potential, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Nicholas A. Lord , Romain Mueller , Luca Bertinetto

The goal of No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) is to predict the perceptual quality of an image in line with its subjective evaluation. To put the NR-IQA models into practice, it is essential to study their potential loopholes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Yu Ran , Ao-Xiang Zhang , Mingjie Li , Weixuan Tang , Yuan-Gen Wang

The score-based query attacks (SQAs) pose practical threats to deep neural networks by crafting adversarial perturbations within dozens of queries, only using the model's output scores. Nonetheless, we note that if the loss trend of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Sizhe Chen , Zhehao Huang , Qinghua Tao , Yingwen Wu , Cihang Xie , Xiaolin Huang

The vulnerability of deep neural networks to adversarial examples has drawn tremendous attention from the community. Three approaches, optimizing standard objective functions, exploiting attention maps, and smoothing decision surfaces, are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Yi Huang , Adams Wai-Kin Kong

The increasing scale and sophistication of cyberattacks has led to the adoption of machine learning based classification techniques, at the core of cybersecurity systems. These techniques promise scale and accuracy, which traditional rule…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Tegjyot Singh Sethi , Mehmed Kantardzic , Joung Woo Ryu

Although adversarial robustness has been extensively studied in white-box settings, recent advances in black-box attacks (including transfer- and query-based approaches) are primarily benchmarked against weak defenses, leaving a significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Mohamed Djilani , Salah Ghamizi , Maxime Cordy

The state-of-the-art deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable against adversarial examples with additive random-like noise perturbations. While such examples are hardly found in the physical world, the image blurring effect caused by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Qing Guo , Felix Juefei-Xu , Xiaofei Xie , Lei Ma , Jian Wang , Bing Yu , Wei Feng , Yang Liu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely used in many fields such as images processing, speech recognition; however, they are vulnerable to adversarial examples, and this is a security issue worthy of attention. Because the training…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Wenjian Luo , Chenwang Wu , Nan Zhou , Li Ni

Black-box global optimization aims at minimizing an objective function whose analytical form is not known. To do so, many state-of-the-art methods rely on sampling-based strategies, where sampling distributions are built in an iterative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-30 Thomas Guilmeau , Emilie Chouzenoux , Víctor Elvira