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Adversarial examples for neural network image classifiers are known to be transferable: examples optimized to be misclassified by a source classifier are often misclassified as well by classifiers with different architectures. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Jacob M. Springer , Melanie Mitchell , Garrett T. Kenyon

Transfer learning has become a common practice for training deep learning models with limited labeled data in a target domain. On the other hand, deep models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Though transfer learning has been widely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Yinghua Zhang , Yangqiu Song , Jian Liang , Kun Bai , Qiang Yang

Neural networks are known to be vulnerable to carefully crafted adversarial examples, and these malicious samples often transfer, i.e., they maintain their effectiveness even against other models. With great efforts delved into the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Yunhan Jia , Yantao Lu , Senem Velipasalar , Zhenyu Zhong , Tao Wei

Deep neural networks (DNNs) exhibit vulnerability to adversarial examples that can transfer across different DNN models. A particularly challenging problem is developing transferable targeted attacks that can mislead DNN models into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Kaisheng Liang , Xuelong Dai , Yanjie Li , Dong Wang , Bin Xiao

While deep neural networks have achieved remarkable success in various computer vision tasks, they often fail to generalize to new domains and subtle variations of input images. Several defenses have been proposed to improve the robustness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Omid Poursaeed , Tianxing Jiang , Harry Yang , Serge Belongie , SerNam Lim

In the past decades, the rise of artificial intelligence has given us the capabilities to solve the most challenging problems in our day-to-day lives, such as cancer prediction and autonomous navigation. However, these applications might…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Ehsan Nowroozi , Mohammadreza Mohammadi , Pargol Golmohammadi , Yassine Mekdad , Mauro Conti , Selcuk Uluagac

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial examples (AEs) that mislead the model while appearing benign to human observers. A critical concern is the transferability of AEs, which enables black-box attacks without direct…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Jiahao Chen , Zhou Feng , Rui Zeng , Yuwen Pu , Chunyi Zhou , Yi Jiang , Yuyou Gan , Jinbao Li , Shouling Ji

Adversarial training is an effective defense method to protect classification models against adversarial attacks. However, one limitation of this approach is that it can require orders of magnitude additional training time due to high cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Haizhong Zheng , Ziqi Zhang , Juncheng Gu , Honglak Lee , Atul Prakash

Deep neural network-based image classification can be misled by adversarial examples with small and quasi-imperceptible perturbations. Furthermore, the adversarial examples created on one classification model can also fool another different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Jindong Gu , Hengshuang Zhao , Volker Tresp , Philip Torr

Adversarial attacks pose a significant threat to deep learning models, particularly in safety-critical applications like healthcare and autonomous driving. Recently, patch based attacks have demonstrated effectiveness in real-time inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Prashant Shekhar , Bidur Devkota , Dumindu Samaraweera , Laxima Niure Kandel , Manoj Babu

An established way to improve the transferability of black-box evasion attacks is to craft the adversarial examples on an ensemble-based surrogate to increase diversity. We argue that transferability is fundamentally related to uncertainty.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Martin Gubri , Maxime Cordy , Mike Papadakis , Yves Le Traon , Koushik Sen

Existing black-box attacks on deep neural networks (DNNs) so far have largely focused on transferability, where an adversarial instance generated for a locally trained model can "transfer" to attack other learning models. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Arjun Nitin Bhagoji , Warren He , Bo Li , Dawn Song

Transferability of adversarial examples is a key issue to apply this kind of attacks against multimedia forensics (MMF) techniques based on Deep Learning (DL) in a real-life setting. Adversarial example transferability, in fact, would open…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Wenjie Li , Benedetta Tondi , Rongrong Ni , Mauro Barni

We consider the blackbox transfer-based targeted adversarial attack threat model in the realm of deep neural network (DNN) image classifiers. Rather than focusing on crossing decision boundaries at the output layer of the source model, our…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Nathan Inkawhich , Kevin J Liang , Binghui Wang , Matthew Inkawhich , Lawrence Carin , Yiran Chen

Exploring effective and transferable adversarial examples is vital for understanding the characteristics and mechanisms of Vision Transformers (ViTs). However, adversarial examples generated from surrogate models often exhibit weak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yanting Gao , Yepeng Liu , Junming Liu , Qi Zhang , Hongyun Zhang , Duoqian Miao , Cairong Zhao

Deep neural networks have shown their vulnerability to adversarial attacks. In this paper, we focus on sparse adversarial attack based on the $\ell_0$ norm constraint, which can succeed by only modifying a few pixels of an image. Despite a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Ziwen He , Wei Wang , Jing Dong , Tieniu Tan

Transfer adversarial attack is a non-trivial black-box adversarial attack that aims to craft adversarial perturbations on the surrogate model and then apply such perturbations to the victim model. However, the transferability of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Shuman Fang , Jie Li , Xianming Lin , Rongrong Ji

Adversarial examples (AEs) with small adversarial perturbations can mislead deep neural networks (DNNs) into wrong predictions. The AEs created on one DNN can also fool another DNN. Over the last few years, the transferability of AEs has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Wenqian Yu , Jindong Gu , Zhijiang Li , Philip Torr

The robustness of deep learning models against adversarial attacks remains a pivotal concern. This study presents, for the first time, an exhaustive review of the transferability aspect of adversarial attacks. It systematically categorizes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Zhibo Jin , Jiayu Zhang , Zhiyu Zhu , Huaming Chen

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