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The utilization of large foundational models has a dilemma: while fine-tuning downstream tasks from them holds promise for making use of the well-generalized knowledge in practical applications, their open accessibility also poses threats…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Song Xia , Wenhan Yang , Yi Yu , Xun Lin , Henghui Ding , Ling-Yu Duan , Xudong Jiang

Nowadays more and more data are gathered for detecting and preventing cyber attacks. In cyber security applications, data analytics techniques have to deal with active adversaries that try to deceive the data analytics models and avoid…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-25 Wutao Wei , Nikhil Gupta , Bowei Xi

It is well known that adversarial attacks can fool deep neural networks with imperceptible perturbations. Although adversarial training significantly improves model robustness, failure cases of defense still broadly exist. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Boxi Wu , Heng Pan , Li Shen , Jindong Gu , Shuai Zhao , Zhifeng Li , Deng Cai , Xiaofei He , Wei Liu

Recent research has found that many families of machine learning models are vulnerable to adversarial examples: inputs that are specifically designed to cause the target model to produce erroneous outputs. In this survey, we focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Rey Reza Wiyatno , Anqi Xu , Ousmane Dia , Archy de Berker

Modern applications of artificial neural networks have yielded remarkable performance gains in a wide range of tasks. However, recent studies have discovered that such modelling strategy is vulnerable to Adversarial Examples, i.e. examples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-24 João Monteiro , Isabela Albuquerque , Zahid Akhtar , Tiago H. Falk

Adversarial Training (AT) has been found to substantially improve the robustness of deep learning classifiers against adversarial attacks. AT involves obtaining robustness by including adversarial examples in training a classifier. Most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Olukorede Fakorede , Ashutosh Kumar Nirala , Modeste Atsague , Jin Tian

Research of adversarial attacks is important for AI security because it shows the vulnerability of deep learning models and helps to build more robust models. Adversarial attacks on images are most widely studied, which include noise-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Xiaopei Zhu , Peiyang Xu , Guanning Zeng , Yingpeng Dong , Xiaolin Hu

Adversarial training has been empirically proven to be one of the most effective and reliable defense methods against adversarial attacks. However, almost all existing studies about adversarial training are focused on balanced datasets,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Wentao Wang , Han Xu , Xiaorui Liu , Yaxin Li , Bhavani Thuraisingham , Jiliang Tang

Recently, deep learning has been applied to many security-sensitive applications, such as facial authentication. The existence of adversarial examples hinders such applications. The state-of-the-art result on defense shows that adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Qi-Zhi Cai , Min Du , Chang Liu , Dawn Song

Despite the remarkable progress of deep neural networks (DNNs) in various visual tasks, their vulnerability to adversarial examples raises significant security concerns. Recent adversarial training methods leverage inverse adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Kejia Zhang , Juanjuan Weng , Shaozi Li , Zhiming Luo

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial examples crafted by well-designed perturbations. This could lead to disastrous results on critical applications such as self-driving cars, surveillance security, and medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Yaguan Qian , Chenyu Zhao , Zhaoquan Gu , Bin Wang , Shouling Ji , Wei Wang , Boyang Zhou , Pan Zhou

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

The impact of inference-time data perturbation (e.g., adversarial attacks) has been extensively studied in machine learning, leading to well-established certification techniques for adversarial robustness. In contrast, certifying models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Philip Sosnin , Matthew Wicker , Josh Collyer , Calvin Tsay

Distribution shifts and adversarial examples are two major challenges for deploying machine learning models. While these challenges have been studied individually, their combination is an important topic that remains relatively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Yunjuan Wang , Hussein Hazimeh , Natalia Ponomareva , Alexey Kurakin , Ibrahim Hammoud , Raman Arora

Addressing the escalating security vulnerabilities in Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, this study investigates backdoor attacks targeting the visual pathway. We identify a core obstacle causing the failure of traditional attack…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Kewei Chen , Yayu Long , Shuai Li , Mingsheng Shang

In the last decade, a new class of cyber-threats has emerged. This new cybersecurity adversary is known with the name of "Advanced Persistent Threat" (APT) and is referred to different organizations that in the last years have been "in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Giuseppe Laurenza , Riccardo Lazzeretti , Luca Mazzotti

Adversarial Training (AT) is one of the most effective methods for developing robust deep neural networks (DNNs). However, AT faces a trade-off problem between clean accuracy and adversarial robustness. In this work, we reveal a surprising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Yanyun Wang , Qingqing Ye , Li Liu , Zi Liang , Haibo Hu

Evaluating deep reinforcement learning (DRL) agents against targeted behavior attacks is critical for assessing their robustness. These attacks aim to manipulate the victim into specific behaviors that align with the attacker's objectives,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Fengshuo Bai , Runze Liu , Yali Du , Ying Wen , Yaodong Yang

Deep Learning has empowered us to train neural networks for complex data with high performance. However, with the growing research, several vulnerabilities in neural networks have been exposed. A particular branch of research, Adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Shashank Kotyan

Face recognition (FR) systems have demonstrated outstanding verification performance, suggesting suitability for real-world applications ranging from photo tagging in social media to automated border control (ABC). In an advanced FR system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Fatemeh Vakhshiteh , Ahmad Nickabadi , Raghavendra Ramachandra