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Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. White-box adversarial attacks can fool neural networks with small adversarial perturbations, especially for large size images. However, keeping successful adversarial perturbations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Yongwei Wang , Mingquan Feng , Rabab Ward , Z. Jane Wang , Lanjun Wang

The transferability of adversarial examples poses a significant security challenge for deep neural networks, which can be attacked without knowing anything about them. In this paper, we propose a new Segmented Gaussian Pyramid (SGP) attack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Zihong Guo , Chen Wan , Yayin Zheng , Hailing Kuang , Xiaohai Lu

Transferability, the ability of adversarial examples crafted for one model to deceive other models, is crucial for black-box attacks. Despite advancements in attack methods for semantic segmentation, transferability remains limited,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Eun-Sol Park , MiSo Park , Seung Park , Yong-Goo Shin

Large pre-trained language models (PLMs) have garnered significant attention for their versatility and potential for solving a wide spectrum of natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, the cost of running these PLMs may be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Chengcheng Han , Liqing Cui , Renyu Zhu , Jianing Wang , Nuo Chen , Qiushi Sun , Xiang Li , Ming Gao

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to the black-box adversarial attack that is highly transferable. This threat comes from the distribution gap between adversarial and clean samples in feature space of the target DNNs. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Xiaogang Xu , Hengshuang Zhao , Philip Torr , Jiaya Jia

The vulnerability of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to adversarial examples has been confirmed. Existing adversarial defenses primarily aim at preventing adversarial examples from attacking DNNs successfully, rather than preventing their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Jinwei Wang , Hao Wu , Haihua Wang , Jiawei Zhang , Xiangyang Luo , Bin Ma

Molecular discovery has brought great benefits to the chemical industry. Various molecule design techniques are developed to identify molecules with desirable properties. Traditional optimization methods, such as genetic algorithms,…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-05 Chris Zhuang , Debadyuti Mukherjee , Yingzhou Lu , Tianfan Fu , Ruqi Zhang

Quality Diversity (QD) algorithms have been proposed to search for a large collection of both diverse and high-performing solutions instead of a single set of local optima. While early QD algorithms view the objective and descriptor…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Raphael Boige , Guillaume Richard , Jérémie Dona , Thomas Pierrot , Antoine Cully

We study the black-box attacks on graph neural networks (GNNs) under a novel and realistic constraint: attackers have access to only a subset of nodes in the network, and they can only attack a small number of them. A node selection step is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Jiaqi Ma , Shuangrui Ding , Qiaozhu Mei

Adversarial examples are typically optimized with gradient-based attacks. While novel attacks are continuously proposed, each is shown to outperform its predecessors using different experimental setups, hyperparameter settings, and number…

Evaluating security and reliability for multi-agent systems (MAS) is urgent as they become increasingly prevalent in various applications. As an evaluation technique, existing adversarial attack frameworks face certain limitations, e.g.,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Jianming Chen , Yawen Wang , Junjie Wang , Xiaofei Xie , Yuanzhe Hu , Qing Wang , Fanjiang Xu

Adversarial attacks have become a well-explored domain, frequently serving as evaluation baselines for model robustness. Among these, black-box attacks based on transferability have received significant attention due to their practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Chun Tong Lei , Zhongliang Guo , Hon Chung Lee , Minh Quoc Duong , Chun Pong Lau

This work proposes a novel algorithm to generate natural language adversarial input for text classification models, in order to investigate the robustness of these models. It involves applying gradient-based perturbation on the sentence…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Yu-Lun Hsieh , Minhao Cheng , Da-Cheng Juan , Wei Wei , Wen-Lian Hsu , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Adversarial attacks on deep neural network models have seen rapid development and are extensively used to study the stability of these networks. Among various adversarial strategies, Projected Gradient Descent (PGD) is a widely adopted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Dayana Savostianova , Emanuele Zangrando , Francesco Tudisco

Adversarial attacks, particularly the Fast Gradient Sign Method (FGSM) and Projected Gradient Descent (PGD) pose significant threats to the robustness of deep learning models in image classification. This paper explores and refines defense…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Hetvi Waghela , Jaydip Sen , Sneha Rakshit

The paper introduces a white-box attack on computer vision models using SHAP values. It demonstrates how adversarial evasion attacks can compromise the performance of deep learning models by reducing output confidence or inducing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Frank Mollard , Marcus Becker , Florian Roehrbein

Collaborative learning (CL) is a distributed learning framework that aims to protect user privacy by allowing users to jointly train a model by sharing their gradient updates only. However, gradient inversion attacks (GIAs), which recover…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Lulu Xue , Shengshan Hu , Ruizhi Zhao , Leo Yu Zhang , Shengqing Hu , Lichao Sun , Dezhong Yao

Preference alignment in diffusion models has primarily focused on benign human preferences (e.g., aesthetic). In this paper, we propose a novel perspective: framing unrestricted adversarial example generation as a problem of aligning with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Kaixun Jiang , Zhaoyu Chen , Haijing Guo , Jinglun Li , Jiyuan Fu , Pinxue Guo , Hao Tang , Bo Li , Wenqiang Zhang

Quality-Diversity algorithms, such as MAP-Elites, are a branch of Evolutionary Computation generating collections of diverse and high-performing solutions, that have been successfully applied to a variety of domains and particularly in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Maxence Faldor , Félix Chalumeau , Manon Flageat , Antoine Cully

Most adversarial attack defense methods rely on obfuscating gradients. These methods are successful in defending against gradient-based attacks; however, they are easily circumvented by attacks which either do not use the gradient or by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Mitra Alirezaei , Tolga Tasdizen