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Though deep neural networks perform challenging tasks excellently, they are susceptible to adversarial examples, which mislead classifiers by applying human-imperceptible perturbations on clean inputs. Under the query-free black-box…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Zifei Zhang , Kai Qiao , Jian Chen , Ningning Liang

This thesis examines self-attention training through the lens of Optimal Transport (OT) and develops an OT-based alternative for tabular classification. The study tracks intermediate projections of the self-attention layer during training…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-19 Alessandro Quadrio , Antonio Candelieri

Recent vision-language foundation models, such as CLIP, have demonstrated superior capabilities in learning representations that can be transferable across diverse range of downstream tasks and domains. With the emergence of such powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Hunmin Yang , Jongoh Jeong , Kuk-Jin Yoon

Black-box adversarial attack on vision-language pre-trained models is a practical and challenging task, as text and image perturbations need to be considered simultaneously, and only the predicted results are accessible. Research on this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Han Liu , Jiaqi Li , Zhi Xu , Xiaotong Zhang , Xiaoming Xu , Fenglong Ma , Yuanman Li , Hong Yu

With Vision-Language Pre-training (VLP) models demonstrating powerful multimodal interaction capabilities, the application scenarios of neural networks are no longer confined to unimodal domains but have expanded to more complex multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Haonan Zheng , Xinyang Deng , Wen Jiang , Wenrui Li

With the advancement of vision transformers (ViTs) and self-supervised learning (SSL) techniques, pre-trained large ViTs have become the new foundation models for computer vision applications. However, studies have shown that, like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Weijie Zheng , Xingjun Ma , Hanxun Huang , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable success in understanding complex real-world scenarios and supporting data-driven decision-making processes. However, VLMs exhibit significant vulnerability against adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Xiaosen Wang , Shaokang Wang , Zhijin Ge , Yuyang Luo , Shudong Zhang

Transfer-based attack adopts the adversarial examples generated on the surrogate model to attack various models, making it applicable in the physical world and attracting increasing interest. Recently, various adversarial attacks have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Zhijin Ge , Hongying Liu , Xiaosen Wang , Fanhua Shang , Yuanyuan Liu

Vision-Language (VL) models have garnered considerable research interest; however, they still face challenges in effectively handling text within images. To address this limitation, researchers have developed two approaches. The first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Jonathan Fhima , Elad Ben Avraham , Oren Nuriel , Yair Kittenplon , Roy Ganz , Aviad Aberdam , Ron Litman

Large pre-trained Vision Language Models (VLMs) demonstrate excellent generalization capabilities but remain highly susceptible to adversarial examples, posing potential security risks. To improve the robustness of VLMs against adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Shiji Zhao , Qihui Zhu , Shukun Xiong , Shouwei Ruan , Maoxun Yuan , Jialing Tao , Jiexi Liu , Ranjie Duan , Jie Zhang , Jie Zhang , Xingxing Wei

Vision-Language (VL) pre-trained models have shown their superiority on many multimodal tasks. However, the adversarial robustness of such models has not been fully explored. Existing approaches mainly focus on exploring the adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Ziyi Yin , Muchao Ye , Tianrong Zhang , Tianyu Du , Jinguo Zhu , Han Liu , Jinghui Chen , Ting Wang , Fenglong Ma

Neural network models are vulnerable to adversarial examples, and adversarial transferability further increases the risk of adversarial attacks. Current methods based on transferability often rely on substitute models, which can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Minxuan Lv , Chengwei Dai , Kun Li , Wei Zhou , Songlin Hu

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

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

Video-based multimodal large language models (V-MLLMs) have shown vulnerability to adversarial examples in video-text multimodal tasks. However, the transferability of adversarial videos to unseen models - a common and practical real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Linhao Huang , Xue Jiang , Zhiqiang Wang , Wentao Mo , Xi Xiao , Yong-Jie Yin , Bo Han , Feng Zheng

Thanks to recent advances in deep neural networks (DNNs), face recognition systems have become highly accurate in classifying a large number of face images. However, recent studies have found that DNNs could be vulnerable to adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Kazuya Kakizaki , Kosuke Yoshida

Adversarial perturbations can mislead Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) recognize a benign image as a specific target object, posing serious risks in safety-critical scenarios such as autonomous driving and medical diagnosis. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Haobo Wang , Xiaorong Ma , Weiqi Luo , Xiaojun Jia , Jiwu Huang

Transfer-based adversarial example is one of the most important classes of black-box attacks. However, there is a trade-off between transferability and imperceptibility of the adversarial perturbation. Prior work in this direction often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Fangcheng Liu , Chao Zhang , Hongyang Zhang

Despite the success of deep learning-based algorithms, it is widely known that neural networks may fail to be robust. A popular paradigm to enforce robustness is adversarial training (AT), however, this introduces many computational and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Nicolas Garcia Trillos , Matt Jacobs , Jakwang Kim , Matthew Werenski

Although the adoption rate of deep neural networks (DNNs) has tremendously increased in recent years, a solution for their vulnerability against adversarial examples has not yet been found. As a result, substantial research efforts are…

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