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The field of adversarial robustness has long established that adversarial examples can successfully transfer between image classifiers and that text jailbreaks can successfully transfer between language models (LMs). However, a pair of…

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Existing adversarial attacks on vision-language models (VLMs) can steer model outputs toward attacker-specified target responses, but their effectiveness often degrades when the same perturbed input is paired with different textual queries.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zhiqiang Wang , Dongrui Liu , Yan Li , Zonghao Ying , Wei Xue , Wenhan Luo , Yike Guo

Despite the strong performance of deep neural networks in modern Web and language applications, they remain vulnerable to adversarial attacks, especially transferable attacks that generate adversarial examples using surrogate models without…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Han Liu , Zhi Xu , Xiaotong Zhang , Feng Zhang , Xiaoming Xu , Wei Wang , Fenglong Ma , Hong Yu

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

In this paper, we propose a novel transfer-based targeted attack method that optimizes the adversarial perturbations without any extra training efforts for auxiliary networks on training data. Our new attack method is proposed based on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Zhipeng Wei , Jingjing Chen , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

For black-box attacks, the gap between the substitute model and the victim model is usually large, which manifests as a weak attack performance. Motivated by the observation that the transferability of adversarial examples can be improved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Yuyang Long , Qilong Zhang , Boheng Zeng , Lianli Gao , Xianglong Liu , Jian Zhang , Jingkuan Song

Adversarial transferability in black-box scenarios presents a unique challenge: while attackers can employ surrogate models to craft adversarial examples, they lack assurance on whether these examples will successfully compromise the target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Mosh Levy , Guy Amit , Yuval Elovici , Yisroel Mirsky

With the emergence of more powerful large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT and GPT-4, in-context learning (ICL) has gained significant prominence in leveraging these models for specific tasks by utilizing data-label pairs as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Jiongxiao Wang , Zichen Liu , Keun Hee Park , Zhuojun Jiang , Zhaoheng Zheng , Zhuofeng Wu , Muhao Chen , Chaowei Xiao

Previous work has shown that 3D point cloud classifiers can be vulnerable to adversarial examples. However, most of the existing methods are aimed at white-box attacks, where the parameters and other information of the classifiers are known…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Jinali Zhang , Yinpeng Dong , Jun Zhu , Jihong Zhu , Minchi Kuang , Xiaming Yuan

As Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) models are increasingly adopted for diverse downstream tasks and integrated into large vision-language models (VLMs), their susceptibility to adversarial perturbations has emerged as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Hanxun Huang , Sarah Erfani , Yige Li , Xingjun Ma , James Bailey

Understanding the mechanisms behind Vision Transformer (ViT), particularly its vulnerability to adversarial perturba tions, is crucial for addressing challenges in its real-world applications. Existing ViT adversarial attackers rely on la…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Chenxing Gao , Hang Zhou , Junqing Yu , YuTeng Ye , Jiale Cai , Junle Wang , Wei Yang

The vulnerability of deep neural networks (DNNs) to black-box adversarial attacks is one of the most heated topics in trustworthy AI. In such attacks, the attackers operate without any insider knowledge of the model, making the cross-model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Mingyuan Fan , Cen Chen , Wenmeng Zhou , Yinggui Wang

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

The transferability of adversarial examples allows for the attack on unknown deep neural networks (DNNs), posing a serious threat to many applications and attracting great attention. In this paper, we improve the transferability of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Qizhang Li , Yiwen Guo , Xiaochen Yang , Wangmeng Zuo , Hao Chen

A hard challenge in developing practical face recognition (FR) attacks is due to the black-box nature of the target FR model, i.e., inaccessible gradient and parameter information to attackers. While recent research took an important step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Zexin Li , Bangjie Yin , Taiping Yao , Juefeng Guo , Shouhong Ding , Simin Chen , Cong Liu

While neural machine translation (NMT) models achieve success in our daily lives, they show vulnerability to adversarial attacks. Despite being harmful, these attacks also offer benefits for interpreting and enhancing NMT models, thus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Yanni Xue , Haojie Hao , Jiakai Wang , Qiang Sheng , Renshuai Tao , Yu Liang , Pu Feng , Xianglong Liu

Black-box adversarial attack has attracted a lot of research interests for its practical use in AI safety. Compared with the white-box attack, a black-box setting is more difficult for less available information related to the attacked…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Linjun Zhou , Peng Cui , Yinan Jiang , Shiqiang Yang

Large pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) like CLIP, despite having remarkable generalization ability, are highly vulnerable to adversarial examples. This work studies the adversarial robustness of VLMs from the novel perspective of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Lin Li , Haoyan Guan , Jianing Qiu , Michael Spratling

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

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) remain vulnerable to transferable adversarial examples. While existing methods typically achieve targeted attacks by aligning global features-such as CLIP's [CLS] token-between adversarial and target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Xiaojun Jia , Sensen Gao , Simeng Qin , Tianyu Pang , Chao Du , Yihao Huang , Xinfeng Li , Yiming Li , Bo Li , Yang Liu
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