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Vision Transformer (ViT), as a powerful alternative to Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), has received much attention. Recent work showed that ViTs are also vulnerable to adversarial examples like CNNs. To build robust ViTs, an intuitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Boxi Wu , Jindong Gu , Zhifeng Li , Deng Cai , Xiaofei He , Wei Liu

Adversarial training serves as one of the most popular and effective methods to defend against adversarial perturbations. However, most defense mechanisms only consider a single type of perturbation while various attack methods might be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Huihui Gong , Minjing Dong , Siqi Ma , Seyit Camtepe , Surya Nepal , Chang Xu

Visual Prompt Tuning (VPT) is an effective tuning method for adapting pretrained Vision Transformers (ViTs) to downstream tasks. It leverages extra learnable tokens, known as prompts, which steer the frozen pretrained ViTs. Although VPT has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Seungryong Yoo , Eunji Kim , Dahuin Jung , Jungbeom Lee , Sungroh Yoon

Despite the success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in many academic benchmarks for computer vision tasks, their application in the real-world is still facing fundamental challenges. One of these open problems is the inherent lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Julia Grabinski , Paul Gavrikov , Janis Keuper , Margret Keuper

With the emergence of large pre-trained vison-language model like CLIP, transferable representations can be adapted to a wide range of downstream tasks via prompt tuning. Prompt tuning tries to probe the beneficial information for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Yinghui Xing , Qirui Wu , De Cheng , Shizhou Zhang , Guoqiang Liang , Peng Wang , Yanning Zhang

Multimodal contrastive learning models (e.g., CLIP) can learn high-quality representations from large-scale image-text datasets, while they exhibit significant vulnerabilities to backdoor attacks, raising serious safety concerns. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Zhifang Zhang , Shuo He , Haobo Wang , Bingquan Shen , Lei Feng

Vision transformers (ViTs) have become essential backbones in advanced computer vision applications and multi-modal foundation models. Despite their strengths, ViTs remain vulnerable to adversarial perturbations, comparable to or even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Bhavna Gopal , Huanrui Yang , Mark Horton , Yiran Chen

Prompt tuning is a promising method to fine-tune a pre-trained language model without retraining its large-scale parameters. Instead, it attaches a soft prompt to the input text, whereby downstream tasks can be well adapted by merely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Pengxiang Lan , Enneng Yang , Yuting Liu , Guibing Guo , Jianzhe Zhao , Xingwei Wang

In recent years, NLP practitioners have converged on the following practice: (i) import an off-the-shelf pretrained (masked) language model; (ii) append a multilayer perceptron atop the CLS token's hidden representation (with randomly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Mrigank Raman , Pratyush Maini , J. Zico Kolter , Zachary C. Lipton , Danish Pruthi

Federated Prompt Tuning (FPT) is an efficient method for cross-client collaborative fine-tuning of large Vision-Language Models (VLMs). However, models tuned using FPT are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, leading to misclassification in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Kun Zhai , Siheng Chen , Xingjun Ma , Yu-Gang Jiang

Point cloud analysis has achieved outstanding performance by transferring point cloud pre-trained models. However, existing methods for model adaptation usually update all model parameters, i.e., full fine-tuning paradigm, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Xin Zhou , Dingkang Liang , Wei Xu , Xingkui Zhu , Yihan Xu , Zhikang Zou , Xiang Bai

Deep learning has achieved great success in computer vision, but remains vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Adversarial training is the leading defense designed to improve model robustness. However, its effect on the transferability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Mohamed Awad , Mahmoud Akrm , Walid Gomaa

Adversarial robust models have been shown to learn more robust and interpretable features than standard trained models. As shown in [\cite{tsipras2018robustness}], such robust models inherit useful interpretable properties where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Gunjan Aggarwal , Abhishek Sinha , Nupur Kumari , Mayank Singh

We investigate the efficacy of visual prompting to adapt large-scale models in vision. Following the recent approach from prompt tuning and adversarial reprogramming, we learn a single image perturbation such that a frozen model prompted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Hyojin Bahng , Ali Jahanian , Swami Sankaranarayanan , Phillip Isola

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have recently achieved competitive performance in broad vision tasks. Unfortunately, on popular threat models, naturally trained ViTs are shown to provide no more adversarial robustness than convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Yichuan Mo , Dongxian Wu , Yifei Wang , Yiwen Guo , Yisen Wang

Fine-tuning and inference with large Language Models (LM) are generally known to be expensive. Parameter-efficient fine-tuning over pretrained LMs reduces training memory by updating a small number of LM parameters but does not improve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Bowen Zhao , Hannaneh Hajishirzi , Qingqing Cao

While Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved tremendous success in various applications, they are also susceptible to jailbreaking attacks. Several primary defense strategies have been proposed to protect LLMs from producing harmful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Yichuan Mo , Yuji Wang , Zeming Wei , Yisen Wang

Adversarial training (AT) is among the most effective techniques to improve model robustness by augmenting training data with adversarial examples. However, most existing AT methods adopt a specific attack to craft adversarial examples,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Yinpeng Dong , Zhijie Deng , Tianyu Pang , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

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

The vulnerability of deep neural networks to imperceptible adversarial perturbations has attracted widespread attention. Inspired by the success of vision-language foundation models, previous efforts achieved zero-shot adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Yiwei Zhou , Xiaobo Xia , Zhiwei Lin , Bo Han , Tongliang Liu