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Attacks on deep learning models are often difficult to identify and therefore are difficult to protect against. This problem is exacerbated by the use of public datasets that typically are not manually inspected before use. In this paper,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Abigail Swenor , Jugal Kalita

It has been demonstrated that very simple attacks can fool highly-sophisticated neural network architectures. In particular, so-called adversarial examples, constructed from perturbations of input data that are small or imperceptible to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-09 N. Benjamin Erichson , Zhewei Yao , Michael W. Mahoney

Low-resource automatic speech recognition (ASR) is challenging, as the low-resource target language data cannot well train an ASR model. To solve this issue, meta-learning formulates ASR for each source language into many small ASR tasks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Yubei Xiao , Ke Gong , Pan Zhou , Guolin Zheng , Xiaodan Liang , Liang Lin

This paper introduces a novel adversarial attack method targeting text classification models, termed the Modified Word Saliency-based Adversarial At-tack (MWSAA). The technique builds upon the concept of word saliency to strategically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Hetvi Waghela , Sneha Rakshit , Jaydip Sen

Recent studies have shown that neural network (NN) based image classifiers are highly vulnerable to adversarial examples, which poses a threat to security-sensitive image recognition task. Prior work has shown that JPEG compression can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Cheng Zhang , Pan Gao

Recently, unsupervised adversarial training (AT) has been highlighted as a means of achieving robustness in models without any label information. Previous studies in unsupervised AT have mostly focused on implementing self-supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Minseon Kim , Hyeonjeong Ha , Sooel Son , Sung Ju Hwang

Adversarial attacks on deep-learning models pose a serious threat to their reliability and security. Existing defense mechanisms are narrow addressing a specific type of attack or being vulnerable to sophisticated attacks. We propose a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Mouna Rabhi , Roberto Di Pietro

Neural ranking models (NRMs) have undergone significant development and have become integral components of information retrieval (IR) systems. Unfortunately, recent research has unveiled the vulnerability of NRMs to adversarial document…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Xuanang Chen , Ben He , Le Sun , Yingfei Sun

Recent advancements in radio frequency machine learning (RFML) have demonstrated the use of raw in-phase and quadrature (IQ) samples for multiple spectrum sensing tasks. Yet, deep learning techniques have been shown, in other applications,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-06 Bryse Flowers , R. Michael Buehrer , William C. Headley

Adversarial attacks are a type of attack on machine learning models where an attacker deliberately modifies the inputs to cause the model to make incorrect predictions. Adversarial attacks can have serious consequences, particularly in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Prathyusha Devabhakthini , Sasmita Parida , Raj Mani Shukla , Suvendu Chandan Nayak , Tapadhir Das

Meta-reinforcement learning (meta-RL) aims to learn from multiple training tasks the ability to adapt efficiently to unseen test tasks. Despite the success, existing meta-RL algorithms are known to be sensitive to the task distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Zichuan Lin , Garrett Thomas , Guangwen Yang , Tengyu Ma

Machine learning systems and also, specifically, automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are vulnerable against adversarial attacks, where an attacker maliciously changes the input. In the case of ASR systems, the most interesting cases…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Sina Däubener , Lea Schönherr , Asja Fischer , Dorothea Kolossa

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

Adversarial examples are known to mislead deep learning models to incorrectly classify them, even in domains where such models achieve state-of-the-art performance. Until recently, research on both attack and defense methods focused on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Ishai Rosenberg , Asaf Shabtai , Yuval Elovici , Lior Rokach

Adversarial attacks modify images with perturbations that change the prediction of classifiers. These modified images, known as adversarial examples, expose the vulnerabilities of deep neural network classifiers. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Chau Yi Li , Ricardo Sánchez-Matilla , Ali Shahin Shamsabadi , Riccardo Mazzon , Andrea Cavallaro

We propose a method to generate audio adversarial examples that can attack a state-of-the-art speech recognition model in the physical world. Previous work assumes that generated adversarial examples are directly fed to the recognition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Hiromu Yakura , Jun Sakuma

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, where a small perturbation to an input alters the model prediction. In many cases, malicious inputs intentionally crafted for one model can fool another model. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Liping Yuan , Xiaoqing Zheng , Yi Zhou , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Kai-wei Chang

Reward models (RMs) are widely used as optimization targets in reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), yet they remain vulnerable to reward hacking. Existing attacks mainly operate within the semantic space, constructing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Yuheng Zhang , Mingyue Huo , Minghao Zhu , Mengxue Zhang , Nan Jiang

Generating adversarial examples for natural language is hard, as natural language consists of discrete symbols, and examples are often of variable lengths. In this paper, we propose a geometry-inspired attack for generating natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Zhao Meng , Roger Wattenhofer

Neural networks are vulnerable to adversarially-constructed perturbations of their inputs. Most research so far has considered perturbations of a fixed magnitude under some $l_p$ norm. Although studying these attacks is valuable, there has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Isaac Dunn , Hadrien Pouget , Tom Melham , Daniel Kroening