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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

Vision Language Models (VLMs) have exhibited remarkable generalization capabilities, yet their robustness in dynamic real-world scenarios remains largely unexplored. To systematically evaluate VLMs' robustness to real-world 3D variations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Shouwei Ruan , Hanqing Liu , Yao Huang , Xiaoqi Wang , Caixin Kang , Hang Su , Yinpeng Dong , Xingxing Wei

Adversarial Propagation (AdvProp) is an effective way to improve recognition models, leveraging adversarial examples. Nonetheless, AdvProp suffers from the extremely slow training speed, mainly because: a) extra forward and backward passes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Jieru Mei , Yucheng Han , Yutong Bai , Yixiao Zhang , Yingwei Li , Xianhang Li , Alan Yuille , Cihang Xie

Vision-Language Models (VLMs), with their strong reasoning and planning capabilities, are widely used in embodied decision-making (EDM) tasks in embodied agents, such as autonomous driving and robotic manipulation. Recent research has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yichen Wang , Hangtao Zhang , Hewen Pan , Ziqi Zhou , Xianlong Wang , Peijin Guo , Lulu Xue , Shengshan Hu , Minghui Li , Leo Yu Zhang

Embedding models are a fundamental component of modern AI systems such as semantic search and retrieval-augmented generation. Recent advances in large foundation models have substantially accelerated the development of embedding models,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Zihang Wang , Siyue Zhang , Yilun Zhao , Jingyi Yang , Tingyu Song , Anh Tuan Luu , Chen Zhao

Robustness to modeling errors and uncertainties remains a central challenge in reinforcement learning (RL). In this work, we address this challenge by leveraging diffusion models to train robust RL policies. Diffusion models have recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Daniele Foffano , Alessio Russo , Alexandre Proutiere

Adversarial examples are vital to expose the vulnerability of machine learning models. Despite the success of the most popular substitution-based methods which substitutes some characters or words in the original examples, only substitution…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Zhihong Shao , Zitao Liu , Jiyong Zhang , Zhongqin Wu , Minlie Huang

Adversarial patches present significant challenges to the robustness of deep learning models, making the development of effective defenses become critical for real-world applications. This paper introduces DIFFender, a novel DIFfusion-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Xingxing Wei , Caixin Kang , Yinpeng Dong , Zhengyi Wang , Shouwei Ruan , Yubo Chen , Hang Su

Fast gradient sign attack series are popular methods that are used to generate adversarial examples. However, most of the approaches based on fast gradient sign attack series cannot balance the indistinguishability and transferability due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Junhua Zou , Yexin Duan , Boyu Li , Wu Zhang , Yu Pan , Zhisong Pan

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are highly sensitive to imperceptible malicious perturbations, known as adversarial attacks. Following the discovery of this vulnerability in real-world imaging and vision applications, the associated safety…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Tsachi Blau , Roy Ganz , Bahjat Kawar , Alex Bronstein , Michael Elad

Large Language Models (LLMs) are susceptible to generating harmful content when prompted with carefully crafted inputs, a vulnerability known as LLM jailbreaking. As LLMs become more powerful, studying jailbreak methods is critical to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Hao Wang , Hao Li , Junda Zhu , Xinyuan Wang , Chengwei Pan , MinLie Huang , Lei Sha

Deep neural networks, particularly face recognition models, have been shown to be vulnerable to both digital and physical adversarial examples. However, existing adversarial examples against face recognition systems either lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Bangjie Yin , Wenxuan Wang , Taiping Yao , Junfeng Guo , Zelun Kong , Shouhong Ding , Jilin Li , Cong Liu

Autoregressive language models decode left-to-right with irreversible commitments, limiting revision during multi-step reasoning. We propose \textbf{VDLM}, a modular variable diffusion language model that separates semantic planning from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Shuhui Qu

Diffusion models have demonstrated exceptional efficacy in various generative applications. While existing models focus on minimizing a weighted sum of denoising score matching losses for data distribution modeling, their training primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Ling Yang , Haotian Qian , Zhilong Zhang , Jingwei Liu , Bin Cui

In the transfer-based adversarial attacks, adversarial examples are only generated by the surrogate models and achieve effective perturbation in the victim models. Although considerable efforts have been developed on improving the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Xiangyuan Yang , Jie Lin , Hanlin Zhang , Xinyu Yang , Peng Zhao

Despite the rapid development of adversarial machine learning, most adversarial attack and defense researches mainly focus on the perturbation-based adversarial examples, which is constrained by the input images. In comparison with existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Xiaosen Wang , Kun He , Chuanbiao Song , Liwei Wang , John E. Hopcroft

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable success in tasks such as image captioning and visual question answering (VQA). However, as their applications become increasingly widespread, recent studies have revealed that VLMs are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Ji Guo , Xiaolong Qin , Cencen Liu , Jielei Wang , Jierun Chen , Wenbo Jiang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are susceptible to adversarial examples, which introduce imperceptible perturbations to benign samples, deceiving DNN predictions. While some attack methods excel in the white-box setting, they often struggle in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Jiayang Liu , Siyu Zhu , Siyuan Liang , Jie Zhang , Han Fang , Weiming Zhang , Ee-Chien Chang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved impressive performance in text summarization and are increasingly deployed in real-world applications. However, these systems often inherit associative and framing biases from pre-training data,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Mukur Gupta , Nikhil Reddy Varimalla , Nicholas Deas , Melanie Subbiah , Kathleen McKeown

Diffusion Models (DMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in various image-generation tasks. However, there are growing concerns that DMs could be used to imitate unauthorized creations and thus raise copyright issues. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Peifei Zhu , Tsubasa Takahashi , Hirokatsu Kataoka