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Adversarial attacks on machine learning algorithms have been a key deterrent to the adoption of AI in many real-world use cases. They significantly undermine the ability of high-performance neural networks by forcing misclassifications.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Nandish Chattopadhyay , Atreya Goswami , Anupam Chattopadhyay

Adversarial examples are inputs to machine learning models designed by an adversary to cause an incorrect output. So far, adversarial examples have been studied most extensively in the image domain. In this domain, adversarial examples can…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-10 Yao Qin , Nicholas Carlini , Ian Goodfellow , Garrison Cottrell , Colin Raffel

Research on adversarial robustness in language models is currently fragmented across applications and attacks, obscuring shared vulnerabilities. In this work, we propose unifying the study of adversarial robustness in text scoring models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Manveer Singh Tamber , Hosna Oyarhoseini , Jimmy Lin

Machine learning researchers have long noticed the phenomenon that the model training process will be more effective and efficient when the training samples are densely sampled around the underlying decision boundary. While this observation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Honggang Yu , Shihfeng Zeng , Teng Zhang , Ing-Chao Lin , Yier Jin

A wide range of defenses have been proposed to harden neural networks against adversarial attacks. However, a pattern has emerged in which the majority of adversarial defenses are quickly broken by new attacks. Given the lack of success at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Ali Shafahi , W. Ronny Huang , Christoph Studer , Soheil Feizi , Tom Goldstein

Adversarial examples are carefully constructed modifications to an input that completely change the output of a classifier but are imperceptible to humans. Despite these successful attacks for continuous data (such as image and audio…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Qi Lei , Lingfei Wu , Pin-Yu Chen , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Inderjit S. Dhillon , Michael Witbrock

This paper proposes a classification framework with a rejection option to mitigate the performance deterioration caused by adversarial examples. While recent machine learning algorithms achieve high prediction performance, they are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Masahiro Kato , Zhenghang Cui , Yoshihiro Fukuhara

Counterfactual instances are a powerful tool to obtain valuable insights into automated decision processes, describing the necessary minimal changes in the input space to alter the prediction towards a desired target. Most previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Robert-Florian Samoilescu , Arnaud Van Looveren , Janis Klaise

Today text classification models have been widely used. However, these classifiers are found to be easily fooled by adversarial examples. Fortunately, standard attacking methods generate adversarial texts in a pair-wise way, that is, an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Yankun Ren , Jianbin Lin , Siliang Tang , Jun Zhou , Shuang Yang , Yuan Qi , Xiang Ren

Recent work has demonstrated the vulnerability of modern text classifiers to universal adversarial attacks, which are input-agnostic sequences of words added to text processed by classifiers. Despite being successful, the word sequences…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Liwei Song , Xinwei Yu , Hsuan-Tung Peng , Karthik Narasimhan

Most adversarial attack methods that are designed to deceive a text classifier change the text classifier's prediction by modifying a few words or characters. Few try to attack classifiers by rewriting a whole sentence, due to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Lei Xu , Ivan Ramirez , Kalyan Veeramachaneni

As machine learning systems become more widely used, especially for safety critical applications, there is a growing need to ensure that these systems behave as intended, even in the face of adversarial examples. Adversarial examples are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Anahita Samadi , Allison Sullivan

Research shows that natural language processing models are generally considered to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks; but recent work has drawn attention to the issue of validating these adversarial inputs against certain criteria (e.g.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Maximilian Mozes , Max Bartolo , Pontus Stenetorp , Bennett Kleinberg , Lewis D. Griffin

An adversarial attack paradigm explores various scenarios for the vulnerability of deep learning models: minor changes of the input can force a model failure. Most of the state of the art frameworks focus on adversarial attacks for images…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-22 I. Fursov , A. Zaytsev , N. Kluchnikov , A. Kravchenko , E. Burnaev

Language models are vulnerable to short adversarial suffixes that can reliably alter predictions. Previous works usually find such suffixes with gradient search or rule-based methods, but these are brittle and often tied to a single task or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Sampriti Soor , Suklav Ghosh , Arijit Sur

The generation of feasible adversarial examples is necessary for properly assessing models that work in constrained feature space. However, it remains a challenging task to enforce constraints into attacks that were designed for computer…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Thibault Simonetto , Salijona Dyrmishi , Salah Ghamizi , Maxime Cordy , Yves Le Traon

Adversarial attacks on explainability models have drastic consequences when explanations are used to understand the reasoning of neural networks in safety critical systems. Path methods are one such class of attribution methods susceptible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Lachlan Simpson , Federico Costanza , Kyle Millar , Adriel Cheng , Cheng-Chew Lim , Hong Gunn Chew

Machine learning models are powerful but fallible. Generating adversarial examples - inputs deliberately crafted to cause model misclassification or other errors - can yield important insight into model assumptions and vulnerabilities.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-18 Catherine Wong

We consider a problem of learning the reward and policy from expert examples under unknown dynamics. Our proposed method builds on the framework of generative adversarial networks and introduces the empowerment-regularized maximum-entropy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Ahmed H. Qureshi , Byron Boots , Michael C. Yip

Adversarial examples are a type of attack on machine learning (ML) systems which cause misclassification of inputs. Achieving robustness against adversarial examples is crucial to apply ML in the real world. While most prior work on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Nico Döttling , Kathrin Grosse , Michael Backes , Ian Molloy