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Adversarial training has been proven to be a powerful regularization method to improve the generalization of models. However, current adversarial training methods only attack the original input sample or the embedding vectors, and their…

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Diffusion models, which iteratively denoise data samples to synthesize high-quality outputs, have achieved empirical success across domains. However, optimizing these models for downstream tasks often involves nested bilevel structures,…

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Recent studies have demonstrated that hypergraph neural networks (HGNNs) are susceptible to adversarial attacks. However, existing methods rely on the specific information mechanisms of target HGNNs, overlooking the common vulnerability…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Meixia He , Peican Zhu , Le Cheng , Yangming Guo , Manman Yuan , Keke Tang

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are acknowledged as vulnerable to adversarial attacks, while the existing black-box attacks require extensive queries on the victim DNN to achieve high success rates. For query-efficiency, surrogate models of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Sizhe Chen , Zhehao Huang , Qinghua Tao , Xiaolin Huang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have received significant attention due to their state-of-the-art performance on various graph representation learning tasks. However, recent studies reveal that GNNs are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, i.e.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Haoxi Zhan , Xiaobing Pei

Hyperparameter optimization (HPO) is generally treated as a bi-level optimization problem that involves fitting a (probabilistic) surrogate model to a set of observed hyperparameter responses, e.g. validation loss, and consequently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Hadi S. Jomaa , Jonas Falkner , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

While the untargeted black-box transferability of adversarial perturbations has been extensively studied before, changing an unseen model's decisions to a specific `targeted' class remains a challenging feat. In this paper, we propose a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Muzammal Naseer , Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Fatih Porikli

Cyberattacks are increasing, and securing against such threats is costing industries billions of dollars annually. Threat Modeling, that is, comprehending the consequences of these attacks, can provide critical support to cybersecurity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Bipin Chhetri , Akbar Siami Namin

Neural code models have been increasingly incorporated into software development processes. However, their susceptibility to backdoor attacks presents a significant security risk. The state-of-the-art understanding focuses on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Junyao Ye , Zhen Li , Xi Tang , Shouhuai Xu , Deqing Zou , Zhongsheng Yuan

Deep neural networks are widely known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples, especially showing significantly poor performance on adversarial examples generated under the white-box setting. However, most white-box attack methods rely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Zeliang Zhang , Peihan Liu , Xiaosen Wang , Chenliang Xu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial examples. And, the adversarial examples have transferability, which means that an adversarial example for a DNN model can fool another model with a non-trivial probability. This gave…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Dingcheng Yang , Zihao Xiao , Wenjian Yu

Training a reinforcement learning (RL) agent on a real-world robotics task remains generally impractical due to sample inefficiency. Multi-task RL and meta-RL aim to improve sample efficiency by generalizing over a distribution of related…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Jacob Beck , Matthew Thomas Jackson , Risto Vuorio , Shimon Whiteson

Bilevel optimization, in which one optimization problem is nested inside another, underlies many machine learning applications with a hierarchical structure -- such as meta-learning and hyperparameter optimization. Such applications often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Andrew Lowy , Daogao Liu

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples crafted by applying human-imperceptible perturbations on clean inputs. Although many attack methods can achieve high success rates in the white-box setting, they also exhibit weak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Zhijin Ge , Fanhua Shang , Hongying Liu , Yuanyuan Liu , Liang Wan , Wei Feng , Xiaosen Wang

In this paper, we propose a novel distributed algorithm to optimize the emergent macroscopic behavior of large-scale multi-agent systems via microscopic actions. We cast this task as a bilevel optimization problem, where the upper level…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Riccardo Brumali , Guido Carnevale , Sonia Martínez , Giuseppe Notarstefano

Adversarial attacks can mislead deep neural networks (DNNs) by adding imperceptible perturbations to benign examples. The attack transferability enables adversarial examples to attack black-box DNNs with unknown architectures or parameters,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Kaisheng Liang , Bin Xiao

Deep neural networks (DNNs) can be easily fooled by adding human imperceptible perturbations to the images. These perturbed images are known as `adversarial examples' and pose a serious threat to security and safety critical systems. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Muzammal Naseer , Salman H. Khan , Shafin Rahman , Fatih Porikli

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

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, posing significant security threats to their deployment in remote sensing applications. Research on adversarial attacks not only reveals model vulnerabilities but also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Chun Liu , Hailong Wang , Bingqian Zhu , Panpan Ding , Zheng Zheng , Tao Xu , Zhigang Han , Jiayao Wang

Hyperparameter optimization of neural networks can be elegantly formulated as a bilevel optimization problem. While research on bilevel optimization of neural networks has been dominated by implicit differentiation and unrolling,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Juhan Bae , Roger Grosse