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Model Extraction attacks exploit the target model's prediction API to create a surrogate model in order to steal or reconnoiter the functionality of the target model in the black-box setting. Several recent studies have shown that a…

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Neural networks are susceptible to adversarial perturbations that are transferable across different models. In this paper, we introduce a novel model alignment technique aimed at improving a given source model's ability in generating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Avery Ma , Amir-massoud Farahmand , Yangchen Pan , Philip Torr , Jindong Gu

Regional adversarial attacks often rely on complicated methods for generating adversarial perturbations, making it hard to compare their efficacy against well-known attacks. In this study, we show that effective regional perturbations can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Utku Ozbulak , Jonathan Peck , Wesley De Neve , Bart Goossens , Yvan Saeys , Arnout Van Messem

Deep learning-based image denoising models demonstrate remarkable performance, but their lack of robustness analysis remains a significant concern. A major issue is that these models are susceptible to adversarial attacks, where small,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Jie Ning , Jiebao Sun , Shengzhu Shi , Zhichang Guo , Yao Li , Hongwei Li , Boying Wu

In this work, we consider one challenging training time attack by modifying training data with bounded perturbation, hoping to manipulate the behavior (both targeted or non-targeted) of any corresponding trained classifier during test time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Ji Feng , Qi-Zhi Cai , Zhi-Hua Zhou

Vision Transformers are increasingly embedded in industrial systems due to their superior performance, but their memory and power requirements make deploying them to edge devices a challenging task. Hence, model compression techniques are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Swapnil Parekh , Devansh Shah , Pratyush Shukla

Deep neural network-based image classification can be misled by adversarial examples with small and quasi-imperceptible perturbations. Furthermore, the adversarial examples created on one classification model can also fool another different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Jindong Gu , Hengshuang Zhao , Volker Tresp , Philip Torr

In the scenario of black-box adversarial attack, the target model's parameters are unknown, and the attacker aims to find a successful adversarial perturbation based on query feedback under a query budget. Due to the limited feedback…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Fei Yin , Yong Zhang , Baoyuan Wu , Yan Feng , Jingyi Zhang , Yanbo Fan , Yujiu Yang

Adversarial training has shown promise in building robust models against adversarial examples. A major drawback of adversarial training is the computational overhead introduced by the generation of adversarial examples. To overcome this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Xiaojun Jia , Jianshu Li , Jindong Gu , Yang Bai , Xiaochun Cao

Intermediate task transfer learning can greatly improve model performance. If, for example, one has little training data for emotion detection, first fine-tuning a language model on a sentiment classification dataset may improve performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 David Schulte , Felix Hamborg , Alan Akbik

State-of-the-art crowd counting and localization are primarily modeled using two paradigms: density maps and point regression. Given the field's security ramifications, there is active interest in model robustness against adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Alabi Mehzabin Anisha , Guangjing Wang , Sriram Chellappan

Face recognition (FR) models can be easily fooled by adversarial examples, which are crafted by adding imperceptible perturbations on benign face images. The existence of adversarial face examples poses a great threat to the security of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Fengfan Zhou , Hefei Ling , Yuxuan Shi , Jiazhong Chen , Zongyi Li , Ping Li

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which can mislead classifiers by adding imperceptible perturbations. An intriguing property of adversarial examples is their good transferability, making black-box attacks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Yinpeng Dong , Tianyu Pang , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Neural networks are known to be vulnerable to carefully crafted adversarial examples, and these malicious samples often transfer, i.e., they remain adversarial even against other models. Although great efforts have been delved into the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-27 Yantao Lu , Yunhan Jia , Jianyu Wang , Bai Li , Weiheng Chai , Lawrence Carin , Senem Velipasalar

We consider adversarial attacks to a black-box model when no queries are allowed. In this setting, many methods directly attack surrogate models and transfer the obtained adversarial examples to fool the target model. Plenty of previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Yunxiao Qin , Yuanhao Xiong , Jinfeng Yi , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Adversarial examples, characterized by imperceptible perturbations, pose significant threats to deep neural networks by misleading their predictions. A critical aspect of these examples is their transferability, allowing them to deceive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Yi Yu , Song Xia , Xun Lin , Chenqi Kong , Wenhan Yang , Shijian Lu , Yap-Peng Tan , Alex C. Kot

Targeted data poisoning attacks manipulate model predictions on specific test samples by injecting malicious data into training. Yet existing evaluations report average attack success rates over randomly selected targets, obscuring true…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 William Xu , Chenyu Zhang , Yihan Wang , Matthew Y. R. Yang , Zuoqiu Liu , Gautam Kamath , Yaoliang Yu , Yiwei Lu

The integration of an ensemble of deep learning models has been extensively explored to enhance defense against adversarial attacks. The diversity among sub-models increases the attack cost required to deceive the majority of the ensemble,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Kaikang Zhao , Xi Chen , Wei Huang , Liuxin Ding , Xianglong Kong , Fan Zhang

Adversarial attacks present a critical challenge to deep neural networks' robustness, particularly in transfer scenarios across different model architectures. However, the transferability of adversarial attacks faces a fundamental dilemma…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Zenghao Niu , Weicheng Xie , Siyang Song , Zitong Yu , Feng Liu , Linlin Shen

The focus in machine learning has branched beyond training classifiers on a single task to investigating how previously acquired knowledge in a source domain can be leveraged to facilitate learning in a related target domain, known as…

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