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Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems based on deep neural networks are weak against adversarial perturbations. We propose mixPGD adversarial training method to improve the robustness of the model for ASR systems. In standard…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Aminul Huq , Weiyi Zhang , Xiaolin Hu

Adversarial examples to speaker recognition (SR) systems are generated by adding a carefully crafted noise to the speech signal to make the system fail while being imperceptible to humans. Such attacks pose severe security risks, making it…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Sonal Joshi , Jesús Villalba , Piotr Żelasko , Laureano Moro-Velázquez , Najim Dehak

A Machine-Critical Application is a system that is fundamentally necessary to the success of specific and sensitive operations such as search and recovery, rescue, military, and emergency management actions. Recent advances in Machine…

With the fast development of machine learning technologies, deep learning models have been deployed in almost every aspect of everyday life. However, the privacy and security of these models are threatened by adversarial attacks. Among…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Rui Wang

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

Speech contains rich information on the emotions of humans, and Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) has been an important topic in the area of human-computer interaction. The robustness of SER models is crucial, particularly in…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Yi Chang , Zhao Ren , Zixing Zhang , Xin Jing , Kun Qian , Xi Shao , Bin Hu , Tanja Schultz , Björn W. Schuller

In a pipeline speech translation system, automatic speech recognition (ASR) system will transmit errors in recognition to the downstream machine translation (MT) system. A standard machine translation system is usually trained on parallel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Qiao Cheng , Meiyuan Fang , Yaqian Han , Jin Huang , Yitao Duan

We consider the black-box adversarial setting, where the adversary has to generate adversarial perturbations without access to the target models to compute gradients. Previous methods tried to approximate the gradient either by using a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Shuyu Cheng , Yinpeng Dong , Tianyu Pang , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Widely used deep learning models are found to have poor robustness. Little noises can fool state-of-the-art models into making incorrect predictions. While there is a great deal of high-performance attack generation methods, most of them…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Xinyi Wang , Simon Yusuf Enoch , Dong Seong Kim

Note that this paper is superceded by "Black-Box Adversarial Attacks with Limited Queries and Information." Current neural network-based image classifiers are susceptible to adversarial examples, even in the black-box setting, where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Andrew Ilyas , Logan Engstrom , Anish Athalye , Jessy Lin

Neural ranking models (NRMs) have shown remarkable success in recent years, especially with pre-trained language models. However, deep neural models are notorious for their vulnerability to adversarial examples. Adversarial attacks may…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Chen Wu , Ruqing Zhang , Jiafeng Guo , Maarten de Rijke , Yixing Fan , Xueqi Cheng

Training deep neural networks for automatic speech recognition (ASR) requires large amounts of transcribed speech. This becomes a bottleneck for training robust models for accented speech which typically contains high variability in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-11 Nilaksh Das , Sravan Bodapati , Monica Sunkara , Sundararajan Srinivasan , Duen Horng Chau

In black-box adversarial attacks, adversaries query the deep neural network (DNN), use the output to reconstruct gradients, and then optimize the adversarial inputs iteratively. In this paper, we study the method of adding white noise to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Manjushree B. Aithal , Xiaohua Li

Despite significant improvements in natural language understanding models with the advent of models like BERT and XLNet, these neural-network based classifiers are vulnerable to blackbox adversarial attacks, where the attacker is only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Jatin Chauhan , Karan Bhukar , Manohar Kaul

Visual reinforcement learning has achieved remarkable progress in visual control and robotics, but its vulnerability to adversarial perturbations remains underexplored. Most existing black-box attacks focus on vector-based or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Tairan Huang , Yulin Jin , Junxu Liu , Qingqing Ye , Haibo Hu

Deep neural network based face recognition models have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. However, many of the past attacks require the adversary to solve an input-dependent optimization problem using gradient descent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Shehzeen Hussain , Todd Huster , Chris Mesterharm , Paarth Neekhara , Kevin An , Malhar Jere , Harshvardhan Sikka , Farinaz Koushanfar

We focus on the problem of black-box adversarial attacks, where the aim is to generate adversarial examples using information limited to loss function evaluations of input-output pairs. We use Bayesian optimization~(BO) to specifically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Satya Narayan Shukla , Anit Kumar Sahu , Devin Willmott , J. Zico Kolter

The rapid advancements in artificial intelligence have significantly accelerated the adoption of speech recognition technology, leading to its widespread integration across various applications. However, this surge in usage also highlights…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Jiajie Zhu , Xia Du , Xiaoyuan Liu , Jizhe Zhou , Qizhen Xu , Zheng Lin , Chi-Man Pun

Compared with automatic speech recognition (ASR), the human auditory system is more adept at handling noise-adverse situations, including environmental noise and channel distortion. To mimic this adeptness, auditory models have been widely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-16 Peng Dai , Xue Teng , Frank Rudzicz , Ing Yann Soon

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples that are crafted by imposing imperceptible changes to the inputs. However, these adversarial examples are most successful in white-box settings where the model and its parameters…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Tianjin Huang , Vlado Menkovski , Yulong Pei , YuHao Wang , Mykola Pechenizkiy