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Vision Transformers (ViTs) are becoming a very popular paradigm for vision tasks as they achieve state-of-the-art performance on image classification. However, although early works implied that this network structure had increased…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Hugo Lemarchant , Liangzi Li , Yiming Qian , Yuta Nakashima , Hajime Nagahara

Face recognition has obtained remarkable progress in recent years due to the great improvement of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, deep CNNs are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which can cause fateful consequences in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Yinpeng Dong , Hang Su , Baoyuan Wu , Zhifeng Li , Wei Liu , Tong Zhang , Jun Zhu

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have become the de facto gold standard in computer vision applications in the past years. Recently, however, new model architectures have been proposed challenging the status quo. The Vision Transformer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Philipp Benz , Soomin Ham , Chaoning Zhang , Adil Karjauv , In So Kweon

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks even under a black-box setting where the adversary can only query the model. Particularly, query-based black-box adversarial attacks estimate adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Xin Wang , Kai Chen , Xingjun Ma , Zhineng Chen , Jingjing Chen , Yu-Gang Jiang

Vision transformers (ViTs) have become essential backbones in advanced computer vision applications and multi-modal foundation models. Despite their strengths, ViTs remain vulnerable to adversarial perturbations, comparable to or even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Bhavna Gopal , Huanrui Yang , Mark Horton , Yiran Chen

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been showed to be highly vulnerable to imperceptible adversarial perturbations. As a complementary type of adversary, patch attacks that introduce perceptible perturbations to the images have attracted the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Zhaoyu Chen , Bo Li , Shuang Wu , Shouhong Ding , Wenqiang Zhang

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have recently achieved competitive performance in broad vision tasks. Unfortunately, on popular threat models, naturally trained ViTs are shown to provide no more adversarial robustness than convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Yichuan Mo , Dongxian Wu , Yifei Wang , Yiwen Guo , Yisen Wang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are well known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples (AEs). In addition, AEs have adversarial transferability, which means AEs generated for a source model can fool another black-box model (target model) with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Ryota Iijima , Sayaka Shiota , Hitoshi Kiya

The ability of deep neural networks (DNNs) come from extracting and interpreting features from the data provided. By exploiting intermediate features in DNNs instead of relying on hard labels, we craft adversarial perturbation that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Shangbo Wu , Yu-an Tan , Ruinan Ma , Wencong Ma , Dehua Zhu , Yuanzhang Li

In this work we demonstrate the vulnerability of vision transformers (ViTs) to gradient-based inversion attacks. During this attack, the original data batch is reconstructed given model weights and the corresponding gradients. We introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Ali Hatamizadeh , Hongxu Yin , Holger Roth , Wenqi Li , Jan Kautz , Daguang Xu , Pavlo Molchanov

Vision transformers (ViTs) have been successfully deployed in a variety of computer vision tasks, but they are still vulnerable to adversarial samples. Transfer-based attacks use a local model to generate adversarial samples and directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Jianping Zhang , Yizhan Huang , Weibin Wu , Michael R. Lyu

Deep learning vision systems are increasingly deployed in safety-critical domains such as healthcare, yet they remain vulnerable to small adversarial patches that can trigger misclassifications. Most existing defenses assume a single patch…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Aja Khanal , Ahmed Faid , Apurva Narayan

Adversarial training (AT) can help improve the robustness of Vision Transformers (ViT) against adversarial attacks by intentionally injecting adversarial examples into the training data. However, this way of adversarial injection inevitably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Fudong Lin , Jiadong Lou , Xu Yuan , Nian-Feng Tzeng

Self-attention based models such as vision transformers (ViTs) have emerged as a very competitive architecture alternative to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in computer vision. Despite increasingly stronger variants with ever-higher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Junting Pan , Adrian Bulat , Fuwen Tan , Xiatian Zhu , Lukasz Dudziak , Hongsheng Li , Georgios Tzimiropoulos , Brais Martinez

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have outperformed traditional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) across various computer vision tasks. However, akin to CNN, ViTs are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where the adversary embeds the backdoor into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Ji Guo , Hongwei Li , Wenbo Jiang , Guoming Lu

In this paper, we ask whether Vision Transformers (ViTs) can serve as an underlying architecture for improving the adversarial robustness of machine learning models against evasion attacks. While earlier works have focused on improving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Edoardo Debenedetti , Vikash Sehwag , Prateek Mittal

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated impressive performance across a range of applications, including many safety-critical tasks. However, their unique architectural properties raise new challenges and opportunities in adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jiani Liu , Zhiyuan Wang , Zeliang Zhang , Chao Huang , Susan Liang , Yunlong Tang , Chenliang Xu

Adversarial transferability remains a critical challenge in evaluating the robustness of deep neural networks. In security-critical applications, transferability enables black-box attacks without access to model internals, making it a key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Amira Guesmi , Bassem Ouni , Muhammad Shafique

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated the state-of-the-art performance in various vision-related tasks. The success of ViTs motivates adversaries to perform backdoor attacks on ViTs. Although the vulnerability of traditional CNNs to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Mengxin Zheng , Qian Lou , Lei Jiang

Vision Transformer (ViT) is known to be highly nonlinear like other classical neural networks and could be easily fooled by both natural and adversarial patch perturbations. This limitation could pose a threat to the deployment of ViT in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Yuheng Huang , Lei Ma , Yuanchun Li