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The generation of transferable adversarial perturbations typically involves training a generator to maximize embedding separation between clean and adversarial images at a single mid-layer of a source model. In this work, we build on this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Krishna Kanth Nakka , Alexandre Alahi

Intermediate-level attacks that attempt to perturb feature representations following an adversarial direction drastically have shown favorable performance in crafting transferable adversarial examples. Existing methods in this category are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Qizhang Li , Yiwen Guo , Wangmeng Zuo , Hao Chen

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial examples (AEs) that mislead the model while appearing benign to human observers. A critical concern is the transferability of AEs, which enables black-box attacks without direct…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Jiahao Chen , Zhou Feng , Rui Zeng , Yuwen Pu , Chunyi Zhou , Yi Jiang , Yuyou Gan , Jinbao Li , Shouling Ji

Diverse data augmentation strategies are a natural approach to improving robustness in computer vision models against unforeseen shifts in data distribution. However, the ability to tailor such strategies to inoculate a model against…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Ryan Soklaski , Michael Yee , Theodoros Tsiligkaridis

The success of deep face recognition (FR) systems has raised serious privacy concerns due to their ability to enable unauthorized tracking of users in the digital world. Previous studies proposed introducing imperceptible adversarial noises…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Minghui Li , Jiangxiong Wang , Hao Zhang , Ziqi Zhou , Shengshan Hu , Xiaobing Pei

Training Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) is notoriously challenging. We propose and study an architectural modification, self-modulation, which improves GAN performance across different data sets, architectures, losses, regularizers,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Ting Chen , Mario Lucic , Neil Houlsby , Sylvain Gelly

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attack despite their tremendous success in many AI fields. Adversarial attack is a method that causes the intended misclassfication by adding imperceptible perturbations to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Huy Phan , Yi Xie , Siyu Liao , Jie Chen , Bo Yuan

While deep neural networks have achieved remarkable success in various computer vision tasks, they often fail to generalize to new domains and subtle variations of input images. Several defenses have been proposed to improve the robustness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Omid Poursaeed , Tianxing Jiang , Harry Yang , Serge Belongie , SerNam Lim

Adversarial training suffers from robust overfitting, a phenomenon where the robust test accuracy starts to decrease during training. In this paper, we focus on reducing robust overfitting by using common data augmentation schemes. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Sylvestre-Alvise Rebuffi , Sven Gowal , Dan A. Calian , Florian Stimberg , Olivia Wiles , Timothy Mann

Transfer learning has become a central paradigm in modern machine learning, yet it suffers from the long-standing problem of negative transfer, where leveraging source representations can harm rather than help performance on the target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yichen Xu , Ryumei Nakada , Linjun Zhang , Lexin Li

As designers of artificial intelligence try to outwit hackers, both sides continue to hone in on AI's inherent vulnerabilities. Designed and trained from certain statistical distributions of data, AI's deep neural networks (DNNs) remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Wenzhao Xiang , Hang Su , Chang Liu , Yandong Guo , Shibao Zheng

In this work, we evaluate adversarial robustness in the context of transfer learning from a source trained on CIFAR 100 to a target network trained on CIFAR 10. Specifically, we study the effects of using robust optimisation in the source…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-11 Todor Davchev , Timos Korres , Stathi Fotiadis , Nick Antonopoulos , Subramanian Ramamoorthy

Adversarial transferability refers to the capacity of adversarial examples generated on the surrogate model to deceive alternate, unexposed victim models. This property eliminates the need for direct access to the victim model during an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Xiaosen Wang , Zhijin Ge , Bohan Liu , Zheng Fang , Fengfan Zhou , Ruixuan Zhang , Shaokang Wang , Yuyang Luo

With the great advancements in large language models (LLMs), adversarial attacks against LLMs have recently attracted increasing attention. We found that pre-existing adversarial attack methodologies exhibit limited transferability and are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Zelin Li , Kehai Chen , Lemao Liu , Xuefeng Bai , Mingming Yang , Yang Xiang , Min Zhang

Deep Neural Networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks even in settings where the attacker has no direct access to the model being attacked. Such attacks usually rely on the principle of transferability, whereby an attack crafted on a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-30 Sanjay Kariyappa , Moinuddin K. Qureshi

Functional ultrasound (fUS) is a neuroimaging technique known for its high spatiotemporal resolution, enabling non-invasive observation of brain activity through neurovascular coupling. Despite its potential in clinical applications such as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-20 Zhuo Li , Xuhang Chen , Shuqiang Wang , Bin Yuan , Nou Sotheany , Ngeth Rithea

One intriguing property of adversarial attacks is their "transferability" -- an adversarial example crafted with respect to one deep neural network (DNN) model is often found effective against other DNNs as well. Intensive research has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Yuhao Mao , Chong Fu , Saizhuo Wang , Shouling Ji , Xuhong Zhang , Zhenguang Liu , Jun Zhou , Alex X. Liu , Raheem Beyah , Ting Wang

In recent years, there has been growing concern over the vulnerability of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to image perturbations. However, achieving general robustness against different types of perturbations remains challenging, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Chun Yang Tan , Kazuhiko Kawamoto , Hiroshi Kera

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have recently made significant progress in many fields. However, studies have shown that DNNs are vulnerable to adversarial examples, where imperceptible perturbations can greatly mislead DNNs even if the full…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Zhaoxia Yin , Shaowei Zhu , Hang Su , Jianteng Peng , Wanli Lyu , Bin Luo

Deep neural networks for 3D point clouds have been demonstrated to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. Previous 3D adversarial attack methods often exploit certain information about the target models, such as model parameters or outputs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Shuchao Pang , Zhenghan Chen , Shen Zhang , Liming Lu , Siyuan Liang , Anan Du , Yongbin Zhou