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The deep learning algorithm has achieved great success in the field of computer vision, but some studies have pointed out that the deep learning model is vulnerable to attacks adversarial examples and makes false decisions. This challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Tiangang Li

In recent years, deep neural networks have demonstrated outstanding performance in many machine learning tasks. However, researchers have discovered that these state-of-the-art models are vulnerable to adversarial examples: legitimate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Ting-Jui Chang , Yukun He , Peng Li

Text classification systems have been proven vulnerable to adversarial text examples, modified versions of the original text examples that are often unnoticed by human eyes, yet can force text classification models to alter their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Norah Alshahrani , Saied Alshahrani , Esma Wali , Jeanna Matthews

Adversarial training (AT) and its variants have spearheaded progress in improving neural network robustness to adversarial perturbations and common corruptions in the last few years. Algorithm design of AT and its variants are focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Kaustubh Sridhar , Souradeep Dutta , Ramneet Kaur , James Weimer , Oleg Sokolsky , Insup Lee

Deep neural networks have been proven to be vulnerable to adversarial examples and various methods have been proposed to defend against adversarial attacks for natural language processing tasks. However, previous defense methods have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Fangyuan Zhang , Huichi Zhou , Shuangjiao Li , Hongtao Wang

Deep learning models have achieved state-of-the-art performances in various domains, while they are vulnerable to the inputs with well-crafted but small perturbations, which are named after adversarial examples (AEs). Among many strategies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Huihui Gong

Deep neural networks are susceptible to human imperceptible adversarial perturbations. One of the strongest defense mechanisms is \emph{Adversarial Training} (AT). In this paper, we aim to address two predominant problems in AT. First,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Jianhui Sun , Sanchit Sinha , Aidong Zhang

Adversarial attacks in deep learning represent a significant threat to the integrity and reliability of machine learning models. Adversarial training has been a popular defence technique against these adversarial attacks. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Akshay G Rao , Chandrashekhar Lakshminarayanan , Arun Rajkumar

There is an increasing amount of literature that claims the brittleness of deep neural networks in dealing with adversarial examples that are created maliciously. It is unclear, however, how the models will perform in realistic scenarios…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Lichao Sun , Kazuma Hashimoto , Wenpeng Yin , Akari Asai , Jia Li , Philip Yu , Caiming Xiong

This paper presents GReAT (Graph Regularized Adversarial Training), a novel regularization method designed to enhance the robust classification performance of deep learning models. Adversarial examples, characterized by subtle perturbations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Samet Bayram , Kenneth Barner

Contextual ranking models based on BERT are now well established for a wide range of passage and document ranking tasks. However, the robustness of BERT-based ranking models under adversarial inputs is under-explored. In this paper, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Yumeng Wang , Lijun Lyu , Avishek Anand

Deep learning models are vulnerable to adversarial examples, posing critical security challenges in real-world applications. While Adversarial Training (AT ) is a widely adopted defense mechanism to enhance robustness, it often incurs a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Jing Zou , Shungeng Zhang , Meikang Qiu , Chong Li

Transformer-based text classifiers such as BERT, RoBERTa, T5, and GPT have shown strong performance in natural language processing tasks but remain vulnerable to adversarial examples. These vulnerabilities raise significant security…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Bushra Sabir , Yansong Gao , Alsharif Abuadbba , M. Ali Babar

Neural retrieval models have acquired significant effectiveness gains over the last few years compared to term-based methods. Nevertheless, those models may be brittle when faced to typos, distribution shifts or vulnerable to malicious…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Simon Lupart , Stéphane Clinchant

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial examples obtained by adding small perturbations to original examples. The added perturbations in existing attacks are mainly determined by the gradient of the loss function with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Chen Wan , Fangjun Huang

While there has been substantial research using adversarial attacks to analyze NLP models, each attack is implemented in its own code repository. It remains challenging to develop NLP attacks and utilize them to improve model performance.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 John X. Morris , Eli Lifland , Jin Yong Yoo , Jake Grigsby , Di Jin , Yanjun Qi

Adversarial attacks pose a significant threat to the reliability of pre-trained language models (PLMs) such as GPT, BERT, RoBERTa, and T5. This paper presents Adversarial Robustness through Dynamic Ensemble Learning (ARDEL), a novel scheme…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Hetvi Waghela , Jaydip Sen , Sneha Rakshit

The success of pre-trained word embeddings has motivated its use in tasks in the biomedical domain. The BERT language model has shown remarkable results on standard performance metrics in tasks such as Named Entity Recognition (NER) and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Vladimir Araujo , Andres Carvallo , Carlos Aspillaga , Denis Parra

We investigate adversarial-sample generation methods from a frequency domain perspective and extend standard $l_{\infty}$ Projected Gradient Descent (PGD) to the frequency domain. The resulting method, which we call Spectral Projected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Hans Shih-Han Wang , Cory Cornelius , Brandon Edwards , Jason Martin

Adversarial attacks are a major challenge faced by current machine learning research. These purposely crafted inputs fool even the most advanced models, precluding their deployment in safety-critical applications. Extensive research in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Edoardo Mosca , Shreyash Agarwal , Javier Rando , Georg Groh