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Many word-level adversarial attack approaches for textual data have been proposed in recent studies. However, due to the massive search space consisting of combinations of candidate words, the existing approaches face the problem of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Xingyi Zhao , Lu Zhang , Depeng Xu , Shuhan Yuan

Adversarial samples for images have been extensively studied in the literature. Among many of the attacking methods, gradient-based methods are both effective and easy to compute. In this work, we propose a framework to adapt the gradient…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Zhitao Gong , Wenlu Wang , Bo Li , Dawn Song , Wei-Shinn Ku

Due to their complex nature, it is hard to characterize the ways in which machine learning models can misbehave or be exploited when deployed. Recent work on adversarial examples, i.e. inputs with minor perturbations that result in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Zhengli Zhao , Dheeru Dua , Sameer Singh

Generative adversarial nets (GANs) have been successfully applied to the artificial generation of image data. In terms of text data, much has been done on the artificial generation of natural language from a single corpus. We consider…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Baiyang Wang , Diego Klabjan

Adversarial example generation has been a hot spot in recent years because it can cause deep neural networks (DNNs) to misclassify the generated adversarial examples, which reveals the vulnerability of DNNs, motivating us to find good…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Mingjie Li , Hanzhou Wu , Xinpeng Zhang

It is still a challenging task to learn a neural text generation model under the framework of generative adversarial networks (GANs) since the entire training process is not differentiable. The existing training strategies either suffer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Liping Yuan , Jiehang Zeng , Xiaoqing Zheng

This paper describes a general, scalable, end-to-end framework that uses the generative adversarial network (GAN) objective to enable robust speech recognition. Encoders trained with the proposed approach enjoy improved invariance by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Anuroop Sriram , Heewoo Jun , Yashesh Gaur , Sanjeev Satheesh

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has been empirically shown to enhance the performance of large language models (LLMs) in knowledge-intensive domains such as healthcare, finance, and legal contexts. Given a query, RAG retrieves relevant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Xun Xian , Ganghua Wang , Xuan Bi , Jayanth Srinivasa , Ashish Kundu , Charles Fleming , Mingyi Hong , Jie Ding

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enhances large language model (LLM) reasoning by retrieving external documents, but also opens up new attack surfaces. We study knowledge-base poisoning attacks in RAG, where an attacker injects…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Hongru Song , Yu-An Liu , Ruqing Zhang , Jiafeng Guo , Maarten de Rijke , Yixing Fan , Xueqi Cheng

Adversarial examples are helpful for analyzing and improving the robustness of text classifiers. Generating high-quality adversarial examples is a challenging task as it requires generating fluent adversarial sentences that are semantically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Lei Xu , Alfredo Cuesta-Infante , Laure Berti-Equille , Kalyan Veeramachaneni

Images perturbed subtly to be misclassified by neural networks, called adversarial examples, have emerged as a technically deep challenge and an important concern for several application domains. Most research on adversarial examples takes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Mahmood Sharif , Sruti Bhagavatula , Lujo Bauer , Michael K. Reiter

We explore adversarial attacks against retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems to identify their vulnerabilities. We focus on generating human-imperceptible adversarial examples and introduce a novel imperceptible retrieve-to-generate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Hongru Song , Yu-an Liu , Ruqing Zhang , Jiafeng Guo , Jianming Lv , Maarten de Rijke , Xueqi Cheng

Most state-of-the-art machine learning (ML) classification systems are vulnerable to adversarial perturbations. As a consequence, adversarial robustness poses a significant challenge for the deployment of ML-based systems in safety- and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Felix Assion , Peter Schlicht , Florens Greßner , Wiebke Günther , Fabian Hüger , Nico Schmidt , Umair Rasheed

Generating high-quality and interpretable adversarial examples in the text domain is a much more daunting task than it is in the image domain. This is due partly to the discrete nature of text, partly to the problem of ensuring that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Samuel Barham , Soheil Feizi

The research field of adversarial machine learning witnessed a significant interest in the last few years. A machine learner or model is secure if it can deliver main objectives with acceptable accuracy, efficiency, etc. while at the same…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Izzat Alsmadi

An intriguing property of deep neural networks is their inherent vulnerability to adversarial inputs, which significantly hinders their application in security-critical domains. Most existing detection methods attempt to use carefully…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Chanh Nguyen , Georgi Georgiev , Yujie Ji , Ting Wang

Recent work has demonstrated the vulnerability of modern text classifiers to universal adversarial attacks, which are input-agnostic sequences of words added to text processed by classifiers. Despite being successful, the word sequences…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Liwei Song , Xinwei Yu , Hsuan-Tung Peng , Karthik Narasimhan

Adversarial examples are intentionally crafted data with the purpose of deceiving neural networks into misclassification. When we talk about strategies to create such examples, we usually refer to perturbation-based methods that fabricate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Shih-hong Tsai

Dense retrievers have achieved state-of-the-art performance in various information retrieval tasks, but to what extent can they be safely deployed in real-world applications? In this work, we propose a novel attack for dense retrieval…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Zexuan Zhong , Ziqing Huang , Alexander Wettig , Danqi Chen

Recently, generating adversarial examples has become an important means of measuring robustness of a deep learning model. Adversarial examples help us identify the susceptibilities of the model and further counter those vulnerabilities by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Prashanth Vijayaraghavan , Deb Roy