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Despite their impressive performance, deep visual models are susceptible to transferable black-box adversarial attacks. Principally, these attacks craft perturbations in a target model-agnostic manner. However, surprisingly, we find that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Mohammad A. A. K. Jalwana , Naveed Akhtar , Ajmal Mian , Nazanin Rahnavard , Mubarak Shah

We present a framework to take advantage of existing labels at inference, called \textit{exemplars}, in order to improve the performance of object detection in medical images. The method, \textit{exemplar diffusion}, leverages existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Victor Wåhlstrand , Jennifer Alvén , Ida Häggström

We design blackbox transfer-based targeted adversarial attacks for an environment where the attacker's source model and the target blackbox model may have disjoint label spaces and training datasets. This scenario significantly differs from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Nathan Inkawhich , Kevin J Liang , Jingyang Zhang , Huanrui Yang , Hai Li , Yiran Chen

The increasing scale and sophistication of cyberattacks has led to the adoption of machine learning based classification techniques, at the core of cybersecurity systems. These techniques promise scale and accuracy, which traditional rule…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Tegjyot Singh Sethi , Mehmed Kantardzic , Joung Woo Ryu

Data-trained predictive models see widespread use, but for the most part they are used as black boxes which output a prediction or score. It is therefore hard to acquire a deeper understanding of model behavior, and in particular how…

Existing black box search methods have achieved high success rate in generating adversarial attacks against NLP models. However, such search methods are inefficient as they do not consider the amount of queries required to generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Rishabh Maheshwary , Saket Maheshwary , Vikram Pudi

This paper presents a methodology that enables projection-based model reduction for black-box high-fidelity models such as commercial CFD codes. The methodology specifically addresses the situation where the high-fidelity model may be a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-18 S. Ashwin Renganathan , Yingjie Liu , Dimitri N. Mavris

The paper presents a novel learning-based sampling strategy that guarantees rejection-free sampling of the free space under both biased and approximately uniform conditions, leveraging multivariate kernel densities. Historical data from a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Thomas T. Enevoldsen , Roberto Galeazzi

Model extraction attacks are one type of inference-time attacks that approximate the functionality and performance of a black-box victim model by launching a certain number of queries to the model and then leveraging the model's predictions…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Yixu Wang , Tianle Gu , Yan Teng , Yingchun Wang , Xingjun Ma

Model learning (a.k.a. active automata learning) is a highly effective technique for obtaining black-box finite state models of software components. Thus far, generalisation to infinite state systems with inputs/outputs that carry data…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Bharat Garhewal , Frits Vaandrager , Falk Howar , Timo Schrijvers , Toon Lenaerts , Rob Smits

Neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which are malicious inputs crafted to fool pre-trained models. Adversarial examples often exhibit black-box attacking transferability, which allows that adversarial examples crafted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-04 ZhaoXin Huan , Yulong Wang , Xiaolu Zhang , Lin Shang , Chilin Fu , Jun Zhou

Black-box adversarial attacks are widely used as tools to test the robustness of deep neural networks against malicious perturbations of input data aimed at a specific change in the output of the model. Such methods, although they remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Anna Chistyakova , Mikhail Pautov

We propose a novel technique for analyzing adaptive sampling called the {\em Simulator}. Our approach differs from the existing methods by considering not how much information could be gathered by any fixed sampling strategy, but how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Max Simchowitz , Kevin Jamieson , Benjamin Recht

Despite our best efforts, deep learning models remain highly vulnerable to even tiny adversarial perturbations applied to the inputs. The ability to extract information from solely the output of a machine learning model to craft adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Viet Quoc Vo , Ehsan Abbasnejad , Damith C. Ranasinghe

Deep reinforcement learning policies, which are integral to modern control systems, represent valuable intellectual property. The development of these policies demands considerable resources, such as domain expertise, simulation fidelity,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Zhixiong Zhuang , Maria-Irina Nicolae , Mario Fritz

With the widespread adoption of edge computing technologies and the increasing prevalence of deep learning models in these environments, the security risks and privacy threats to models and data have grown more acute. Attackers can exploit…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Peihao Li

Deep learning algorithms have recently shown to be a successful tool in estimating parameters of statistical models for which simulation is easy, but likelihood computation is challenging. But the success of these approaches depends on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-20 Amanda Lenzi , Haavard Rue

One of the challenges in online reinforcement learning (RL) is that the agent needs to trade off the exploration of the environment and the exploitation of the samples to optimize its behavior. Whether we optimize for regret, sample…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Jean Tarbouriech , Matteo Pirotta , Michal Valko , Alessandro Lazaric

With growing popularity, deep learning (DL) models are becoming larger-scale, and only the companies with vast training datasets and immense computing power can manage their business serving such large models. Most of those DL models are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Younghan Lee , Sohee Jun , Yungi Cho , Woorim Han , Hyungon Moon , Yunheung Paek

Machine learning (ML), especially deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely used in various applications, including several safety-critical ones (e.g. autonomous driving). As a result, recent research about adversarial examples has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Huichen Li , Xiaojun Xu , Xiaolu Zhang , Shuang Yang , Bo Li