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Vision-language pre-training (VLP) has attracted increasing attention recently. With a large amount of image-text pairs, VLP models trained with contrastive loss have achieved impressive performance in various tasks, especially the…

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Deep Neural Networks have been shown to be vulnerable to various kinds of adversarial perturbations. In addition to widely studied additive noise based perturbations, adversarial examples can also be created by applying a per pixel spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Ayberk Aydin , Deniz Sen , Berat Tuna Karli , Oguz Hanoglu , Alptekin Temizel

Deep neural networks have been shown to exhibit an intriguing vulnerability to adversarial input images corrupted with imperceptible perturbations. However, the majority of adversarial attacks assume global, fine-grained control over the…

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Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success in computer vision tasks such as image classification, segmentation, and object detection. However, they are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which can cause incorrect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Suklav Ghosh , Sonal Kumar , Arijit Sur

Pre-trained contextualized language models (PrLMs) have led to strong performance gains in downstream natural language understanding tasks. However, PrLMs can still be easily fooled by adversarial word substitution, which is one of the most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Rongzhou Bao , Jiayi Wang , Hai Zhao

Adversarial examples expose the vulnerabilities of natural language processing (NLP) models, and can be used to evaluate and improve their robustness. Existing techniques of generating such examples are typically driven by local heuristic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Dianqi Li , Yizhe Zhang , Hao Peng , Liqun Chen , Chris Brockett , Ming-Ting Sun , Bill Dolan

Despite the tremendous success of deep neural networks in various learning problems, it has been observed that adding an intentionally designed adversarial perturbation to inputs of these architectures leads to erroneous classification with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Emilio Rafael Balda , Arash Behboodi , Rudolf Mathar

Large language models have become increasingly prominent, also signaling a shift towards multimodality as the next frontier in artificial intelligence, where their embeddings are harnessed as prompts to generate textual content.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Jiachen Sun , Changsheng Wang , Jiongxiao Wang , Yiwei Zhang , Chaowei Xiao

We introduce a method for learning adversarial perturbations targeted to individual images or videos. The learned perturbations are found to be sparse while at the same time containing a high level of feature detail. Thus, the extracted…

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Modifying characters of a piece of text to their visual similar ones often ap-pear in spam in order to fool inspection systems and other conditions, which we regard as a kind of adversarial attack to neural models. We pro-pose a way of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Shengjun Liu , Ningkang Jiang , Yuanbin Wu

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have remarkable abilities in generating multimodal reasoning tasks. However, potential misuse or safety alignment concerns of VLMs have increased significantly due to different categories of attack vectors.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Md Jueal Mia , M. Hadi Amini

Deep learning-based natural language processing (NLP) models, particularly pre-trained language models (PLMs), have been revealed to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. However, the adversarial examples generated by many mainstream…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Zimu Wang , Wei Wang , Qi Chen , Qiufeng Wang , Anh Nguyen

The brittleness of deep image classifiers to small adversarial input perturbations has been extensively studied in the last several years. However, the main objective of existing perturbations is primarily limited to change the correctly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Nurislam Tursynbek , Aleksandr Petiushko , Ivan Oseledets

While vision and multimodal foundation models underpin critical tasks from perception to complex reasoning, they remain highly vulnerable to adversarial attacks. However, traditional adversarial attacks are typically limited to single,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Ye Sun , Xin Wang , Jiaming Zhang , Yifeng Gao , Yixu Wang , Yifan Ding , Qixian Zhang , Henghui Ding , Xingjun Ma , Yu-Gang Jiang

Large pre-trained Vision Language Models (VLMs) demonstrate excellent generalization capabilities but remain highly susceptible to adversarial examples, posing potential security risks. To improve the robustness of VLMs against adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Shiji Zhao , Qihui Zhu , Shukun Xiong , Shouwei Ruan , Maoxun Yuan , Jialing Tao , Jiexi Liu , Ranjie Duan , Jie Zhang , Jie Zhang , Xingxing Wei

Recent work has shown that additive threat models, which only permit the addition of bounded noise to the pixels of an image, are insufficient for fully capturing the space of imperceivable adversarial examples. For example, small rotations…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-25 Matt Jordan , Naren Manoj , Surbhi Goel , Alexandros G. Dimakis

Deep neural networks are known to be vulnerable to adversarial perturbations. The amount of these perturbations are generally quantified using $L_p$ metrics, such as $L_0$, $L_2$ and $L_\infty$. However, even when the measured perturbations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Ayberk Aydin , Alptekin Temizel

With the remarkable success of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) on multimodal tasks, concerns regarding their deployment efficiency have become increasingly prominent. In particular, the number of tokens consumed during the generation process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Zhi Luo , Zenghui Yuan , Wenqi Wei , Daizong Liu , Pan Zhou

Adversarial attacks have evolved from simply disrupting predictions on conventional task-specific models to the more complex goal of manipulating image semantics on Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs). However, existing methods struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Sen Nie , Jie Zhang , Jianxin Yan , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

When generating adversarial examples to attack deep neural networks (DNNs), Lp norm of the added perturbation is usually used to measure the similarity between original image and adversarial example. However, such adversarial attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Kaidi Xu , Sijia Liu , Pu Zhao , Pin-Yu Chen , Huan Zhang , Quanfu Fan , Deniz Erdogmus , Yanzhi Wang , Xue Lin