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It is known that neural networks are subject to attacks through adversarial perturbations, i.e., inputs which are maliciously crafted through perturbations to induce wrong predictions. Furthermore, such attacks are impossible to eliminate,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Guoliang Dong , Jingyi Wang , Jun Sun , Sudipta Chattopadhyay , Xinyu Wang , Ting Dai , Jie Shi , Jin Song Dong

Transformer-based pre-trained models of code (PTMC) have been widely utilized and have achieved state-of-the-art performance in many mission-critical applications. However, they can be vulnerable to adversarial attacks through identifier…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Xiaohu Du , Ming Wen , Zichao Wei , Shangwen Wang , Hai Jin

Adversarial machine learning has been both a major concern and a hot topic recently, especially with the ubiquitous use of deep neural networks in the current landscape. Adversarial attacks and defenses are usually likened to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Ngoc N. Tran , Anh Tuan Bui , Dinh Phung , Trung Le

Different from traditional task-specific vision models, recent large VLMs can readily adapt to different vision tasks by simply using different textual instructions, i.e., prompts. However, a well-known concern about traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Haochen Luo , Jindong Gu , Fengyuan Liu , Philip Torr

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have stimulated a surge of research aimed at extending their applications to the visual domain. While these models exhibit promise in generating abstract image captions and facilitating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Geewook Kim , Hodong Lee , Daehee Kim , Haeji Jung , Sanghee Park , Yoonsik Kim , Sangdoo Yun , Taeho Kil , Bado Lee , Seunghyun Park

Adversarial attacks against machine learning models have threatened various real-world applications such as spam filtering and sentiment analysis. In this paper, we propose a novel framework, learning to DIScriminate Perturbations (DISP),…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Yichao Zhou , Jyun-Yu Jiang , Kai-Wei Chang , Wei Wang

Visual-Language Pre-training (VLP) models have achieved significant performance across various downstream tasks. However, they remain vulnerable to adversarial examples. While prior efforts focus on improving the adversarial transferability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Xin Liu , Aoyang Zhou , Aoyang Zhou

Deep neural networks were significantly vulnerable to adversarial examples manipulated by malicious tiny perturbations. Although most conventional adversarial attacks ensured the visual imperceptibility between adversarial examples and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Shuai Li , Xiaoyu Jiang , Xiaoguang Ma

Autonomous agentic AI systems powered by vision-language models (VLMs) are rapidly advancing toward real-world deployment, yet their cross-modal reasoning capabilities introduce new attack surfaces for adversarial manipulation that exploit…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Hangoo Kang , Jehyeok Yeon , Gagandeep Singh

Adversarial examples have been demonstrated to threaten many computer vision tasks including object detection. However, the existing attacking methods for object detection have two limitations: poor transferability, which denotes that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Xingxing Wei , Siyuan Liang , Ning Chen , Xiaochun Cao

Adversarial attack is commonly regarded as a huge threat to neural networks because of misleading behavior. This paper presents an opposite perspective: adversarial attacks can be harnessed to improve neural models if amended correctly.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Chong Yu , Tao Chen , Zhongxue Gan

This paper presents a novel approach for deep visualization via a generative network, offering an improvement over existing methods. Our model simplifies the architecture by reducing the number of networks used, requiring only a generator…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Athanasios Karagounis

Modern natural language processing (NLP) methods employ self-supervised pretraining objectives such as masked language modeling to boost the performance of various application tasks. These pretraining methods are frequently extended with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Nils Rethmeier , Isabelle Augenstein

Traditional adversarial attacks concentrate on manipulating clean examples in the pixel space by adding adversarial perturbations. By contrast, semantic adversarial attacks focus on changing semantic attributes of clean examples, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Chenan Wang , Jinhao Duan , Chaowei Xiao , Edward Kim , Matthew Stamm , Kaidi Xu

Vision-language pretraining (VLP) with transformers has demonstrated exceptional performance across numerous multimodal tasks. However, the adversarial robustness of these models has not been thoroughly investigated. Existing multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Jiwei Guan , Tianyu Ding , Longbing Cao , Lei Pan , Chen Wang , Xi Zheng

In recent years, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models in embodied intelligence have developed rapidly. However, existing adversarial attack methods require costly end-to-end training and often generate noticeable perturbation patches. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Naifu Zhang , Wei Tao , Xi Xiao , Qianpu Sun , Yuxin Zheng , Wentao Mo , Peiqiang Wang , Nan Zhang

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) can be vulnerable to adversarial images that subtly bias their outputs toward plausible yet incorrect responses. We introduce a general, efficient, and training-free defense that combines image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Nadav Kadvil , Malak Fares , Ayellet Tal

Adversarial attacks pose significant challenges in 3D object recognition, especially in scenarios involving multi-view analysis where objects can be observed from varying angles. This paper introduces View-Invariant Adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Christian Green , Mehmet Ergezer , Abdurrahman Zeybey

A line of work has shown that natural text processing models are vulnerable to adversarial examples. Correspondingly, various defense methods are proposed to mitigate the threat of textual adversarial examples, eg, adversarial training,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Xiaosen Wang , Yifeng Xiong , Kun He

Contemporary large-scale visual language models (VLMs) exhibit strong representation capacities, making them ubiquitous for enhancing image and text understanding tasks. They are often trained in a contrastive manner on a large and diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Ugur Sahin , Hang Li , Qadeer Khan , Daniel Cremers , Volker Tresp