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Black-box adversarial attack on vision-language pre-trained models is a practical and challenging task, as text and image perturbations need to be considered simultaneously, and only the predicted results are accessible. Research on this…

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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

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) have recently been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks, wherein they are fooled into reconstructing a chosen target image. However, how to defend against such attacks remains an open problem. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-01 Matthew Willetts , Alexander Camuto , Tom Rainforth , Stephen Roberts , Chris Holmes

We describe a new approach that improves the training of generative adversarial nets (GANs) for synthesizing diverse images from a text input. Our approach is based on the conditional version of GANs and expands on previous work leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Miriam Cha , Youngjune L. Gwon , H. T. Kung

While the transferability property of adversarial examples allows the adversary to perform black-box attacks (i.e., the attacker has no knowledge about the target model), the transfer-based adversarial attacks have gained great attention.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Bin Chen , Jia-Li Yin , Shukai Chen , Bo-Hao Chen , Ximeng Liu

We study the problem of grounding distributional representations of texts on the visual domain, namely visual-semantic embeddings (VSE for short). Begin with an insightful adversarial attack on VSE embeddings, we show the limitation of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Haoyue Shi , Jiayuan Mao , Tete Xiao , Yuning Jiang , Jian Sun

Compared with transferable untargeted attacks, transferable targeted adversarial attacks could specify the misclassification categories of adversarial samples, posing a greater threat to security-critical tasks. In the meanwhile, 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Yao Huang , Yinpeng Dong , Shouwei Ruan , Xiao Yang , Hang Su , Xingxing Wei

Robustness of huge Transformer-based models for natural language processing is an important issue due to their capabilities and wide adoption. One way to understand and improve robustness of these models is an exploration of an adversarial…

As a general-purpose vision-language pretraining model, CLIP demonstrates strong generalization ability in image-text alignment tasks and has been widely adopted in downstream applications such as image classification and image-text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Kuanrong Liu , Siyuan Liang , Cheng Qian , Ming Zhang , Xiaochun Cao

Deep neural networks have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial examples deliberately constructed to misclassify victim models. As most adversarial examples have restricted their perturbations to $L_{p}$-norm, existing defense methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Hanieh Naderi , Leili Goli , Shohreh Kasaei

Adversarial examples are vital to expose the vulnerability of machine learning models. Despite the success of the most popular substitution-based methods which substitutes some characters or words in the original examples, only substitution…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Zhihong Shao , Zitao Liu , Jiyong Zhang , Zhongqin Wu , Minlie Huang

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

Research into adversarial examples (AE) has developed rapidly, yet static adversarial patches are still the main technique for conducting attacks in the real world, despite being obvious, semi-permanent and unmodifiable once deployed. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Giulio Lovisotto , Henry Turner , Ivo Sluganovic , Martin Strohmeier , Ivan Martinovic

Supervised learning-based adversarial attack detection methods rely on a large number of labeled data and suffer significant performance degradation when applying the trained model to new domains. In this paper, we propose a self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Yi Li , Plamen Angelov , Neeraj Suri

Deep neural network image classifiers are reported to be susceptible to adversarial evasion attacks, which use carefully crafted images created to mislead a classifier. Recently, various kinds of adversarial attack methods have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-04 He Zhao , Trung Le , Paul Montague , Olivier De Vel , Tamas Abraham , Dinh Phung

The widespread use of Vision Language Models (VLMs, e.g. CLIP) has raised concerns about their vulnerability to sophisticated and imperceptible adversarial attacks. These attacks could compromise model performance and system security in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Xiaowei Fu , Lei Zhang

Semi-supervised learning is sought for leveraging the unlabelled data when labelled data is difficult or expensive to acquire. Deep generative models (e.g., Variational Autoencoder (VAE)) and semisupervised Generative Adversarial Networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Xiang Zhang , Lina Yao , Feng Yuan

We propose a probabilistic perspective on adversarial examples, allowing us to embed subjective understanding of semantics as a distribution into the process of generating adversarial examples, in a principled manner. Despite significant…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-26 Andi Zhang , Mingtian Zhang , Damon Wischik

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are well known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples (AEs). In addition, AEs have adversarial transferability, which means AEs generated for a source model can fool another black-box model (target model) with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Ryota Iijima , Miki Tanaka , Sayaka Shiota , Hitoshi Kiya

Deep Neural Networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks even in settings where the attacker has no direct access to the model being attacked. Such attacks usually rely on the principle of transferability, whereby an attack crafted on a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-30 Sanjay Kariyappa , Moinuddin K. Qureshi