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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

Object detection has been widely used in many safety-critical tasks, such as autonomous driving. However, its vulnerability to adversarial examples has not been sufficiently studied, especially under the practical scenario of black-box…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Siyuan Liang , Baoyuan Wu , Yanbo Fan , Xingxing Wei , Xiaochun Cao

Boundary based blackbox attack has been recognized as practical and effective, given that an attacker only needs to access the final model prediction. However, the query efficiency of it is in general high especially for high dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Jiawei Zhang , Linyi Li , Huichen Li , Xiaolu Zhang , Shuang Yang , Bo Li

Numerous works study black-box attacks on image classifiers. However, these works make different assumptions on the adversary's knowledge and current literature lacks a cohesive organization centered around the threat model. To systematize…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Fnu Suya , Anshuman Suri , Tingwei Zhang , Jingtao Hong , Yuan Tian , David Evans

While deep neural networks have excellent results in many fields, they are susceptible to interference from attacking samples resulting in erroneous judgments. Feature-level attacks are one of the effective attack types, which targets the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Zhibo Jin , Zhiyu Zhu , Xinyi Wang , Jiayu Zhang , Jun Shen , Huaming Chen

Adversarial attacks in black-box settings are highly practical, with transfer-based attacks being the most effective at generating adversarial examples (AEs) that transfer from surrogate models to unseen target models. However, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Tao Wu , Tie Luo

The field of adversarial robustness has long established that adversarial examples can successfully transfer between image classifiers and that text jailbreaks can successfully transfer between language models (LMs). However, a pair of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Isha Gupta , Rylan Schaeffer , Joshua Kazdan , Ken Ziyu Liu , Sanmi Koyejo

The scarcity of labelled data is specifically an urgent challenge in the field of quantum machine learning (QML). Two transfer fusion frameworks are proposed in this paper to predict the labels of a target domain data by aligning its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Xi He , Feiyu Du , Xiaohan Yu , Yang Zhao , Tao Lei

Blackbox transfer attacks for image classifiers have been extensively studied in recent years. In contrast, little progress has been made on transfer attacks for object detectors. Object detectors take a holistic view of the image and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Zikui Cai , Xinxin Xie , Shasha Li , Mingjun Yin , Chengyu Song , Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury , M. Salman Asif

Transfer-based adversarial example is one of the most important classes of black-box attacks. However, there is a trade-off between transferability and imperceptibility of the adversarial perturbation. Prior work in this direction often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Fangcheng Liu , Chao Zhang , Hongyang Zhang

Transferability of adversarial examples is of central importance for attacking an unknown model, which facilitates adversarial attacks in more practical scenarios, e.g., black-box attacks. Existing transferable attacks tend to craft…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Zhibo Wang , Hengchang Guo , Zhifei Zhang , Wenxin Liu , Zhan Qin , Kui Ren

The unfolding of detector effects is a key aspect of comparing experimental data with theoretical predictions. In recent years, different Machine-Learning methods have been developed to provide novel features, e.g. high dimensionality or a…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2024-12-17 Mathias Backes , Anja Butter , Monica Dunford , Bogdan Malaescu

An established way to improve the transferability of black-box evasion attacks is to craft the adversarial examples on an ensemble-based surrogate to increase diversity. We argue that transferability is fundamentally related to uncertainty.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Martin Gubri , Maxime Cordy , Mike Papadakis , Yves Le Traon , Koushik Sen

A hard challenge in developing practical face recognition (FR) attacks is due to the black-box nature of the target FR model, i.e., inaccessible gradient and parameter information to attackers. While recent research took an important step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Zexin Li , Bangjie Yin , Taiping Yao , Juefeng Guo , Shouhong Ding , Simin Chen , Cong Liu

Molecules have a number of distinct properties whose importance and application vary. Often, in reality, labels for some properties are hard to achieve despite their practical importance. A common solution to such data scarcity is to use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Chanhui Lee , Dae-Woong Jeong , Sung Moon Ko , Sumin Lee , Hyunseung Kim , Soorin Yim , Sehui Han , Sungwoong Kim , Sungbin Lim

With the emergence of large-scale pre-trained neural networks, methods to adapt such "foundation" models to data-limited downstream tasks have become a necessity. Fine-tuning, preference optimization, and transfer learning have all been…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-09 Javan Tahir , Surya Ganguli , Grant M. Rotskoff

Transfer-based attacks generate adversarial examples on the surrogate model, which can mislead other black-box models without access, making it promising to attack real-world applications. Recently, several works have been proposed to boost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Xiaosen Wang , Kangheng Tong , Kun He

espite being widely used in network intrusion detection systems (NIDSs), machine learning (ML) has proven to be highly vulnerable to adversarial attacks. White-box and black-box adversarial attacks of NIDS have been explored in several…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Hangsheng Zhang , Dongqi Han , Yinlong Liu , Zhiliang Wang , Jiyan Sun , Shangyuan Zhuang , Jiqiang Liu , Jinsong Dong

Transfer learning has become a common practice for training deep learning models with limited labeled data in a target domain. On the other hand, deep models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Though transfer learning has been widely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Yinghua Zhang , Yangqiu Song , Jian Liang , Kun Bai , Qiang Yang

Recent advancements in diffusion models have enabled high-fidelity and photorealistic image generation across diverse applications. However, these models also present security and privacy risks, including copyright violations, sensitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Jiacheng Shi , Yanfu Zhang , Huajie Shao , Ashley Gao