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Universal adversarial perturbations (UAPs), a.k.a. input-agnostic perturbations, has been proved to exist and be able to fool cutting-edge deep learning models on most of the data samples. Existing UAP methods mainly focus on attacking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Jie Li , Rongrong Ji , Hong Liu , Xiaopeng Hong , Yue Gao , Qi Tian

Adversarial examples, generated by applying small perturbations to input features, are widely used to fool classifiers and measure their robustness to noisy inputs. However, little work has been done to evaluate the robustness of ranking…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Nisarg Raval , Manisha Verma

Hashing images with a perceptual algorithm is a common approach to solving duplicate image detection problems. However, perceptual image hashing algorithms are differentiable, and are thus vulnerable to gradient-based adversarial attacks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Brian Dolhansky , Cristian Canton Ferrer

The hubness problem, in which hub embeddings are close to many unrelated examples, occurs often in high-dimensional embedding spaces and may pose a practical threat for purposes such as information retrieval and automatic evaluation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Hiroyuki Deguchi , Katsuki Chousa , Yusuke Sakai

Adding perturbations to images can mislead classification models to produce incorrect results. Recently, researchers exploited adversarial perturbations to protect image privacy from retrieval by intelligent models. However, adding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Li Chen , Shaowei Zhu , Zhaoxia Yin

Adversarial attacks constitute a notable threat to machine learning systems, given their potential to induce erroneous predictions and classifications. However, within real-world contexts, the essential specifics of the deployed model are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Jingwen Ye , Ruonan Yu , Songhua Liu , Xinchao Wang

Adversarial attacks can drastically degrade performance of recommenders and other machine learning systems, resulting in an increased demand for defence mechanisms. We present a new line of defence against attacks which exploit a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-25 Katharina Hoedt , Arthur Flexer , Gerhard Widmer

Almost all adversarial attacks are formulated to add an imperceptible perturbation to an image in order to fool a model. Here, we consider the opposite which is adversarial examples that can fool a human but not a model. A large enough and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Ali Borji

The great success of convolutional neural networks has caused a massive spread of the use of such models in a large variety of Computer Vision applications. However, these models are vulnerable to certain inputs, the adversarial examples,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Stefanos Pertigkiozoglou , Petros Maragos

Convolutional neural networks have been used to achieve a string of successes during recent years, but their lack of interpretability remains a serious issue. Adversarial examples are designed to deliberately fool neural networks into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Jan Philip Göpfert , André Artelt , Heiko Wersing , Barbara Hammer

Multi-modal embeddings encode texts, images, thermal images, sounds, and videos into a single embedding space, aligning representations across different modalities (e.g., associate an image of a dog with a barking sound). In this paper, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Tingwei Zhang , Rishi Jha , Eugene Bagdasaryan , Vitaly Shmatikov

Adding perturbations via utilizing auxiliary gradient information or discarding existing details of the benign images are two common approaches for generating adversarial examples. Though visual imperceptibility is the desired property of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Zihan Chen , Ziyue Wang , Junjie Huang , Wentao Zhao , Xiao Liu , Dejian Guan

This paper concerns corpus poisoning attacks in dense information retrieval, where an adversary attempts to compromise the ranking performance of a search algorithm by injecting a small number of maliciously generated documents into the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yongkang Li , Panagiotis Eustratiadis , Simon Lupart , Evangelos Kanoulas

Vector databases serve as the retrieval backbone of modern AI applications, yet their security remains largely unexplored. We propose the Black-Hole Attack, a poisoning attack that injects a small number of malicious vectors near the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Hanxi Li , Jianan Zhou , Jiale Lao , Yibo Wang , Zhengmao Ye , Yang Cao , Junfen Wang , Mingjie Tang

A plethora of attack methods have been proposed to generate adversarial examples, among which the iterative methods have been demonstrated the ability to find a strong attack. However, the computation of an adversarial perturbation for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Chia-Hung Yuan , Pin-Yu Chen , Chia-Mu Yu

Dense retrievers have achieved state-of-the-art performance in various information retrieval tasks, but to what extent can they be safely deployed in real-world applications? In this work, we propose a novel attack for dense retrieval…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Zexuan Zhong , Ziqing Huang , Alexander Wettig , Danqi Chen

Image hashing is one of the fundamental problems that demand both efficient and effective solutions for various practical scenarios. Adversarial autoencoders are shown to be able to implicitly learn a robust, locality-preserving hash…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Khoa D. Doan , Saurav Manchanda , Sarkhan Badirli , Chandan K. Reddy

Although deep neural networks have shown promising performances on various tasks, they are susceptible to incorrect predictions induced by imperceptibly small perturbations in inputs. A large number of previous works proposed to detect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Byunggill Joe , Jihun Hamm , Sung Ju Hwang , Sooel Son , Insik Shin

Adversarial attacks on image classification systems have always been an important problem in the field of machine learning, and generative adversarial networks (GANs), as popular models in the field of image generation, have been widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Yahe Yang

Deep learning based image recognition systems have been widely deployed on mobile devices in today's world. In recent studies, however, deep learning models are shown vulnerable to adversarial examples. One variant of adversarial examples,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Tao Bai , Jinqi Luo , Jun Zhao
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