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Although great progress has been made on adversarial attacks for deep neural networks (DNNs), their transferability is still unsatisfactory, especially for targeted attacks. There are two problems behind that have been long overlooked: 1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Lianli Gao , Qilong Zhang , Jingkuan Song , Heng Tao Shen

This work examines the vulnerability of multimodal (image + text) models to adversarial threats similar to those discussed in previous literature on unimodal (image- or text-only) models. We introduce realistic assumptions of partial model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Ivan Evtimov , Russel Howes , Brian Dolhansky , Hamed Firooz , Cristian Canton Ferrer

Model ensemble adversarial attack has become a powerful method for generating transferable adversarial examples that can target even unknown models, but its theoretical foundation remains underexplored. To address this gap, we provide early…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Wei Yao , Zeliang Zhang , Huayi Tang , Yong Liu

Ensemble-based attacks have been proven to be effective in enhancing adversarial transferability by aggregating the outputs of models with various architectures. However, existing research primarily focuses on refining ensemble weights or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Hanwen Cao , Haobo Lu , Xiaosen Wang , Kun He

Integrated Gradients (IG) is a commonly used feature attribution method for deep neural networks. While IG has many desirable properties, the method often produces spurious/noisy pixel attributions in regions that are not related to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Andrei Kapishnikov , Subhashini Venugopalan , Besim Avci , Ben Wedin , Michael Terry , Tolga Bolukbasi

Evaluating the robustness of a defense model is a challenging task in adversarial robustness research. Obfuscated gradients have previously been found to exist in many defense methods and cause a false signal of robustness. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Xingjun Ma , Linxi Jiang , Hanxun Huang , Zejia Weng , James Bailey , Yu-Gang Jiang

Understanding adversarial examples is crucial for improving model robustness, as they introduce imperceptible perturbations to deceive models. Effective adversarial examples, therefore, offer the potential to train more robust models by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Xinheng Xie , Yue Wu , Cuiyu He

Collaborative machine learning settings like federated learning can be susceptible to adversarial interference and attacks. One class of such attacks is termed model inversion attacks, characterised by the adversary reverse-engineering the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Dmitrii Usynin , Daniel Rueckert , Georgios Kaissis

Given the great threat of adversarial attacks against Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), numerous works have been proposed to boost transferability to attack real-world applications. However, existing attacks often utilize advanced gradient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Zhiyuan Wang , Zeliang Zhang , Siyuan Liang , Xiaosen Wang

Adversarial examples have posed a severe threat to deep neural networks due to their transferable nature. Currently, various works have paid great efforts to enhance the cross-model transferability, which mostly assume the substitute model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Qilong Zhang , Xiaodan Li , Yuefeng Chen , Jingkuan Song , Lianli Gao , Yuan He , Hui Xue

The emergence of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has revolutionized various domains by enabling the resolution of complex tasks spanning image recognition, natural language processing, and scientific problem-solving. However, this progress has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Jindong Gu , Xiaojun Jia , Pau de Jorge , Wenqain Yu , Xinwei Liu , Avery Ma , Yuan Xun , Anjun Hu , Ashkan Khakzar , Zhijiang Li , Xiaochun Cao , Philip Torr

Adversarial attacks are widely used to evaluate model robustness, and in black-box scenarios, the transferability of these attacks becomes crucial. Existing generator-based attacks have excellent generalization and transferability due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yixiao Chen , Shikun Sun , Jianshu Li , Ruoyu Li , Zhe Li , Junliang Xing

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

With the development of adversarial attacks, adversairal examples have been widely used to enhance the robustness of the training models on deep neural networks. Although considerable efforts of adversarial attacks on improving the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Xiangyuan Yang , Jie Lin , Hanlin Zhang , Xinyu Yang , Peng Zhao

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. Moreover, the transferability of the adversarial examples has received broad attention in recent years, which means that adversarial examples crafted by a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Dingcheng Yang , Wenjian Yu , Zihao Xiao , Jiaqi Luo

We propose the first general-purpose gradient-based attack against transformer models. Instead of searching for a single adversarial example, we search for a distribution of adversarial examples parameterized by a continuous-valued matrix,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Chuan Guo , Alexandre Sablayrolles , Hervé Jégou , Douwe Kiela

Transferable attacks generate adversarial examples on surrogate models to fool unknown victim models, posing real-world threats and growing research interest. Despite focusing on flat losses for transferable adversarial examples, recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Zhixuan Zhang , Pingyu Wang , Xingjian Zheng , Linbo Qing , Qi Liu

Adversarial attacks expose vulnerabilities of deep learning models by introducing minor perturbations to the input, which lead to substantial alterations in the output. Our research focuses on the impact of such adversarial attacks on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Pavel Burnyshev , Elizaveta Kostenok , Alexey Zaytsev

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

Learning joint embedding space for various modalities is of vital importance for multimodal fusion. Mainstream modality fusion approaches fail to achieve this goal, leaving a modality gap which heavily affects cross-modal fusion. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Sijie Mai , Haifeng Hu , Songlong Xing