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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

We present MS-GAGA (Metric-Selective Guided Adversarial Generation Attack), a two-stage framework for crafting transferable and visually imperceptible adversarial examples against deepfake detectors in black-box settings. In Stage 1, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Dion J. X. Ho , Gabriel Lee Jun Rong , Niharika Shrivastava , Harshavardhan Abichandani , Pai Chet Ng , Xiaoxiao Miao

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

Generating high-quality and interpretable adversarial examples in the text domain is a much more daunting task than it is in the image domain. This is due partly to the discrete nature of text, partly to the problem of ensuring that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Samuel Barham , Soheil Feizi

Adversarial generative models, such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), are widely applied for generating various types of data, i.e., images, text, and audio. Accordingly, its promising performance has led to the GAN-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Zhiyu Zhu , Huaming Chen , Xinyi Wang , Jiayu Zhang , Zhibo Jin , Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo , Jun Shen , Dong Yuan

The existence of real-world adversarial examples (commonly in the form of patches) poses a serious threat for the use of deep learning models in safety-critical computer vision tasks such as visual perception in autonomous driving. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Giulio Rossolini , Federico Nesti , Gianluca D'Amico , Saasha Nair , Alessandro Biondi , Giorgio Buttazzo

Optimization algorithms are pivotal in advancing various scientific and industrial fields but often encounter obstacles such as trapping in local minima, saddle points, and plateaus (flat regions), which makes the convergence to reasonable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Amir M. Vahedi , Horea T. Ilies

Many adversarial attack methods achieve satisfactory attack success rates under the white-box setting, but they usually show poor transferability when attacking other DNN models. Momentum-based attack is one effective method to improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Guoqiu Wang , Huanqian Yan , Xingxing Wei

The paradigm of Differentially Private SGD~(DP-SGD) can provide a theoretical guarantee for training data in both centralized and federated settings. However, the utility degradation caused by DP-SGD limits its wide application in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Haichao Sha , Ruixuan Liu , Yixuan Liu , Hong Chen

This work studies sparse adversarial perturbations, including both unstructured and structured ones. We propose a framework based on a white-box PGD-like attack method named Sparse-PGD to effectively and efficiently generate such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Xuyang Zhong , Chen Liu

We consider the black-box adversarial setting, where the adversary has to generate adversarial perturbations without access to the target models to compute gradients. Previous methods tried to approximate the gradient either by using a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Shuyu Cheng , Yinpeng Dong , Tianyu Pang , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

We show that when taking into account also the image domain $[0,1]^d$, established $l_1$-projected gradient descent (PGD) attacks are suboptimal as they do not consider that the effective threat model is the intersection of the $l_1$-ball…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Francesco Croce , Matthias Hein

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which are crafted by adding small, human-imperceptible perturbations to the original images, but make the model output inaccurate predictions. Before deep neural networks are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Bo Yang , Kaiyong Xu , Hengjun Wang , Hengwei Zhang

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…

Transferable adversarial attacks pose significant threats to deep neural networks, particularly in black-box scenarios where internal model information is inaccessible. Studying adversarial attack methods helps advance the performance of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Zhibo Jin , Jiayu Zhang , Zhiyu Zhu , Chenyu Zhang , Jiahao Huang , Jianlong Zhou , Fang Chen

Transfer-based adversarial attacks can evaluate model robustness in the black-box setting. Several methods have demonstrated impressive untargeted transferability, however, it is still challenging to efficiently produce targeted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Xiao Yang , Yinpeng Dong , Tianyu Pang , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

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

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which can mislead classifiers by adding imperceptible perturbations. An intriguing property of adversarial examples is their good transferability, making black-box attacks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Yinpeng Dong , Tianyu Pang , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Adversarial attacks, particularly the Fast Gradient Sign Method (FGSM) and Projected Gradient Descent (PGD) pose significant threats to the robustness of deep learning models in image classification. This paper explores and refines defense…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Hetvi Waghela , Jaydip Sen , Sneha Rakshit

Stein variational gradient descent (SVGD) is a recently proposed particle-based Bayesian inference method, which has attracted a lot of interest due to its remarkable approximation ability and particle efficiency compared to traditional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-11 Jingwei Zhuo , Chang Liu , Jiaxin Shi , Jun Zhu , Ning Chen , Bo Zhang