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Deep neural networks are known to be extremely vulnerable to adversarial examples under white-box setting. Moreover, the malicious adversaries crafted on the surrogate (source) model often exhibit black-box transferability on other models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Xiaosen Wang , Xuanran He , Jingdong Wang , Kun He

Large language models (LLMs) have exhibited remarkable fluency across various tasks. However, their unethical applications, such as disseminating disinformation, have become a growing concern. Although recent works have proposed a number of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 James Wang , Ran Li , Junfeng Yang , Chengzhi Mao

Machine unlearning aims to remove specific concepts from pretrained text-to-image diffusion models, yet several white- and black-box attacks have been introduced to make the model generate such unlearned concepts. These attacks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Arian Komaei Koma , Seyed Amir Kasaei , AmirMahdi Sadeghzadeh , Mohammad Hossein Rohban

The design of better automated dialogue evaluation metrics offers the potential of accelerate evaluation research on conversational AI. However, existing trainable dialogue evaluation models are generally restricted to classifiers trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Xiang Gao , Yizhe Zhang , Michel Galley , Bill Dolan

Botnet detection based on machine learning have witnessed significant leaps in recent years, with the availability of large and reliable datasets that are extracted from real-life scenarios. Consequently, adversarial attacks on machine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Mohammed M. Alani , Atefeh Mashatan , Ali Miri

Modern infrastructures rely on software systems that remain vulnerable to cyberattacks. These attacks frequently exploit vulnerabilities documented in repositories such as MITRE's Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE). However, Cyber…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Refat Othman

Adversarial attacks have gained traction in order to identify potential vulnerabilities in neural ranking models (NRMs), but current attack methods often introduce grammatical errors, nonsensical expressions, or incoherent text fragments,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Xuanang Chen , Ben He , Zheng Ye , Le Sun , Yingfei Sun

Most classroom engagements with generative AI focus on prompting pre-trained models, leaving the role of training data and model mechanics opaque. We developed a browser-based tool that allows students to train a small transformer language…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Nicolas Pope , Matti Tedre

The vulnerability of deep neural networks (DNNs) to black-box adversarial attacks is one of the most heated topics in trustworthy AI. In such attacks, the attackers operate without any insider knowledge of the model, making the cross-model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Mingyuan Fan , Cen Chen , Wenmeng Zhou , Yinggui Wang

Adversaries may look to steal or attack black-box NLP systems, either for financial gain or to exploit model errors. One setting of particular interest is machine translation (MT), where models have high commercial value and errors can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Eric Wallace , Mitchell Stern , Dawn Song

In this work we propose Energy Attack, a transfer-based black-box $L_\infty$-adversarial attack. The attack is parameter-free and does not require gradient approximation. In particular, we first obtain white-box adversarial perturbations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Ruoxi Shi , Borui Yang , Yangzhou Jiang , Chenglong Zhao , Bingbing Ni

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable performance in many tasks, yet they often behave as opaque black boxes. Explanation-guided learning (EGL) methods steer DNNs using human-provided explanations or supervision on model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Chao Chen , Yanhui Chen , Shanshan Lin , Dongsheng Hong , Shu Wu , Xiangwen Liao , Chuanyi Liu

Recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence namely in Deep Learning has heightened its adoption in many applications. Some are playing important roles to the extent that we are heavily dependent on them for our livelihood. However, as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Jonathan Pan

We consider adversarial attacks to a black-box model when no queries are allowed. In this setting, many methods directly attack surrogate models and transfer the obtained adversarial examples to fool the target model. Plenty of previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Yunxiao Qin , Yuanhao Xiong , Jinfeng Yi , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Pre-trained transformer models such as BERT have shown massive gains across many text classification tasks. However, these models usually need enormous labeled data to achieve impressive performances. Obtaining labeled data is often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Rohit Sharma , Shanu Kumar , Avinash Kumar

Adversarial attacks have been extensively studied in recent years since they can identify the vulnerability of deep learning models before deployed. In this paper, we consider the black-box adversarial setting, where the adversary needs to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Yinpeng Dong , Shuyu Cheng , Tianyu Pang , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Deep neural networks were significantly vulnerable to adversarial examples manipulated by malicious tiny perturbations. Although most conventional adversarial attacks ensured the visual imperceptibility between adversarial examples and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Shuai Li , Xiaoyu Jiang , Xiaoguang Ma

This paper bridges the gap between mathematical heuristic strategies learned from Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) in automated agent negotiation, and comprehensible, natural language explanations. Our aim is to make these strategies more…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Pallavi Bagga , Kostas Stathis

Adversarial transferability refers to the capacity of adversarial examples generated on the surrogate model to deceive alternate, unexposed victim models. This property eliminates the need for direct access to the victim model during an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Xiaosen Wang , Zhijin Ge , Bohan Liu , Zheng Fang , Fengfan Zhou , Ruixuan Zhang , Shaokang Wang , Yuyang Luo

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples that mislead the models with imperceptible perturbations. Though adversarial attacks have achieved incredible success rates in the white-box setting, most existing adversaries…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Xiaosen Wang , Kun He