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Neural networks have become pervasive across various applications, including security-related products. However, their widespread adoption has heightened concerns regarding vulnerability to adversarial attacks. With emerging regulations and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Disesdi Susanna Cox , Niklas Bunzel

Deep learning has made significant breakthroughs in many fields, including electroencephalogram (EEG) based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). However, deep learning models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, in which deliberately…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Xue Jiang , Xiao Zhang , Dongrui Wu

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples that are crafted by imposing imperceptible changes to the inputs. However, these adversarial examples are most successful in white-box settings where the model and its parameters…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Tianjin Huang , Vlado Menkovski , Yulong Pei , YuHao Wang , Mykola Pechenizkiy

To launch black-box attacks against a Deep Neural Network (DNN) based Face Recognition (FR) system, one needs to build \textit{substitute} models to simulate the target model, so the adversarial examples discovered from substitute models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Di Tang , XiaoFeng Wang , Kehuan Zhang

Adversarial transferability in black-box scenarios presents a unique challenge: while attackers can employ surrogate models to craft adversarial examples, they lack assurance on whether these examples will successfully compromise the target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Mosh Levy , Guy Amit , Yuval Elovici , Yisroel Mirsky

Machine learning has seen tremendous advances in the past few years, which has lead to deep learning models being deployed in varied applications of day-to-day life. Attacks on such models using perturbations, particularly in real-life…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Siddhant Bhambri , Sumanyu Muku , Avinash Tulasi , Arun Balaji Buduru

Almost all current adversarial attacks of CNN classifiers rely on information derived from the output layer of the network. This work presents a new adversarial attack based on the modeling and exploitation of class-wise and layer-wise deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Nathan Inkawhich , Kevin J Liang , Lawrence Carin , Yiran Chen

Adversarial attacks have become a well-explored domain, frequently serving as evaluation baselines for model robustness. Among these, black-box attacks based on transferability have received significant attention due to their practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Chun Tong Lei , Zhongliang Guo , Hon Chung Lee , Minh Quoc Duong , Chun Pong Lau

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

Black-box adversarial attack has attracted a lot of research interests for its practical use in AI safety. Compared with the white-box attack, a black-box setting is more difficult for less available information related to the attacked…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Linjun Zhou , Peng Cui , Yinan Jiang , Shiqiang Yang

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

As cloud computing becomes pervasive, deep learning models are deployed on cloud servers and then provided as APIs to end users. However, black-box adversarial attacks can fool image classification models without access to model structure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Han Wu , Sareh Rowlands , Johan Wahlstrom

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

Transferable adversarial images raise critical security concerns for computer vision systems in real-world, black-box attack scenarios. Although many transfer attacks have been proposed, existing research lacks a systematic and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Zhengyu Zhao , Hanwei Zhang , Renjue Li , Ronan Sicre , Laurent Amsaleg , Michael Backes , Qi Li , Qian Wang , Chao Shen

An intriguing property of deep neural networks is the existence of adversarial examples, which can transfer among different architectures. These transferable adversarial examples may severely hinder deep neural network-based applications.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-08 Yanpei Liu , Xinyun Chen , Chang Liu , Dawn Song

Deep learning has demonstrated state-of-the-art performance for a variety of challenging computer vision tasks. On one hand, this has enabled deep visual models to pave the way for a plethora of critical applications like disease…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Mohammad A. A. K. Jalwana , Naveed Akhtar , Mohammed Bennamoun , Ajmal Mian

The growing interest for adversarial examples, i.e. maliciously modified examples which fool a classifier, has resulted in many defenses intended to detect them, render them inoffensive or make the model more robust against them. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Rémi Bernhard , Pierre-Alain Moellic , Jean-Max Dutertre

Neural networks are known to be vulnerable to carefully crafted adversarial examples, and these malicious samples often transfer, i.e., they remain adversarial even against other models. Although great efforts have been delved into the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-27 Yantao Lu , Yunhan Jia , Jianyu Wang , Bai Li , Weiheng Chai , Lawrence Carin , Senem Velipasalar

Deep networks are highly vulnerable to adversarial attacks, yet conventional attack methods utilize static adversarial perturbations that induce fixed mispredictions. In this work, we exploit an overlooked property of adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yaoteng Tan , Zikui Cai , M. Salman Asif

Compared to query-based black-box attacks, transfer-based black-box attacks do not require any information of the attacked models, which ensures their secrecy. However, most existing transfer-based approaches rely on ensembling multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Hao Huang , Ziyan Chen , Huanran Chen , Yongtao Wang , Kevin Zhang