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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…

The widespread deployment of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) for 3D point cloud processing starkly contrasts with their susceptibility to security breaches, notably backdoor attacks. These attacks hijack DNNs during training, embedding triggers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Yuhao Bian , Shengjing Tian , Xiuping Liu

While machine-learning algorithms have demonstrated a strong ability in detecting Android malware, they can be evaded by sparse evasion attacks crafted by injecting a small set of fake components, e.g., permissions and system calls, without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Marco Melis , Michele Scalas , Ambra Demontis , Davide Maiorca , Battista Biggio , Giorgio Giacinto , Fabio Roli

Point cloud classification is an essential component in many security-critical applications such as autonomous driving and augmented reality. However, point cloud classifiers are vulnerable to adversarially perturbed point clouds. Existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Jinghuai Zhang , Jinyuan Jia , Hongbin Liu , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

The incredible effectiveness of adversarial attacks on fooling deep neural networks poses a tremendous hurdle in the widespread adoption of deep learning in safety and security-critical domains. While adversarial defense mechanisms have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Hossein Aboutalebi , Mohammad Javad Shafiee Alexander Wong

Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) can achieve promising performance on learning complex data distributions on different types of data. In this paper, we first show a straightforward extension of existing GAN algorithm is not applicable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Chun-Liang Li , Manzil Zaheer , Yang Zhang , Barnabas Poczos , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Deep neural networks for 3D point clouds have been demonstrated to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. Previous 3D adversarial attack methods often exploit certain information about the target models, such as model parameters or outputs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Shuchao Pang , Zhenghan Chen , Shen Zhang , Liming Lu , Siyuan Liang , Anan Du , Yongbin Zhou

Machine learning systems based on deep neural networks, being able to produce state-of-the-art results on various perception tasks, have gained mainstream adoption in many applications. However, they are shown to be vulnerable to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Bo Luo , Yannan Liu , Lingxiao Wei , Qiang Xu

In recent years, visual tracking methods based on convolutional neural networks and Transformers have achieved remarkable performance and have been successfully applied in fields such as autonomous driving. However, the numerous security…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Wei-Long Tian , Peng Gao , Xiao Liu , Long Xu , Hamido Fujita , Hanan Aljuai , Mao-Li Wang

Addressing the escalating security vulnerabilities in Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, this study investigates backdoor attacks targeting the visual pathway. We identify a core obstacle causing the failure of traditional attack…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Kewei Chen , Yayu Long , Shuai Li , Mingsheng Shang

Most existing adversarial attack methods for remote sensing images merely add adversarial perturbations or patches, resulting in unnatural modifications. Clouds are common atmospheric effects in remote sensing images. Generating clouds on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Fei Ma , Yuqiang Feng , Fan Zhang , Yongsheng Zhou

This paper introduces a novel adversarial attack method targeting text classification models, termed the Modified Word Saliency-based Adversarial At-tack (MWSAA). The technique builds upon the concept of word saliency to strategically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Hetvi Waghela , Sneha Rakshit , Jaydip Sen

The susceptibility of deep neural networks to untrustworthy predictions, including out-of-distribution (OOD) data and adversarial examples, still prevent their widespread use in safety-critical applications. Most existing methods either…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Leo Schwinn , An Nguyen , René Raab , Leon Bungert , Daniel Tenbrinck , Dario Zanca , Martin Burger , Bjoern Eskofier

The new wave of adversarial attacks that utilize gradient-related vulnerabilities in neural network-based classifiers makes Network Intrusion Detection Systems more open to such threats. Although state-of-the-art adversarial training…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Hira Nasir , Eiman Javed , Balawal Shabir , Zunera Jalil , Ahmad Mohsin

Adversarial attacks add perturbations to the input features with the intent of changing the classification produced by a machine learning system. Small perturbations can yield adversarial examples which are misclassified despite being…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Rakshit Agrawal , Luca de Alfaro , David Helmbold

The literature on adversarial attacks in computer vision typically focuses on pixel-level perturbations. These tend to be very difficult to interpret. Recent work that manipulates the latent representations of image generators to create…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Stephen Casper , Max Nadeau , Dylan Hadfield-Menell , Gabriel Kreiman

As the basic task of point cloud analysis, classification is fundamental but always challenging. To address some unsolved problems of existing methods, we propose a network that captures geometric features of point clouds for better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Shi Qiu , Saeed Anwar , Nick Barnes

Adversarial training and adversarial purification are two widely used defense strategies for enhancing model robustness against adversarial attacks. However, adversarial training requires costly retraining, while adversarial purification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Xuelong Dai , Dong Wang , Xiuzhen Cheng , Bin Xiao

Graph neural networks (GNNs) which apply the deep neural networks to graph data have achieved significant performance for the task of semi-supervised node classification. However, only few work has addressed the adversarial robustness of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Kaidi Xu , Hongge Chen , Sijia Liu , Pin-Yu Chen , Tsui-Wei Weng , Mingyi Hong , Xue Lin

Adversarial perturbations are imperceptible changes to input pixels that can change the prediction of deep learning models. Learned weights of models robust to such perturbations are previously found to be transferable across different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Alvin Chan , Yi Tay , Yew-Soon Ong