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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Daniel Scheliga , Patrick Mäder , Marco Seeland

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples -- minor perturbations added to a model's input which cause the model to output an incorrect prediction. We introduce a new method for improving the efficacy of adversarial attacks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Chris Miller , Soroush Vosoughi

Adversarial examples (AEs) for DNNs have been shown to be transferable: AEs that successfully fool white-box surrogate models can also deceive other black-box models with different architectures. Although a bunch of empirical studies have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Yechao Zhang , Shengshan Hu , Leo Yu Zhang , Junyu Shi , Minghui Li , Xiaogeng Liu , Wei Wan , Hai Jin

Physical adversarial attacks often overfit single surrogate models and optimization objectives. While ensemble attacks can mitigate this, existing methods struggle with severe gradient conflicts within restricted physical texture spaces,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ziyang Liu , Hongyuan Wang , Zijian Wang , Yinxi Lu , Yunzhao Zang , Zhiqiang Yan , Qianhao Ning

This paper addresses the challenging black-box adversarial attack problem, where only classification confidence of a victim model is available. Inspired by consistency of visual saliency between different vision models, a surrogate model is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Jiancheng Yang , Yangzhou Jiang , Xiaoyang Huang , Bingbing Ni , Chenglong Zhao

Transformer models have excelled in natural language tasks, prompting the vision community to explore their implementation in computer vision problems. However, these models are still influenced by adversarial examples. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Jialin Wu , Kaikai Pan , Yanjiao Chen , Jiangyi Deng , Shengyuan Pang , Wenyuan Xu

Adversarial transferability remains a critical challenge in evaluating the robustness of deep neural networks. In security-critical applications, transferability enables black-box attacks without access to model internals, making it a key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Amira Guesmi , Bassem Ouni , Muhammad Shafique

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which are crafted by adding human-imperceptible perturbations to original images. Most existing adversarial attack methods achieve nearly 100% attack success rates under the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Guoqiu Wang , Huanqian Yan , Ying Guo , Xingxing Wei

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

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

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have been widely applied in various computer vision and vision-language tasks. To gain insights into their robustness in practical scenarios, transferable adversarial examples on ViTs have been extensively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Yuchen Ren , Zhengyu Zhao , Chenhao Lin , Bo Yang , Lu Zhou , Zhe Liu , Chao Shen

The prior self-supervised learning researches mainly select image-level instance discrimination as pretext task. It achieves a fantastic classification performance that is comparable to supervised learning methods. However, with degraded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Bing Zhao , Jun Li , Hong Zhu

Adversarial examples' (AE) transferability refers to the phenomenon that AEs crafted with one surrogate model can also fool other models. Notwithstanding remarkable progress in untargeted transferability, its targeted counterpart remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Hui Zeng , Sanshuai Cui , Biwei Chen , Anjie Peng

We propose transferability from Large Geometric Vicinity (LGV), a new technique to increase the transferability of black-box adversarial attacks. LGV starts from a pretrained surrogate model and collects multiple weight sets from a few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Martin Gubri , Maxime Cordy , Mike Papadakis , Yves Le Traon , Koushik Sen

The transferability of adversarial examples allows the deception on black-box models, and transfer-based targeted attacks have attracted a lot of interest due to their practical applicability. To maximize the transfer success rate,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Junyoung Byun , Seungju Cho , Myung-Joon Kwon , Hee-Seon Kim , Changick Kim

Neural network models are vulnerable to adversarial examples, and adversarial transferability further increases the risk of adversarial attacks. Current methods based on transferability often rely on substitute models, which can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Minxuan Lv , Chengwei Dai , Kun Li , Wei Zhou , Songlin Hu

An established way to improve the transferability of black-box evasion attacks is to craft the adversarial examples on an ensemble-based surrogate to increase diversity. We argue that transferability is fundamentally related to uncertainty.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Martin Gubri , Maxime Cordy , Mike Papadakis , Yves Le Traon , Koushik Sen

The black-box adversarial attack has attracted impressive attention for its practical use in the field of deep learning security. Meanwhile, it is very challenging as there is no access to the network architecture or internal weights of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Yifeng Xiong , Jiadong Lin , Min Zhang , John E. Hopcroft , Kun He

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are known to be susceptible to adversarial examples, leading to significant performance degradation. In black-box attack scenarios, a considerable attack performance gap between the surrogate model and the target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Haijing Guo , Jiafeng Wang , Zhaoyu Chen , Kaixun Jiang , Lingyi Hong , Pinxue Guo , Jinglun Li , Wenqiang Zhang

The vulnerability of deep neural networks to adversarial examples has drawn tremendous attention from the community. Three approaches, optimizing standard objective functions, exploiting attention maps, and smoothing decision surfaces, are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Yi Huang , Adams Wai-Kin Kong