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Adversarial attacks are a major challenge faced by current machine learning research. These purposely crafted inputs fool even the most advanced models, precluding their deployment in safety-critical applications. Extensive research in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Edoardo Mosca , Shreyash Agarwal , Javier Rando , Georg Groh

Adversarial examples in NLP are receiving increasing research attention. One line of investigation is the generation of word-level adversarial examples against fine-tuned Transformer models that preserve naturalness and grammaticality.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Maximilian Mozes , Bennett Kleinberg , Lewis D. Griffin

Recent works have illustrated that modern NLP models trained for diverse tasks ranging from sentiment analysis to language generation succumb to universal adversarial attacks, a class of input-agnostic attacks where a common trigger…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Benedict Florance Arockiaraj , Alexander Feng , Jianxiong Cai , Xiaoyu Cheng

Deep neural networks (DNN), while becoming the driving force of many novel technology and achieving tremendous success in many cutting-edge applications, are still vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Differentiable neural computer (DNC) is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Alvin Chan , Lei Ma , Felix Juefei-Xu , Xiaofei Xie , Yang Liu , Yew Soon Ong

The rapid growth of deep learning has brought about powerful models that can handle various tasks, like identifying images and understanding language. However, adversarial attacks, an unnoticed alteration, can deceive models, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Sampriti Soor , Alik Pramanick , Jothiprakash K , Arijit Sur

Adversarial attacks and backdoor attacks are two common security threats that hang over deep learning. Both of them harness task-irrelevant features of data in their implementation. Text style is a feature that is naturally irrelevant to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Fanchao Qi , Yangyi Chen , Xurui Zhang , Mukai Li , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

We study an important task of attacking natural language processing models in a black box setting. We propose an attack strategy that crafts semantically similar adversarial examples on text classification and entailment tasks. Our proposed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Rishabh Maheshwary , Saket Maheshwary , Vikram Pudi

Traditional adversarial attacks typically aim to alter the predicted labels of input images by generating perturbations that are imperceptible to the human eye. However, these approaches often lack explainability. Moreover, most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Akram Heidarizadeh , Connor Hatfield , Lorenzo Lazzarotto , HanQin Cai , George Atia

Traditional CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart) schemes are increasingly vulnerable to automated attacks powered by deep neural networks (DNNs). Existing adversarial attack methods often rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Xia Du , Xiaoyuan Liu , Jizhe Zhou , Zheng Lin , Chi-man Pun , Cong Wu , Tao Li , Zhe Chen , Wei Ni , Jun Luo

Recent studies show that pre-trained language models (LMs) are vulnerable to textual adversarial attacks. However, existing attack methods either suffer from low attack success rates or fail to search efficiently in the exponentially large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Boxin Wang , Chejian Xu , Xiangyu Liu , Yu Cheng , Bo Li

Generating high-quality textual adversarial examples is critical for investigating the pitfalls of natural language processing (NLP) models and further promoting their robustness. Existing attacks are usually realized through word-level or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Yibin Lei , Yu Cao , Dianqi Li , Tianyi Zhou , Meng Fang , Mykola Pechenizkiy

In this paper, we introduce an enhanced textual adversarial attack method, known as Saliency Attention and Semantic Similarity driven adversarial Perturbation (SASSP). The proposed scheme is designed to improve the effectiveness of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Hetvi Waghela , Jaydip Sen , Sneha Rakshit

Several years of research have shown that machine-learning systems are vulnerable to adversarial examples, both in theory and in practice. Until now, such attacks have primarily targeted visual models, exploiting the gap between human and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Nicholas Boucher , Ilia Shumailov , Ross Anderson , Nicolas Papernot

Adversarial attack research in natural language processing (NLP) has made significant progress in designing powerful attack methods and defence approaches. However, few efforts have sought to identify which source samples are the most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Vyas Raina , Mark Gales

Deep neural networks have been proven to be vulnerable to adversarial examples and various methods have been proposed to defend against adversarial attacks for natural language processing tasks. However, previous defense methods have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Fangyuan Zhang , Huichi Zhou , Shuangjiao Li , Hongtao Wang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been found to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. Adversarial examples are malicious images with visually imperceptible perturbations. While these carefully crafted perturbations restricted with tight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Yajie Wang , Shangbo Wu , Wenyi Jiang , Shengang Hao , Yu-an Tan , Quanxin Zhang

NLP models are shown to suffer from robustness issues, i.e., a model's prediction can be easily changed under small perturbations to the input. In this work, we present a Controlled Adversarial Text Generation (CAT-Gen) model that, given an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Tianlu Wang , Xuezhi Wang , Yao Qin , Ben Packer , Kang Li , Jilin Chen , Alex Beutel , Ed Chi

The vulnerability of deep neural networks to adversarial attacks has been widely demonstrated (e.g., adversarial example attacks). Traditional attacks perform unstructured pixel-wise perturbation to fool the classifier. An alternative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Shuo Wang , Surya Nepal , Carsten Rudolph , Marthie Grobler , Shangyu Chen , Tianle Chen

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have significantly boosted the performance of many challenging tasks. Despite the great development, DNNs have also exposed their vulnerability. Recent studies have shown that adversaries can manipulate the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Liang-bo Ning , Zeyu Dai , Wenqi Fan , Jingran Su , Chao Pan , Luning Wang , Qing Li

Recently, some research show that deep neural networks are vulnerable to the adversarial attacks, the well-trainned samples or patches could be used to trick the neural network detector or human visual perception. However, these adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Xianyi Chen , Fazhan Liu , Dong Jiang , Kai Yan