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Deep learning models are known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples crafted by adding human-imperceptible perturbations on benign images. Many existing adversarial attack methods have achieved great white-box attack performance, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Xiaosen Wang , Jiadong Lin , Han Hu , Jingdong Wang , Kun He

Strong adversarial examples are crucial for evaluating and enhancing the robustness of deep neural networks. However, the performance of popular attacks is usually sensitive, for instance, to minor image transformations, stemming from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Zhengwei Fang , Rui Wang , Tao Huang , Liping Jing

Compared to untargeted attacks, targeted transfer-based attack is still suffering from much lower Attack Success Rates (ASRs), although significant improvements have been achieved by kinds of methods, such as diversifying input, stabilizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Tongrui Su , Qingbin Li , Shengyu Zhu , Wei Chen , Xueqi Cheng

A prevailing belief in attack and defense community is that the higher flatness of adversarial examples enables their better cross-model transferability, leading to a growing interest in employing sharpness-aware minimization and its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Mingyuan Fan , Xiaodan Li , Cen Chen , Wenmeng Zhou , Yaliang Li

Transfer learning across domains with distribution shift remains a fundamental challenge in building robust and adaptable machine learning systems. While adversarial perturbations are traditionally viewed as threats that expose model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Hana Satou , Alan Mitkiy

Neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, malicious inputs crafted to fool trained models. Adversarial examples often exhibit black-box transfer, meaning that adversarial examples for one model can fool another model. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Qian Huang , Zeqi Gu , Isay Katsman , Horace He , Pian Pawakapan , Zhiqiu Lin , Serge Belongie , Ser-Nam Lim

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, dictating the imperativeness to test the model's robustness before deployment. Transfer-based attackers craft adversarial examples against surrogate models and transfer them to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Zhuoer Xu , Zhangxuan Gu , Jianping Zhang , Shiwen Cui , Changhua Meng , Weiqiang Wang

Adversarial attacks have threatened the application of deep neural networks in security-sensitive scenarios. Most existing black-box attacks fool the target model by interacting with it many times and producing global perturbations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Tao Xiang , Hangcheng Liu , Shangwei Guo , Tianwei Zhang , Xiaofeng Liao

Adversarial examples are a key method to exploit deep neural networks. Using gradient information, such examples can be generated in an efficient way without altering the victim model. Recent frequency domain transformation has further…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Zhibo Jin , Jiayu Zhang , Zhiyu Zhu , Xinyi Wang , Yiyun Huang , Huaming Chen

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

Adversarial attacks against Deep Neural Networks have been widely studied. One significant feature that makes such attacks particularly powerful is transferability, where the adversarial examples generated from one model can be effective…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Renzhi Wang , Tianwei Zhang , Xiaofei Xie , Lei Ma , Cong Tian , Felix Juefei-Xu , Yang Liu

Skip connection is an essential ingredient for modern deep models to be deeper and more powerful. Despite their huge success in normal scenarios (state-of-the-art classification performance on natural examples), we investigate and identify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yisen Wang , Yichuan Mo , Dongxian Wu , Mingjie Li , Xingjun Ma , Zhouchen Lin

The transferability of adversarial examples poses a significant security challenge for deep neural networks, which can be attacked without knowing anything about them. In this paper, we propose a new Segmented Gaussian Pyramid (SGP) attack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Zihong Guo , Chen Wan , Yayin Zheng , Hailing Kuang , Xiaohai Lu

Adversarial attacks have verified the existence of the vulnerability of neural networks. By adding small perturbations to a benign example, adversarial attacks successfully generate adversarial examples that lead misclassification of deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Hoki Kim , Jinseong Park , Jaewook Lee

Deep neural networks are known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples crafted by adding human-imperceptible perturbations to the benign input. After achieving nearly 100% attack success rates in white-box setting, more focus is shifted to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Xu Han , Anmin Liu , Chenxuan Yao , Yanbo Fan , Kun He

Due to the gap between a substitute model and a victim model, the gradient-based noise generated from a substitute model may have low transferability for a victim model since their gradients are different. Inspired by the fact that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Boheng Zeng , LianLi Gao , QiLong Zhang , ChaoQun Li , JingKuan Song , ShuaiQi Jing

Deep neural networks are widely known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. However, vanilla adversarial examples generated under the white-box setting often exhibit low transferability across different models. Since adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Zeliang Zhang , Wei Yao , Xiaosen Wang

Transfer-based attacks pose a significant threat to real-world applications by directly targeting victim models with adversarial examples generated on surrogate models. While numerous approaches have been proposed to enhance adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Bohan Liu , Xiaosen Wang

Adversarial attacks can mislead deep neural networks (DNNs) by adding imperceptible perturbations to benign examples. The attack transferability enables adversarial examples to attack black-box DNNs with unknown architectures or parameters,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Kaisheng Liang , Bin Xiao

One intriguing property of adversarial attacks is their "transferability" -- an adversarial example crafted with respect to one deep neural network (DNN) model is often found effective against other DNNs as well. Intensive research has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Yuhao Mao , Chong Fu , Saizhuo Wang , Shouling Ji , Xuhong Zhang , Zhenguang Liu , Jun Zhou , Alex X. Liu , Raheem Beyah , Ting Wang