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Adversarial attacks have shown the vulnerability of machine learning models, however, it is non-trivial to conduct textual adversarial attacks on natural language processing tasks due to the discreteness of data. Most previous approaches…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Junliang Guo , Zhirui Zhang , Linlin Zhang , Linli Xu , Boxing Chen , Enhong Chen , Weihua Luo

Large language models are increasingly used for text classification tasks such as sentiment analysis, yet their reliance on natural language prompts exposes them to prompt injection attacks. In particular, class-directive injections exploit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Yanxi Li , Ruocheng Shan

Vision-language models (VLMs) (e.g. CLIP, LLaVA) are trained on large-scale, lightly curated web datasets, leading them to learn unintended correlations between semantic concepts and unrelated visual signals. These associations degrade…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Maan Qraitem , Piotr Teterwak , Kate Saenko , Bryan A. Plummer

Adversarial attacks pose a critical security threat to real-world AI systems by injecting human-imperceptible perturbations into benign samples to induce misclassification in deep learning models. While existing detection methods, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Yinghe Zhang , Chi Liu , Shuai Zhou , Sheng Shen , Peng Gui

As audio/visual classification models are widely deployed for sensitive tasks like content filtering at scale, it is critical to understand their robustness along with improving the accuracy. This work aims to study several key questions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Juncheng B Li , Kaixin Ma , Shuhui Qu , Po-Yao Huang , Florian Metze

Word-level adversarial attacks have shown success in NLP models, drastically decreasing the performance of transformer-based models in recent years. As a countermeasure, adversarial defense has been explored, but relatively few efforts have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-04 KiYoon Yoo , Jangho Kim , Jiho Jang , Nojun Kwak

Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have achieved significant zero-shot performance on downstream tasks with various fine-tuning adaptation methods. However, recent studies have proven that adversarial attacks can significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Jia-Wei Hai , Yijun Wang , Xiu-Shen Wei

Active learning aims to develop label-efficient algorithms by sampling the most representative queries to be labeled by an oracle. We describe a pool-based semi-supervised active learning algorithm that implicitly learns this sampling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Samarth Sinha , Sayna Ebrahimi , Trevor Darrell

Existing adversarial attacks on vision-language models (VLMs) can steer model outputs toward attacker-specified target responses, but their effectiveness often degrades when the same perturbed input is paired with different textual queries.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zhiqiang Wang , Dongrui Liu , Yan Li , Zonghao Ying , Wei Xue , Wenhan Luo , Yike Guo

Adversarial attacks have been shown to be highly effective at degrading the performance of deep neural networks (DNNs). The most prominent defense is adversarial training, a method for learning a robust model. Nevertheless, adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Uriya Pesso , Koby Bibas , Meir Feder

Despite great progress in supervised semantic segmentation,a large performance drop is usually observed when deploying the model in the wild. Domain adaptation methods tackle the issue by aligning the source domain and the target domain.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Haoran Wang , Tong Shen , Wei Zhang , Lingyu Duan , Tao Mei

Deep neural networks have demonstrated remarkable effectiveness across a wide range of tasks such as semantic segmentation. Nevertheless, these networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks that add imperceptible perturbations to the input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Kira Maag , Roman Resner , Asja Fischer

With the rapid development of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), they have been applied in numerous fields. However, research indicates that DNNs are susceptible to adversarial examples, and this is equally true in the multi-label domain. To…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Yujiang Liu , Wenjian Luo , Zhijian Chen , Muhammad Luqman Naseem

Adversarial training is a defense technique that improves adversarial robustness of a deep neural network (DNN) by including adversarial examples in the training data. In this paper, we identify an overlooked problem of adversarial training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Wonseok Lee , Hanbit Lee , Sang-goo Lee

Vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable zero-shot performance across various classification tasks. Nonetheless, their reliance on hand-crafted text prompts for each task hinders efficient adaptation to new tasks. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Hoyoung Kim , Seokhee Jin , Changhwan Sung , Jaechang Kim , Jungseul Ok

With the advent of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), new attack vectors, such as cognitive bias, prompt injection, and jailbreaking, have emerged. Understanding these attacks promotes system robustness improvement and neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Chiyu Zhang , Lu Zhou , Xiaogang Xu , Jiafei Wu , Zhe Liu

Given the increasing threat of adversarial attacks on deep neural networks (DNNs), research on efficient detection methods is more important than ever. In this work, we take a closer look at adversarial attack detection based on the class…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Tobias Uelwer , Felix Michels , Oliver De Candido

Vision-language pretraining (VLP) with transformers has demonstrated exceptional performance across numerous multimodal tasks. However, the adversarial robustness of these models has not been thoroughly investigated. Existing multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Jiwei Guan , Tianyu Ding , Longbing Cao , Lei Pan , Chen Wang , Xi Zheng

The robustness of deep learning models against adversarial attacks remains a pivotal concern. This study presents, for the first time, an exhaustive review of the transferability aspect of adversarial attacks. It systematically categorizes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Zhibo Jin , Jiayu Zhang , Zhiyu Zhu , Huaming Chen

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have demonstrated their incredible capability in image understanding and response generation. However, this rich visual interaction also makes LVLMs vulnerable to adversarial examples. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Xunguang Wang , Zhenlan Ji , Pingchuan Ma , Zongjie Li , Shuai Wang