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Deep Learning models hold state-of-the-art performance in many fields, but their vulnerability to adversarial examples poses threat to their ubiquitous deployment in practical settings. Additionally, adversarial inputs generated on one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Deepak Ravikumar , Sangamesh Kodge , Isha Garg , Kaushik Roy

Deep learning has achieved great success in computer vision, but remains vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Adversarial training is the leading defense designed to improve model robustness. However, its effect on the transferability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Mohamed Awad , Mahmoud Akrm , Walid Gomaa

Transferable adversarial attacks optimize adversaries from a pretrained surrogate model and known label space to fool the unknown black-box models. Therefore, these attacks are restricted by the availability of an effective surrogate model.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Hashmat Shadab Malik , Shahina K Kunhimon , Muzammal Naseer , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

To help adversarial examples generalize from surrogate machine-learning (ML) models to targets, certain transferability-based black-box evasion attacks incorporate data augmentations (e.g., random resizing). Yet, prior work has explored…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Zebin Yun , Achi-Or Weingarten , Eyal Ronen , Mahmood Sharif

The ability of deep neural networks (DNNs) come from extracting and interpreting features from the data provided. By exploiting intermediate features in DNNs instead of relying on hard labels, we craft adversarial perturbation that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Shangbo Wu , Yu-an Tan , Ruinan Ma , Wencong Ma , Dehua Zhu , Yuanzhang Li

The increasing reliance on machine learning systems has made their security a critical concern. Evasion attacks enable adversaries to manipulate the decision-making processes of AI systems, potentially causing security breaches or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Kasper Cools , Clara Maathuis , Alexander M. van Oers , Claudia S. Hübner , Nikos Deligiannis , Marijke Vandewal , Geert De Cubber

Despite the remarkable success of Vision Transformers (ViTs) across a wide range of vision tasks, recent studies have revealed that they remain vulnerable to adversarial examples, much like Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). A common…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Jiaming Zhang , Meng Ding , Shaopeng Fu , Jingfeng Zhang , Di Wang

Vision Transformers (ViTs) are becoming a very popular paradigm for vision tasks as they achieve state-of-the-art performance on image classification. However, although early works implied that this network structure had increased…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Hugo Lemarchant , Liangzi Li , Yiming Qian , Yuta Nakashima , Hajime Nagahara

Recent research finds CNN models for image classification demonstrate overlapped adversarial vulnerabilities: adversarial attacks can mislead CNN models with small perturbations, which can effectively transfer between different models…

Model ensemble adversarial attack has become a powerful method for generating transferable adversarial examples that can target even unknown models, but its theoretical foundation remains underexplored. To address this gap, we provide early…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Wei Yao , Zeliang Zhang , Huayi Tang , Yong Liu

Despite the success of input transformation-based attacks on boosting adversarial transferability, the performance is unsatisfying due to the ignorance of the discrepancy across models. In this paper, we propose a simple but effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Donghua Wang , Wen Yao , Tingsong Jiang , Xiaohu Zheng , Junqi Wu , Xiaoqian Chen

Deep learning models are prone to being fooled by imperceptible perturbations known as adversarial attacks. In this work, we study how equipping models with Test-time Transformation Ensembling (TTE) can work as a reliable defense against…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Juan C. Pérez , Motasem Alfarra , Guillaume Jeanneret , Laura Rueda , Ali Thabet , Bernard Ghanem , Pablo Arbeláez

Adversarial attacks constitute a notable threat to machine learning systems, given their potential to induce erroneous predictions and classifications. However, within real-world contexts, the essential specifics of the deployed model are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Jingwen Ye , Ruonan Yu , Songhua Liu , Xinchao Wang

It is widely recognized that deep learning models lack robustness to adversarial examples. An intriguing property of adversarial examples is that they can transfer across different models, which enables black-box attacks without any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Huanran Chen , Yichi Zhang , Yinpeng Dong , Xiao Yang , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Aggressive data augmentation is a key component of the strong generalization capabilities of Vision Transformer (ViT). One such data augmentation technique is adversarial training (AT); however, many prior works have shown that this often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Charles Herrmann , Kyle Sargent , Lu Jiang , Ramin Zabih , Huiwen Chang , Ce Liu , Dilip Krishnan , Deqing Sun

The major part of the vanilla vision transformer (ViT) is the attention block that brings the power of mimicking the global context of the input image. For better performance, ViT needs large-scale training data. To overcome this data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Ahmed Aldahdooh , Wassim Hamidouche , Olivier Deforges

In recent years, vision transformers (ViTs) have emerged as powerful and promising techniques for computer vision tasks such as image classification, object detection, and segmentation. Unlike convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Shaibal Saha , Lanyu Xu

Recent advances in adversarial machine learning have shown that defenses considered to be robust are actually susceptible to adversarial attacks which are specifically customized to target their weaknesses. These defenses include Barrage of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Ethan Rathbun , Kaleel Mahmood , Sohaib Ahmad , Caiwen Ding , Marten van Dijk

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial examples, which can produce erroneous predictions by injecting imperceptible perturbations. In this work, we study the transferability of adversarial examples,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Zeyu Qin , Yanbo Fan , Yi Liu , Li Shen , Yong Zhang , Jue Wang , Baoyuan Wu

Mixup augmentation has been widely integrated to generate adversarial examples with superior adversarial transferability when immigrating from a surrogate model to other models. However, the underlying mechanism influencing the mixup's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Xiaosen Wang , Zeyuan Yin