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Adversarial robustness in structured data remains an underexplored frontier compared to vision and language domains. In this work, we introduce a novel black-box, decision-based adversarial attack tailored for tabular data. Our approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Roie Kazoom , Yuval Ratzabi , Etamar Rothstein , Ofer Hadar

We focus on the problem of adversarial attacks against models on discrete sequential data in the black-box setting where the attacker aims to craft adversarial examples with limited query access to the victim model. Existing black-box…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Deokjae Lee , Seungyong Moon , Junhyeok Lee , Hyun Oh Song

Depending on how much information an adversary can access to, adversarial attacks can be classified as white-box attack and black-box attack. For white-box attack, optimization-based attack algorithms such as projected gradient descent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Jinghui Chen , Dongruo Zhou , Jinfeng Yi , Quanquan Gu

Deep learning models are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which can fool a target classifier by imposing imperceptible perturbations onto natural examples. In this work, we consider the practical and challenging decision-based black-box…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Qi-An Fu , Yinpeng Dong , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) models have achieved state-of-the-art performance on multiple learning tasks, from vision to natural language modelling. With the growing adoption of ML and DL to many areas of computer science,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Anshuman Chhabra , Abhishek Roy , Prasant Mohapatra

Although deep neural networks have been very successful in image-classification tasks, they are prone to adversarial attacks. To generate adversarial inputs, there has emerged a wide variety of techniques, such as black- and whitebox…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Fuyuan Zhang , Sankalan Pal Chowdhury , Maria Christakis

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

Following the recent adoption of deep neural networks (DNN) accross a wide range of applications, adversarial attacks against these models have proven to be an indisputable threat. Adversarial samples are crafted with a deliberate intention…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Valentina Zantedeschi , Maria-Irina Nicolae , Ambrish Rawat

We consider the hard label based black box adversarial attack setting which solely observes predicted classes from the target model. Most of the attack methods in this setting suffer from impractical number of queries required to achieve a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Jeonghwan Park , Paul Miller , Niall McLaughlin

In recent years, deep reinforcement learning (Deep RL) has been successfully implemented as a smart agent in many systems such as complex games, self-driving cars, and chat-bots. One of the interesting use cases of Deep RL is its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Foozhan Ataiefard , Hadi Hemmati

Recently more attention has been given to adversarial attacks on neural networks for natural language processing (NLP). A central research topic has been the investigation of search algorithms and search constraints, accompanied by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Nathaniel Berger , Stefan Riezler , Artem Sokolov , Sebastian Ebert

Deep neural networks(DNNs) is vulnerable to be attacked by adversarial examples. Black-box attack is the most threatening attack. At present, black-box attack methods mainly adopt gradient-based iterative attack methods, which usually limit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Pengfei Xie , Linyuan Wang , Ruoxi Qin , Kai Qiao , Shuhao Shi , Guoen Hu , Bin Yan

We explore the black-box adversarial attack on video recognition models. Attacks are only performed on selected key regions and key frames to reduce the high computation cost of searching adversarial perturbations on a video due to its high…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Zeyuan Wang , Chaofeng Sha , Su Yang

We study black-box attacks on machine learning classifiers where each query to the model incurs some cost or risk of detection to the adversary. We focus explicitly on minimizing the number of queries as a major objective. Specifically, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Fnu Suya , Yuan Tian , David Evans , Paolo Papotti

Even though several methods have proposed to defend textual neural network (NN) models against black-box adversarial attacks, they often defend against a specific text perturbation strategy and/or require re-training the models from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Thai Le , Noseong Park , Dongwon Lee

Current multi-task adversarial text attacks rely on abundant access to shared internal features and numerous queries, often limited to a single task type. As a result, these attacks are less effective against practical scenarios involving…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Wenqiang Wang , Yan Xiao , Hao Lin , Yangshijie Zhang , Xiaochun Cao

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which poses security concerns on these algorithms due to the potentially severe consequences. Adversarial attacks serve as an important surrogate to evaluate the robustness of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Yinpeng Dong , Fangzhou Liao , Tianyu Pang , Hang Su , Jun Zhu , Xiaolin Hu , Jianguo Li

Black-box adversarial attacks present a realistic threat to action recognition systems. Existing black-box attacks follow either a query-based approach where an attack is optimized by querying the target model, or a transfer-based approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Rohit Gupta , Naveed Akhtar , Gaurav Kumar Nayak , Ajmal Mian , Mubarak Shah

Deep learning systems, critical in domains like autonomous vehicles, are vulnerable to adversarial examples (crafted inputs designed to mislead classifiers). This study investigates black-box adversarial attacks in computer vision. This is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Francesco Panebianco , Mario D'Onghia , Stefano Zanero aand Michele Carminati

Face recognition has obtained remarkable progress in recent years due to the great improvement of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, deep CNNs are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which can cause fateful consequences in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Yinpeng Dong , Hang Su , Baoyuan Wu , Zhifeng Li , Wei Liu , Tong Zhang , Jun Zhu