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We design blackbox transfer-based targeted adversarial attacks for an environment where the attacker's source model and the target blackbox model may have disjoint label spaces and training datasets. This scenario significantly differs from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Nathan Inkawhich , Kevin J Liang , Jingyang Zhang , Huanrui Yang , Hai Li , Yiran Chen

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are shown to be susceptible to adversarial example attacks. Most existing works achieve this malicious objective by crafting subtle pixel-wise perturbations, and they are difficult to launch in the physical world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Bo Luo , Qiang Xu

CNN-based face recognition models have brought remarkable performance improvement, but they are vulnerable to adversarial perturbations. Recent studies have shown that adversaries can fool the models even if they can only access the models'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Junyoung Byun , Hyojun Go , Changick Kim

We consider adversarial attacks to a black-box model when no queries are allowed. In this setting, many methods directly attack surrogate models and transfer the obtained adversarial examples to fool the target model. Plenty of previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Yunxiao Qin , Yuanhao Xiong , Jinfeng Yi , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Fooling deep neural networks (DNNs) with the black-box optimization has become a popular adversarial attack fashion, as the structural prior knowledge of DNNs is always unknown. Nevertheless, recent black-box adversarial attacks may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Jie Wang , Zhaoxia Yin , Jing Jiang , Yang Du

Deep neural networks for image classification remain vulnerable to adversarial examples -- small, imperceptible perturbations that induce misclassifications. In black-box settings, where only the final prediction is accessible, crafting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Arjhun Swaminathan , Mete Akgün

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples which contain human-imperceptible perturbations. A series of defending methods, either proactive defence or reactive defence, have been proposed in the recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Derek Wang , Chaoran Li , Sheng Wen , Surya Nepal , Yang Xiang

Deep learning models are susceptible to adversarial samples in white and black-box environments. Although previous studies have shown high attack success rates, coupling DNN models with interpretation models could offer a sense of security…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Eldor Abdukhamidov , Mohammed Abuhamad , Simon S. Woo , Eric Chan-Tin , Tamer Abuhmed

Blackbox adversarial attacks can be categorized into transfer- and query-based attacks. Transfer methods do not require any feedback from the victim model, but provide lower success rates compared to query-based methods. Query attacks often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Zikui Cai , Chengyu Song , Srikanth Krishnamurthy , Amit Roy-Chowdhury , M. Salman Asif

NLP researchers propose different word-substitute black-box attacks that can fool text classification models. In such attack, an adversary keeps sending crafted adversarial queries to the target model until it can successfully achieve the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Tianle Li , Yi Yang

Reducing the memory footprint of Machine Learning (ML) models, especially Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), is imperative to facilitate their deployment on resource-constrained edge devices. However, a notable drawback of DNN models lies in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Idris Zakariyya , Ferheen Ayaz , Mounia Kharbouche-Harrari , Jeremy Singer , Sye Loong Keoh , Danilo Pau , José Cano

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

Neural networks have become pervasive across various applications, including security-related products. However, their widespread adoption has heightened concerns regarding vulnerability to adversarial attacks. With emerging regulations and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Disesdi Susanna Cox , Niklas Bunzel

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are being used in various daily tasks such as object detection, speech processing, and machine translation. However, it is known that DNNs suffer from robustness problems -- perturbed inputs called adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Junyu Lin , Lei Xu , Yingqi Liu , Xiangyu Zhang

We propose a new, simple framework for crafting adversarial examples for black box attacks. The idea is to simulate the substitution model with a non-trainable model compounded of just one layer of handcrafted convolutional kernels and then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Petr Dvořáček , Petr Hurtik , Petra Števuliáková

In black-box adversarial attacks, adversaries query the deep neural network (DNN), use the output to reconstruct gradients, and then optimize the adversarial inputs iteratively. In this paper, we study the method of adding white noise to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Manjushree B. Aithal , Xiaohua Li

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

Recent studies have shown that adversarial examples in state-of-the-art image classifiers trained by deep neural networks (DNN) can be easily generated when the target model is transparent to an attacker, known as the white-box setting.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Chun-Chen Tu , Paishun Ting , Pin-Yu Chen , Sijia Liu , Huan Zhang , Jinfeng Yi , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Shin-Ming Cheng

Machine Learning systems are vulnerable to adversarial attacks and will highly likely produce incorrect outputs under these attacks. There are white-box and black-box attacks regarding to adversary's access level to the victim learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Saeid Samizade , Zheng-Hua Tan , Chao Shen , Xiaohong Guan

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have recently led to significant improvements in many fields. However, DNNs are vulnerable to adversarial examples which are samples with imperceptible perturbations while dramatically misleading the DNNs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-11 Jiayang Liu , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu