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Neural networks have been proven to be vulnerable to a variety of adversarial attacks. From a safety perspective, highly sparse adversarial attacks are particularly dangerous. On the other hand the pixelwise perturbations of sparse attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Francesco Croce , Matthias Hein

When generating adversarial examples to attack deep neural networks (DNNs), Lp norm of the added perturbation is usually used to measure the similarity between original image and adversarial example. However, such adversarial attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Kaidi Xu , Sijia Liu , Pu Zhao , Pin-Yu Chen , Huan Zhang , Quanfu Fan , Deniz Erdogmus , Yanzhi Wang , Xue Lin

Applications of machine learning (ML) models and convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been rapidly increased. Although state-of-the-art CNNs provide high accuracy in many applications, recent investigations show that such networks are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Hadi Zanddizari , Behnam Zeinali , J. Morris Chang

Sparse adversarial attacks can fool deep neural networks (DNNs) by only perturbing a few pixels (regularized by l_0 norm). Recent efforts combine it with another l_infty imperceptible on the perturbation magnitudes. The resultant sparse and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Mingkang Zhu , Tianlong Chen , Zhangyang Wang

We propose a versatile framework based on random search, Sparse-RS, for score-based sparse targeted and untargeted attacks in the black-box setting. Sparse-RS does not rely on substitute models and achieves state-of-the-art success rate and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Francesco Croce , Maksym Andriushchenko , Naman D. Singh , Nicolas Flammarion , Matthias Hein

Sparse adversarial attacks fool deep neural networks (DNNs) through minimal pixel perturbations, often regularized by the $\ell_0$ norm. Recent efforts have replaced this norm with a structural sparsity regularizer, such as the nuclear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Shpresim Sadiku , Moritz Wagner , Sebastian Pokutta

Sparse attacks are to optimize the magnitude of adversarial perturbations for fooling deep neural networks (DNNs) involving only a few perturbed pixels (i.e., under the l0 constraint), suitable for interpreting the vulnerability of DNNs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Fudong Lin , Jiadong Lou , Hao Wang , Brian Jalaian , Xu Yuan

Deep neural networks have shown their vulnerability to adversarial attacks. In this paper, we focus on sparse adversarial attack based on the $\ell_0$ norm constraint, which can succeed by only modifying a few pixels of an image. Despite a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Ziwen He , Wei Wang , Jing Dong , Tieniu Tan

Deep neural network image classifiers are reported to be susceptible to adversarial evasion attacks, which use carefully crafted images created to mislead a classifier. Many adversarial attacks belong to the category of dense attacks, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-22 He Zhao , Thanh Nguyen , Trung Le , Paul Montague , Olivier De Vel , Tamas Abraham , Dinh Phung

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. White-box adversarial attacks can fool neural networks with small adversarial perturbations, especially for large size images. However, keeping successful adversarial perturbations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Yongwei Wang , Mingquan Feng , Rabab Ward , Z. Jane Wang , Lanjun Wang

Generative AI deployment poses unprecedented challenges to content safety and privacy. However, existing defense mechanisms are often tailored to specific architectures (e.g., Diffusion Models or GANs), creating fragile "defense silos" that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Bingxue Zhang , Yang Gao , Feida Zhu , Yanyan Shen , Yang Shi

Black-box adversarial attacks that minimize only the ground-truth confidence suffer from class drift: perturbations wander through the feature space without committing to a specific adversarial class, wasting queries on diffuse, undirected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Florent Tariolle , Florian Yger

Adversarial attacks on deep neural networks traditionally rely on a constrained optimization paradigm, where an optimization procedure is used to obtain a single adversarial perturbation for a given input example. In this work we frame the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Avishek Joey Bose , Andre Cianflone , William L. Hamilton

We propose a new approach to Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to achieve an improved performance with additional robustness to its so-called and well recognized mode collapse. We first proceed by mapping the desired data onto a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Shahin Mahdizadehaghdam , Ashkan Panahi , Hamid Krim

Pixel-wise losses, e.g., cross-entropy or L2, have been widely used in structured prediction tasks as a spatial extension of generic image classification or regression. However, its i.i.d. assumption neglects the structural regularity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Jyh-Jing Hwang , Tsung-Wei Ke , Jianbo Shi , Stella X. Yu

White box adversarial perturbations are generated via iterative optimization algorithms most often by minimizing an adversarial loss on a $\ell_p$ neighborhood of the original image, the so-called distortion set. Constraining the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Ehsan Kazemi , Thomas Kerdreux , Liquang Wang

Assessing the robustness of multimodal models against adversarial examples is an important aspect for the safety of its users. We craft L0-norm perturbation attacks on the preprocessed input images. We launch them in a black-box setup…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Cristian-Alexandru Botocan , Raphael Meier , Ljiljana Dolamic

Adversarial examples have gained tons of attention in recent years. Many adversarial attacks have been proposed to attack image classifiers, but few work shift attention to object detectors. In this paper, we propose Sparse Adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Jiayu Bao

Adversarial attacks often involve random perturbations of the inputs drawn from uniform or Gaussian distributions, e.g., to initialize optimization-based white-box attacks or generate update directions in black-box attacks. These simple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Yusuke Tashiro , Yang Song , Stefano Ermon

Adversarial attacks hamper the decision-making ability of neural networks by perturbing the input signal. The addition of calculated small distortion to images, for instance, can deceive a well-trained image classification network. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Tooba Imtiaz , Morgan Kohler , Jared Miller , Zifeng Wang , Masih Eskandar , Mario Sznaier , Octavia Camps , Jennifer Dy
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