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In this work, we leverage visual prompting (VP) to improve adversarial robustness of a fixed, pre-trained model at testing time. Compared to conventional adversarial defenses, VP allows us to design universal (i.e., data-agnostic) input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Aochuan Chen , Peter Lorenz , Yuguang Yao , Pin-Yu Chen , Sijia Liu

Adversarial attacks pose a significant threat to the security and safety of deep neural networks being applied to modern applications. More specifically, in computer vision-based tasks, experts can use the knowledge of model architecture to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Maniratnam Mandal , Suna Gao

Adversarial attacks pose a significant threat to learning-based 3D point cloud models, critically undermining their reliability in security-sensitive applications. Existing defense methods often suffer from (1) high computational overhead…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Xiang Gu , Liming Lu , Xu Zheng , Anan Du , Yongbin Zhou , Shuchao Pang

Adversarial robustness has been conventionally believed as a challenging property to encode for neural networks, requiring plenty of training data. In the recent paradigm of adopting off-the-shelf models, however, access to their training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Daewon Choi , Jongheon Jeong , Huiwon Jang , Jinwoo Shin

Vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training) have seen remarkable success in visual recognition, highlighting the increasing need to safeguard the intellectual property (IP) of well-trained models.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Lianyu Wang , Meng Wang , Huazhu Fu , Daoqiang Zhang

Deep learning models are shown to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. Though adversarial training can enhance model robustness, typical approaches are computationally expensive. Recent works proposed to transfer the robustness to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Tao Bai , Jinnan Chen , Jun Zhao , Bihan Wen , Xudong Jiang , Alex Kot

In the context of medical artificial intelligence, this study explores the vulnerabilities of the Pathology Language-Image Pretraining (PLIP) model, a Vision Language Foundation model, under targeted attacks. Leveraging the Kather Colon…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-09 Poojitha Thota , Jai Prakash Veerla , Partha Sai Guttikonda , Mohammad S. Nasr , Shirin Nilizadeh , Jacob M. Luber

Transfer learning enables the sharing of common knowledge among models for a variety of downstream tasks, but traditional methods suffer in limited training data settings and produce narrow models incapable of effectively generalizing under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Kevin Vogt-Lowell , Noah Lee , Theodoros Tsiligkaridis , Marc Vaillant

Vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP have demonstrated remarkable applicability across a variety of downstream tasks, including zero-shot image classification. Recently, the use of prompts or adapters for efficient transfer learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Yongjin Yang , Jongwoo Ko , Se-Young Yun

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) policies have been shown to be deceived by perturbations (e.g., random noise or intensional adversarial attacks) on state observations that appear at test time but are unknown during training. To increase…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Xinghua Qu , Yew-Soon Ong , Abhishek Gupta , Zhu Sun

3D Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as PointLLM and GPT4Point, have shown strong reasoning and generalization abilities in 3D understanding tasks. However, their adversarial robustness remains largely unexplored. Prior work in 2D VLMs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Chao Liu , Ngai-Man Cheung

This report synthesizes eight seminal papers on the zero-shot adversarial robustness of vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP. A central challenge in this domain is the inherent trade-off between enhancing adversarial robustness and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Zane Xu , Jason Sun

The performance of deep models, including Vision Transformers, is known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Many existing defenses against these attacks, such as adversarial training, rely on full-model fine-tuning to induce robustness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Masih Eskandar , Tooba Imtiaz , Zifeng Wang , Jennifer Dy

The recent advancements in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and the emergence of Diffusion models have significantly streamlined the production of highly realistic and widely accessible synthetic content. As a result, there is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Sohail Ahmed Khan , Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen

Vision-language pre-training methods, e.g., CLIP, demonstrate an impressive zero-shot performance on visual categorizations with the class proxy from the text embedding of the class name. However, the modality gap between the text and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Qi Qian , Yuanhong Xu , Juhua Hu

The transferability of adversarial examples is a crucial aspect of evaluating the robustness of deep learning systems, particularly in black-box scenarios. Although several methods have been proposed to enhance cross-model transferability,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Tony Ma , Songze Li , Yisong Xiao , Shunchang Liu

Pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP exhibit exceptional generalization across diverse downstream tasks. While recent studies reveal their vulnerability to adversarial attacks, research to date has primarily focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Wanqi Zhou , Shuanghao Bai , Danilo P. Mandic , Qibin Zhao , Badong Chen

Prompt learning has emerged as an efficient and effective approach for transferring foundational Vision-Language Models (e.g., CLIP) to downstream tasks. However, current methods tend to overfit to seen categories, thereby limiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Chen Xu , Yuhan Zhu , Guozhen Zhang , Haocheng Shen , Yixuan Liao , Xiaoxin Chen , Gangshan Wu , Limin Wang

In deep learning, maintaining model robustness against distribution shifts is critical. This work explores a broad range of possibilities to adapt vision-language foundation models at test-time, with a particular emphasis on CLIP and its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Mario Döbler , Robert A. Marsden , Tobias Raichle , Bin Yang

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as CLIP have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in understanding relationships between visual and textual data through joint embedding spaces. Despite their effectiveness, these models remain vulnerable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Jiaming Zhang , Xin Wang , Xingjun Ma , Lingyu Qiu , Yu-Gang Jiang , Jitao Sang