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Multi-agent reinforcement learning has received significant interest in recent years notably due to the advancements made in deep reinforcement learning which have allowed for the developments of new architectures and learning algorithms.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Nicolas Anastassacos , Mirco Musolesi

With the recent advancements in machine learning (ML), numerous ML-based approaches have been extensively applied in software analytics tasks to streamline software development and maintenance processes. Nevertheless, studies indicate that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-15 MD Abdul Awal , Mrigank Rochan , Chanchal K. Roy

Adversarial purification is a defense mechanism for safeguarding classifiers against adversarial attacks without knowing the type of attacks or training of the classifier. These techniques characterize and eliminate adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Raha Moraffah , Shubh Khandelwal , Amrita Bhattacharjee , Huan Liu

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are prolonged, stealthy intrusions by skilled adversaries that compromise high-value systems to steal data or disrupt operations. Reconstructing complete attack chains from massive, heterogeneous logs is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Rujie Dai , Peizhuo Lv , Yujiang Gui , Qiujian Lv , Yuanyuan Qiao , Yan Wang , Degang Sun , Weiqing Huang , Yingjiu Li , XiaoFeng Wang

Neural ranking models (NRMs) have undergone significant development and have become integral components of information retrieval (IR) systems. Unfortunately, recent research has unveiled the vulnerability of NRMs to adversarial document…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Xuanang Chen , Ben He , Le Sun , Yingfei Sun

As the adoption of machine learning models increases, ensuring robust models against adversarial attacks is increasingly important. With unsupervised machine learning gaining more attention, ensuring it is robust against attacks is vital.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Mathias Lundteigen Mohus , Jinyue Li

As Large Language Model (LLM) agents increasingly gain self-evolutionary capabilities to adapt and refine their strategies through real-world interaction, their long-term reliability becomes a critical concern. We identify the Alignment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Siwei Han , Kaiwen Xiong , Jiaqi Liu , Xinyu Ye , Yaofeng Su , Wenbo Duan , Xinyuan Liu , Cihang Xie , Mohit Bansal , Mingyu Ding , Linjun Zhang , Huaxiu Yao

We investigate MT evaluation metric performance on adversarially-synthesized texts, to shed light on metric robustness. We experiment with word- and character-level attacks on three popular machine translation metrics: BERTScore, BLEURT,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Yichen Huang , Timothy Baldwin

Context: Cybersecurity vendors often publish cyber threat intelligence (CTI) reports, referring to the written artifacts on technical and forensic analysis of the techniques used by the malware in APT attacks. Objective: The goal of this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Md Rayhanur Rahman , Setu Kumar Basak , Rezvan Mahdavi Hezaveh , Laurie Williams

Machine learning has witnessed remarkable breakthroughs in recent years. As machine learning permeates various aspects of daily life, individuals and organizations increasingly interact with these systems, exhibiting a wide range of social…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Han Shao

This paper presents the experiments and results for the CheckThat! Lab at CLEF 2024 Task 6: Robustness of Credibility Assessment with Adversarial Examples (InCrediblAE). The primary objective of this task was to generate adversarial…

Developing secure machine learning models from adversarial examples is challenging as various methods are continually being developed to generate adversarial attacks. In this work, we propose an evolutionary approach to automatically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Kishor Datta Gupta , Zahid Akhtar , Dipankar Dasgupta

Machine learning (ML) models have significantly grown in complexity and utility, driving advances across multiple domains. However, substantial computational resources and specialized expertise have historically restricted their wide…

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Adversarial attacks against natural language processing systems, which perform seemingly innocuous modifications to inputs, can induce arbitrary mistakes to the target models. Though raised great concerns, such adversarial attacks can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Boxin Wang , Hengzhi Pei , Boyuan Pan , Qian Chen , Shuohang Wang , Bo Li

Adversarial machine learning is a fast growing research area, which considers the scenarios when machine learning systems may face potential adversarial attackers, who intentionally synthesize input data to make a well-trained model to make…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Guofu Li , Pengjia Zhu , Jin Li , Zhemin Yang , Ning Cao , Zhiyi Chen

The adversarial attack literature contains a myriad of algorithms for crafting perturbations which yield pathological behavior in neural networks. In many cases, multiple algorithms target the same tasks and even enforce the same…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Hossein Souri , Pirazh Khorramshahi , Chun Pong Lau , Micah Goldblum , Rama Chellappa

This is Btech thesis report on detection and purification of adverserially attacked images. A deep learning model is trained on certain training examples for various tasks such as classification, regression etc. By training, weights are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Dvij Kalaria

In various real-world applications such as machine translation, sentiment analysis, and question answering, a pivotal role is played by NLP models, facilitating efficient communication and decision-making processes in domains ranging from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Roopkatha Dey , Aivy Debnath , Sayak Kumar Dutta , Kaustav Ghosh , Arijit Mitra , Arghya Roy Chowdhury , Jaydip Sen

Misaligned research objectives have considerably hindered progress in adversarial robustness research over the past decade. For instance, an extensive focus on optimizing target metrics, while neglecting rigorous standardized evaluation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Leo Schwinn , Yan Scholten , Tom Wollschläger , Sophie Xhonneux , Stephen Casper , Stephan Günnemann , Gauthier Gidel

Many adversarial attacks target natural language processing systems, most of which succeed through modifying the individual tokens of a document. Despite the apparent uniqueness of each of these attacks, fundamentally they are simply a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Tom Roth , Yansong Gao , Alsharif Abuadbba , Surya Nepal , Wei Liu