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Adversarial examples cause neural networks to produce incorrect outputs with high confidence. Although adversarial training is one of the most effective forms of defense against adversarial examples, unfortunately, a large gap exists…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Saehyung Lee , Hyungyu Lee , Sungroh Yoon

The integration of an ensemble of deep learning models has been extensively explored to enhance defense against adversarial attacks. The diversity among sub-models increases the attack cost required to deceive the majority of the ensemble,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Kaikang Zhao , Xi Chen , Wei Huang , Liuxin Ding , Xianglong Kong , Fan Zhang

The rapid integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) has significantly enhanced their collaborative problem-solving capabilities, but it has also expanded their attack surfaces, exposing them to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Pablo Mateo-Torrejón , Alfonso Sánchez-Macián

This paper presents a methodological framework for training, self-optimising, and self-organising surrogate models to approximate and speed up multiobjective optimisation of technical systems based on multiphysics simulations. At the hand…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Diego Botache , Jens Decke , Winfried Ripken , Abhinay Dornipati , Franz Götz-Hahn , Mohamed Ayeb , Bernhard Sick

Infrared vision-language models (IR-VLMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for multimodal perception in low-visibility environments, yet their robustness to adversarial attacks remains largely unexplored. Existing adversarial patch…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Chengyin Hu , Yuxian Dong , Yikun Guo , Xiang Chen , Junqi Wu , Jiahuan Long , Yiwei Wei , Tingsong Jiang , Wen Yao

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

Black-box and preference-based optimization algorithms are global optimization procedures that aim to find the global solutions of an optimization problem using, respectively, the least amount of function evaluations or sample comparisons…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-04 Davide Previtali , Mirko Mazzoleni , Antonio Ferramosca , Fabio Previdi

This work examines the vulnerability of multimodal (image + text) models to adversarial threats similar to those discussed in previous literature on unimodal (image- or text-only) models. We introduce realistic assumptions of partial model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Ivan Evtimov , Russel Howes , Brian Dolhansky , Hamed Firooz , Cristian Canton Ferrer

Domain adaptation remains a challenge when there is significant manifold discrepancy between source and target domains. Although recent methods leverage manifold-aware adversarial perturbations to perform data augmentation, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Hana Satou , F Monkey

Balancing competing objectives is omnipresent across disciplines, from drug design to autonomous systems. Multi-objective Bayesian optimization is a promising solution for such expensive, black-box problems: it fits probabilistic surrogates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Xinyu Zhang , Conor Hassan , Julien Martinelli , Daolang Huang , Samuel Kaski

We present a new method for black-box adversarial attack. Unlike previous methods that combined transfer-based and scored-based methods by using the gradient or initialization of a surrogate white-box model, this new method tries to learn a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Zhichao Huang , Tong Zhang

Adversarial attacks have emerged as a major challenge to the trustworthy deployment of machine learning models, particularly in computer vision applications. These attacks have a varied level of potency and can be implemented in both white…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Nandish Chattopadhyay , Abdul Basit , Bassem Ouni , Muhammad Shafique

Multimodal multi-objective problems (MMOPs) commonly arise in real-world problems where distant solutions in decision space correspond to very similar objective values. To obtain all solutions for MMOPs, many multimodal multi-objective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Wenhua Li , Tao Zhang , Rui Wang , Jing Liang

This paper focuses on learning transferable adversarial examples specifically against defense models (models to defense adversarial attacks). In particular, we show that a simple universal perturbation can fool a series of state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Yingwei Li , Song Bai , Cihang Xie , Zhenyu Liao , Xiaohui Shen , Alan L. Yuille

Multimodal recommender systems exploit visual and textual signals to alleviate data sparsity, but this also makes them more vulnerable to evasion-based promotion attacks. Existing defenses are largely limited to single-modal settings and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Guanmeng Xian , Ning Yang , Philip S. Yu

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a compelling paradigm for privacy-preserving distributed machine learning, allowing multiple clients to collaboratively train a global model by transmitting locally computed gradients to a central…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Hao Fang , Wenbo Yu , Bin Chen , Xuan Wang , Shu-Tao Xia , Qing Liao , Ke Xu

In distributed multiple-input multiple-output (D-MIMO) networks, power control is crucial to optimize the spectral efficiencies of users and max-min fairness (MMF) power control is a commonly used strategy as it satisfies uniform…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-24 Ömer Faruk Tuna , Fehmi Emre Kadan , Leyli Karaçay

Conventional object detection methods essentially suppose that the training and testing data are collected from a restricted target domain with expensive labeling cost. For alleviating the problem of domain dependency and cumbersome…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Zhenwei He , Lei Zhang

We consider minimizing functions for which it is expensive to compute the (possibly stochastic) gradient. Such functions are prevalent in reinforcement learning, imitation learning and adversarial training. Our target optimization framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Jonathan Wilder Lavington , Sharan Vaswani , Reza Babanezhad , Mark Schmidt , Nicolas Le Roux

Empirical robustness evaluation (RE) of deep learning models against adversarial perturbations entails solving nontrivial constrained optimization problems. Existing numerical algorithms that are commonly used to solve them in practice…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Hengyue Liang , Buyun Liang , Le Peng , Ying Cui , Tim Mitchell , Ju Sun