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Adversarial prompts generated using gradient-based methods exhibit outstanding performance in performing automatic jailbreak attacks against safety-aligned LLMs. Nevertheless, due to the discrete nature of texts, the input gradient of LLMs…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in processing and generating human language, powered by their ability to interpret and follow instructions. However, their capabilities can be exploited through prompt injection attacks. These attacks…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Xiaogeng Liu , Zhiyuan Yu , Yizhe Zhang , Ning Zhang , Chaowei Xiao

Convolutional neural networks have outperformed humans in image recognition tasks, but they remain vulnerable to attacks from adversarial examples. Since these data are crafted by adding imperceptible noise to normal images, their existence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Heng Yin , Hengwei Zhang , Jindong Wang , Ruiyu Dou

Training and fine-tuning large-scale language models largely benefit from collaborative learning, but the approach has been proven vulnerable to gradient inversion attacks (GIAs), which allow adversaries to reconstruct private training data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Xinguo Feng , Zhongkui Ma , Zihan Wang , Alsharif Abuadbba , Guangdong Bai

Adversarial attacks in machine learning traditionally focus on global perturbations to input data, yet the potential of localized adversarial noise remains underexplored. This study systematically evaluates localized adversarial attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Pavan Reddy , Aditya Sanjay Gujral

Localized adversarial patches aim to induce misclassification in machine learning models by arbitrarily modifying pixels within a restricted region of an image. Such attacks can be realized in the physical world by attaching the adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Chong Xiang , Arjun Nitin Bhagoji , Vikash Sehwag , Prateek Mittal

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the robustness of a commonly-used convolutional neural network for image segmentation with respect to visually-subtle adversarial perturbations, and suggest new methods to make these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-05 Zheng Liu , Jinnian Zhang , Varun Jog , Po-Ling Loh , Alan B McMillan

Adversarial training is an effective approach to make deep neural networks robust against adversarial attacks. Recently, different adversarial training defenses are proposed that not only maintain a high clean accuracy but also show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Muzammal Naseer , Salman Khan , Fatih Porikli , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Large language models are increasingly embedded into systems that interact with user data, retrieved web content, and external tools, creating a new attack surface: prompt injection, where malicious commands embedded in untrusted data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yuyang Gong , Zihao Wang , Jiawei Liu , XiaoFeng Wang

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which are crafted by adding human-imperceptible perturbations to the benign inputs. Simultaneously, adversarial examples exhibit transferability across models, enabling…

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Multimodal machine learning models that combine visual and textual data are increasingly being deployed in critical applications, raising significant safety and security concerns due to their vulnerability to adversarial attacks. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Maisha Binte Rashid , Pablo Rivas

Neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which poses a threat to their application in security sensitive systems. We propose high-level representation guided denoiser (HGD) as a defense for image classification. Standard…

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Large language models have become increasingly prominent, also signaling a shift towards multimodality as the next frontier in artificial intelligence, where their embeddings are harnessed as prompts to generate textual content.…

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Recent studies have demonstrated that machine learning approaches like deep neural networks (DNNs) are easily fooled by adversarial attacks. Subtle and imperceptible perturbations of the data are able to change the result of deep neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Negin Entezari , Evangelos E. Papalexakis

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which are crafted by adding small, human-imperceptible perturbations to the original images, but make the model output inaccurate predictions. Before deep neural networks are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Bo Yang , Kaiyong Xu , Hengjun Wang , Hengwei Zhang

Deep neural networks are known to be vulnerable to adversarial perturbations, which are small and carefully crafted inputs that lead to incorrect predictions. In this paper, we propose DeepDefense, a novel defense framework that applies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Ci Lin , Tet Yeap , Iluju Kiringa , Biwei Zhang

Although there are a great number of adversarial attacks on deep learning based classifiers, how to attack object detection systems has been rarely studied. In this paper, we propose a Half-Neighbor Masked Projected Gradient Descent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Yanghao Zhang , Fu Wang , Wenjie Ruan

While transformer-based models achieve strong performance on text classification, we explore whether masking input tokens can further enhance their effectiveness. We propose token masking regularization, a simple yet theoretically motivated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Xianglong Xu , John Bowen , Rojin Taheri

Gradient-based adversarial prompting, such as the Greedy Coordinate Gradient (GCG) algorithm, has emerged as a powerful method for jailbreaking large language models (LLMs). In this paper, we present a systematic appraisal of GCG and its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yuting Tan , Xuying Li , Zhuo Li , Huizhen Shu , Peikang Hu

The vulnerability of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to adversarial examples has been confirmed. Existing adversarial defenses primarily aim at preventing adversarial examples from attacking DNNs successfully, rather than preventing their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Jinwei Wang , Hao Wu , Haihua Wang , Jiawei Zhang , Xiangyang Luo , Bin Ma