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Traditional decision-based black-box adversarial attacks on image classifiers aim to generate adversarial examples by slightly modifying input images while keeping the number of queries low, where each query involves sending an input to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Mahdi Salmani , Alireza Abdollahpoorrostam , Seyed-Mohsen Moosavi-Dezfooli

Deep neural networks (DNNs) often produce overconfident predictions on out-of-distribution (OOD) inputs, undermining their reliability in open-world environments. Singularities in semi-discrete optimal transport (OT) mark regions of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Keke Tang , Ziyong Du , Xiaofei Wang , Weilong Peng , Peican Zhu , Zhihong Tian

Deep neural networks for image classification remain vulnerable to adversarial examples -- small, imperceptible perturbations that induce misclassifications. In black-box settings, where only the final prediction is accessible, crafting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Arjhun Swaminathan , Mete Akgün

The transferability of adversarial examples allows the deception on black-box models, and transfer-based targeted attacks have attracted a lot of interest due to their practical applicability. To maximize the transfer success rate,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Junyoung Byun , Seungju Cho , Myung-Joon Kwon , Hee-Seon Kim , Changick Kim

Researchers have repeatedly shown that it is possible to craft adversarial attacks on deep classifiers (small perturbations that significantly change the class label), even in the "black-box" setting where one only has query access to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Devin Willmott , Anit Kumar Sahu , Fatemeh Sheikholeslami , Filipe Condessa , Zico Kolter

Adversarial attacks pose significant challenges for detecting adversarial attacks at an early stage. We propose attack-agnostic detection on reinforcement learning-based interactive recommendation systems. We first craft adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Yuanjiang Cao , Xiaocong Chen , Lina Yao , Xianzhi Wang , Wei Emma Zhang

We study the problem of efficient adversarial attacks on tree based ensembles such as gradient boosting decision trees (GBDTs) and random forests (RFs). Since these models are non-continuous step functions and gradient does not exist, most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Chong Zhang , Huan Zhang , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Recent research has found that neural networks are vulnerable to several types of adversarial attacks, where the input samples are modified in such a way that the model produces a wrong prediction that misclassifies the adversarial sample.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Jary Pomponi , Simone Scardapane , Aurelio Uncini

Adversarial examples represent a serious issue for the application of machine learning models in many sensitive domains. For generating adversarial examples, decision based black-box attacks are one of the most practical techniques as they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Nicole Meng , Caleb Manicke , David Chen , Yingjie Lao , Caiwen Ding , Pengyu Hong , Kaleel Mahmood

The increasing scale and sophistication of cyberattacks has led to the adoption of machine learning based classification techniques, at the core of cybersecurity systems. These techniques promise scale and accuracy, which traditional rule…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Tegjyot Singh Sethi , Mehmed Kantardzic , Joung Woo Ryu

Previous work has shown that 3D point cloud classifiers can be vulnerable to adversarial examples. However, most of the existing methods are aimed at white-box attacks, where the parameters and other information of the classifiers are known…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Jinali Zhang , Yinpeng Dong , Jun Zhu , Jihong Zhu , Minchi Kuang , Xiaming Yuan

The integration of machine learning (ML) algorithms into Internet of Things (IoT) applications has introduced significant advantages alongside vulnerabilities to adversarial attacks, especially within IoT-based intrusion detection systems…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Islam Debicha , Tayeb Kenaza , Ishak Charfi , Salah Mosbah , Mehdi Sehaki , Jean-Michel Dricot

In hard-label black-box adversarial attacks, where only the top-1 predicted label is accessible, the prohibitive query complexity poses a major obstacle to practical deployment. In this paper, we focus on optimizing a representative class…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Xinjie Xu , Shuyu Cheng , Dongwei Xu , Qi Xuan , Chen Ma

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are widely used today, but they are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. To develop effective methods of defense, it is important to understand the potential weak spots of DNNs. Often attacks are organized taking…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Andrei Chertkov , Ivan Oseledets

Closed-loop decision-making systems (e.g., lending, screening, or recidivism risk assessment) often operate under fairness and service constraints while inducing feedback effects: decisions change who appears in the future, yielding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Wenzhang Du

Current adversarial attacks for multi-class classifiers choose the target class for a given input naively, based on the classifier's confidence levels for various target classes. We present a novel adversarial targeting method, \textit{MALT…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Odelia Melamed , Gilad Yehudai , Adi Shamir

Adversarial black-box attacks aim to craft adversarial perturbations by querying input-output pairs of machine learning models. They are widely used to evaluate the robustness of pre-trained models. However, black-box attacks often suffer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Lu Wang , Huan Zhang , Jinfeng Yi , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Yuan Jiang

We propose a novel genetic-algorithm technique that generates black-box adversarial examples which successfully fool neural network based text classifiers. We perform a genetic search with multi-objective optimization guided by deep…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Alex Mathai , Shreya Khare , Srikanth Tamilselvam , Senthil Mani

A recent line of work on black-box adversarial attacks has revived the use of transfer from surrogate models by integrating it into query-based search. However, we find that existing approaches of this type underperform their potential, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Nicholas A. Lord , Romain Mueller , Luca Bertinetto

Since DNN is vulnerable to carefully crafted adversarial examples, adversarial attack on LiDAR sensors have been extensively studied. We introduce a robust black-box attack dubbed LiDAttack. It utilizes a genetic algorithm with a simulated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Jinyin Chen , Danxin Liao , Sheng Xiang , Haibin Zheng