This paper explores the connection between adversarial and knowledge transferability.
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Adversarial perturbations fool wearable sensor systems, showing transferability across different systems.
This paper explores how the generalization of substitute classifiers affects the success of black-box adversarial attacks.
Adversarially-trained models transfer better in limited data scenarios.
RTFE provides adversarial robustness to multiple models.
New method UADs improves transferability of adversarial perturbations.
Adversarial examples are maliciously perturbed inputs designed to mislead machine learning (ML) models at test-time. They often transfer: the same adversarial example fools more than one model. In this work, we propose novel methods for estimating the previously unknown dimensionality of the space of adversarial inputs…
Headless attacks bypass classification heads to fool transfer learning models.
Adversarial transfer learning improves stress assessment across users.
Adversarially robust models transfer better than standard models in image classification.
Transfer learning improves model robustness against adversarial attacks.
The paper analyzes and minimizes transferability of adversarial attacks between models in an ensemble.
The paper explores transferability of adversarial examples between convex and 01 loss models, finding non-transferability due to different decision boundaries caused by outliers.
This work studies adversarial transferability and proposes ensemble methods to improve robustness.
Deep learning algorithms have increasingly been shown to lack robustness to simple adversarial examples (AdvX). An equally troubling observation is that these adversarial examples transfer between different architectures trained on different datasets. We investigate the transferability of adversarial examples between m…
Deep learning models are vulnerable to adversarial examples crafted by applying human-imperceptible perturbations on benign inputs. However, under the black-box setting, most existing adversaries often have a poor transferability to attack other defense models. In this work, from the perspective of regarding the advers…
Research has shown that widely used deep neural networks are vulnerable to carefully crafted adversarial perturbations. Moreover, these adversarial perturbations often transfer across models. We hypothesize that adversarial weakness is composed of three sources of bias: architecture, dataset, and random initialization.…
LGV boosts adversarial attacks by improving surrogate models.
Neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, malicious inputs crafted to fool trained models. Adversarial examples often exhibit black-box transfer, meaning that adversarial examples for one model can fool another model. However, adversarial examples are typically overfit to exploit the particular architectu…
New method creates powerful, transferable adversarial attacks for deep learning networks.
Neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, malicious inputs crafted to fool trained models. Adversarial examples often exhibit black-box transfer, meaning that adversarial examples for one model can fool another model. However, adversarial examples may be overfit to exploit the particular architecture and …
State-of-the-art machine learning models frequently misclassify inputs that have been perturbed in an adversarial manner. Adversarial perturbations generated for a given input and a specific classifier often seem to be effective on other inputs and even different classifiers. In other words, adversarial perturbations s…
In this work, we evaluate adversarial robustness in the context of transfer learning from a source trained on CIFAR 100 to a target network trained on CIFAR 10. Specifically, we study the effects of using robust optimisation in the source and target networks. This allows us to identify transfer learning strategies unde…
Simple regional perturbations maintain model transferability while reducing adversarial example distortion.
New adversarial attack method based on deep feature distributions.
Adversarial training enhances model transferability without sacrificing accuracy.
FGSM is more stable in adversarially robust transfer learning than PGD.
DVERGE diversifies adversarial vulnerabilities to enhance robust ensemble models.
Paper tackles robustness in adversarial noise with a meta-optimizer.
SAM minimizes loss sharpness, improving adversarial transferability.
State-of-the-art deep neural networks are known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples, formed by applying small but malicious perturbations to the original inputs. Moreover, the perturbations can \textit{transfer across models}: adversarial examples generated for a specific model will often mislead other unseen mode…
We study the transfer of adversarial robustness of deep neural networks between different perturbation types. While most work on adversarial examples has focused on and -bounded perturbations, these do not capture all types of perturbations available to an adversary. The present work evaluates 32 attack…
Adversarial examples are of wide concern due to their impact on the reliability of contemporary machine learning systems. Effective adversarial examples are mostly found via white-box attacks. However, in some cases they can be transferred across models, thus enabling them to attack black-box models. In this work we ev…
A new method transfers adversarial robustness from teacher to student using feature distillation.
The recent advances in deep transfer learning reveal that adversarial learning can be embedded into deep networks to learn more transferable features to reduce the distribution discrepancy between two domains. Existing adversarial domain adaptation methods either learn a single domain discriminator to align the global …
New method improves adversarial transferability from Bayesian neural networks.
Despite the considerable success of convolutional neural networks in a broad array of domains, recent research has shown these to be vulnerable to small adversarial perturbations, commonly known as adversarial examples. Moreover, such examples have shown to be remarkably portable, or transferable, from one model to ano…
Adversarial examples are perturbed inputs designed to fool machine learning models. Most recent works on adversarial examples for image classification focus on directly modifying pixels with minor perturbations. A common requirement in all these works is that the malicious perturbations should be small enough (measured…
FRA-Attack improves adversarial transferability for closed-source MLLMs by aligning visual focus across models.
We consider the black-box adversarial setting, where the adversary has to generate adversarial perturbations without access to the target models to compute gradients. Previous methods tried to approximate the gradient either by using a transfer gradient of a surrogate white-box model, or based on the query feedback. Ho…
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 low-dimensional embedding using a pretrained model, and then performs efficient…
Transferability captures the ability of an attack against a machine-learning model to be effective against a different, potentially unknown, model. Empirical evidence for transferability has been shown in previous work, but the underlying reasons why an attack transfers or not are not yet well understood. In this paper…
New methods improve black-box adversarial attacks with fewer queries.
Fine-tuning through knowledge transfer from a pre-trained model on a large-scale dataset is a widely spread approach to effectively build models on small-scale datasets. In this work, we show that a recent adversarial attack designed for transfer learning via re-training the last linear layer can successfully deceive m…
Deep Neural Networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks even in settings where the attacker has no direct access to the model being attacked. Such attacks usually rely on the principle of transferability, whereby an attack crafted on a surrogate model tends to transfer to the target model. We show that an ensemble o…
Study reveals adversarially robust domain adaptation is harder to generalize across domains.
Adversarial examples are perturbed inputs designed to fool machine learning models. Adversarial training injects such examples into training data to increase robustness. To scale this technique to large datasets, perturbations are crafted using fast single-step methods that maximize a linear approximation of the model'…
Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) models have achieved state-of-the-art performance on multiple learning tasks, from vision to natural language modelling. With the growing adoption of ML and DL to many areas of computer science, recent research has also started focusing on the security properties of these mo…