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48 results for transfer attack

Transfer learning improves model robustness against adversarial attacks.

problem Understanding how transfer learning affects model robustness against adversarial attacks.
method Extensive empirical evaluations of white-box and black-box attacks on fine-tuned transfer learning models.
result Adversarial examples are more transferable when fine-tuning is used than when networks are trained independently.

Clean-label poisoning attacks inject innocuous looking (and "correctly" labeled) poison images into training data, causing a model to misclassify a targeted image after being trained on this data. We consider transferable poisoning attacks that succeed without access to the victim network's outputs, architecture, or (i…

2019-05-15abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper explores how the generalization of substitute classifiers affects the success of black-box adversarial attacks.

problem Understanding the factors driving the transferability of black-box adversarial examples.
method Max-min adversarial example game framework and theoretical generalization bounds.
result Substitute NN with better generalization behavior results in more transferable adversarial examples.

New method improves blackbox attack transferability by perturbing feature hierarchy.

problem Improving transferability of blackbox attacks across different models and datasets.
method Perturbs representations throughout feature hierarchy to mimic other classes.
result Achieves 10x increase in targeted success rate compared to other methods.

This work studies adversarial transferability and proposes ensemble methods to improve robustness.

problem Adversarial transferability in neural networks and its implications for robustness.
method Investigates the effect of various factors on adversarial transferability and proposes ensemble attack methods.
result Transferability is significantly hampered by input quantization and architectural mismatch, but not by initialization.

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…

2019-07-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep Neural Networks have been found vulnerable re-cently. A kind of well-designed inputs, which called adver-sarial examples, can lead the networks to make incorrectpredictions. Depending on the different scenarios, goalsand capabilities, the difficulties of the attacks are different.For example, a targeted attack is …

2019-08-29abs ↗pdf ↗

FRA-Attack improves adversarial transferability for closed-source MLLMs by aligning visual focus across models.

problem Improving adversarial transferability for closed-source MLLMs, especially with high accuracy.
method Unified frequency-domain regularization approach: high-pass DCT objective for feature alignment and Frequency-domain Gradient Regularization (FGR) for gradient optimization.
result FRA-Attack achieves superior cross-model transferability, especially on GPT-5.4, Claude-Opus-4.6, and Gemini-3-flash.

Paper evaluates membership inference attacks on transfer learning models.

problem Evaluating membership inference attacks on transfer learning models.
method Shadow model training strategy to derive data for membership inference classifier.
result Membership inference attacks can achieve effective performance against transfer learning models.

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…

2019-01-28abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper analyzes and minimizes transferability of adversarial attacks between models in an ensemble.

problem Adversarial attacks can transfer between models, posing security risks.
method Introduces a gradient-based measure to assess and reduce transferability, and uses it during training to increase robustness.
result Demonstrates that the gradient-based measure can be used to increase an ensemble's robustness to adversarial attacks.

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…

2019-11-17abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper improves attacks on recommender systems by solving optimization problems more precisely.

problem Adversarial injection attacks on recommender systems.
method Solving optimization problems for generating fake user interactions more accurately.
result The exact solution for generating fake users leads to a much larger impact on recommender systems.

Simple regional perturbations maintain model transferability while reducing adversarial example distortion.

problem Comparing efficacy of regional adversarial attacks without complex methods.
method Developed a simple regional adversarial perturbation attack using cross-entropy sign.
result Localized adversarial examples require significantly less LpL_p norm distortion compared to non-local counterparts.

LGV boosts adversarial attacks by improving surrogate models.

problem Improving the transferability of black-box adversarial attacks.
method LGV uses a pretrained surrogate model and multiple weight sets from additional training epochs to generate an effective surrogate ensemble.
result LGV outperforms other test-time transformations by significant margins.

New method improves adversarial transferability from Bayesian neural networks.

problem Improving the effectiveness of black-box evasion attacks.
method Sampling from the posterior distribution of neural network weights to build a surrogate.
result Significantly improved success rates of state-of-the-art attacks (up to 83.2 percentage points).

DVERGE diversifies adversarial vulnerabilities to enhance robust ensemble models.

problem Diverse adversarial vulnerabilities for robust ensemble models.
method Isolates and diversifies adversarial vulnerabilities through distillation and training.
result Achieves higher robustness against transfer attacks compared to previous methods.

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 …

2018-11-20abs ↗pdf ↗

ODS improves adversarial attacks by maximizing output diversity.

problem Efficiency and effectiveness of adversarial attacks, especially black-box attacks.
method Output Diversified Sampling (ODS) that maximizes diversity in model outputs.
result ODS reduces the number of queries needed for black-box attacks on ImageNet by a factor of two.

Adversarial attacks pose a threat to deep neural networks, especially in safety-critical applications.

problem Adversarial attacks can misclassify deep neural networks, leading to safety issues.
method Adversarial attacks are categorized into white-box and black-box attacks based on the attacker's knowledge. They can be targeted or non-targeted.
result Adversarial attacks are effective and can transfer between different models and real-world scenarios.

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…

2019-06-17abs ↗pdf ↗

In Machine Learning as a Service, a provider trains a deep neural network and gives many users access. The hosted (source) model is susceptible to model stealing attacks, where an adversary derives a surrogate model from API access to the source model. For post hoc detection of such attacks, the provider needs a robust…

2019-12-02abs ↗pdf ↗

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'…

2017-05-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Though CNNs have achieved the state-of-the-art performance on various vision tasks, they are vulnerable to adversarial examples --- crafted by adding human-imperceptible perturbations to clean images. However, most of the existing adversarial attacks only achieve relatively low success rates under the challenging black…

2018-03-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper explores how poisoning data can increase privacy risks in machine learning models.

problem Increasing privacy risks of benign training samples through data poisoning attacks.
method Proposes generic and optimization-based attacks to amplify membership exposure.
result Demonstrates substantial increase in membership inference precision with minimal model performance degradation.

Face recognition models can be inferred from student models, posing privacy risks.

problem Privacy threats in transfer learning models for face recognition.
method Membership inference attacks and attribute inference from aggregate-level information.
result Sensitive attributes can be inferred from student models, even with limited auxiliary information.

Adversarial examples are malicious inputs designed to fool machine learning models. They often transfer from one model to another, allowing attackers to mount black box attacks without knowledge of the target model's parameters. Adversarial training is the process of explicitly training a model on adversarial examples,…

2016-11-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Adversarial perturbations fool wearable sensor systems, showing transferability across different systems.

problem Adversarial examples fool wearable sensor systems, showing transferability across different systems.
method Study of adversarial transferability in wearable sensor systems from four perspectives: systems, subjects, sensor body locations, and datasets.
result Strong untargeted transferability in most cases, targeted attacks less successful.

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…

2017-04-11abs ↗pdf ↗

It is now well known that deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attack. Adversarial samples are similar to the clean ones, but are able to cheat the attacked DNN to produce incorrect predictions in high confidence. But most of the existing adversarial attacks have high success rate only when the inf…

2019-12-16abs ↗pdf ↗