arXiv Machine Learning
1d ago

Evasion Attacks: How Adversarial Noise Bypasses ML Classifiers

The paper reports a reproducible study of evasion attacks on image and text classifiers. A compact convolutional network on MNIST achieved 98.63% clean accuracy but dropped to 60.20% under FGSM with ε=0.15 and 1.72% with ε=0.30, while PGD reduced accuracy to 32.47% and 0.41%; a bit‑depth‑reduction defense only partially restored performance. In contrast, a DistilBERT model fine‑tuned on the SMS Spam Collection reached 98.75% accuracy and 94.96% F1‑score, yet a sequence of predefined perturbations produced only modest probability shifts and did not flip spam to ham predictions.

By Parker Hummel (Minot State University), Ryne Skabo (Minot State University), Muhammad Abusaqer (Minot State University)