arXiv:2503. 01734v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Attacks on machine learning models have been extensively studied through stateless optimization.
By Kyle Domico, Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand, Ryan Sheatsley, Eric Pauley, Josiah Hanna, Patrick McDaniel
arXiv:2511. 12265v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) remain vulnerable to diverse adversarial perturbations, motivating multi-attack adversarial training (AT) for improved robustness.
By Rui Wang, Zeming Wei, Xiyue Zhang, Meng Sun
arXiv:2606. 12251v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Gradient-based adversarial attacks remain a dominant threat to deep neural networks (DNNs), as they exploit gradient information to efficiently optimize adversarial perturbations.
By Xinhai Zou, Chang Zhao, Alireza Aghabagherloo, Dave Singel\'ee, Robin Degraeve, Bart Preneel
arXiv:2605.25663v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Black-box adversarial attacks that minimize only the ground-truth confidence suffer from class drift: perturbations wander through the featur...
By Florent Tariolle, Florian Yger
The paper introduces RIBA, a reinforcement‑learning inspired black‑box adversarial attack that generates perturbations for neural networks with fewer queries than existing methods. RIBA achieves a 25.4% reduction in median queries on ResNet‑18/Cifar10 and a 22.5% reduction on Vit‑B/16/ImageNet, while matching white‑box attack performance on an adversarially trained model.
By Florian Krone, Elena Hoemann, Sven Hallerbach
The paper introduces Inverse Knowledge Distillation (IKD), an attack‑agnostic technique that enhances adversarial transferability by maximizing the discrepancy between benign and adversarial prediction distributions on a surrogate model. IKD employs a CE/KL‑equivalent soft‑label objective to push adversarial predictions away from a fixed benign anchor, leveraging Fisher‑sensitive surrogate directions. The authors provide theoretical analysis showing CE and KL induce identical gradients, derive a lower bound on Fisher‑subspace overlap, and demonstrate through extensive ImageNet experiments that IKD consistently improves black‑box attack performance across CNN, ViT, and defended models.
By Wenyuan Wu, Yuan Sun, Yingke Chen, Chao Su, Xi Peng, Dezhong Peng, Xu Wang